82 HOPI KATCINAS [eth. 



(Plates XX, LXIII) 



The tig'ure of Owa has a helmet mask colored greeii, with yellow, 

 red. and black lines drawn diagonally across the cheeks. The snout 

 is protuberant and the e3'es are represented by black liands. The hair 

 hangs down the l)ack. Parrot and eagle feathers are attached to the 

 crown of the head. 



The body is painted red. and tiun-e are parallel yellow bands on 

 body, arms, and legs. The ceremonial kilt about the loins is tied by 

 a woman's ))elt and embroidered sac^k. A fox skin sometimes depends 

 from the rear. Under the right knee is represented a turtle-shell 

 rattle, and the figure has moccasins and heel bands. 



Owa carries a Ijow and arrows in the left hand, and a small gourd 

 rattle in the right. These are the presents which this being couimonly 

 makes to children in the Powamu festival. 



(Plate XXI) 



In a dra\fing of Malo katcina the artist has represented the main 

 syni))ols of this being as he is seen when personated in dances. 



The face is cros^d by an obliqiie medial band, in which are rows of 

 spots. The face on one side of this band is painted yellow, on the 

 other green. The figure has a representation of a squash blossom on 

 the right side of the head and two eagle feathers on the left, to which 

 is attached a bundle of horsehair stained red." 



(Plate XXI) 



The figure of Humis katcina shows a helmet with a terraced tablet, 

 s3'mbolic of rain clouds. To the iiighest point are attached two eagle 

 feathers, and to each of the angles of the lateral terrace a turkey tail 

 feather and a sprig of grass. The whole tablet is rimmed with red 

 and painted green, with designs upon it. Symliols of sprouting corn 

 and terraced rain clouds appear on the flat sides. 



The face of the helmet is divided mediallj' by a black band, in which 

 are three white rings. On the right half of the face, which is l>lue, 

 there is on each side of the ej'e-slit a syml)ol of the sprouting squash 

 or gourd, replaced on the left side of the face by small s^'mbols of rain 

 clouds. Humis has a collar of pine boughs, sprigs of which are also 

 inserted in the armlets, the belt and the kilt. The body is smeared 

 with corn smut, and there are two paii's of crescents, painted black, 



a For description of Mulo katcina, see .Tournal of American Ethnology and .Archaeology, vol. ii. 1892. 

 For picture of the doll, .see Internationales Archiv fur Kthnographie, Band vii, pi. viii, fig. 21. 



