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HOPI PRIEST FBATEENITIES 



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October 



1. Owakiilti. 



Basket dance of the Bull and Pakab clans. Meeting of the Owakiiltu 

 society, wlien an elaborate altar is erected and a basket fiance is 

 celebrated. 



2. Mamzrauti. 



Hand-tal)let dance. Meeting of the Marau society, when an elab- 

 orate altiir is erected and a liand-tablet dance is celebrated. 



PRIEST FRATERNITIES IN HOPI CEREMONIAL 

 FESTIVALS " 



Each of the above-mentioned ceremonial festivals is performed b}' a 

 society of priests and is simple or complex according to the relative 

 strength and social influence of its priesthood. The following lists 

 give the names of these societies and the festivals in which they are 

 specially prominent: 



" For Hopi religious fraternities see Jouriwl of American Ethnology and Archaeology, vol. n, 1892. 



