tiponi

plural tiponis

1. A Hopi badge of authority.

   Of all objects on a Hopi altar perhaps the most important and constant is the badge of office or palladium, known as the tiponi, of the religious society which celebrates the rites about it. The Antelope altar has for the first seven days two tiponis, the Snake and Antelope.

   1900, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Tusayan Migration Traditions, page 972