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Title: Hopi Katcinas drawn by native artists
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956. fmo Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo Huntington Free Library. fmo
Subjects: Kachinas Hopi Indians Hopi mythology
Publisher: Washington : Government Printing Office
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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SIWAP TAVVA HELIOTYPE CO., BOSTON, BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXXIX
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MUZRIBI HELIOTYPE CO.. BOSTON. ^^^^^l SOYOHIM KATCINAS 101 In his left hand Tawa carries the flute which is associated with himin certain Ilopi solar myths. It will be found that this type of sun symbolism is to lie easilydetected in ^-arious katcinas of different names which haxe been men-tioned, and it is more than probable that many of these, possessing thesame, or nearly the same, symbolic markings, arc sun gods under dif-ferent names. This multitude of sun gods is readily explained l)y thecomposite nature of the present Hopi people, for each clan formerlyhad its own sun god, which, when the clan joined Walpi, was addedto the existing mythological system. The type of symbolism has per-sisted, thus revealing their identity. KAU (Plate XXXIX) This katcina is readily recognized bj- the two horns and dependentcrest of feathers on the head, the characteristic mouth, and shortbeard. The two figures here given differ from each other in theircolors—one being green, the other yellow. Bot

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