[120] Cipaulovi, or the “Place of Peaches,” would necessarily have
received its name after those who brought peaches came among the Hopi.
It is known that Sitcomovi was a late colony of Asa people from the Rio
Grande, united with others from Walpi, while Hano was founded about
1700. The Cipaulovi people, however celebrate the Flute ceremony, and
the Flute people came to Tusayan shortly after the Snake. It would thus
appear that we have a date to determine that the Flute people came to
Tusayan after Vargas (1692). Morfi, in 1782, says that the people of
Xipaulovi (Cipaulovi) came from Xongopabi (Cuñopavi).
[121] I do not for a moment doubt that even when nominally
Christianized the succession of the chiefs in the several sacerdotal
societies has not been broken up to our time.
[122] Coco in Spanish signifies a bogy. In compounds it can be detected
in Cocomaricopa, where it may mean fool, possibly referring to the
inferiority of this stem. The derivation of Kóko or Kâ′kâ is not known
to me. The word Katcina has the advantage of Kóko or Kâ′kâ as a general
designation.
[123] That is, the last Katcina before their departure in Cibola, as
in Tusayan. In Walpi it is not an autumn dance, but occurs at about
the same time that I witnessed it at Zuñi, near the end of July (see
Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology, vol. I, No. 1).
[124] It is recommended that in illustrating Zuñi masks a full face
view be given, for in that way the symbolism is much better expressed
than by profile views.
[125] Pooatíwa is considered by Mrs Stevenson the “Sun Father.” I
have not gone far enough in my studies to accept this relationship
for Paútiwa. There are some reasons for considering Paútiwa the Mist
Father, which speculation has led me to interpret the Sälämobias as
Paútiwa forms of the rain-clouds of the six world-quarters, but such an
opinion is highly theoretical.
[126] The terraced elevations are common on the Zuñi nákwipis and
handled prayer-meal bowls, as can be seen in any large collection of
Zuñi ceramics; but the semicircular rain-cloud figures are very rare,
indeed wanting, in all I have seen. The frog, tadpole, snake, and
similar symbols appear, however, to be present in both. The question of
the characteristic symbolism of Zuñi and Hopi pottery is a complicated
one, which can not be considered in this article, but the two types can
readily be distinguished by a student of this subject.
[127] It would be a remarkable fact if accounts of this symbolism are
not later described.
[128] Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology, Chicago,
1894, p. 315.
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