Note 68 — CLASSIFICATION OF KATCINAS
Reading edition
A figure of Tuñwúpkachina with his pet (pókema) appears on the reredos of the altar of the Nimánkatcina. (See Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology, vol. II, No. 1.) The sprig which he is depicted as bearing in the hand was supposed to represent a cornstalk, but from the new observations of the personification of Tuñwup there is no doubt that a yucca whip was intended.