14 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. // 



Ion, and other ruins on the Middle Little Colorado, and were prob- 

 ably obtained from the Pacific Coast tribes. In prehistoric times there 

 appears to have been a lively trade betw^een the Southwestern tribes 

 in pottery, shells (pi. 9), blankets, turquoises, and other objects. Even 

 at the present day traders from the eastern pueblos resort to the 

 Hopi for the purchase of blankets, which are bartered in exchange 

 for turquoises and other valuables. The author witnessed at the 

 East Mesa in 1891 what was said to have been a survival of the 

 ancient fair,^ at which time a large number of pottery objects, native 

 baskets, blankets, and other specimens were exposed for sale in the 

 open space between Walpi and Sitcomovi, and a considerable num- 

 ber of Navajos and men from other pueblos were on hand as pur- 

 chasers. 



This interchange of material objects through barter was not limited 

 to material objects, but songs, legends, prayers, rites, and ceremonies 

 were also bought and sold, and thus traveled from tribe to tribe. 



CONCLUSION 



The author is conscious that this brief article is only a small con- 

 tribution to the problems of pueblo culture, but it is an addition 

 to our knowledge of an unknown area. One of the most important 

 of pueblo problems is the interpretation of the sedentary culture 

 of the Lower Little Colorado. We are in a fair way to have our 

 knowledge of this area greatly enlarged by Professor Colton, who 

 has already given much study to it and has published a very im- 

 portant article on the small house ruins. He has transmitted to the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology for publication a still more compre- 

 hensive article. 



The pottery from Young's Canyon resembles the poorly defined 

 so-called prepuebloan found in the region north of the Hopi pueblos, 

 and probably once spread over the greater part of what is now the 

 State of Arizona. Similar pottery has a wide distribution, and has 

 been reported from various points also in Colorado and New Mexico, 

 but it is best represented on the Lower San Juan in the region called 

 Tokonabi by the Snake people of the Hopi. 



It will probably be found later that a culture not radically unlike 

 that indicated by the ceramic and other objects from Young's Canyon, 

 extended over the whole of Arizona north of the Mogollones from 

 the Little Colorado to the San Juan, more especially in the eastern 



* The Hopi personate a Katcina called the Trade Katcina, which the author 

 has seen and figured, but of whose function he is ignorant. 



