. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ad the stiange device which is found possible explanation is that it repicsents a mask. The designerintended to figure a masked human being or katcina. Now, differentkatcinas are distinguished by symbols drawn on their masks or hel-mets, consequently the next step is to compare the helmet of themasked figure from the Four-mile ruin with those known in the llopisystem. 144 TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS [ETH. The author finds one highly suggestive appendage to the head—the radiating
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ad the stiange device which is found possible explanation is that it repicsents a mask. The designerintended to figure a masked human being or katcina. Now, differentkatcinas are distinguished by symbols drawn on their masks or hel-mets, consequently the next step is to compare the helmet of themasked figure from the Four-mile ruin with those known in the llopisystem. 144 TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS [ETH. The author finds one highly suggestive appendage to the head—the radiating crest resembles the feathers in figures of a mythicalconception called Shalako. We have here a picture with a helmetadorned with a crest of feathers, recalling a Shalako, which is a Zunias well as a Hopi conception, derived in Tusayan and Zuili from thesame source, or from some of the ruins along the tributaries of theLittle Colorado. The logical conclusion would be that the jieople ofFour-mile ruin likewise recognized this being. Apropos of the possibility, revealed bj this picture of a masked. Fig. 90. Human figure on food bowl from Four-mile ruin t number 177061). dancer, that masked or katcina dances were once celebrated atFour-mile ruin, attention is called to the short distance of this ruinfrom a legendary home of the kateinas near St John, New Hopi and Zuili legends regarding the ancient home of thesebeings cluster so definitely about a ruin near this town that we maysuppose that the former inhabitants of that mythical place knowledge of the cult. To the lake near by both Zuiiis and Hopls Kothualewd of the Znnl legends; Winema of the Hopi. It would be a most instructive workfrom a mytho-arclieological point of view to investigate the antiquities in the neighborhood ofSt .John, especially near the lake so often mentioned in legends. FEWKEs] DECORATION OF FOUR-MILE POTTERY 145 make pilgrimages for sacred water; here, likewise, they carry prayerplu
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