456 bulletin: museum of compakative zoology. 



Long-haired Pueblo Dog. 



Characters. — A medium-sized dog of slender muzzle, erect ears, 

 and normal bushy tail. Hair long and dense, pale yellowish, clouded 

 with dark brown on ears and croAvn, whitish beneath on throat, belly, 

 and feet. Feet well-haired. Probably this is to be looked upon as a 

 local breed of the Plains-Indian Dog, from which it apparently differs 

 only in its longer coat. 



Disiribuiion. — Known only from the Marsh Pass region of Arizona, 

 but in former times probabl}' common to the Pueblo tribes of Arizona 

 and New Mexico. 



General Account. — One of the remarkable discoveries of ^Messrs. 

 Guernsey and Kidder, Avhile exploring for the Peabody Museum, 

 was an excellently preserved specimen of a medium-sized dog associ- 

 ated with a human burial. In the arid climate of Arizona, the 

 dog had merely dried, so that the entire animal even to the thick hair 

 was nearly intact. It is co\'ered with a dense coat of long woolly 

 hair, of a pale yellowish color, clouded on the l)ack and head with 

 brownish. On the sides of the body, the length of the hair is about 

 100 mm.; on the toes 30 mm. The culture period to which this 

 specimen belongs, is believed by Mr. Guernsey to antedate that of the 

 Cliff Dwellers, and hence must be at least several centuries old. 



It seems probable that it was to this long-haired flog that Mendoza, 

 a companion of Coronado, refers in a letter of 17 April, l.")40, to the 

 King of Spain, describing the pueblo of Cibola, then a famous Indian 

 site, near the present town of Zuni, New Mexico. This letter is trans- 

 lated by Winship (1904, p. 153) from the Spanish of Pacheco y Car- 

 denas, (Documentos de Indias, 2, p. 3.50), and contains the following 

 passage:— "In their houses they keep some hairy aniinals, like the 

 large Spanish hounds, which they shear, and they make long colored 

 wigs from the hair, like this one which I send to Your Lordship, which 

 they wear, and they also put this same stuff into the cloth which they 

 make." These "hairy animals, like the large Spanish hounds," 

 seem probably, in the light of Mr. Guernsey's discovery, to have been 

 the same as the dog found at Marsh Pass. It is recalled here that 

 breeds of long-haired dogs were kept for shearing not only by the 

 Indians of Puget Sound, but by the Chonos of the Taitao Archipelago, 

 Chile, and their hair woven into blankets (see p. 475). There was 

 fonnerly a breed of long-haired white or brown dogs among the 

 aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand, the prodiict of which was 

 similarly u.sed (Colenso, 1878). 



