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AGRICULTURE 



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an extensive ruin of a stone pueblo. Learnino; tliat the cliief had 

 declared that these fields had been cultivated within the memory of 

 livino; men, the writer sent for him, but learned on questioning that 

 neither he nor any other Pima knew aught about them. All the 

 fields, canals, and cleared 

 roads over the lava hills that 

 appear in plate xi, c were 

 the work of the Hohokam. 



Division of Labor 



The work of clearing the 

 fields, planting, and irrigating 

 devolved upon the men. The 

 women harvested the crops, 

 carr^dng the products in their 

 kiahas. The men thrashed 

 the wheat — with horses after 

 those animals were intro- 

 duced. Prior to that time, 

 and even now when the crop 

 is small, the women beat out 

 the grain with straight sticks. 

 As it was thrashed, the women 

 winnowed it in baskets and 

 piled it on a cotton cloth, the 

 comers of which were tied 

 together, forming a sort of 

 sack that was thrown upon a 

 horse and taken by the men 

 to the storehouse or brought 

 in sacks on their heads by the 

 women (fig. 6). Pumpkins 

 and all crops except wheat 

 were carried hj the women in 

 their kiahas. Con.sidering the 

 fact that the Pimas were constantly harassed by the Apaches, so 

 that the men could not safel}' lay aside their bows during any 

 waking moment, this distribution of labor was not discreditable 

 to them. 



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there are a half dozen of these tracts. The largest is a little more than half a mile in length by nearly 

 a quarter in width. There are no signs of human occupation on the surface other than the disposition 

 of the stones. Five miles east of Solomonsville there is a similar field and on the Prielo plateau 40 

 miles northeast of the last is another among the pines. These fields are distinctly different from the 

 terraces that one sees on the north slope of Mount G raham and elsewhere. 



