. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. uspended horsehair stained red. On the sides of the tabletwere tied small round disks made of sections of gourd painted in colors,possibly representing cornflowers. A further description of one ofthese tablets, with an illustration, has been given elsewhere. BEARER OF THE SUN EMBLEM As previously stated, one of the Macilefiya bore on his back a diskrepresenting the sun. It was made of Ijuckskin stretched over a hoopwhich was strengthened ))y a framework of two sticks fastened atright angles. Th
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. uspended horsehair stained red. On the sides of the tabletwere tied small round disks made of sections of gourd painted in colors,possibly representing cornflowers. A further description of one ofthese tablets, with an illustration, has been given elsewhere. BEARER OF THE SUN EMBLEM As previously stated, one of the Macilefiya bore on his back a diskrepresenting the sun. It was made of Ijuckskin stretched over a hoopwhich was strengthened ))y a framework of two sticks fastened atright angles. This disk, which was about a foot in diameter, wassurrounded by a plaited border made of corn husks, into which eaglefeathers and red-stained horsehair were inserted. The sun shield wasattached to the back of the bearer by a cord over his shoulders. Thebody of the bearer was naked, save for a white ceremonial kilt with apendent foxskin, and he had a tuft of feathers on the crown of hishead. He carried a tiute upon which he played, and wore moccasins American Anthropologist, vol. v,numbers, pi. >E»iEs] THE PUBLIC FLUTE CEREMONY 999 and anklets (see plate lx). The natural inference is that the manwearing- the sun emblem in such a conspicuous way personated th(> will be observed that one of the figurines on the Flute altar (figure 44)is represented with a flute to its mouth. The whole c(>i-emony conmiem-orates the advent of the Corn maids, called by the tutelary name of thesociety, the Flute maids, and just as the Sun is said to have drawn themto himself in ancient times, so now the descendants strive by thesame method to tole the personators of the same maids into the puel)lo. THE WAKKIOK A man clothed as a warrior, wearing a buckskin on his back andcarrying a quiver of arrows over his shoulder, followed the proces-sion. He carried a bow in one hand and in the other a whizzer orbuUroarer, which he twirled at intervals. The bundle which he l)oreis the clothing
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