26 HOPI KATCINAS [eth. axx. 21 



in the Mofi kiva, luul one of the Kokop clan, used in the Nacab kiva. 

 These are supposed to have been the property of the warriors of these 

 two clans, but there arc no special rites connected with them. At Hano 

 the rites of the warriors occur at the winter solstice, when elaborate 

 altars are erected. 



PamCrti 



The Zufii Indians are said" to claim Sichinnovi as one of their towns, 

 and the Hopis sometimes refer to it as the Zuiii pueblo, for the reason 

 that tlie clans which settled it, mainly the A.sa. and possibly also the 

 Ilonani, came from Zufii; ])ut of that the author is not quite sure. 

 It is commonly said that the Asa belong; to the Tanoan stock and that 

 they mijrrated from the Kio Grande via Zufii, where tiu^v left repre- 

 sentatives called the Aiwahokwi. 



'Phe )>elief of the Zunis and Hopis that Sichumovi is closely con- 

 nected with the Zufii clans is supj)orted by the existence in that pueblo 

 of a cei'emony — Pamiirti — in which the majority of the personators 

 are called l>y Zufii names, and are dressed to represent Zufii katcinas. 

 In this festival there are neitlier secret ceremonials nor altars, save 

 those presently to be mentioned, and no tiponis nor society badges, 

 althougli ancient masks are publicly displayed in certain houses. 



The Pamiirti at Sichumovi in the year 1900 eclipsed all ceremonies 

 in January at the East mesa, l)ut simultaneously with it dances were 

 performed in the other pueblos. Pamiirti celebrates the katcinas' 

 return (ikini) to the pueblo, the personations at Sichumovi mainlj^ 

 representing the ancients of the Ilonani and Asa clans.'' In the siime 

 manner Powamii is supposed to represent the return of the ancients 

 of the Katcina clan. 



The Pamiirti opened with a personation of Pautiwa, who in this 

 festival at Sichumovi is the sun god of the Asa and Honani clans. On 

 the opening day of the celebration he went to every kiva on the East 

 mesa announcing that in eight days the ancients would return and the 

 Pamiirti would lie celebrated. He threw meal at the homes of the 

 chief clans of Sit^humovi — the Honani, Asa, and Patki clans — as he 

 passed through the pueblo, a symbolic act analogoiis to that of Ahiil, 

 who in Powamii makes markings of meal on the doorways of all the 

 houses of chiefs. 



Eight days after the sun god, I'autiwa, had made the circuit of the 

 kivas as above mentioned, personators of the following beings marched 

 from the Sun spring up the trail into Sichumovi: 



rautiwa, Sun god. 



Tcolawitze, Fire god. 



Cakwa Cipikne, Green Cipikne. 



a Mrs Stevenson intormed the author that the Zufii claim one ot the towns on the East mesa, and 

 later he leHmeil tluit the town referred to is Siehumovi. 

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