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The folliiwiiig arc tliP important nine days' ccicnionios: 

 I. Tlic. AiiteloiR' Hiiaki' (•clcbi-atioii, alteiiiatin},^ biennially witli tlie 

 L('lenti or l''lute observance. 



•J. The Liilakonti. This ceremony lasts nine days and as many 

 MJfihts, and is celebrated by women. The details of the celebration at 

 Walpi in 18!)1, together with the altars, fetiches, and tiie like have 

 already been i)nblished.' It lias some likenesses with the Mam- 

 /rai'iti, which follows it in sequence. There are four priestesses, the 

 chief of whom is Kotcuiimsi. Three tii)onis were laid on the altar iu 



Fio. 39— Tablet of tlie Palahikoin.ina raask. 



the celebration of 1801, although it is customary for each society to have 

 but one tii)oni, which, with the other i)araphernalia, is in the keeping of 

 the chief i)riest. 



3. The Manizrai'iti. This ceremonial has likewise been described.' 

 In some celebrations of this festival girls appear with tablets on their 

 heads personifying maids called Palahikomauas. In 1891 these per- 

 sonages were represented by pictures^ of the same on slabs carried in 

 the hands of girls. In this way the variations of their celebiations in 

 different years may be explained; sometimes women are dressed to 

 impersonate the Palahikomauas, at others only pictures of the same 

 are carried. 



■ The American Autliropologiat. Wasliington, April, 1892. 

 niiid., July, 1892. 



'Errnneonsly itleiitilicd as Calakn lii my (leacripticni ami plate.-* i)f llif present at iim nf the Maiu- 

 zrauli in 18U1. 



