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Palhikmana is a female katsina or katsina maiden to whom is inscribed several functions.  She appears during Angk'wa as a Butterfly maiden or Corn-Grinding maiden.  She also appears in the performance of a special dance. 

Angk'wa is a ceremony which encompasses the entire month of March during which a series of night dances is performed in each Hopi village.  These rituals will continue until sometime in July when the katsinam season ends and the katsinam return to their home in the San Francisco Mountains.

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