FEWKES] THE WALPI ANTELOPE ALTAR 983 
during the first days of the ceremony; they are not essential to the 
efficacy of the altar, but are hung as indicated because of the sacred 
influence which is supposed to be imparted to them through this asso- 
ciation. For the same reason there are placed on the altar the several 
rattles seen on the right-hand corner, as well as the netted water gourds 
which appear here only on the last two days of the Snake ceremony, 
in the public dances of which they are used. Two objects to the right 
of the tiponi, on the rear margin of the sand mosaic, have been added 
to the altar fetishes since the celebration of 1891. They occupied the 
position named during the 1893, 1895, and 1897 celebrations. One of 
these is the cephalothorax of a king crab (Limulus polyphemus), the 
other a fragment of water-worn wood. Both of these were gifts from 
the author to Wiki, the Antelope chief, in 1893. 
MEDICINE BOWL AND ASPERGILL 
The medicine bowl and aspergill are shown in the illustration near 
the front margin of the altar, to the right of the eastern ‘* gateway”, 
or passage through the row of crooks on that side. The aspergill con- 
sists of two feathers tied by a leather thong. By its side is a bag of 
tobacco. The two whizzers are flat slats of wood with rain-cloud ter- 
races cut in the end. 
OTHER OBJECTS ON THE ALTAR 
On the right side of the altar, near a netted gourd, there were two 
corn husks, one of which contained corn meal, the other pollen for the 
use of the priests who sat on this side of the altar. On the same side, 
back of the altar, is seen the slab called the Hokona-mana or Butterfly- 
virgin slab, upon which are depicted butterflies, rain clouds, falling 
rain, and tadpoles, as has been described ina previous memoir.’ Near 
the ‘‘ gateway” or passage between the crooks, on the right side of 
the altar, is a rattle upon which two wristlets made of bark are laid. 
The pointed stick leaning upon a water gourd to the left of the open- 
ing through the row of crooks, in front of the alter, is a Snake paho, 
or prayer-stick, to one end of which are attached a dried corn leaf, a 
twig of sagebrush, feathers, and a corn-husk packet of sacred meal. 
The four markings which encircle the corn husk at its attachment to 
the stick are well shown in the illustration. The flat Havasupai 
basket to the right of the altar is the one in which the prayer-sticks 
are placed during the singing of the sixteen songs. The basket was 
empty when the photograph of the altar was made, for the prayer 
sticks had just been delivered to Kakapti to carry to the four world- 
quarter shrines. 

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