Hopi Indian Walpi Pueblo Katcina Mask Squash Blossom & Rain Cloud Arizona 1897

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Hopi Indian Walpi Pueblo Katcina Mask Squash Blossom & Rain Cloud Arizona 1897 :
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Hopi Indian Walpi Pueblo Katcina Mask Squash Blossom & Rain Cloud Arizona 1897 119 year old originalprint from Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnologyto the Secretaryof the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-94,Washington Government PrintingOffice 1897.
THE GROUP OF TUSAYAN CEREMONIALS CALLED KATCINAS By JesseWalter Fewkes

There survives in the Hopi ritual a worship of horned beingscalled Aldsakas, which once existed at the now ruined pueblo of Awatobi. Thepurpose of the rites performed in this cult is to cause seeds, especially corn,to germinate and grow, and to bring rain to water the farms. The Aaltzpriesthood at Walpi, who personate Aldsakas, perform duties suggestive of thoseof warriors. The intimate relationship of Aldsaka rites with those of theRain-cloud clans supports legends that they were at one time associated andbrought from southern Arizona by the Squash people who formerly lived with ornear the Rain-cloud people along Little Colorado river. The Aldsaka cult is ahighly modified form of animal totemism, and the Aldsaka represents themountain sheep.

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