966 TUSAYAN FLUTE AND SNAKE CEREMONIES (ETH. ANN.19 
The reptiles used in the dance are collected on four successive days; 
the Antelope and Snake races, as well as several other episodes of the 
Mishonenovi ceremonial, are known to conform essentially to those 
at Walpi, before described. 
Tue MiIsHonGNovI ANTELOPE ALTAR 
The two kivas at Mishongnoyi occupied by the Antelope and Snake 
societies lie not far apart, on the side of the village facing west. The 
one to the left, as one looks at them from the housetops, was occupied 
by the Snake priests; that to the right by the Antelope priests. Like 
all Tusayan kivas, these chambers are separated from the houses, and 
are rectangular in shape. They are subterranean, with an interior 
arrangement quite like those of Walpi. The Antelope and the Snake 
kiyas are the only ones in Mishongnoyi which the author visited, but 
Mr Victor Mindeletf mentions the names of five, and Mr Cosmos Min- 
deleff speaks of three. Evidently, if these enumerations be correct, 
some of the chambers have been abandoned within a recent period. 
The Antelope altar at Mishongnoyi (plate xiv1) resembles that at 
Walpi,’ Oraibi, Shipaulovi, and Shumopoyi* in its essential features, 
but there are differences in detail. There was no altar in the kive 
used by the Snake priests in this pueblo, and this was also true in 
the other Hopi pueblos, except Walpi. The dual wooden images of 
Piiiikon and the female counterpart in the Oraibi® Snake kiva are not 
in themselves an indication of an altar; for the essential object in a 
Snake altar is the Snake palladium, or tiponi, which does not exist in 
this pueblo, and, indeed, is found only at Walpi. 
The number of tiponis, or chieftain’s badges, which are placed on the 
altars of the Antelope priests varies in the Hopi pueblos. Walpi and 
Oraibi have two; Shipaulovi and Shumopoyi, one each. There are 
two tiponis on the Antelope altar at Mishongnovi, both of which are 
carried by Antelope chiefs in the public dances. Neither of these 
corresponds with the Snake tiponi of the Walpi chief, who has the 
only known Snake tiponi. The position of the two tiponis on the 
altar is characteristic, for they stand one on each of the rear corners 
of the sand picture, and not midway in the length of the rear margin, 
as at Oraibi and Walpi. 
The sand picture of the Antelope altar at Mishongnoyi resem- 
bles that of the other Antelope societies. Its border is composed 
of four bands of differently colored sand—yellow, green, red, and 
white—arranged in the order given from within outward. These 
marginal bands correspond with the cardinal points and are separated 
1Snake ceremonials at Walpi, Journ. Amer, Eth. and Arch., vol. Ty. 
2Tusayan Snake ceremonies, Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
On certain years an altar is said to be introduced in initiations. 
