FEWKES] EAST MESA RUINS DESCRIBED 589 
We may suppose, however, that the survivors of both Kiikiichomo 
and Sikyatki sought refuge in Awatobi after the prehistoric destruction 
of their pueblos, for both were peopled by clans which came from the 
east, and naturally went to that village, the founders of which migrated 
from the same direction. 
KACHINBA 
The small ruin at Kachinba, the halting place of the Kachina people, 
seems to have escaped the attention of students of Tusayan archeology. 
It lies about six miles from Sikyatki, about east of Walpi, and is 
approached by following the trail at the foot of the same mesa upon 
which Kiikiichomo is situated. The rnin is located on a small foothill 
and has a few standing walls. It was evidently diminutive in size and 
only temporarily inhabited. The best wall found at this ruin lies at 
the base of the hill, where the spring formerly was. This spring is 
now filled in, but a circular wall of masonry indicates its great size in 
former times. 
TUKINOBI 
There are evidences that the large hill on top of East Mesa, not far 
from the twin mounds, was once the site of a pueblo of considerable size, 
but I have not been able to gather any definite legend about it. Near 
this ruin is the “ Eagle shrine” in which round wooden imitations of eagle 
eges are ceremonially deposited, and in the immediate vicinity of which 
is another shrine near which tracks are cut in the rock, and which were 
evidently considered by the Indian who pointed them out to me as 
having been made by some bird.! It is probably from these footprints, 
which are elsewhere numerous, that the two ruins called Kiikiichomo 
(“footprints mound”) takes its name. 
JEDITOH VALLEY RUINS 
As one enters Antelope valley, following the Holbrook road, he finds 
himself in what was formerly a densely populated region of Tusayan. 
This valley in former times was regarded as a garden spot, and the plain 
was covered with patches of corn, beans, squashes, and chile. The former 
inhabitants lived in pueblos on the northern side, high up on the mesa 
which separates Jeditoh valley from Keam’s canyon. All of these 
pueblos are now in ruins, and only a few Navaho and Hopi families 
cultivate small tracts in the once productive fields. 
The majority of the series of ruins along the northern rim of Antelope 
valley resemble A watobi, which is later described in detail. It is inter- 
esting to note that in the abandonment of villages the same law appears 
to have prevailed here asin the other Tusayan mesas, for in the shrink- 
age of the Hopi people they concentrated more and more to the points 
of the mesas. Thus, at East Mesa, Sikyatki, Kachinba, and Kiikiichomo 
1 The ceremonials attending to burial of the eagle, whose plumes are used in secret rites, have never 
been described, and nothing is known of the rites about the Eagle shrine at Tukinobi. 
