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 53^ AM ERICA K AXTHROPOLOGIST [n. s., I, 1899

"* The Pdtki traveled north until they came to Little Colorado river, and built houses on both its banks. 1 After living there many years the factional dissensions, which seem to have ever haunted these people, again broke out, and the greater portion of them withdrew still farther north and built villages the ruins* of which are still discernible not far from the site of the villages their descendants inhabit at present.

44 The Squash [Micoftinovi] also trended slowly northward, occupying, like all their legendary movements, a protracted pe- riod of indefinite length — years during which they planted and built homes alternating with years of devious travel. They grew lax in the observance of festivals, and Muinwfi inflicted punish- ment upon them. He caused the water to turn red, and the color of the people also turned red ; he then changed the water to blue, and the people changed to a similar color. The Snow katcina appeared and urged them to return to their religion, but they gave no heed to him, so he left them and took away corn. Muinwfi then sent Paluliikon? who killed rabbits and poured their blood in the springs and streams, and all the water was changed to blood and the people were stricken with a plague. They now returned to their religious observances, and danced and sang, but none of the deities would listen to them.

" A horned katcina * appeared to the oldest woman and told her that on the following morning the oldest man should go out and procure a root, and that she and a young virgin of her clan should eat it. After a time she (the old woman) would give

1 Homolobi, near Winslow, Arizona. The several pueblos which these clans built and inhabited in their migration to Walpi were Kufichalpi, Utcevaca, Kwifiapa, Jettypehika (Navaho name of Chaves Pass and also the two ruins at that place called Tcubkwitcalobi by the Hopi), Homolobi, Sipabi (near one of the Hopi or Moki buttes). and Pakatcomo.

2 The last pueblo inhabited by the Pdtki people before they joined the Walpi is now a ruin called Pakatcomo in the valley south of the East Mesa near the wash. It is a small ruin, not more than four miles away, and its mounds are easily seen from the mesa top.

z The Great Serpent.

4 This was possibly the personation of the Sun or other solar deity.

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