Copyright, 1913, by W. J. Black 

 THE TEMPLE — BY LOUIS AKIN 



They all run in from there to-day — dance all night in the kiva — all day to-morrow 

 out of doors and probably most of the night and half the next day; then run home 

 the following day. Oh, but they're a husky lot! One of my best friends and neigh- 

 bors, a snake priest, runs over there and back in a day easily. 



Since the time of writing this letter Akin had been away from the desert 

 only for short intervals at New York and during one trip into the Fraser 

 River country of British Columbia, which we took together in 1909, he to 

 paint and I to hunt sheep. Always, however, he kept in frequent corre- 

 spondence with many of his old friends, and during this early winter contrib- 

 uted to the Buckskin Shirt dinner of the Camp-Fire Club at New York, 

 a picture of a Hopi buckskin man which he described in a letter as follows : 



It is a sketch in color — really a very correct "study" of the character. He is 

 known as " So-we-ing-wa Ka-chi-na" and is one of the many demigods of the Hopi 

 Indians. "Soweingwa" means "deer" and is also the common term for "buckskin." 

 He is the patron saint of the hunter and is a protector of game from natural enemies. 

 With his rattle he warns of the approach of such as wolves and mountain lions, 

 and with his trusty bow and arrow he slays the same when opportunity offers. With 



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