Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . nfluences least powerful ? The historian will of courseanswer the Tusayan pueblos, and ethnology contributes her quota offacts to indicate that the purest form of Pueblo ceremonials are nowpracticed by these villagers. Although there are several ceremonials which the Hopi claim are notperformed at Zuni, and conversely others iierformed at Zuni which arenot observed in Tusayan, there is a similarity, differing in details, be-tween the K(Jko and Katcina dances close enough to show their iden-tity. The Hopi
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . nfluences least powerful ? The historian will of courseanswer the Tusayan pueblos, and ethnology contributes her quota offacts to indicate that the purest form of Pueblo ceremonials are nowpracticed by these villagers. Although there are several ceremonials which the Hopi claim are notperformed at Zuni, and conversely others iierformed at Zuni which arenot observed in Tusayan, there is a similarity, differing in details, be-tween the K(Jko and Katcina dances close enough to show their iden-tity. The Hopi recognize this fact, and to prove it I need only mentionthat the Anakatcina in 1801 was danced at Zuni by some of the Ilopias a Koko. I have already pointed out the identity of the masks, para-phernalia, and songs of the Kokokshi, performed by the Zunians, and 1 do not for a nininent doubt even when nominally Christianized tlie .succession of the chiefsiu the several sacerdotal societies lias not been broken up to oar time. BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. PL. A, HOEN & CO , LITH A POWAMU MASK. ZUXI AND HOPI CEREMONIES 307 the Afiakatciiia at Walpi. Tliere is no doubt in my mind tliat tliey arethe same, but I can not acce])t the dictum that what is observed in oneis ideutical with what exists in the other. Tliere are slight modifica-tious which exist likewise in different Hopi villages, as will be seen bya comparison of my descriptions of the two. One marked difference isthat several Kokokshi dances were performed in the summer I spentat Zuni, and that this identical Katcina (the Ana) is i)erformed but onceeach summer in any one Hopi- villafje. The only other Koko dance which I know of from personal observa-tion is the tablet dance, which is in many respects homologous with theHumiskatcina. The symbolism of the mask and tablet, however, dif-
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