FEWKES] SPKING SUMAIKOLI 55 



Kokyaii wiinti. Appears in ki\a drama. 



Piiiikofi's sister. Appears in kiva drama. 



Tacab Afiya. Appear.? in kiva drama. 



Tacab Afiya mana. Appears in kiva drama. 



Hahai wiiijti. Appears in kiva drama. 



Afiya. Performs ceremonial dance in plaza. 



Afiya mana. Grinds corn in ceremonial dance in plaza. 



Hehea. Appears in ceremonial dance in plaza. 



Hopak. Appears in ceremonial dance in plaza. 



Winter Marau Paholawu 



The winter prayer-.stick-makiiig of the ^Nlumzrautu .society wa.s 

 ruucli more complicated in 1900 than that of the Lalakofitu. The I'ow 

 of upright object.s from the altar erected in October was put in phice 

 and before it were laid the tiponi.s of the chief.s of the .society. On 

 the final day there was a public dance in which there were personations 

 of the Palahiko manas. The Hopi arti.st has made a fair picture of 

 one of these Palahiko manas, which is here reproduced in plate L^ i. 



Spring Sumaikoij 



The Yaya priests and Suraaikoli hold a spring- festival in "Walpi, 

 which in some particulars resemides the Sumaikoli celebration at 

 Hano, elsewhere described." 



The six masks of Sumaikoli and one of Kawikoli arc arranged on 

 the floor of the kiva behind the tiponis. New tire is kindled with 

 rotating fire drills, and this fire is later carried by means of cedar-bark 

 torches to shrines of the Fire god, four .shrines in the foothills, 

 where bonfires are kindled in sequence, north, west, south, and east. 



The carriers who bear these torches, and who kindle the four fires, 

 deposit in the contiguous shrines prayer-sticks which have been made 

 in the kiva before their exit. 



One of the most interesting features in the songs which are sung 

 before the altar are the calls down a hole in the floor called the sipapii 

 to the goddess of the earth.' This being is represented by a ))undle 

 of sticks placed on the floor, and over this bundle the priest kneels 

 when he shouts to the earth goddess. 



The .symbolism of the Sumaikoli masks at Walpi is similar to that 

 of the Hano masks, which are elsewhere'' figured and described. They 

 difl'er among themselves mainlv in the colors of the dift'erent symbols. 

 The picture of the Sumaikoli by the Hopi artist (see plate xxxrv) 

 gives a fair idea of the paraphernalia. 



o Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology, vol. n. 1892, 



bSee The Lesser Xew-Fire Ceremony at Walpi, American .\ntliropologist, new series, vol. ill, 

 July-September, 1901. 



^Journal of .-Vmeriean Ethnology and .\rchaiology, vol. ir. 1.S92. In this early description these 

 objeotii were erroneously called shields. They are worn before the face in elaborate Sumaikoli cele- 

 brations. 



