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The followers of Tcuhu and Tohouse united and built a house. Four days after 
this house was begun Tcuhu sent Tohouse to visit a people he had created, in order 
to learn what language they spoke. When Tohouse found that they spoke Apache 
and so reported, Tcuhu assigned them to the land of cold wind and rain. Tcuhu 
again sent Tohouse to discover whether there were other people on the earth; return- 
ing after a time the latter reported to Tcuhu that he had heard of men speaking 
Mohave, Yuma, and Maricopa, but not Pima. After four days Tcuhu again sent 
Tohouse to search for any men allied to his people, and he reported finding those 
who continually said, Ston, ston, ‘‘it is hot.’’ He returned and told Teuhu he had 
found lost brothers, because he had detected in their speech a Pima word. Tecubu 
said they must be his people; he said also, ‘‘I will give them dark cool nights in which 
they can sleep, and I will send them dreams and they shall be able to interpret these 
dreams.’’ All these peoples were gathered into the house Tcuhu had built [Casa 
Grande?]. But after a while there were bickerings and quarrels among men. The 
Apache left for the mountains where they said they also would have dreams and 
thus they became hereditary enemies of the Pima. At this time all the Pima inhab- 
ited the Salt River Valley, not far from the site of the present Phoenix. 
White Feather and his people lived in a settlement called Sturavrik Civanavdaki, 
near Tempe, the site of which is now a large mound. According to some legends, 
this chief was the first man who taught the Pima irrigation and he showed them also 
how to plant corn. Through his guidance his people became prosperous and all the 
Pima congregated at his settlement to trade. 
The people of a settlement near Mesa could not build a canal because the ground 
in the vicinity was so hard, so they asked Tcuhu to aid them. He sang magic songs 
for four days, and at the fourth song the ground softened and the people easily exca- 
vated the ditch, but the water would not run in it. Tcuhu found he was powerless 
to make it do so and advised them to invite Towa Quaatam Ochse,! an old woman 
who lived in the west by the great water, to aid them. She was summoned and 
sent word to the Mesa people to assemble in their council-house and await her com- 
ing. They gathered and awaited her coming but she did not appear. At night a 
man passing that way saw her standing at the highest point of the canal blowing 
“‘medicine’’ along the ditch. Later there came a great wind that dug out a wide 
channel and water ran in the canal. The Casa Grande people, it is said, learned the 
art of irrigating from those living on the site of Tempe, who were taught by Tcuhu. 
Feather-plaited Doctor was an evil-minded youth who lived at Wukkakotk, north 
of Casa Grande. Tonto” visited Feather-plaited Doctor, but the latter would not 
notice him, although he made the customary offering of four cigarettes. Three times 
Tonto repeated his visit to Feather-plaited Doctor, and on the third visit the latter 
accused him of being a gossip and on that account refused to have anything to do 
with him. On the last visit he told Tonto that although he did not like him he did 
not object to his visits, but he warned him, if he wished to see him, not to gamble at, 
night and not to have anything to do with women without his permission. At that 
time there was a man who wished to gamble with Tonto but, forewarned, the latter 
refused. When Tonto was asked the reason, he revealed his promise to Feather- 
1 This personage corresponds to Hazrinwuqti, or Woman of Hard Substance (shell, stone, and turquoise) 
of the Hopi. 
2 The writer’s interpreter claimed that tonto is a pure Pima word, hence the fact that in Spanish it 
signifies ‘‘ foolish’ would seem to be fortuitous. It appears in the term Totonteac, used by early Span- 
iards to designate a ‘‘kingdom,’’ sometimes regarded as synonymous with Moki, alsoa Pima word. On 
the theory that totonteac is pure Pima, the writer derivesit from to-ton, and toac orteac, a termination which 
occurs in the name of a mountain (Kihutoac, ‘‘mountain of the kihu, or carrying basket’’). The term 
Totonteac would mean ‘mountains of the Tontos.’’ 
When first mentioned Totonteac was reputed tobe a kingdom of great power; later it was found to be 
a hot spring surrounded by a few mud houses. In the opinion of the writer, the hotspringsin the lower 
part of the Tonto Basin, near the Roosevelt Dam, may represent the locality of the so-called fabulous 
Totonteac. 
