Note 5 — THE RUIN, SIKYATKI

Hopi maidens dress their hair in two whorls, one above each ear, which on marriage are taken down and braided in two coils. There are differences in the style of putting up the hair, as appear in different ceremonial personages, but the custom of wearing it in whorls was probably general among ancient Pueblo maidens and is still followed in certain ceremonial dances in which women are personated by men. For the difference in the style of the whorls, see the author’s series of pictures of Hopi kachinas in the Twenty-first Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn.