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or Firewood phratry, and as the pueblo of Sikyatki was settled by the 
latter, it is highly probable that the inhabitants of the two villages were 
friendly and naturally combined against the Snake pueblo of Walpi. I 
believe, however, there is some doubt that any branch of the Patki 
people settled in Kiikiichomo, and the size of the town as indicated by 
the ruin was hardly large enough to accommodate more than one clan. 
Still, as there are two Kiikiichomo ruins, there may have been a differ- 
ent family in each of the two house clusters. 
It has been said that in ancient times, before the twin mounds of 
Kiikiichomo were erected, the people of Sikyatki were greatly har- 
assed by the young slingers and archers of Walpi, who would come 
Fic. 254—Defensive wall on the East Mesa 
across to the edge of the high cliff and assail them with impunity. 
Anyone, however, who contemplates the great distance from Sikyatki 
to the edge of the mesa may well doubt whether it was possible for the 
Walpi bowmen to inflict much harm in that way. 
Moreover, if the word ‘‘slingers” is advisedly chosen, it introduces a 
kind of warfare which is not mentioned in other Tusayan legends, 
although apparently throwing stones at their enemies was practiced 
among Pueblos of other stocks in early historic times.' 
1 Thus in Castaneda’s account we are told: ‘‘ Farther off [near Cia?] was another large village where 
we found in the courtyards a great number of stone balls of the size of a leather bag, containing one 
arroba. They seem to have been cast with the aid of machines, and to have been employed in the 
destruction of the village.’’ It is needless for me to say that I find no knowledge of such a machine 
in Tusayan! 
