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 Hopi Basket Dances. 89

Katcina 1 has lateral horns, radiating feathers, and painted band with alternating colors representing the coronet bound with calico. We find on the cheeks of the doll the same red spots as on the faces of the dancers. These six girls with coronets personifying Kohonino basket dancers have some resemblances to those called Palahikomana in Mamzrauti, and as the women recognize this likeness it is quite as appropriate to introduce this dance in the Mamzrauti as in the Lalakonti.

When more is known of the clans of that interesting people, the Kohoninos, it may be found that earlier in their history some of their ancestors were related to the Squash (Patun) and other clans which formerly lived along the Little Colorado and brought the Mamzrauti to Awatobi, from which pueblo it was taken to Walpi, as I have else- where shown. There is reason to believe that the Cipias, a people mentioned in early Spanish descriptions of the seventeenth century, were the Squash, Cloud, and other clans of the Hopi which at that time lived west of Zufii on the Little Colorado, at Homolobi and Cakwabaiyaki. At the end of the seventeenth century these Cipias disappear from Spanish chronicles because at about that time they left their pueblos on the Little Colorado and joined the Hopi. The Cosninos (Koninos), at the end of the seventeenth century, lived farther down the river, or north of the Cipias, and they were forced by wandering nomads to the seclusion of Sakatubka, Cataract Canon, where their descendants now live.

TANOAN VARIANT OF CORONET.

Several characteristic ceremonial dances brought into Tusayan by Tanoan colonists are still retained in the two pueblos, Sitcomovi and Hano. In one of these we find the coronet worn by the women so close to that of the basket dance that it is introduced in this connec- tion. I have never studied the dance in extenso and have been obliged to refer to a few notes and photographs obtained a few years ago by Mr. Raush. The two performers to whom I wish to call attention are those who wear coronets comparable with the Lakone manas of the Lalakonti. The dance in which they participated was performed in Sitcomovi.

The headdresses of these two girls have a remote similarity to that of the Lakone manas at Cipaulovi, but before I describe them there is one interesting thing in the coiffure of the women which is

1 The doll really represents a female personation, not a male, as the word Katcina would at first imply. The word Katcina among the Hopi has come to be a generic one, so that any supernatural being may be called a Katcina. This use of the term is a late development in Hopi nomenclature of supernatural beings.

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