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ot a fair-hair god and a fair-skin people who came up from the under 

 world with the Sopi, and who then left them with a promise to return. 

 This suggests the idea of a messiah, but Mr Stephen has not yet been 

 able to get the myth in its entirety. He does not think it derived from 



Fig. 71— Vista in the llc>].i pueblo of Walpi. 



any corrupt source, however, through Spanish or other missionaries, as 

 the allusions are all of archaic tendency. (Stephen, I. 

 The Cohonin ■ Bavasupai are a small tribe occupying the canyon 



of Cataract creek, an affluent of the Colorado, ill northern Arizona, 



