Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among the Hopi Indians of Arizona, the badge of a religious fraternity or of a chief priest. It usually consists of an ear of corn wound with cotton thread and ornamented with feathers, pieces of shell, turquoise, etc.
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The tiponi is a ceremonial object about 18 inches long, consisting of feathers set upright around a small disk of silicified wood, which serves as its base when set upon the altar.
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The tiponi is a ceremonial object about 18 inches long, consisting of feathers set upright around a small disk of silicified wood, which serves as its base when set upon the altar.
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In modern Tusayan ceremonials the feather is appended to almost all the different objects used in worship; it is essential in the structure of the _tiponi_ or badge of the chief, without which no elaborate ceremony can be performed or altar erected; it adorns the images on the altars, decorates the heads of participants, is prescribed for the prayer-sticks, and is always appended to aspergills, rattles, and whistles.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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There is a legend that formerly the site of this spring was dry, when an ancient priest, who had deposited his _tiponi_, or chieftain's badge, at the place, caused the water to flow from the ground; at present however the water rushes from a hole as large as the arm in the face of the rock, as well as from several minor openings.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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Among the many sacred objects in the _tiponi_ baskets of the Lalakonti society, as described in my account [155] of the unwrapping of that fetish, there was a specimen of this ammonite; that the shell was preserved in this sacred bundle is sufficient proof that it is highly venerated.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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This woman’s house is also called the “house of grandmother,” and in it is preserved the tiponi and other fetiches of the society.
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This woman’s house is also called the “house of grandmother,” and in it is preserved the tiponi and other fetiches of the society.
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