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significant. The Walpi and other Hopi women wear their hair, after marriage, in two elongated oval coils tied with strings, which hang down on their shoulders. All the hair is brought into these coils. The women of Hano, however, in addition to these coils, wear a bang over the forehead which is not so tied, but simply brushed hack over the temples. The cutting of this bang is an episode in the marriage ceremonies of the Hano brides, and the prescribed length of the bang is the line of the lower jaw.

It is important to bear in mind that this coiffure is characteristic of women of Hano who are of Tanoan stock and not of the Hopi.

We find, on studying the masks of men who take the part of women Katcinas {Katcina manas), that they, too, have a represen- tation of these bangs, the peculiarity of Tewan (and possibly of Keresan) women. Here we have a survival indicating a relationship to the Katcina cult.

The two Sitcomovi women wear a coronet comparable with that of the basket throwers, but wear their hair dressed in the Tewan cus- tom, as we would expect on the theory that this ceremony is of Tewan origin.

This coronet consists of a band holding the bang to the level of the eyes with an open fan-shaped attachment on the right side cor- responding to the radiating slats on the coronet of the Lakone mana in the Walpi dance. On the opposite side of the head-band there is a projection representing the horn, from which hangs a string with attached horsehair. On the head are clusters of variegated feathers. The three semicircular rain-cloud additions to the band, were not observed, but the clothing of these maids was in other respects identical.

CORONETS OF TWO WOMEN IN THE MAMZRAUTI.

There are two women in the Mamzrauti festival who wear coronets which may be instructive in this connection. They appear on the final day of that festival, and have been described 1 in my account of this presentation.

The Mamzrauti is a woman's celebration of nine days' duration, in which women clothed in white blankets form a circle in the plaza and sing, holding in their hands fiat wooden slats on which are depicted cars of maize and various other symbols.

While they were singing in chorus and moving these slats in cadence there approached from the kiva, in much the same way as the basket throwers in the Lalakonti, three women, one of whom was the leader.

The leader wore a bright-colored plume on her head and a 1 American Anthropologist, July, 1S92.

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