. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Kiy. Iti.—Cure t)f Flute tiponi. t,\s ho wound the tiponi he alU>\ved the string to be drawn through his hand, which containedsacred meal. The winding was always toward the left, or in the direction called the sinistral cere-monial FEWKES] THE KISI 1005 The unwrapping of the tiponi has been witnessed in two Hopi the Flute and the Lalakonti. In these instances the contentsof the palladium varied, hut in both either kernels of corn or other seedsform essential parts. Fr
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Kiy. Iti.—Cure t)f Flute tiponi. t,\s ho wound the tiponi he alU>\ved the string to be drawn through his hand, which containedsacred meal. The winding was always toward the left, or in the direction called the sinistral cere-monial FEWKES] THE KISI 1005 The unwrapping of the tiponi has been witnessed in two Hopi the Flute and the Lalakonti. In these instances the contentsof the palladium varied, hut in both either kernels of corn or other seedsform essential parts. From chiefs of other societies it has been learnedthat their tiponis likewise contained corn either in g-rains or on the from this information one is not justiiied in concluding thatall tiponis contain corn, it is probably true with one or two excep-tions. The tiponi is called the mother. and an ear of corn given toa novice has the same name. There is nothing more prei-ious to anagricultural people than seed, and we may well imagine that duringthe early Hopi migrations the danger of losing it may have led toevery precaution fo)- its safety. Thus it may have hai)pene(l that itwas wrapped in the tiponi and given to the chief to guard with allcare as a most precdous heritage. In this manner it became a meresymbol, and as such i
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