. Bulletin. Ethnology. Anthrop. Pap. No. 32] NEW MATERIAL FROM ACOMA—^WHITE 311 Sa'romBia and Curatca (White, 1932, p. 79) were "copied from ; '0 He-mtc katsina (White, 1932, p. 75, pi. 5, d) was so called because he "came from ; The dead become katsina.—"First they go to Shipap; then they go on to Wenima (place in the west; the home of most of the katsina), and become katsina" (White, 1935, pp. 198-199).. Figure S.—He'-mic katsina. SYMBOLISM LN MASKS Signs and symbols, usually of meteorological phenomena, are fre- quently found in masks of the katsina
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Anthrop. Pap. No. 32] NEW MATERIAL FROM ACOMA—^WHITE 311 Sa'romBia and Curatca (White, 1932, p. 79) were "copied from ; '0 He-mtc katsina (White, 1932, p. 75, pi. 5, d) was so called because he "came from ; The dead become katsina.—"First they go to Shipap; then they go on to Wenima (place in the west; the home of most of the katsina), and become katsina" (White, 1935, pp. 198-199).. Figure S.—He'-mic katsina. SYMBOLISM LN MASKS Signs and symbols, usually of meteorological phenomena, are fre- quently found in masks of the katsina. The white dome of He-mic katsina (fig. 5) represents clouds "piled up"; the black portion of the back of the mask is a storm cloud, which contains rain—the vertical lines inside the white rectangle. The spruce collar represents a wak'ai'- » Sa'romBia is evidently the Zufli Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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