[117] Cosmos Mindeleff, _Localization of Tusayán Clans_. _Nineteenth
Annual Report_, Bureau of American Ethnology, Pt. II.
[118] Stevenson, _The Sía_. _Eleventh Annual Report_, Bureau of American
Ethnology.
[119] Bolton, _De Mézières_, Vol. II, pp. 279, 280, contains a vivid
description of the use of the buffalo. A valuable sketch of migrations
appears in Kroeber, Introduction to _American Indian Life_, edited by
Elsie Clews Parsons.
[120] Fewkes, _Twenty-second Annual Report_, Bureau of American
Ethnology, p. 194.
[121] Winship, _Fourteenth Annual Report_, Bureau of American Ethnology.
[122] The other pueblos of the Keresan nation are San Felipe, Santo
Domingo, Santa Ana, Cochití, Sía, and to the west, near Ácoma, is Laguna,
her daughter colony. “The Keresans are referred to in the creation
legend of Zuñi, as ‘The Drinkers of the Dew,’ because their houses were
scattered abroad on hills remote from water” “Cushing.”
[123] According to Hopi legend, clans called the Tcá-ma-hia left Snake
clans at Wukoki, a ruin on the Little Colorado, still visible fifty
miles west of the East mesa of Hopi. From here they made their way east
to Ácoma, where they met other clans from the east, which were in all
probability also Keresan. See Appendix V.
[124] _Nineteenth Annual Report_, Bureau of American Ethnology, Pt. II.
[125] _Investigations Among American Indians_, Pt. I, p. 34. But in Pt.
II, p. 31, he refers to Taos, apparently a contradiction to the foregoing
statement: “Taos, built on both sides of the swift and cool Rio de Taos,
is the only village in New Mexico, ancient or modern, the situation of
which corresponds with Castañeda’s description and location.”
[126] Mrs. Matilda Cox Stevenson, _Eleventh Annual Report_, Bureau of
American Ethnology.
[127] Cebollita, a large stone pueblo surrounded by a noble stone wall
already deserted and forgotten in Coronado’s days. The Keres Pueblos
still tell the legend of their “Año de la Lumbre,” the year of fire, when
their forbears were driven out of this valley by the river of lava that
flowed over the region (Lummis).
[128] Bandelier, _Final Report_, II, 324.
[129] From the _Relación_ of Fray Marcos, Bandelier quotes, after
describing Marata and Totonteac: “There is also another very large
province and kingdom, named Acus. There is also Ahacus, and that word,
with aspiration, is one of the Seven Cities, the largest of them all; and
Acus, without aspiration, is a province by itself.”
[130] The Indians conceal information of all sorts about the various
ruins, near and far, for knowledge of these ruins is often sacred and the
prerogative of special branches of their ritual organization. Moreover,
enquiring students are sometimes further baffled by the faking of
ceremonial celebrations at unusual seasons for their special benefit.
[131] Fewkes, _American Journal of Art and Archaeology_, Vol. IV. See
Appendix VI.
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