104 HOPl KATCINAS [eth. ann. 21 



The hunter has the chevron symbolic of the eagle over the nose 

 and wears a kilt of red horsehair. He wears a bandoleer and a netted 

 shirt. In his right hand he carries a rattle, in his left a how and 

 arrows. 



The author has obtained the following legend regarding the deer 

 hunter: An Awatobi maid gave birth to a child, which she hid in a 

 cleft in the mesa side. Isauii (Coyote) found this babe and t'arried it 

 in her mouth to Tciibio wiiqti, the Antelope woman, who lived in 

 Awatobi. Tciibio wiiqti had milk and brougiit up the child, who 

 became a celebrated hunter of antelopes. 



The Sowifiwii katcina has not been personated of late years by the 

 Walpi men, but there is good authority for the statement that it has 

 been represented within a few \'ears by the Mishongnovi people. At 

 the period of the destruction of Awatobi many of the clans went to 

 the Middle mesa and one or two of the Awatobi cults are still more 

 vigorous there than elsewhere. 



CIPOMELLI 



(Plate XLI) 



The figure represents an ancient katcina peculiar to the pueblo 

 Hauo, but now rareh' personated. 



The picture of this katcina has a face divided into a yellow and 

 green section by a vertical black line. The lower part of the face is 

 separated from both by a horizontal black line, and is colored red. 

 In the middle of this red zone there is a rectangular chin painted 

 white, the pigment which gives the name to the figure. Both Hopis 

 and Tewas call this katciua Tumae (white earth), referring to the white 

 pigment on the chin. 



MATIA 



This tigui-e has a human hand painted on the face, on which account 

 •it is called Matia, or Hand katcina. Another designation, Talakin, 

 refers to the girl who follows, stirring the contents of a cooking pot 

 which Matia carries on his back. He is said to appear in the foot 

 races, but the author has never seen him personated at Walpi. 



A being with the figure of a hand on the face occurs also in Zufii 

 dances. 



