near a small opening in the floor representing the sacred region of the room, the men personating Cipikne, Hakto, Caiastacana, and Tcolawitze deposited their masks.
In the house of the Patki clan there was what might be called a rude altar. At one end of the room, on a space a few feet square, the floor had been carefully sanded, and on the sand five rings were drawn side by side with meal. Within each of these rings there was a conventional symbol of a rain cloud. Bird worship predominates in the cults of this clan, and in these rings of meal the masks of the bird gods, Kwahu (Eagle), Kwayo (Hawk), and Macikwayo (Drab Hawk), were placed. It may be remembered that the personators who wore these masks were Walpi men, and that the Patki is a Walpi clan, as distinguished from the Honani and Asa, which have Zuñi affiliations.
The house of the Kükütc clan, also distinctly Hopi, had, however, a row of twenty Tcakwaina masks hanging on the walls. These were not worn by the personators in the procession from Tawapa to Sichumovi, but were prominent in the dances throughout the night.
There were dances in Walpi and Hano kivas on the same night, at the same horu, participated in by unmasked personages—Mucaias taka (Buffalo youth), Tacab (Navaho), Woe,[1] Malo, and others. A dance representing all kinds of birds was performed on the same night in the Walpi Nacab kiva.
Winter Flute Paholawu[2]
This is an abbreviated meeting of the Flute priests, occurring in even years and lasting one day, during which a simple altar is made, tiponis are put in position, and prayer-sticks are manufactured. There is no public dance and there are usually no masked personages. The Hopi artists has given no drawing of the Flute priest, but in the collection there is a Leñya or Flute katcina, which sometimes appears.
In the winter Flute ceremony there is no altar, but the tiponis or sacred badges of the Flute chief, Türnoa, the Bear chief, Kotka, and the speaker chief, Hoñyi, are placed in line in a ridge of wand back of the symbolic opening in the floor of the kiva called the sipapû.
In 1900 the Flute chief made the following prayer-sticks:
1. A double prayer-stick or paho, flat on one side, an offering to Cotokinuñwû.
2. Eight ordinary green flute pahos.
Hoñyi made the following:
1. A double paho, flat on one side, with corn-husk packages of meal.
2. Ordinary green flute pahos.
The other men present made each two double green pahos as long as the middle finger.
