Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ation of the man-ner of concealing sacred objects in cavities in dwellings. The Siin-iakiakwe possess the blossoms and the roots of the tenas^ali becauseit is good medicine for game. One of the most attractive dances: in Zufii has been adopted from the HopiIndians, the masks for which represent the heads of different game animals, fromthe elk to the hare. The leader of the dances personates Lelentu, the Hopi god ofmusic, hutterflies, and flowers, who hears a tray or howl containing a flowering plantof
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ation of the man-ner of concealing sacred objects in cavities in dwellings. The Siin-iakiakwe possess the blossoms and the roots of the tenas^ali becauseit is good medicine for game. One of the most attractive dances: in Zufii has been adopted from the HopiIndians, the masks for which represent the heads of different game animals, fromthe elk to the hare. The leader of the dances personates Lelentu, the Hopi god ofmusic, hutterflies, and flowers, who hears a tray or howl containing a flowering plantof the tenassali. Nothing could seem more Chinese than the paper blossoms onthis artificial plant. When it is set down in the plaza the dancers gather around totat the flowers. The animal-like and graceful movements of the men personatingthe game present a beautiful picture (see plate cv). These dancers appear at inter-vals during the day, and the scenes close with a man shooting a little cottontail,which appears to give great grief to the ether animals. See classification of higher JUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. CVI
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