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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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he others being straight throughout.The arrangement of these sticks may be seen in the accompanyingplate iJii, where they are shown placed in clay pedestals on the outermargin of the sand mosaic. The sticks provided with a crook have attached to them a stringwith a breast feather of an eagle, stained red. The straight sticks,called arrows, have more complicated apj)endages, for to their upperends are attached a packet of meal, a feather, and a dried corn leaf.The l)undles of feathers represented in the plate as fastened to theends of these sticks are those which the priests wear on their headsduring the public dances. These bundles are not found on the sticks 1 Snake ceremonials at Walpi, Journal American Ethnology and Archaeology, vol. iv, p. 34.Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, The Sia, Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Mrs. Steven-son mentions similar words used in invocations to the warriors of the cardinal points. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LIV
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PHOTOGRAPH B> MAUOE AND JAWE^ KAKAPTI AT ENTRANCE TO WALPI ANTELOPE KIVA FEWKEs) THE WALPI ANTELOPE ALTAR 983 during the first days of the ceremony; they are not essential to theefEcaej- of the altar, but are huno as indicated because of the sacredinfluence which is supposed to be imparted to them through this asso-ci^ition. For the same reason there are placed on the altar the severalrattles seen on the right-hand corner, as well as the netted water gourdswhich appear here only on tlie last two da\-s of the Snake ceremony,in the public dances of which they are used. Two objects to the rightof the tiponi, on the rear margin of tiie sand mosaic, have been addedto the altar fetishes since the celebration of 1891. They occupied theposition named during the 1893, 1895, and 1897 celebrations. One ofthese is the cephalothorax of a king crab (LhiiKhif: jHiJi/jihiiiifin). \\wother a fragment of water-worn wood. Both of these were gifts fromthe author to ^\iki. tiie Antelope chief, in 1893.

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