These performances also feature symbols connected to the Passion of Jesus : the " sistrum "'s swaying and the beating of the drums represent Christ's swaying while enduring beatings, and the tapping of the prayer sticks represent the Flagellation of Christ.
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Burial coins, arrowheads, medicine bags, prayer sticks, amulets, masks and fetishes _ some unethically collected by missionaries or government agencies a century ago _ are all being shipped back to tribes from institutions like the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and The Nebraska State Historical Society.
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Although the Franciscans initially tolerated manifestations of the old religion as long as the Puebloans attended mass and maintained a public veneer of Catholicism, Fray Alonso de Posada ( in New Mexico 1656 1665 ) outlawed Kachina dances by the Pueblo Indians and ordered the missionaries to seize and burn their masks, prayer stick, and effigies.
