Hopi ceremonial frames from Cañon de Chelly, Arizona / by J. Walter Fewkes.
- Jesse Walter Fewkes
- Date:
- 1906
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hopi ceremonial frames from Cañon de Chelly, Arizona / by J. Walter Fewkes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![her description of the Shumaakwe ceremony at Zufi.’ She writes as follows : A charm fashioned of wood and similar to one of the bars of the suspended form above the altar is carried by a young man whenever the Shumai’koli ap- pears, the bearer manipulating the bar before the god, which appears to have mystic control over the Shumai’koli. The writer has observed the same thing among the Hopi Indians. / a i Ato |e 4 A S. EI =) ;: . E e r iy é Fic, 23. — Frame carried by Yaya priest; length 24 in. (Brooklyn Institute Mu- eum, cat. no. 5633.) The same author says also: Whenever he [the charm-bearer] waves the charm the Shumai’koli backs off a distance and then starts forward while the charm-bearer vigorously manipulates the charm to draw the god to him. And later: The charm-bearer stands south of her [the female leader], facing east, and holds his charm above his face with his left hand and shakes a small gourd rattle with his right, while he sings a low chant, reminding one of the intoning of a Catholic priest.2 1 Twenty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 540, 543; 548-549. 2The Saiapa who accompany the Zufii Shumaikoli correspond in some respects to the Kawikoli of the Hopi. The Zufii Shumaikoli is of course the same as the Walpi](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33459022_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
