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both hemispheres. It is very conspicuous for instance in the mythology 

 o 1 the Iroquois and Maskoki tribes in the eastern portion of the United 

 States, and among the Yokat, the Porno and the Wintun in California. 



Where the White and the Yellow Pueblo were nobody can tell, but the 

 colors may be significative, for the Indian tribes of the West possess a 

 peculiar color symbolism. The Indians of Isleta exhibit certain colors by 

 means of paint on their faces and garments ; so the red-eye section uses 

 red and white ; the black-eye section, black and white ; the earth gens, 

 white and yellow ; the maize gens, white, yellow, red, sometimes also 

 black. 



Their symbol colors for the points of the compass are white for the east ; 

 from there they go to the north, which is black ; to the west, which is 

 blue, and to the south, which is red. 



The race proposed by the yellow or witchcraft pueblo and performed 

 by representatives of both towns is a race around the world. The story is 

 told very graphically and the oft-repeated exclamations and taunts which 

 one runner shouts to his rival are ceremonially used up to our day, though 

 some of the terms are remnants of an archaic dialect. The reed-pipe, 

 cigarette or calumet is a piece of reed three to four inches long, which is 

 filled with tobacco and smoked only for ceremonial purposes. Many are 

 now found in the sacrificial caves of the New Mexican Indians. It is 

 thought to have the power to bring on rain-showers after a drought, but 

 can be lit only by ministrants of sun worship. In fact all rain-clouds 

 originate from its smoke and the carrizo-pipe plays an important role 

 throughout the Pueblo legends. 



In another version of the same story, which Mr. Charles F. Lurnmis 

 has published in the September number of St. Nicholas (1891, pp. 828-835), 

 the reeds were handed to the boy, not by an old witch, but by a mole, 

 who for this purpose crept out of his burrow and accompanied his gift by 

 well-meant advice. 



The people of the Kapio gens or clan are called the strong, cold-hearted 

 or persistent people on account of the persistence and energy which they 

 evinced in digging their way through the crust of the earth up to its sun- 

 lit surface, following the behests of their clan-chief. There are many of 

 these clans in the Isleta Pueblo, and A. F. Bandelier has heard the names 

 of fourteen, whereas from Kendall's indications I obtained the Indian 

 names of eight only, the Kapio among them. All gentes seem to belong 

 either to the red-eyed or to the black-eyed section. Of the other clans we 

 name the shi'u tai'nin or eagle people, the na'm tai'nin or earth people, the 

 i'-e tai'nin or maize people, and the hu'makun or game people. 



According to Mr. Lutnmis' version, the white pueblo divided the spoils 

 of the witch pueblo with the Isleta Indians, and later on removed to their 

 village themselves. Such a removal to Isleta is also reported of some 

 remnants of the Tigua people, though the principal pueblo of these was 

 near Bernalillo, on the bank of the Rio Grande. 



The two runners represent some nature powers interfered with by the 



