48 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. VIIL 



The Crane and Eagle clan brought the Drab Flute and Marati 

 cult, and had the village crier. 



The Katcina clan, with the Katcinas. 



The Sand clan, with the Lagon, Soyal, and Snake cult. 



The Batki clan. These had no cult, but controlled the water. 



The Young Corn-Ear clan. These had no special cult, but brought 

 a better quality of corn. 



Before the Batki people came, the corn was very small. They 

 made it rain and so it grew large. The Pihlcash clan brought better 

 and larger corn with them. 



12. THE DESTRUCTION OF PALATKWAPI.' 



After all the people, except the Zunis, had come out from the under- 

 world through the sipahpuni, they remained for some time with 

 Skeleton (Md,sauwuu) (see Story No. 3). When they were traveling 

 eastward from here on different routes, and in different sections and 

 parties, a large party came to a place called Palatkwapi, somewhere 

 south-east of Flagstaff, in southern Arizona. Among these were 

 the Divided Water clan (Batki-namu).^ 



So these people had their clan name before they arrived at the 

 above-mentioned place, but with them a great many other people stopped 

 at Palatkwapi. Here they remained for a long time, for the truth of 

 which statement the extensive ruins at that place are proof. The name 

 seems to be derived from a high bluff of red stone. The people, 

 especially the young men, here became very bad. They ill-treated 

 the people sometimes in a disgraceful manner.'^ One time a young 

 man again shamefully mistreated an old man, who then became 

 very angry. This old man belonged to the Bd,tki clan. He went and 

 reported the same to the village chief (Kik-mongwi), crier chief (Chad,k- 

 mongwi) and the warrior chief (Kalehtak-mongwi) , so they assembled 

 in the old man's house and asked him what was the matter, why he 

 had called them. "Yes," the old man answered, "these young 

 men here are very bad, they treat one very mean when one goes to 

 the rear, and I am angry at them, so I called you here to tell you 

 about it, what you think about it. " So they talked the matter over 

 and the village chief said: "We shall move away from here. " So he 

 called his son and told him: "You run to a distant place. Pine Ridge 



' Told by Lomdvantiwa (Shupaiilavi). 



- Lomdvantiwa claims that this clan brought with them from the lower world a small water 

 vessel which was later supplanted by the mongwikuru (a netted gourd vessel). He says that this 

 small vessel was their tiponi, and from that they derived their name. 



^ A favorite sport being to follow those who went to attend to a call of nature, rush upon 

 them and throw them backward, thus soiling their bodies. 



