[132] Mrs. Stevenson also says that Sía has an Oraibí legend of a time
when its tribe did not live as now upon the third mesa of Hopi.
[133] _American Anthropologist_, April, 1895, Vol. VIII.
[134] _Journal of American Ethnology and Art_, Vol. IV. More briefly
given in _Annual Report_, Bureau of American Ethnology, Vol. XIX, Pt. II.
[135] A great variety of models of Hopi sand pictures may be seen at the
Field Museum in Chicago.
[136] After leaving Si-pa-pu, the mythical place of origin in the north,
the Ácomas traditionally occupied: 1. Kashkachuti; 2. Washpashuka; 3.
Kuchtya; 4. Tsiama; 5. Tapitsíama; 6. Katzímo (the Enchanted Mesa) three
miles northward from the Crag of Ácoma.
According to certain legends collected by Dr. E. L. Hewett from San Juan,
the Keresans did not originate, as most of the others did, at Si-pa-pu,
but at Cueva (the hole or cave) in Taos country. Dr. Parsons was once
told at Ácoma that Si-pa-pu was “north of Taos” and at another time that
it was at “Los Vegas.” Dr. Hewett also visited a brackish lake in the
sand dunes north of Alamosa, Colorado, which the greater mass of legend
identifies with Si-pa-pu. The road was treacherous from quicksands, and
so fast did the dunes shift that they were hardly recognizable from
week to week. Though this is not a volcanic region, the small lake of
very black, forbidding-looking water was much like crater lakes. It
measured about 300 feet across and emitted an offensive odor. There
was a continuous line of dead cattle on its shores and no settlements
within many miles. See Haeberlein for Si-pa-pu, in _Memoirs of the
Anthropological Association_, Vol. III, 1916.
[137] Lummis puts this into a charming form in his collection of stories,
_A New Mexico David_.
[138] Idem, _Land of Poco Tiempo_.
[139] Agnes C. Laut, _Through our Unknown Southwest_.
[140] “The Disenchanted Mesa,” _Harper’s Weekly_, August 28, 1897. Also
in _The Princeton Press_, August 21, 1897. See Appendix VII.
[141] Hodge, _Land of Sunshine_, November, 1897; also _Century Magazine_,
Vol. LVI, 1898.
[142] Kroeber, Introduction to _American Indian Life_, edited by Elsie
Clews Parsons.
[143] Kroeber, _Zuñi Kin and Clan_.
[144] Elsie Clews Parsons, _Laguna Genealogies, American Museum
Anthropological Papers_, Vol. XIX, Pt. V, 1923. Kroeber, _Zuñi Kin and
Clan, American Museum Anthropological Papers_, Vol. XVIII, Pt. II.
[145] Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, _The Zuñi Indian_ (Bureau of American
Ethnology, _Twenty-third Annual Report_). See also Bureau of American
Ethnology, _Ninth Annual Report_, p. 116. Kroeber, _Zuñi Kin and Clan_.
[146] Kroeber, _op. cit._
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