58 HOPI KATCINAS [eth. ax.n. 21 



HuLiTiKiHi, Butterfly Dance 



The Butterfly festival, whieli is dcciisioniilly celebrated in Sichumovi. 

 difiers from the Lalakoiiti, Maiuzrauti, and Owakiiiti by the absence 

 of secret rites, altar, tiponi, or other fetishes. AVhile these three fes- 

 tivals are nine da3s' long-, with many elaliorate secret rites, Bulitikibi is 

 a one-day's public dance, without secret rites. 



The artist has figured two Bull manas or Butterfly girls as they are 

 dressed when taking part in this dance, and a leader bearing a pole 

 with attached streamers (see plate lvii). Many men and girls partici- 

 pate in this dance, their dress and paraphernalia corresponding very 

 closely with tliat of the Tablita dancers of the Rio Grande pueblos. 



Lalakonti 



This festival is one of the most regular in the Hopi calendar. t)ccur- 

 ring each year in September. It is a woman's dance, with many 

 secret rites, an elaborate altar, and a public exhibition, during which 

 baskets and other objects are thrown to the assembled spectators. 

 Most of the women who take part in this dance carry baskets, which 

 they move in cadence with their songs. There are two maids called 

 the Lakone girls, who throw the baskets and other objects to the 

 spectators. 



The Hopi artist has represented the latter dressed in their customary 

 paraphernalia (plate i.v). but there is a slight difference in the dress of 

 these girls in the Lalakonti at Walpi and at the other pueblos." 



OwAKl'LTI 



This is likewise a woman's basket dance, which is occasionallj' cele- 

 brated at Sichumovi, but is not an annual festival at that pueblo. Like 

 the Lalakonti it has an elaborate altar which, however, differs very 

 widely from that of other l)asket dances. 



The Lalakonti was introduced into Tusayan by the Patki or Rain- 

 cloud clans; the Owakiiiti was Tjrought from Awatobi by the Pakab 

 and Buli clans. 



Mamzkauti'' 



This festival is likewise a woman's dance, but the participants, 

 instead of carrying baskets in their hands, as in the Lalakonti and 

 Owakiiiti. carry slats of wood bearing appropriate symbols. 



Two girls called the Mamzrau manas (Mamzrau maids) appear in this 

 dance, and throw objects on the ground. The Hopi artist has made 

 two pictures of these girls, which show the style of their dress and 

 paraphernalia (see plate Lv). 



"See article on the Lalakonti, .\merican Anthropologist, vol. v, 1892, p. 10.1. 



&For description of Mamzrauti see American Anthropologist, July, 1892. Many ceremonies are 

 named from the society which celebrates them and the termination pakit, to go down into the kiva; 

 thus we have Maraupaki. Leiipaki, etc. 



