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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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e. He carried arattle in his right hand, a basket tray of sacred meal in his left, andon his left arm rested the Antelope palladium, or Tciib-tiponl. Wikibelongs to the Snake clan and is an uncle of Kopell, the Snake chief. 3. Katci: The bodily decoration of this priest was like that of theAntelope chief, except that he wore a bunch of variegated feathers inhis hair. He carried a stick in the left and a rattle in the right hand,and wore armlets in which cottonwood boughs were inserted. Katciis chief of the Kokop, or Firewood, clan. 4. 5. Pontiuia and Kwaa: The faces of these two men were painteddifierently from those of Wiki or Katci: their chins were not black-ened, nor was a white line painted from the upper lip to the ears.Their chests were decorated with two parallel white bands, instead ofzigzag lines characteristic of Antelope priests. Their forearms andlegs were painted white, but not in zigzag designs. They woreembroidered anklets, but were without moccasins. Bunches of varle-
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^EWKEs) THE WALPI ANTELOPE PRIESTS 985 gated feathers were attached to their ^^calp.s. Each carried a paho inthe left hand and a rattle in the right hand, and wore a white buck-skin across the shoulders. Four hanks of yarn were tied about theirU^ft knees. Pontima belongs to the Ala (Horn); Kwaa to the Patki(Water-house). 6. Kakapti: The dress and bodily decoration of Kakapti resembledthose of Katci, but he had a bowstring guard on his left wrist.Kakapti belongs to the Tiiwa. or Sand. clan. i, S. : These men, as well as the three boys who stood on the left of the kisi, were dressed and painted like Kakapti. They carriedsimilar objects in their hands. 9. Wikyatiwa: This man was clothed and painted differentlv fromany other Antelope priest. He wore a white ceremonial kilt and sash;over his shoulder hung a buckskin and a quiver with ))ow and arrows.From the back of his head there was suspended a bundle of featherstied to a bone spearpoint by a leather thong. He bore, in his left handtwo w

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