2 2 Field Columbian Museum —Anthropology, Vol. VIII. 



a certain chief, and all traveling eastward. They usually stopped 

 for longer or shorter periods at certain places, and then traveled on 

 again. For this reason there are so many ruins all over the country. 

 The Pueblo Indians also passed through about here where the Hopi 

 now live. The White Men were more skillful than the others and got 

 along better. Spider Woman, who was with them, made horses and 

 burros for them, on which they traveled when they got tired, and 

 for that reason they went along much faster. The party that brought 

 Powdk-mana with them settled down at Palatkwapi, where they 

 lived for quite a while, and these did not yet bear a particular clan 

 name. 



The other parties traveled different routes and were scattered 

 over the country, each party having a chief of its own. Sometimes 

 they would stay one, two, three, or four years at one place, wherever 

 they found good fields or springs. Here they would raise crops so 

 that they had some food to take with them when they continued their 

 journeys, and then moved on again. Sometimes when they found 

 good fields but no water they would create springs with a b^uypi. 

 This is a small perforated vessel into which they would place certain 

 herbs, different kinds of stones, shells, a small balolookong, bahos, etc., 

 and bury it. In one year a spring would come out of the ground 

 where this was buried. During this year, before their spring was ready, 

 they would use rainwater, because they understood how to create 

 rain. When they continued their journeys they usually took such a 

 bduypi out of the ground and took it with them. 



Before any of the parties had arrived at the place where the Hopi 

 now live they began to become bad. Contentions arose among the 

 parties. They began to war against each other. Whenever a cer- 

 tain party possessed something, another party would attack and kill 

 them on account of those possessions. For that reason some of them 

 built their villages on top of the bluffs and mesas, because they were 

 afraid of other parties. Finally some of them arrived at Mdenkapi.* 

 These were the Bear clan, Spider clan. Hide Strap clan, Blue-bird 

 clan, and the Fat Cavity^ clan; all of which had derived their names 

 from a dead bear upon which these different parties had come as 

 they were traveling along. 



While these parties lived near Mtienkapi for some time another 

 party had gone along the Little Colorado river, passed by the place 

 that is now called the Great Lakes, and arrived at Shong6pavi, where 



' A little stream, about fifty miles north-iwest of Oralbi. 



« Said to refer to traces of fat found in the cavities of the cadaver of the bear when this 

 party found the dead bear. 



