. Hopi Katcinas drawn by native artists. ancient katcina peculiar to the puebloHano, but now rarely personated. TUMAE (Plate XLII) The picture of this katcina has a face divided into a yellow andgreen section by a vertical black line. The lower part of the face isseparated from both by a horizontal black line, and is colored the middle of this red zone there is a rectangular chin paintedwhite, the pigment which gives the name to the figure. Both Hopisand Tewas call this katcina Tumae (white earth), referring to the whitepigment on the chin. MATIA(Plate XLII) This figure has a human hand
. Hopi Katcinas drawn by native artists. ancient katcina peculiar to the puebloHano, but now rarely personated. TUMAE (Plate XLII) The picture of this katcina has a face divided into a yellow andgreen section by a vertical black line. The lower part of the face isseparated from both by a horizontal black line, and is colored the middle of this red zone there is a rectangular chin paintedwhite, the pigment which gives the name to the figure. Both Hopisand Tewas call this katcina Tumae (white earth), referring to the whitepigment on the chin. MATIA(Plate XLII) This figure has a human hand painted on the face, on which accountit is called Matia, or Hand katcina. Another designation, Talakin,refers to the girl who follows, stirring the contents of a cooking potwhich Matia carries on his back. He is said to appear in the footraces, but the author has never seen him personated at Walpi. A being with the figure of a hand on the face occurs also in Zunidances. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL RFPORT PL. »L1|. MATIA HELlOr>PE CO., BOSTON. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT PL. XLIII
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