 The screen is painted with appropriate symbols tending to heighten the illusion to the childlike minds of the audience, and it is perforated to permit the passage of masked effigies representing the mystical potencies, which are operated by shamans hidden...  Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists - Page xviby Jesse Walter Fewkes - 1903 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1906 - 740 pages
...screen on the stage is painted with appropriatesymbols, and is perforated to permit the passage of the masked effigies representing the mystical potencies,...marionettes. The front of the stage is occupied by a symbolic field of corn, and the figures which represent the storm and drought emerge from their respective... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1906 - 1086 pages
...screen on the stage is painted with appropriate symbols, and is perforated to permit the passage of the masked effigies representing the mystical potencies, which are operated by shamans hidden without delay, and at the same time make a serious | behind the screen, something after the fashion... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1901 - 1060 pages
...is reserved as an auditorium. Both the mystical and the human powers are represented or personified by actors, who, with their properties, occupy the...but they are opposed, in part by musical and other incanations of a group of shamans occupying one side of the stage, and in part by human actors who... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1906 - 1160 pages
...screen on the stage is painted with appropriate symbols, and is perforated to permit the passage of the masked effigies representing the mystical potencies,...marionettes. The front of the stage is occupied by a symbolic field of corn, and the figures which represent the storm and drought emerge from their respective... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1901 - 1058 pages
...mysteries is esoteric, a screen is provided to conceal it and give an air of realism to the j>erformance. The screen is painted with appropriate symbols tending...occupied by a symbolized field of corn; it is the r61e of the symbolized potencies representing storm and drought to emerge from their respective apertures... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1901 - 1056 pages
...which are o[>erated by shamans hidden behind the screen, something after the fashion of marionette*. The front of the stage is occupied by a symbolized field of corn; it in the role of the symbolized potencies representing storm and drought to emerge from their respective... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1901 - 1064 pages
...is reserved as an auditorium. Both the mystical and the human powers are represented or personified by actors, who, with their properties, occupy the...but they are opposed, in part by musical and other inclinations of a group of shamans occupying one side of the stage, and in part by human actors who... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1906 - 736 pages
...screen on the stage is painted with appropriate symbols, and is perforated to permit the passage of the masked effigies representing the mystical potencies,...marionettes. The front of the stage is occupied by a symbolic field of corn, and the figures which represent the storm and drought emerge from their respective... | |
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