332 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



tains, at Homolobi, on the Little Colorado River, near Winslow, Ari- 

 zono, 2 degrees south of the present villages of the Hopi. It was the 

 good fortune of the writer to be present during these epoch-marking 

 investigations. 



In an important paper" by Dr. Fewkes a new clew to the migra- 

 tions of the Hopi clans, based on the ownership of eagle's nests situ- 

 ated near the ancient seats of the clans, has been presented. The 

 researches of Dr. Fewkes show that the Lizard clan, who migrated 

 with the Raincloud clan, claim the eagle nests at Biddahoochee. It 

 has been conclusively shown that the Raincloud clan settled for a 

 time at Homolobi and that the Lizard clan located near them. From 

 the character of the artifacts, especially 'from the polychrome ware with 

 green decoration like that on Plate 75, the large ruin at the mouth of 

 Chevlon Creek, 12 miles east from the Homolobi group, was the pueblo 

 of the Lizard clan, which, with the Raincloud clan, followed the nat- 

 ural line of migration northeast along Cottonwood wash to Bidda- 

 hoochee. Migration follows the water in this semiarid region and the 

 great Cottonwood wash, which with greater precipitation would be 

 a large river, offered abundant facilities for halting and putting in a 

 crop of corn. Perhaps further investigations along the Cottonwood 

 between Winslow and Biddahoochee will reveal halting places of the 

 clans. To the Biddahoochee focus it is also believed that the clan 

 from Stone Axe, east of the Petrified Forest, was drawn, and the proof 

 also rests in the main on the ware mentioned. (Compare Plate 61 

 with Plate 76.) 



East and west along the Mold buttes are sites yielding gray ware, 

 which was probably the kind of pottery made by the northern clans 

 entering into the Hopi complex, the art having been submerged and 

 lost under that brought from the south and east. 



The upper portion of the Jettyto Valley lies a few miles southeast 

 of the first Hopi mesa. Its trend is southwest, paralleling Keams Can- 

 yon, and its waters find their way into the Little Colorado near the 

 Cascade. 



The valley is quite deep and wide, as travelers from Holbrook to 

 Keams Cam 7 on will testify from experiences in crossing it and climb- 

 ing the Keam mesa. The north side of the valley here is walled by 

 a high, abrupt sandstone mesa; the south side presents gentler con- 

 tours, except to the east, where the head branches run in canvons. 

 Navahos off the reservation have undisputed possession of the valle} T 

 and their hogans and corn fields are frequent along the wash. A num- 

 ber of very large ruins are situated on promontories of the Keam 

 nie^a overlooking the valley. They begin at the Awatobi mesa, south- 

 east of Walpi, and extend to " Mormon John's" spring, 2j miles east 



a Property Right in Eagles among the Hopi, American Anthropologist (N. S. ), II, 

 Oct. -Dec, 1900. Also Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Pt. 2. 



