PEWKEs] WINTEK SUN PRAYER-STICK-MAKINO 31 



The ]jicture.s give a good ide;i of the paraphernalia of the first two 

 g'roups, which dance togetlier. The choruy accompanies them with a 

 drum, singing a loud and effective song. During the dance it is cus- 

 tomar}' to discharge firearms and to imitate in a way a hunt of the 

 bison, and this part of the ceremony was formerly carried out in a 

 much more realistic wa^' than at present. 



The men of the chorus are gaudily painted, bearing sticks or poles 

 to which ribbons, calico, and feathers are attached. 



The Bnrtalo dance is a foreign addition to the Hopi calendar. It is 

 said to be a Tewan ceremonial dance, and some of the Walpi women 

 sa}' they introduced it into Zufii. The Hano people claim that their 

 Mucaiasti is the best on the East mesa; in former years it was cele- 

 brated with much more eclat than at present. There is a tradition that 

 a Buffalo maid was brought to Tusayan from the Eastern pueblos by 

 the Sun, whose emblem she bears on her back in the dance. 



"WiNTEK TaWA PAHOLAWf 



This meeting of the Sun priests or Tawawimpkiya is a comple- 

 mental ceremony, at or near the winter solstic*}, of the summer meet- 

 ing, which occurs in July." No altars are employed, but a number 

 of prayer-sticks are made and latci- are deposited in special shrines. 



The Winter Sun prayer-stick-making takes place in the same room 

 as the Summer, in a house near the Moii kiva, under the entrance to 

 the ancestral residence of the Patki clan. The only fetish employed 

 is a rude stone frog, over which is stretched a string extended along a 

 line of meal on the ffoor, symbolic of the pathway of blessings. The 

 men who participate in this i-ite are all meml)ers of the Patki clan. 



PowAJir 



The Powamu festival, ordinarily called the Bean-planting, is one of 

 the most elaborate of all katcina exhibitions, and at Walpi is controlled 

 by Naka, chief of the Katcina clan. One object of this festival is a 

 purification or renov^ation of the earth for future planting, but the 

 main purpose is a celebration of the return of the katcinas. The 

 festival differs considerably in the six Hopi pueblos and is apparently 

 most complicated at Oraibi. 



PLANTING Oi" BEANS 



In the early days of Powamu, beans are planted in all the kivas of 

 the three villages, Walpi, Sichumovi, and Hano, and foi-ced to grow 

 in superheated rooms until the morning of the final da}', when they 

 are pulled, tied in small bundles, and distributed, with dolls, bows and 

 arrows, turtle shells, rattles, etc., to the children, by maskcnl ])ersons 

 from each kiva. 



a See Journal of American Ethnology and Arcb£eologr>% vol. ii, 1892. 



