998 TUSAYAN FLUTE AND SNAKE CEREMONIES [ETH. ANN. 19 
Walpi Antelope priests on the morning of the ninth day of the Snake 
ceremonies, with the exception that the boy personating the Snake 
youth carried a rattlesnake in one hand. These Flute boys represent 
the ancestral or cultus hero of the Flute society, and bear the same 
relationship to the priests that the Snake youth (Tciia tiyo) bears to 
the Antelope-Snake fraternities. 
STANDARD BEARERS 
The small naked boys at the ends of the platoons carry the Flute 
standards, which consist of long sticks to the ends of which skins of 
‘mammals and feathers are tied, also a string to which red-stained 
horsehair is attached. The Flute standard corresponds to the Snake 
standard (awata natci), consisting of bows and arrows with appended 
objects, the most conspicuous of which is the string of red horsehair 
borne by Wikyatiwa in the Snake dance. This standard is set upright 
on the roof of the room in which the Flute ceremonies are held, just 
as the awata natcis are tied to the ladders of the Antelope and Snake 
kivas, as shown in plates xiv and Lrv. 
BEARER OF THE MOISTURE TABLET 
One of the most conspicuous members of the first platoon was the 
man who bore on his back a rectangular framework over which was 
“stretched a buckskin or cloth on which were painted, in bright colors, 
a number of parallel lines dividing it into rectangular fields, with 
borders of colored bands (plate Lymm). On the upper edge of the tab- 
let, which covered the entire back of its bearer, was a bunch of feath- 
ers, and along each of the other three sides was stretched a cord, from 
which was suspended horsehair stained red. On the sides of the tablet 
were tied small round disks made of sections of gourd painted in colors, 
possibly representing cornflowers. A further description of one of 
these tablets, with an illustration, has been given elsewhere.’ 
BEARER OF THE SUN EMBLEM 
As previously stated, one of the Macileftya bore on his back a disk 
representing the sun. It was made of buckskin stretched over a hoop 
which was strengthened by a framework of two sticks fastened at 
right angles. This disk, which was about a foot in diameter, was 
surrounded by a plaited border made of corn husks, into which eagle 
feathers and red-stained horsehair were inserted. The sun shield was 
attached to the back of the bearer by a cord over his shoulders. ‘The 
body of the bearer was naked, save for a white ceremonial kilt with a 
pendent foxskin, and he had a tuft of feathers on the crown of his 
head. He carried a flute upon which he played, and wore moccasins 
1 American Anthropologist, yol. v, number 8, pl. 1. 
