March, 1905- The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 265 



Hopi say was crowded with sheep. They had closed up the passages 

 to the plaza with beams, rocks, etc., placing also guards at every 

 opening, watching the sheep. When the Navaho arrived, however, 

 they tore down the barriers in the opening on the north side and 

 drove the sheep out. The Navaho women were busily engaged in 

 shelling the corn north of the village and loading it on their ponies. 

 One Hopi watching one of the approaches was shot in the leg by one 

 of the Navaho. The Navaho seemed to be in a hurry, for they only 

 rifled some of the houses on the north side of the village ! The arrival 

 of the Hopi warriors by that time may also have been a cause of their 

 not carrying their depredation farther than they did. When they 

 had loaded a number of ponies with corn they left the village, taking 

 also with them all the sheep that had been assembled in the plaza. 

 Spmewhat north-east from the main battle-field they camped. Here 

 they also had, during the battle, taken a great many of their dead 

 and wounded, and they later admitted that there were a great many 

 of them. They tied the dead, as well as the wounded, on their ponies, 

 and then left for their homes. It is also said that a great many of 

 their ponies that they took with them had been wounded in the fight, 

 and later on they told the Hopi that on the way quite a number of 

 them died. These they left behind them. Also a number of the 

 wounded died while they were traveling, and it is said that all that 

 died were buried at a place somewhere west of Kf'shiwuu, a place 

 about sixty miles north-east of Oraibi. It is also said that there was 

 a great deal of mourning among the Navaho as they returned from 

 this expedition. Most of the information on the Navaho side was 

 later on brought to Oraibi by the aforesaid Mdyololo and another 

 Navaho by the name of Litotovi, both of whom had been with the 

 Hopi for some time, and had been initiated into their Wtiwuchim 

 society. 



After the Navaho had left the village, stragglers of the Hopi war- 

 riors kept coming in. Many of these were wounded; some of them 

 had to be carried to the village. These called the ones who carried 

 them Fathers. All the wounded were placed in an ancestral home 

 of the Coyote clan. Here the "Fathers" of the wounded remained 

 with their " Children." During the night and the following day some 

 died. During this time there was a great deal of mourning and 

 weeping. The corpses of those who died were taken out and cared 

 for by those who had cared for them while they were sick. On the 

 fourth day those who still survived were taken to their homes, that 

 is, not where their families were, but to. the homes of their parents, 



