Tusayan Katcinas and Hopi Altars [SOLD]

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The ceremonials which I have here and elsewhere described were not invented by them to show to me, nor will any religious society of the Hopi at the present clay get up a ceremony to please the white man. Each observance is traditional and prescribed far a certain time of the year.

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These deities are generally regarded as animistic and Subordinate to the greater gods. They have been called intercessors between man and the highest supernatural beings.

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Cimo, the old Flute chief (obit 1893), once made the following remark about his tiponi: This is my mother, the outer wrapping is her garment, the string of' shells is her necklace; the feathers typify the birds, and within it are all the desirable seeds. When I go to sleep she watches over me. and when I die one of the feathers will he placed upon my heart, and I hope the tiponi will take care of me. From these words we learn how Much the tiponi is venerated, and it is not remarkable, considering the benefits which are thought to come from it, that it is designated ‘the mother.’

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....it is wrong to speak of Ka-tci-nas as Zuni or as Hopi. The Ka-tci-nas are without nationality, they are for all,

—J. WALTER FEWKES.
Essex Inst. Bulletin, Vol. XXIV