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were made of leather, the clothing of some gray woolen stuff. The 

 things were brought on carts with heavy wooden wheels, but there 

 was no iron on them. 



It seemed that this Tutaachi was to be the assistant of the one 

 living in Oraibi, at least the new arrival remained in Oraibi. The 

 Hopi then had to assemble in the assembly house on Sundays, where 

 the Tutaachis, or priests, spoke to them. Soon they asked the Hopi 

 to work for them. The water in the springs around Oraibi not being 

 good, they requested them to get drinking water for them from Mden- 

 kape, which is far away. The Oraibi soon got tired of this and some- 

 times, instead of going to Mtienkape, they went to Tuhciva, a spring 

 south .of the mesa on which the sun shrine is situated, about three 

 miles south-east of Oraibi. But the priests soon found out the decep- 

 tion, and were angry. They soon set the inhabitants of Oraibi to 

 work at making cisterns, and the Hopi themselves were pleased with 

 this, as they were now not requested to get water so often from 

 the distance. 



The Spaniards also soon brought cattle, and the Oraibi would 

 occasionally buy calves from them for corn. Some of the cattle were 

 very gentle and were used to drag logs to the village, which the Hopi 

 had to get for the Spaniards from Ki'shiwuu, fifty or sixty miles 

 north-east. The deep cuts and ruts in the rocks north-east of Oraibi 

 where many logs were dragged up may still be seen to-day. Some 

 also had to get logs from the San Francisco Mountains (near Flag- 

 staff), but as parts of the road from there were very sandy, not so 

 many were gotten from that place as from Ki'shiwuu. 



Thus the Spaniards kept the Hopi at work in various ways, and 

 they were not bad to them at first. For four years everything went 

 along well, and it rained often too, so that there was water in the 

 cisterns; but at the end of four years things began to change. The 

 priests commenced to forbid the Hopi to have Katcina dances and 

 to make bahos. They demanded of them to attend the meetings in 

 the assembly house, aijd they did not let them concern themselves 

 about the clouds and the rain, and that year (the fifth) it was very warm 

 and very dry. The Hopi began to be very tired and did not plant 

 much that year, so the chiefs called a council and they talked the 

 matter over. "We are not getting along well," they said to each 

 other, "we are not happy. It does not rain. Let us try it with 

 bahos again. The Hopi have always had it that way, and known it that 

 way, to make bd,hos for the clouds." So they again began to have 

 ceremonies, each fraternity with its own altar, and they made b^hos, 

 but did not tell the priests about it. They deposited the prayer-offer- 



