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Another interpretation of the central figure of the group, figure 15, 
is that he is performing the celebrated stick-swallowing act which 
was practiced at Walpi until a few years ago. The last explanation 
suggested implies that the human figures represent Snake and Ante- 
lope priests, a doubtful interpretation, since, according to legends, 
these priests were never represented at Silyathki.1 
The character shown in another figure, not copied, may represent 
the supernatural being, called the God of the Dead (Masaut) whose 
body, according to legend, is spotted and girt by bands. The Little 
Fire god (Shulewitse), when personated in modern ceremonies of 
the Tewa at Hano, is represented by a man daubed with pigments of 
several colors. He is personated 
likewise in the Hopi (Tewa) vil- 
lage of Sichomoyi.? 
Several Zuni ceremonies show 
evidence of derivation from east- 
ern New Mexican pueblos,* but a 
critical examination of the origin 
and migration of Zuni clan re- 
lations of societies still awaits the 
student of this interesting pueblo. 
It is probable that Zui sociology 
is in some respects like that of 
Walpi and that the present popu- 
lation is composite, having de- 
scended from clans which have 
drifted together from different directions, each bringing character- 
istie ceremonies and mythological conceptions, while certain rites 
have been incorporated from time to time from other Pueblo people. 
Fic. 15.—Three human figures. 
QuapRUPED FIGURES 
Representations of quadrupeds are almost as rare as human figures 
in Sikyatki pottery decorations. The deer (fig. 16, a), antelope, moun- 
tain sheep, mountain lion, rabbit, and one or two other animals are 
recognizable, but pictures of these are neither so common nor so 
highly conventionalized as those of birds. 
1As a matter of history, the Snake people of Walpi may have been hostile to the 
Kokop of Sikyatki on account of linguistic or tribal differences which culminated in the 
destruction of the latter pueblo in prehistoric times. 
2The pueblo of Sichomovi, called by the Hopi Sioki, or Zuni pueblo, was settled by Asa 
clans, who were apparently of exotic origin but who went to Sichomovi from Zufi, in 
which pueblo the Asa people are known as Aiyahokwe. The Sichomovi people still pre- 
serve Zuni ceremonies and Zuni kachinas, although they now speak the Hopi language— 
an example of a pueblo in which alien ceremonies and personations have survived or been 
incorporated, although its language has been superseded by another. 
8Thus the Heyamashikwe may be supposed to have originally come from Jemez. The 
Zuni Sumaikoli, like that of the Hopi, is practically Tewa in origin. 
