PEWKES] MINOR ANTIQUITIES 149 
Range west of the ruins. The pictographs near Sacaton are perhaps 
the best known in this section, although those farther down the Gila 
are more extensive. There is a general similarity in all these picture 
writings, some of which are regarded with reverence by modern 
Pima. 
The pictures impart but slight information respecting the life or 
customs of the prehistoric people who made them, being much the same 
as pictographs found elsewhere in the Southwest. Symbols that may 
be clan totems or even rude 
representations of mytho- 
logic beings are found in 
the neighboring hills; these 
may indicate camping places, 
shrines, or other sites, but 
beyond this we can offer no 
suggestion as to their mean- 
ing. They tell no connected 
story of the ancients. 
The walls of Casa Grande 
formerly bore names of many 
American visitors and a few 
markings that can be as- 
cribed to Indians. One of 
the best of these, shown in 
the accompanying illustra- 
tion (fig. 52; see also pl. 40), is 
sometimes called teuhuki, or “the house of Teuhu.” Its resemblance 
to a figure in an early Spanish narration has been commented on 
elsewhere.t_ Several pictographs found in the vicinity of Casa Grande 
are also shown in plate 40. 
In a speech in the House of Representatives (Mar. 2, 1865) Colo- 
nel Poston said: 
Fig. 52. Incised pictograph of ‘‘the House of Tcuhu.’? 
The oldest living trapper in Arizona, at this day, is old Pauline Weaver, from White 
County, Tennessee. His name is carved on the Casa Grande, near the Pima villages 
on the Gila River, under date 1832. 
Although not disposed to doubt that Weaver may have visited the 
ruin at that early date, the writer has not been able to find his name 
or the date on its walls. 
1See American Anthropologist, N. S.,1X, 512, 1907. The account previously quoted from the Rudo 
Ensayo is that here referred to. The ¢cwhuki was not a ruin, as the author understood the Pima, but a 
game in which the figure mentioned was marked out on the sand. This game, now about extinct, has been 
played within the memory of one of the writer’s informants. 
