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the country. There is a legend that formerly the site of this spring was 
dry, when an ancient priest, who had deposited his tiponi, or chieftain’s 
badge, at the place, caused the water to flow from the ground; at pres- 
ent however the water rushes from a hole as large as the arm in the 
face of the rock, as well as from several minor openings. It is situated 
on the opposite side of the mesa from Sikyatki, a couple of miles 
northeastward from the ruin. 
Half-way up the side of the mesa, about opposite Sikyatki, there is a 
large reservoir, used as a watering place for sheep. The splash of the 
water, as it falls into this reservoir, is an unusual sound in this arid 
region, and is worth a tramp of many miles. There are many evi- 
dences that this spring was a popular one in former times. As it 
is approached from the top of the mesa, a brief inspection of the 
surroundings shows that for about a quarter of a mile, on either side, 
there are signs of ancient terraced gardens, walled in with rows of 
stones. These gardens have today greatly diminished in size, as com- 
pared with the ancient outlines, and only that portion which is: oecu- 
pied by a grove of peach trees is now under cultivation, although 
there is plenty of water for the successful irrigation of a much larger 
tract of land than the gardens now cover.' Judging from their size, 
many of the peach trees are very old, although they still bear their 
annual crop of fruit. Everything indicates, as the legends relate, that 
these Kanelba gardens, the walls of which now form sheep corrals, 
were long ago abandoned. 
The terraces south of the Kanelba peach grove resemble the lower 
terraces of Wipo. About 100 rods farther south, along the foot of 
the mesa, on the same level, are a number of unused fields, and a 
cluster of house remains. The whole of this terrace is of a type which 
shows greater action of the weather than the others, but the boundaries 
of the fields are still marked with rows of stones. The adjacent foothills 
contain piles of ashes in several places, as if the sites of ancient pottery 
kilns, and very old stone inclosures occur on the top of the mesa above 
Kanelba, All indications seem to point to the ancient occupancy of 
the region about Kanelba by many more farmers than today. Possibly 
the inhabitants of Sikyatki, which is only two or three miles away, fre- 
quented this place and cultivated these ancient gardens. Kanelba is 
regarded as a sacred spring by several Hopi religious societies of East 
Mesa. The Snake priests of Walpi always celebrate a feast there on 
the day of the snake hunt to the east in odd years,” while in the alter- 
nate years it is visited by the Flute men. 
1 Wipo spring, a few miles northward from the eastern end of the mesa, would be an excellent site 
for a Government school. It is sufficiently convenient to the pueblos, has an abundant supply of 
potable water at all seasons, and cultivable fields in the neighborhood. 
2The boy who brought our drinking water from Kanelba could not be prevailed upon to visit it on 
the day of the snake hunt to the east in 1895, on the ground that no one not a member of the society 
should be seen there or take water from it at that time. This is probably a phase of the taboo of all 
work in the world-quarter in which the snake hunts occur, when the Snake priests are engaged in 
capturing these reptilian ‘‘elder brothers.” 
