Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1897) (14784501115)

Identifier: annualreportofbu219smit (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network



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o tiponis are shown in plate liii atthe middle of the side of the altar, on the border of the sand picturenext to the kiva wall. The two tiponis are separated by a stonefetish of the mountain lion. These two objects of the societies, called■mothers, are the most sacred objects which the altars contain, andtheir presence shows that the altars are the legitimate ones. Each isdeposited on a small mound of sand upon which six radiating lines ofsacred meal are drawn by the chief. stone images of animals There were several stone images of animals on the Antelope altarat Walpi, which were distributed as follows on the western Ijorder ofthe sand mosaic near the tiponis: the largest, representing a moun-tain lion, stood between the two palladia of the society. It was uponthis fetish that Wiki i-ested his conical pipe when he made the greatrain-cloud smoke after the eighth song in the sixteen-^ongs ceremony,as elsewhere fully described. ijournal of American Ethnology and Aroh:tology. vol. iv.
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