Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . since that time we have had more cows. (Danced by the Hopiat present.— R. L. B.) This is a regular kiva dance in which the head men take part,not like the Navaho dance. He represents the cow, but he brings corn too. He has blueseeds. MuKWE (Hopi) (Plate 49, c) Mask.—Face mask with beard, face turquoise blue with ornamentof red and white and checkerboard border. On head paper flowersand bunch of eagle and parrot feathers, ribbon streamers. Body painted red with right shoulder and left fore
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . since that time we have had more cows. (Danced by the Hopiat present.— R. L. B.) This is a regular kiva dance in which the head men take part,not like the Navaho dance. He represents the cow, but he brings corn too. He has blueseeds. MuKWE (Hopi) (Plate 49, c) Mask.—Face mask with beard, face turquoise blue with ornamentof red and white and checkerboard border. On head paper flowersand bunch of eagle and parrot feathers, ribbon streamers. Body painted red with right shoulder and left forearm blue, andleft shoulder and right forearm yellow. Legs yellow. (Powamupainting among the Hopi.) Dance kilt, embroidered sash, red belt, fox skin, beaded bandoleer,red moccasins, woolen hose fastened with yarn. Right hand gourd rattle, left hand crooked prayer stick (carried byPowamu). Parallels.—This is probably the Zuni masked interpretation of theHopi Powamu Katcina, who dances unmasked as the culminatingceremony of the Pow amu festival. 32Z on>• q:o >-ao_)ozI1-. BDNZEi] SUPPLEMENTARY AND EXTRA DANCES 1073 MuKwoKA (Hopi Woman)(Plate 49, d) Kokokci mask and headdress. Calico underdress, black dress, white blanket with red borderfastened on right shoulder. Dress decorated with colored ribbons,white moccasins. In right hand, basket ornamented with feathers, in left white. KWAMUMU (Plate 51, a) Costume.—On the head a bunch of yellow parrot feathers and downyfeathers. Sticking up from the center one tail feather of the eagledyed black and tipped with tiny parrot feathers. The face is paintedblue. On the back of the head is painted corn. Red hair around theface. On the left side a representation of a squash with downy feath-ers hanging from it. He wears arm bands with feathers and buckskinfringes, white kilt, white tasseled belt, fox skin, brown moccasins withfringes, turtle shell rattle on the right leg, gourd rattle in right the breast a
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