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The ring and feather dart, the netted hoop, and the large buck- 
skin ring constantly recur in the masks used in the Hopi and Zuni 
ceremonials. The nose and mouth of the Hopi Hehea uncle katcina 
(figure 567) may be regarded as the dart and ring, and the large 
painted rings which surround the base of so many masks are to be 
identified with the leather-wrapped gaming hoop. . 
Fig. 567. Fig. 568. 
Fig. 567. Mask of Hehea tahaamu, or Hehea uncle katcina; Hopi Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 
66452, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fig. 568. Deerskin plume worn with head ring; length, 18 inches: Hupa Indians, Hupa valley, 
California; cat. no. 37213, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
We discover a similar object in the heavy ring covered with buck- 
skin and red woodpecker crests, worn on the head by the Hupa 
«Jt is not an unreasonable conclusion that the corn-husk rings which supply the place 
of mouths on other masks, as, for example, the Qiétea mana (cat. no. 56288, Field Co- 
lumbian Museum), are also gaming rings. Again, the ring of network forming part of 
the Hopi ceremonial head tablet (cat. no. 16993, Field Columbian Museum) may be 
identified with the netted wheel, and the checkered bands at the base of the Hopi face 
masks, such as that of the Ana katcina (cat. no. 66286, Field Columbian Museum), with 
the simple ring which exists entire at the base of the other Zuni and Hopi masks. 
