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head decorated with two eyes on one side and a single foreleg. These 
two figures probably refer to some episode or Indian legend connect- 
ing a Sikyatki maiden with some monster. 
The maiden depicted in figure 14 is evidently kneeling, her knees 
being brought together below, and separated by four median parallel 
lines that are supposed to indicate feathers; the curved objects at the 
lower corners of the rectangular blanket probably are also feathers. 
One hand of the maiden is raised to her head, while the other holds 
an unknown object, possibly an ear of corn. The woman with an 
ear of corn recalls a figure on the elaborately painted wooden slab 
carried by women in the Hopi Marau dance or that on the wooden 
slab, or monkohu, carried by the priests representing Alosaka, Eototo, 
and other ceremonial personages. These painted slabs do not always 
bear pictures of corn ears, for those 
of the priests known as the Aaltu 
have, instead of pictures of corn, 
the corn itself tied to them; in the 
New-fire ceremony at Walpi mem- 
bers of the Tataukyamt priesthood, 
at Walpi, also hold ears of corn 
with or without wooden slabs, while 
those borne by the warrior Kwak- 
wantti are carved in the form of the 
sacred plumed serpent, -which is 
their patron.t 
Different styles of hairdressing 
are exhibited in figures 13 and 14, 
Pic. 14.— Kneeling woman, showing that of figure 14 being similar to 
hair in characteristic whorls. 5 R 5 
the modern Hopi. The group of 
three figures (fig. 15) possibly illustrates some ancient ceremony. 
The middle figure of this group is represented as carrying a branched 
stick, or cornstalk, in his mouth.2, The accompanying figure, or that 
to the right, has in his hand one of the strange frames used as rattles * 
in historic times by clans (Asa or Honani) of Jemez or of Tewa 
descent who had settled at the East Mesa. The author is inclined 
to identify the object held by this figure as one of these ceremonial 
frames and the man as a Yaya priest. 
1The best idol of this god known to the author appears on one of the Flute altars at 
Oraibi. It has a single horn (representing the serpent horn) on the head, two wings, 
and two legs with lightning symbols their whole length. The horned plumed Lightning 
god of the Kwakwantti at Walpi is represented by plumed serpent effigies in the March 
ceremony or dramatization elsewhere described. 
2In the Antelope dance at Walpi, a stalk of corn instead of a snake is carried in the 
mouth on the day before the Snake dance. (Fewkes, Snake Ceremonials at Walpi, 
pp. 73-74.) 
8Tor descriptions of similar objects see Fewkes, Hopi Ceremonial Frames from Canon 
de Chelly, Arizona, pp. 664-670 ; Fewkes, The Lesser’ New-fire Ceremony at Walpi, p. 438, 
pl. x1; also Twenty-first Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer, Hthn., pls. XXXIV, XXXY. 
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