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doorway. All about these tanks were most interesting designs of 
stones laid on the ground. Triangles with the base line omitted 
pointed toward the village, and there were many squares, circles, 
triangles, and other figures. Leading in a direct line from the north- 
west corner of the tanks was a path with the same kind of a double 
row of stones, and we afterwards followed this down to the pueblo. 
With regard to the world shrine and the tanks the following infor- 
mation was given by Aniceto Swaso, a Santa Clara Indian. (This is 
not given literally, as it had to be translated from the Spanish.) 
‘When the people of Po-shu lived in the village and there came a 
long dry spell, the summer and winter caciques, with some other men 
(Koshare?), would go to the world shrine and pray for rain. They 
would stay there for four days and nights and make magic to bring 
the rain. Only a very few men knew the rain medicine, and they 
had to fast all the time that they were praying and making magic. 
Then on the fifth day, before the sun came up, they would go down 
the path between the stones and all the time they kept on making 
magic until they reached the tanks. There they would stop, and 
when the sun just began to come up the rain would come down in a 
gentle shower and fill up the tanks. It did not rain any place else 
than at the tanks. Even the edge of the ground around the tanks 
did not get wet; the water only fell directly into the tanks. <A run- 
ner was then sent to the village and told the people to bring with 
them the small ceremonial vessels for carrying the sacred water and 
to come to the tanks. When they arrived there the water was 
dipped out with the ceremonial cups. (Pl. 43, A, A, C.) No human 
hand must touch the water, and then the people carried the water back 
to the village, where parts of it were drunk and other portions reserved 
forextrastrong medicine. Thenina very short time it rained all over 
the country and the drought was broken. In going and coming from 
the shrines and tanks and from the village the people must keep be- 
tween the rows of stones which made the sacred paths. In case none 
of the doughnut-shaped cups were at hand, an abalone (?) shell was 
used to dip out the water to the people. If the prayers for rain failed, 
the ceremony was repeated, and always after the fourth attempt rain 
fell. This never failed.”’ 
The informant further said that this same ceremony is still per- 
formed in times of extreme drought and that only a very few men 
now know how to do it. 
Less than half a mile on the mesa south of the ruin is the west 
shrine. (Pl. 64, OC.) About a mile and a half to the east is the east 
shrine, and across the river, on the north side of the Chama River, is 
the north shrine. (Pl. 64, B.) The south shrine is difficult to 
find, and it was a long time before we found it. It is located on the 
top of a very high point, about a mile south of the world shrine, and 
