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COMPARISON WITH THE WALPI FLUTE ALTAR 
As has been already pointed out, there is but one Flute altar at Walpi, 
that of the Cakwalenya, the Macilefya society having become extinct. 
The uprights of the reredos in the flute altars of both pueblos bear simi- 
lar symbolic pictures of rain clouds, five in number, one above the other. 
The transverse slat, or the arch, of the Walpi Flute altar differs from 
that of the Mishongnovi in having a picture of Tawa (sun), with two 
semicircular rain-cloud figures on each side, in the interval between 
which is pictured a zigzag figure representing lightning. Both altars 
have images of the Flute youth, Flute maid, and Mitiyinwnt, and so 
far as is known they are the only Tusayan Flute altars which have an 
effigy of the personage last mentioned. The Walpi figurine of the 
Flute youth has no flute in his hand,and the slabs with figures of per- 
sons playing the flute, elsewhere described, which characterize the 
Walpi altar, are not found at Mishongnovi. 
COMPARISON WITH THE ORAIBI FLUTE ALTARS! 
The uprights of the reredos of the Drab Flute altar at Oraibi have 
the same rows of concayities on their front surfaces as have those at 
Mishongnovi, and are without the rain-cloud symbols seen on the trans- 
verse slat; but instead of having a row of concave depressions on its 
lower half, the transverse part of the Oraibi reredos is in the form of 
a rain-cloud, ornamented with differently colored cloud symbols, one 
above another, with accompanying representations of lightning and 
figures of birds. No other Flute altar known to the author has a more 
elaborate reredos than that of the Macilenya at Oraibi. In common 
with the Drab Flute altar at Mishongnovi it has two effigies of the 
cultus heroes of the society, the Flute youth and the Flute maid: 
but the most remarkable statuette of the Oraibi altar was that of 
Cotokinufiwt, which stood with outstretched arms in a conspicuous 
position. No other known Flute altar has a figurine of this personage, 
although it is possibly represented by the zigzag lightning-sticks 
hanging between the uprights of the reredos. 
The so-called flower mounds, or hillocks of sand beset with artificial 
flowers, before the figures of the cultus heroes of the Oraibi altar 
differ in form from those at Mishongnoyi, although they evidently 
have the same significance. At Oraibi these flowers are fastened to a 
common stalk, while at Mishongnovi their stems are inserted in a log 
of wood, and at Shipauloyi in a mound of sand. 
Perhaps the most marked difference between the Drab Flute altar 
of Oraibi and that of Mishongnoyi is the presence on the floor of 
the former of a mosaic made of kernels of maize of different colors 
representing 2 rain-cloud; in this feature it differs from all other 
1The Mishongnoyi Drab Flute altar has certain likenesses to the Oraibi Flute altar elsewnere 
described. Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. viiI, number 31. 
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