278 TUSAYAN SNAKE CEREMONIES [BTH. ANN. 16 
There was a small natci, made of two sticks tied together, set in the 
straw matting of each kiva, as at Walpi, and the snake whips of the 
Snake kiva were arranged upright in a row leaning against the rear 
wall. This row of snake whips was the only feature comparable with an 
altar that was constructed in the Snake chamber of Cipaulovi. 
As I was obliged to spend the following days at Miconinovi, study- 
ing the Flute observance, no further visits were made to the Cipaulovi 
kivas until August 21, or the day called komoktotokya, when I saw the 
Antelope altar for the first time, it having been made apparently either 
that morning or the day before.!. The Antelope chief, Lomatowa, was 
absent at the time of my visit, and did not return for several hours, 
during which I made several visits to the Snake kiva, returning now 
and then to see the chief when he came back. 
THE ANTELOPE ALTAR 
The altar of the Antelope priesthood at Cipaulovi (plate LXx1) was 
the simplest yet reported in any Antelope kiva, but in form and design 
was closely allied to thatat Walpi. The sand picture was large, meas- 
uring 4 by 34 feet, that at Walpi being only about 32 inches square. The 
kiva was relatively so small, or the sand picture so near the middle of 
the floor, that one could see it from outside the room by looking through 
the hatchway. The border, like that of the Walpi altar, was composed 
of four bands of sand, colored yellow, green, red, and white, respectively, 
separated by black lines, as in the Antelope sand picture at Walpi. 
This border inclosed a rectangular field on which were depicted, in dif- 
ferent colored sands, the semicircular rainclouds; four yellow, adjacent 
to the border; three whole and two halt semicircles of green; four red, 
and three whole and two half semicircles in white. Allof these were out- 
lined with black lines: On the remaining part of the inclosed rectangle, 
which was covered with white sand, there were four zigzag figures with 
triangular heads, one yellow, one green, one red, and one white, begin- 
ning at the left of the sand picture as one approached it from the ladder. 
Each of these figures had a single black mark on the neck representing 
a necklace, and a curved horn on the left side of the head, and was out- 
lined in black. In the existence of horns on these zigzag figures they 
differ from the sand picture at Walpi, where two have horns and the 
other two squares, the former representing males and the latter females. 
The black dots for eyes were seen in all these symbols of lightning, but 
the small nakwdkwoci were not put on their necks, and the annulets and 
cylinders were not observed on the side of the head, as at Walpi. The 
row of parallel black lines from the semicircles, representing falling 
rain, were shorter and more numerous than on the Walpi altar. 
At each angle of the sand picture there were conical bodies a few 
inches high, probably of clay, painted yellow, green, red, and white, 
' Ciictala, or “ first day’ of the second series. It will thus be seen that with the exception of the 
four snake hunts serious rites were abbreviated in the Antelope kiva. 
