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tiponi, behind each of Avhich there was a pile of sand in which 
were twigs with attached feathers. The two lateral mounds 
were of sand at the apex of each of which was inserted a paho, 
and behind it twigs with attached feathers. A long string with 
attached feather was stretched from the base of the right hand 
tiponi across the sand forming the ground of the meal picture, 
and meal was sprinkled over it and thrown towards the ladder. 
Parade of the Tatauktamu. 
At 3.10 P.M. the Tatauki/amu,, eighteen in number, issued from 
their kiva, and joj'fully danced through the courts, linking their 
hands in the peculiar manner elsewhere described. A portion of 
them were disguised as women, of whom four wore on the head 
a large, widespreading, wooden tablet, carved to imitate feathers. 
In the midst of these was a youth decorated as the other 
TataukyamU but bearing a skin tablet {pavaiokaci), with a 
rattle in his right hand, an ear of corn in his left. These five 
accompanied by the Alosaka danced to the spirited songs of the 
TataukyamH. After about twenty minutes they returned to 
their kiva. 
This episode is mstructive in view of the relationship of the 
Mamzrauti and W^ilioutciinti ceremonials. In the Maynzrauti 
of 1892 girls bearing the same tablet likewise danced in the 
court, and in the presentation of this woman's festival described 
by me (Amer. anth., July, 1892), these girls or Palahikomana 
were not personified, but represented by a sj'^mbolic picture^ on 
the wooden slab. These dancers do not represent Katcinas, but 
were decorated with the tablets in old times before Katcinci^ came 
to Walpi. While they thus danced, the accompanying chorus 
was sung to 3Iayi)lwtlh, asking him to fertilize the earth, and 
» Called Calako (Saliko) on account of the symbolic markings of the head or tablet 
of the same. Probably in this ceremony, however, she has another name but both 
are in reality the same per.sonages so that the name given her was not inaccurate. 
s From many reasons I am led to suspect that the Mamzrauti belongs to the older 
group of Tusayan ceremonials antedating the Katcina cult. There seems good reason 
to suspect that the latter came originally from a Rio Grande people possibly of 
Keresan stock. 
