FEWKES] NIMAN KATCINA 57 



SU5IMER SUMAIKOLI 



The summer Sumaikoli tit Walpi has never been seen hy an ethnolo- 

 gist, but the ceremony at Hano is elsewhere dcscri1)ed." It is a single 

 day ceremony in which the seven Sumaikoli masks, to which the priests 

 pray, are set in a row on a buckskin at one end of the room. Feathers 

 (nakwakwoci) are tied to the masks (shields), and prayer-sticks are 

 made and distributed to distant shrines. 



The Sumaikoli helmet masks of Hano were captured in some Navaho 

 foraj' and strewn al)Out the base of the mesa. The3' were gathered V>y 

 Kalacai, and are now kept with pious care in the I'oom near Kalakwai's 

 new house in Hano, where thej- can be seen hanging to the wall. 

 With Kalacai's death the Sun clan (Tan towa) of Hano becauie extinct 

 and the care of the Sumaikoli devolved on others. 



There was no public exhil)ition of the Sumaikoli in the summer of 

 ISIU. but the author has been told that the festival has of late been 

 revived in Hano. The Hopi artist has given a fairly good picture of 

 Sumaikoli as he appears in public'' (see plate xxxiv). 



NiMAX 



This is an elaborate festival celebrating the departure of the 

 katcinas from Walpi, and consists of elaborate rites before a compli- 

 cated altar and a public dance, which diffei-s in difierent Hopi pueblos. 

 One of these is described in another place.'' This is the only festival 

 celebrating the departure of the katcinas, although there are several 

 commemorating their advent. Thus, the Soyalufia dramatizes the 

 advent of the Water-house or Raixi-cloud clan's katcinas, the Pamiirti 

 that of Zufii clans, especially Asa and Honani, and the Powamfi the 

 advent of the ancients of the Katciua clans. 



TciATiKiBi, Snakk Daxce 



The Snake dance has no masked performers, and the artist has not 

 drawn pictures of any of the participants. 



Lei.exti, ok Lexpaki, Fiate Daxce 



The Flute dance also has no masked personators, and the artist has 

 furnished no picture of participants. It might have l)een well to have 

 obtained pictures of the Flute girls and youth, but photographs have 

 been published'' which show their paraphernalia better than native 

 pictures. The Snake girl is dressed almost identically as the Flute 

 girl, as shown bj- the figures mentioned. 



a Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology, vol. II, 1892, p. 33. 



bDellenbaugh has published a few cuts from photographs representing Sumaikoli personations, 

 but the symbolism of the masks is not clearly indicated in them. See The North Americans of 

 Yesterday, New York, lytll. 



■•Journal of .-Vmerican Kthnology ami .\reliieology, vol. ii, 189J. p. T;i. 



dNiiieteenlh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Kthnology, part ii, 1900. 



