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TCAKWAI.NA MaNA 



A number of traditions are extant regarding- a warrior maiden who 

 was dressing her hair in whorls above her ears when the ])uel)l() in 

 which she lived was attacked by hostiles. The men, according to 

 these stories, were away when the attack began, and the defense fell 

 upon the women. The girls, with their coiflures half luade, seized 

 bows and arrows and rushed to defend the pueblo. The eldest sisters 

 of the Tcakwaina. often called the Tcakwaina maids, are mentioned in 

 this connection, and the artist has pictorially represented this legend. 



As shown, the hair on the right side of the head hangs loosely, tied 

 in a bundle near the scalp, but on the left side it has been partly 

 wound over the U-shaped stick" customarily used in making the head- 

 dress. To complete the coili'ure this stick would have been drawn out, 

 leaving the whorl, but, as the story goes, the enemy were upon them 

 before this was possible, and the maids, with hair half dressed, seized 

 the weapons of war, bows, and quivers of arrows, which the ])icture 

 represents, and rushed to meet the foes. 



The remainder of the symbolism on the face of the girl, as the 

 picture shows, resembles that of her brother, save that the eyes are 

 round and not crescentic. Like that of another maid called Hehee, 

 who appears in the Powamu festival, this picture has a small beard 

 below a hideous mouth. 



Tcakwaina Yuadta 



The picture of the mother of Tcakwaina (yuadta. his mother) has a 

 general resemblance to that of her son and daughter (Tcakwaina 

 mana), as here shown. She wears a black mask, and has a white 

 mouth and red beard. Her ej'es are lozenge shaped. Her black 

 blanket is decorated with white crosses. She bears, as a warrior 

 sj-mbol, an eagle feather, stained red, tied to the crown of her head, 

 and carries a rattle in her right hand. 



Tcakwaixa Taamu 



The Tcakwaina uncle has little in common in symbolism with any 

 of the other three; in fact, there is nothing which suggests the sister. 

 The mask is painted green, with a border of red and yellow: the eyes 

 are black, the beak is curved and pointed. The picture has a repre- 

 sentation of a squash })lossom on each side of the head and variegated 

 feathers on the crown. 



a As the mask exhibited in the Wikwaliobi kiva at Soyaluna has a crooked stick (gnela) attached 

 to it, it may represent the ancient warrior maid, for a similar article is now used by Hopi girls 

 In making their coitturcs. 



