■895-] 449 [Fewkes. 
of corn in his right hand, and a realistic imitation of a lilwa^ 
(vulva) in his left. They halted and sang phalHc songs, and 
made obscene gestures. Women came from their houses and 
poured water, not the cleanest, upon them. 
Several of the women at one time captured one of the Tatau- 
kymnH from the group of dancers, and dragged him to some 
convenient corner of the court where they pulled down his hair, 
and tore off his breech cloth. They then douched him with 
water,^ and thumped him on the head mth their empty water 
gourds. 
The upright frame back of the altar which is used in the 
N'aacnaiya {op. cit., p. 202) was not set up in the Wuwutcimti, 
although the two tipoms placed in the sand mounds and the j^a^o 
were the same, and the ears of corn laid between them were also 
present. There were two tipo?ii in the Alkiva and but one in 
each of the others, for reasons which have been explained. ^ 
At about 1 p. M. the KwakwantiX finished making their paho 
and numerous nakwahicoci. The cm-ious putcpaho or corn paho 
slab (iVciacnaii/a) was also made, and all were deposited in a tray. 
The Tiponi Altar. ^ 
In the Alkiva the two chiefs made four mounds of sand and 
meal arranged in a row and a meal painting on the floor before 
them. The two middle mounds of meal had upon them the two 
1 Some of these objects were made of hemispherical pieces of wood realistically 
carved, and covered with wool in the appropriate place. Others were rinds of water- 
melon, with the green outer skin cut through to show the red meat. These eftigies 
were attached to a short stick, and on some of them pubic hairs were fastened. 
^Attention is called to my description of episodes of the Naacnaiya ( op. cit., p. 210 ) 
where something similar to this took place. 
3 As the WUwutcimtii is an abbreviated ceremony the uprights are not used back 
of the iiponi altar. By a somewhat similar course of reasoning the tlponi altar of 
the winter flute is destitute of the accessories which appear in the summer observ- 
ance (see The Walpi flute, a study of primitive dramatization, Journ. Amer. folk-lore, 
Jan., 1895) . For emphasis I will repeat that the essential of a tiponi altar is the 
tiponi, and the other things, as sand-pictui-es, uprights, etc., are accessories. 
4 Here we have the altar of the ttrst kind, and there is no doubt that elaborate 
ceremonials belonging to my first group of component rites were performed about it 
during which songs were sung, but our description is incomplete as these rites were 
not seen, although it is known that they were performed. These songs and observ- 
ances are recommended as a fruitful field for work for those who would complete my 
account of the new fire observance. 
PROCEEDINGS U. S. X. H. VOL. XXVI. 29 FEB. 1896. 
