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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lieved to represent the Acoma relatives of the Snake people.There are several songs in Hopi secret rites, the words of whichresemble closely certain terms of the Keresan language, in additionto the vocables common to sacred songs of all American Indians. The line of Antelope priests made four circuits about the plaza, andas each member passed the shrine in the middle of the plaza, he droppeda pinch of meal upon it. The same act of prayer was repeated beforethe kisi when the priest stamped violently on a plank as he droppedthe sacred meal. The Antelopes then formed a platoon at the kisiand awaited the Snake priests, who soon appeared, headed by theSnake ciiief. When the Antelope priests had formed in a platoon in front of thekisi (plate xvliii), it was noticed that the line was continuous and notbroken into two divisions, a right and a left, as at Walpi. The firstfour men and the ninth man in line, counting from the left, were BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT FL. L
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PHOTOGRAPH B¥ MAUDE AND JAMES WIKI, ANTELOPE CHIEF FEWKEs) PUBLIC SNAKE DANCE AT MISHONGNOVI 975 barefoot, Init all tiio remainder wore nioeeasins. There wa.s somevariation in the colors of the feathers on their heads, which can beinterpreted in the same way as similar \ariations at Walpi, later con-sidered; but it was noticed that certain of the priests failed to have thewhite zigzag markings on theii bodies, so conspicuous in the Walpicelebration. The entrance of the Snake priests into the plaza was not so animatedas at A\alpi under the leadership of Kopeli, but their circuits werethe same, and their dress and adornment was quite similar in the twopueblos. The Snake priests tiled about the plaza four times, stampedon the plank in the ground before the kisi as the_v passed it, and tooktheii positions facing the Antelope priests. The ceremonies at the kisibegan with a swaying movement of their bodies in unison with thesong of the Antelopes, and, as it continued, the Snake priests loc

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