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introduced substantiates this claim of their legends, for all the cere- 
monies ascribed to southern clans are higher than the rite which came 
from Tokonabi. 
The original home of the Patki clans is called in their legends 
Palatkwabi, and is said to have been near San Carlos in the Gila 
valley, southern Arizona. The legends of this clan say that their 
ancestors were forced to leave their ancient home by reason of destruct- 
ive floods, due to Paliiliikof, the Great Snake, and they migrated 
northward along the trail indicated by the ruined pueblos mentioned 
in the following pages. From Kufchalpi, the most ancient pueblo of 
the Patki, probably, in the Palatkwabi region, they went on in turn to 
Utcevaca, Kwinapa, Jettipehika (the Navaho name of Teciibkwitcalobi, 
or Chaves pass), Homolobi (near Winslow), Sibabi (near Comar spring), 
and Pakatcomo (4 miles from Walpi). The last four ruins have been 
identified, and extensive archeological investigations have been con- 
ducted at the fourth and fifth. 
We thus have the names of three pueblos occupied by the Patki 
during their northern migration from Palatkwabi, before they arrived 
at Chaves pass, which have not yet been identified. These are Kwinapa, 
Utcevaca, and Kunchalpi. The determination of the sites of these 
villages, and a study of their archeology, would prove to be an impor- 
tant contribution to the knowledge of the origin of the Patki clans. 
Anawita, chief of the Patki, a very reliable man, can point them out 
to any archeologist who has the means to prosecute these studies in 
Arizona. When the Patki clans arrived in Tusayan they built the 
pueblo of Pakatcomo, from which some went to the Middle mesa and 
others to Walpi. The Patki traditionists say that when their ancestors 
lived at Pakatcomo the people of Walpi were in sore distress on account 
of the lack of rain and the consequent failure of crops, hence they 
invited the Patki to perform their rites to relieve them from calamity. 
This invitation was accepted, and the Patki societies erected their altars 
and sang their rain songs at Tawapa. Asa result there came over the 
land first a mist, then heavy rain with thunder and lightning. Although 
the latter alarmed the Walpi women, the men were grateful, and the 
Patki were admitted to the pueblo, which they later joined. 
There was probably also another reason for the abandonment of Pakat- 
como. The pueblo was in a very exposed position, and the Apache 
were raiding the surrounding country, even up to the very foothills of 
the East mesa. Pakatcomo was in the plain, and its inhabitants 
naturally sought the protection of Walpi on its inaccessible mesa site. 
Pakatcomo is a small ruin, with walls of stone, and closely resem- 
bles the ruins at Homolobi, but it was evidently not inhabited for a 
long time, as the quantity of débris about it is small, and there are 
only a few fragments of pottery in its mounds. 
