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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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after the chief ofthe kiva had sprinkled the visitors with meal a male and a female per-sonator advanced from the western end of the kiva to the fireplace.The man picked up the basket on the butt end of his stick and pre-.seuted it to the woman, who held it in both hands and danced a fewmoments, while all the others sang. She then laid the tray down andpassed to the northern side of the chamber, the man retiring to thesouthern side. After the other conjiles had performed the same cere-mony they left the kivas. Immediately after their departure 28 personators from Hano entered.These consisted of male and female deities, the latter personated bymen. The former passed to the southern, the latter to the northern His fiddle was a notched stick which he scraped with a sheep scapula Kawaikakatoinaa Kawaika is a Hop) name for the Laguna people ol Keresan siork See figure in NaScnaiva, Journal of American Folk lore, .iuly-September. 1892 BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. PL. CVIII.
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A HOEN & CO-, LITH KATCtNA MASK WITH SQUASH BLOSSOM APPENDAGE AND RAIN CLOUD SYMBOLISM. FEWKEs) THE POWAMU CEREMONY 287 side of the kiva. Each of the male personages wore a yucca tillet onLis liead and his legs were <lecorated with clay streaks; he wore whitekilts and girdles, with dependent fox skins. They also had tortoiserattles on the legs and carried a gourd rattle m the right hand. Theircostuuie was as follows: They were without masks; the hair was looseand an imitation of a squash blossom was tied therein. The face wasnot colored, but on the right shoulder curving to the breast was daubeda mass of blue and green pigment. t)n the left shoulder and overthe breast they were painted with yellow, and bright red streaks weredrawn from the neck down tlie center of the breast and middle of theback. The »ipi)er i)art of the right arm was colored yellow, the leftforearm green, the ui)per part of the left arm green. These colorswere reversed on the right arm. The right leg also wa

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