FEWKES] MYTHIC PERSONAGES ON POTTERY 665 
is always represented as carrying weapons of war, such as a bow and 
arrows. Images of the same hero are used in ceremonies, and are 
sometimes found as household gods or penates, which are fed as if 
human beings. <A fragment of pottery represented in the accompany- 
ing illustration (figure 263), shows enough of the head of a personage 
to indicate that Piiiikonhoya was intended, for it bears on the cheek 
the two parallel marks symbolic of that deity, while in his hands he 
holds a bow and a jointed arrow as if shooting an unknown animal. 
All of these features are in harmony with the identification of the 
figure with that of the cultus-hero mentioned, and seem to indicate the 
truth of the current legend that as a mythologic conception he is of 
great antiquity in Tusayan. 
In this connection it may be instructive to call attention to two fig- 
ures on a food bow! collected by Mr H. R. Voth from a ruin near Oraibi. 
It represents a man and a woman, the former with two horns, a crescent 
on the forehead, and holding in 
his outstretched hand a staff. 
The woman has a curious gorget, 
similar to some which I have 
found in ruins near Tusayan, 
and a belt like those still worn 
by Pueblo Indians. This smaller 
figure likewise has a crescent 
on its face and three strange 
appendages on each side of the 
head. 
Another food basin in Mr 
Voth’s collection is also in- 
structive, and is different in its Fig. 263—War god shooting an animal. (Fragment 
decoration from any which I of food bowl) 
have found. The character of 
the ware is ancient, but the figure is decidedly modern. If, however, 
it should prove to be an ancient vessel it would carry back to the time 
of its manufacture the existence of the katcina cult in Tusayan, no 
actual proof of the existence of which, at a time when Sikyatki was in 
its prime, has yet been discovered. 
The three figures represent Hahaiwiiqti, Hewiiqti, and Natacka 
exactly as these supernatural beings are now personated at Walpi in 
the Powamu, as described and figured in a former memoir.! 
It is unfortunate that the antiquity of this specimen, suggestive as 
it is, must be regarded as doubtful, for it was not exhumed from the 
ruin by an archeologist, and the exact locality in which it was found 
is not known. 
1“ Tusayan Katcinas,” Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1893-94, Washington, 
1897. Hewiiqti is also called Soyokmana, a Keresan Hopi name meaning the Natacka-maid. The 
Keresan (Sia) Skoyo are cannibal giants, according to Mrs Stevenson, an admirable definition of the 
Hopi Natackas. 
