Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . °; a Hopi calls his dog poko. Thepet of Tunwup is depicted on the altar as elsewhere mentioned in myaccount of the reredos of the farewell Katcina at Walpi. observers allows one of the difficulties which besets the path of those who attempt etymologic dissec-tion of Pueblo words. Many Zuiii words in the mouths of the Hopi sutler strange modifications, sothat I am not greatly Burprised to find idiomatic diflerences between the Hopi dialect of the Eastmesa and that of Oraibi. How much may result after year
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . °; a Hopi calls his dog poko. Thepet of Tunwup is depicted on the altar as elsewhere mentioned in myaccount of the reredos of the farewell Katcina at Walpi. observers allows one of the difficulties which besets the path of those who attempt etymologic dissec-tion of Pueblo words. Many Zuiii words in the mouths of the Hopi sutler strange modifications, sothat I am not greatly Burprised to find idiomatic diflerences between the Hopi dialect of the Eastmesa and that of Oraibi. How much may result after years of separatiou no one can tell, but thelinguist must he to find these diflerences very considerable. I This person is said to have been the mother of the Katcinas. She also was the mother of themonsters, the slaughter of whom by the cultus hero, rUiikoiihoya, and his twin brotlier is a con-stant theme in Tusayan folklore. , Navabo Sand raiutinjis, in Eighth Annual lleport of the Bureau of Ethnology. â ^Journal of American Ethnology and Archieolgy, vol. ii, No. FKWKEs] COMPLETE AND AUBREVIATEI) KATCIXAS 2G7 111 the Ilopi conception of the All Katcina there seems to he an ideathat they dwell in four terrestrial places or worldcjuarters. This maybe looked on as an application of a general idea of world-quarterdeities so common amouy them. Northwest, kwiniwi Kicynba. Southwest, tevyiina Niivatikyaubi, San Francisco mountains. Southeast, tatyuka Wenima. Northeast, h(>poko Niivatikyaubi, San Mateo mountains. If there is any one feature which distinguishes a Katcina it is theuse, by some or all of the participants, of a mask or ceremonial Katcinas are divided into two groups, the complete and the abbre-viated; the former is constant year by year, the latter varying. Altarsare present in the complete, absent in abbreviated presentations. Acloud-charm altar or invocation to the six world-quarter deities issometimes made. Public announcements are
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