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There were also three smaller stone animals, which belonged to Wiki, 
in a row by the side of the Antelope tiponi; and an equal number, the 
property of the Snake chief, placed in a similar way by the side 
of his tiponi. When the Snake chief makes his altar in the Snake kiva 
he takes his three animal fetishes and his tiponi from the Antelope altar 
and deposits them on his own altar. 
TCAMAHTA 
The row of flat stone implements called teamahia was arranged 
around the border of the sand picture, there being on each of three 
sides a midway opening called a gate. There were eighteen of these 
objects. They were of smooth light-brown stone, similar to those 
often excavated from ancient Arizona ruins. Those on the northern 
and southern sides were regarded as male, the eastern and western 
ones as female teamahia. They were looked upon as ancient weapons, 
representing the Warrior or Puma clan of the Snake phratry. 
The displaced teamahia on the right side of the sand picture, near a 
gap or gateway in the row of pedestals on that side, was the stone 
implement which Kakapti used in rapping on the floor as an accompa- 
niment to one of the sixteen songs, as has been elsewhere described. ' 
It should be noted that the name of these ancient stone objects is 
identical with the opening words of the invocation which the asperger 
utters before the kisi in the public Snake dance. These words are 
Keresan, andare used in ceremonies of the Sia,” but their signification 
was not divulged by the Hopi priests. It is probable that we have 
here, as often happens in ancient customs, a designation of stone 
implements by the name applied to them by the people who originally 
used them. 
STICKS ABOUT THE SAND MOSAIC 
The sticks which are placed about the sand picture are of two kinds, 
some having a crook at the end, the others being straight throughout. 
The arrangement of these sticks may be seen in the accompanying 
plate Lim, where they are shown placed in clay pedestals on the outer 
margin of the sand mosaic. 
The sticks provided with a crook have attached to them a string 
with a breast feather of an eagle, stained red. The straight sticks, 
called arrows, have more complicated appendages, for to their upper 
ends are attached a packet of meal, a feather, and a dried corn leaf. 
The bundles of feathers represented in the plate as fastened to the 
ends of these sticks are those which the priests wear on their heads 
during the public dances. These bundles are not found on the sticks 
1Snake ceremonials at Walpi, Journal American Ethnology and Archeology, vol. Iv, p. 34. 
“Mrs. M,C, Stevenson, The Sia, Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Mrs. Steven- 
son mentions similar words used in invocations to the warriors of the cardinal points. 
