Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 39—Tablet of the PalabiltninaDa mask. the celebration of 1891, although it is customary for each society to havebut one tiponi, which, with the other parapliernalia, is in the keeping ofthe chief priest. 3. The Mamzraiiti. This ceremonial has likewise been described.*In some celebrations of this festival girls ai)pear with tablets on theirheads personifying maids called Palahikomanas. In 1891 these per-sonages were representeil by pictures^ of the same on slabs carried inthe hands of girls. In this
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 39—Tablet of the PalabiltninaDa mask. the celebration of 1891, although it is customary for each society to havebut one tiponi, which, with the other parapliernalia, is in the keeping ofthe chief priest. 3. The Mamzraiiti. This ceremonial has likewise been described.*In some celebrations of this festival girls ai)pear with tablets on theirheads personifying maids called Palahikomanas. In 1891 these per-sonages were representeil by pictures^ of the same on slabs carried inthe hands of girls. In this way the variations of their celebrations indiflereut years may be exjjlained; sometimes women are dressed toimpersonate the Palahikomanas, at others only pictures of the sameare carried. 1 The American Anthropologist, Washington. Ajiril, 1892.•-Ibid., July, 1892. ^Erroneously identilii-d Ciilako in my descriptimi and plates of the presentation of the Mam-zraiiti in 1891. BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. PL.
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