PEWKES] THE ORAIBI ANTELOPE ALTAR 291 
presence there was not welcome, and most of the half hour which I 
spent there was occupied in reasoning with the priests. I succeeded 
in making a sketch of their altar, but was several times ordered out, 
and was therefore not loth to leave the kiva when I had finished. 
There was some little satisfaction in being able to tell the priests of 
Oraibi in their own kiva that my studies of Antelope altars in other 
pueblos enabled me to interpret about every object which theirs pos- 
sessed, since they were so similar. This, however, was not strictly 
true as regards all the fetishes, for there were two or three objects on 
the Antelope altar at Oraibi which are different from those at Walpi, 
Cipauloyi, and Cunopavi, and beyond my comprehension. 
The size of the Antelope altar at Oraibi (plate Lxx111) was about the 
same as that of Walpi, and the sand picture almost identical, so that a 
description of this portion of it would be a duplication of accounts else- 
where published.!| The sand picture was surrounded by a yellow, green, 
red, and white border of sand. There were semicircular figures of rain 
clouds in yellow, green, red, and white, arranged in the same order as 
at Walpi, and in like sequence. The four lightning symbols, however, 
differed somewhat, all of these having square appendages to the heads, 
instead of horns and diagonally marked rectangles. These square 
appendages, as nearly as I could make out, were on both sides of the 
heads, but accuracy in this minute particular was next to impossible. 
There were no stone hoes about the border of the sand picture, as at 
Walpi. Along each side was a row of clay pedestals, in each of which 
were inserted straight or crooked sticks, to the tops of which were 
attached red-stained nakwdkwocis. They were arranged side by side 
and there were no breaks or “‘ gateways,” as at Walpi. At the side of 
each crook a small netted gourd was placed. Atthe end of each line of 
sticks, one on each side of the altar, there was a head of an antelope, 
with horns, nose, and neck. These objects are not found on the Ante- 
lope: altars of Walpi, Cipaulovi, or Cunopavi, and are significant 
accessories in the secret ceremonials. 
The floor in front of the altar had no pedestals with upright sticks, 
but upon it was a medicine bowl, the six-directions corn, and an 
aspergill. 
The rear of the altar was strikingly different from that of any Ante- 
lope altar which has been described. There were no stone fetishes of 
animals, as at Walpi, and although the two tiponis were present, both 
of these belonged to the Antelopes. The Snake society at Oraibi, as at 
Cipaulovi and Cunopayi, has no palladium or tiponi. These two objects 
stood just in the rear of the margin of the sand picture, one on each 
side of a square medicine bowl, which occupied the middle and there- 
fore corresponds in position to the mountain-lion fetish on the Walpi 
altar. Projecting from the top of the left-hand tipont was an object 
which, from my point of observation, resembled a stone implement, but 


1 Jour. Amer. Eth. and Archieol., Vol. tv, pp. 17-24. 
