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Little Colorado clans did not influence the Sikyatki pottery, they did 
affect the potters of Awatobi to a limited extent and introduced some 
symbols into Walpi in the middle of the seventeenth and eighteenth 
centuries. Among these influences may be mentioned those derived 
from Awatobi after its destruction in 1700. It is not possible to 
state definitely what modifications in pottery symbols were intro- 
duced into Walpi by the potters of the clans from Awatobi and the 
Little Colorado. Possibly no considerable modification resulted 
from their advent, as there was already more or less similarity in 
the pottery from these geographical localities. The southern clans 
introduced some novelties in ceremonies, especially in the Winter 
Solstice and New-fire festivals and in the rites of the Horned Serpent 
at the Spring Equinox. 
Symeots InrropuceD BY THE BapGer AND Kacuina CLANS 
As the clans which came to the Hopi country from Zuni were com- 
paratively late arrivals of Tewa colonists long after the destruction 
of Sikyatki, their potters exerted no influence on the Sikyatki potters. 
The ancient Hopi ceramic art had become extinct when the clans 
from Awatobi, the pueblos on the Little Colorado, and the late Tewa, 
united with the Walpi settlement on the East Mesa. The place 
whence we can now obtain information of the character of the sym- 
bolism of the Asa, Butterfly, Badger, and other Tewan clans is in 
certain ceremonies at Sichomovi, a pueblo near Walpi, settled by 
clans from Zuni and often called the Zuni pueblo by the Hopi. One 
of the Sichomovi ceremonies celebrated at Oraibi and Sichomovi 
on the East Mesa, in which we may find survivals of the earliest Tewa 
and Zuni symbolism, is called the Owakiilti. The Sichomovi variant 
of the Owakiilti shows internal sociologic relation to the Butterfly or 
Buli (Poli) clan resident in Awatobi before its fall. This state- 
ment is attested by certain stone slabs excavated from Awatobi 
mounds, on which are painted butterfly symbols. The Walpi Lala- 
konti, first described by the author and Mr. Owens in 1892, has also 
survivals of Awatobi designs. It appears that while it is not easy 
to trace any of the rich symbolism of Awatobi directly into Walpi 
pottery, it is possible to discover close relations between certain 
Awatobi symbols and others still employed in Walpi ceremonials. 
Sikyatki and Awatobi were probably inhabited synchronously and 
«us kindred people had a closeiy allied or identical symbolism; there 
is such a close relation between the designs on pottery from the two 
ruins that Awatobi symbols introduced into Walpi have a close 
likeness to those of Sikyatkit 
1The Buli (Poli) clan is probably Tewa, as the word indicates, which would show that 
Tewa as well as Keres clans lived at Awatobi. No legend mentions Buli clans at Sikyatki, 
but several traditions locate them at Awatobi. 
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