FEWKES] WALPI FLUTE ALTAR 1001 
mentioned are separated by a court, and probably never adjoined. 
Other phratries, as the Patki and Honani, were formerly domiciled 
in houses separated from both the Snake and Flute dwellings, so that, 
originally, probably Walpi consisted of a number of small clusters of 
houses which, through later building, were in part consolidated into a 
compact pueblo. 
There were present in the Flute chamber at about 10 oclock on the 
assembly day (August 12) the following priests: Tu"noa, Flute chief; 
Honyi, speaker chief; Sikyabotima, courier, and another man. Later 
there came in Winuta, Hani, and one or two others who had been 
there earlier in the day. This was known from the fact that they did 
not make the customary offering of meal on their entrance. It is pre- 
scribed for a priest on entering a kiva for the first time to sprinkle 
with sacred meal any altar or fetishes which may be in place. An 
interesting altar had been erected in the Flute room, and as this altar 
is characteristic, a description of it will be desirable. 
First Frure ALTAR 
There were two Flute altars at Walpi, but neither of these pertained 
to the Drab Flute society, for this society is extinct at that pueblo. 
On the first day the Walpi Flute society erected their altar on a ridge 
of sand just in front of the stack of corn which filled one end of the 
Flute chamber. The altar (plate Lxtv) is called the first Flute altar’ 
to distinguish it from the second or main altar. As the songs ot the 
first three days were sung by priests before this altar, it appears to 
be an important accessory in the Flute worship. 
A low ridge of valley sand was made before the stacked corn at one 
end of the Flute chamber, and in this ridge, at regular intervals, were 
placed three tiponis, those of Tu’noa, Winuta, and Honyi, respect- 
ively, beginning at the left. From Hofyi’s tiponi a line of meal 
extended across the floor toward the doorway, and over this line was 
stretched a string, to the extremity of which were fastened two feathers. 
The length of this string was measured from the finger tips of the out- 
stretched arm to a point above the heart, and it was drawn through a 
handful of sacred meal before being laid in position. When each 
tiponi was ready to be set in place, the chiet to whom it. belonged first 
made six radiating lines on the sand ridge where it was to stand, and 
deposited half a handful of meal at their junction. On this the trponi 
was placed. 
On the floor in front of Tu'noa’s tiponi, there was a basket-tray con- 
taining sacred meal; a similar tray containing stringed feathers made 

1Whether the other pueblos have a similar altar on the first day is unknown, since no one has 
fully studied the opening of the Flute ceremony in any other village. But probably it will be found 
that the societies in the other villages have an altar corresponding to this first Flute altar of Walpi 
