[33] It is much to be hoped that the very elaborate Powamû of Oraibi will be accurately described in detail. The indications are that it will be found to be the most instructive of all presentations of this ceremony.

[34] Sikyatki was probably a flourishing pueblo when the Snake people first settled Walpi. The tutelary god was Eototo, or Masauuh, whom the early Walpians overthrew and who gave them the site for their pueblo. At the destruction of Sikyatki by the combined Horn-Snake and Horn-Flute people, some of the survivors settled at Walpi, and their descendants are intimately connected with the Eototo cult which is incorporated in the katcinas. In the celebration of the Snake-Antelope ceremony he is known by the name of Masauuh, and a prayer-stick is made and consecrated to him at that time.

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