In the Walpi variant of the _Soyáluña_ or Winter Solstice ceremony,
we have not as yet observed a ceremony with the _Alósaka_ figure
comparable with that with the screen just described; but there
is a shield upon which is painted an almost identical figure of
_Alósaka_.[15] The nature of the rites in which this shield is used is
imperfectly known, and the character of the _Alósaka_ worship in the
pueblos of the Middle Mesa is yet to be investigated.