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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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were decoratedwith triangular markings. On the floor in front of the two smallerfigurines were hillocks of sand, into which were inserted small rodswith trumpet-like extremities variously colored. Although the author did not witness the seci-et ceremonials of eitherof the Flute societies at Mishongnovi, for want of time, he saw fromthe nature of the prayer-sticks (pahos) that they probalily resembledthe rites at Shipaulovi. In addition to the prescribed Flute pahos heobserved the manufacture of the two wooden slabs, decorated withcorn figures, which were carried by the maidens in the public dance,and the balls of clay with small sticks, called the tadpoles, which aremade in both the Flute and the Snake ceremonies at Walpi. Thereis close resemblance between the small natcis, or Flute pahos, tied tothe ladder of each of the Flute houses, and the awata-natcis, or stand-ards, with skins and red-stained horsehair, that are placed on the roofsof the chambers in which the altars are erected.
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FEWKES) COMPAEISONS WITH OTHER ALTARS 993 COMPARISON WITH THE WALPI FLUTK ALTAR As has been already pointed out, there is but one Flute altar at Walpi,that of the Caltwalenya. the Maeileiiya society having become extinct.The upriyhts of the reiedos in the flute altars of both pueblos bear simi-lar symbolic pictures of rain clouds, rive in number, one al)ovc the other.The transverse slat, or the arch, of the Walpi Flute altar difliers fromthat of the Mishongnovi in having a picture of Tawa (sun), with twosemicircular rain-cloud rigures on each side, in the interval betweenwhich is pictured a zigzag rigure representing lightning, iioth altarshave images of the Flute youth. Flute maid, and Miiiyinwu, and sofar as is known they are the only Tusayan Flute altars which ha\e aneffigy of the personage last mentioned. The Walpi rigurine of theFlute youth has no flute in his hand, and th(> slabs witii flgures of per-sons plajing the flute, elsewhere dcscril)ed. wjiich characterize theWalpi a

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