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the case of the would-be medicine-nian who may be called to liis 

 profession by means of persistent dreams. Since Night may cause 

 one to dream as he wishes it is fair to presume that it is that o;od 

 who oversees the destinies of the medicine-men. 



Many years ago Kisatc, in either a swoon or trance, believed that 

 he went far away to a place where a stranger gave him a magnificent 

 bow and a set of beautiful arrdws. On regaining consciousness lie 

 asked for tlie things that had been given him wliile he was away and 

 became quite indignant when they assured him that he had not been 

 out of their sight. To this day he believes that tliey deceived him. 



SACRED PLACES 



Hahatesumieliin or Hahatai s'maihisk, Stones Strike, is a large 

 block of lava located in the eastern Santan hills (see pi. XLi, b). 

 The largest pictograph ever seen In* the writer in the Southwest is 

 cut upon it and 2 or 3 tons of small angular stones foreign to the 

 locality are piled before it. There are also many pictographs on 

 the bowlders round about. This was probably a Hohokam shrine, 

 though it is regarded with reverence by the Pimas, who still place 

 offerings of beads, bits of cloth, and twigs of the creosote bush at the 

 foot of the large pictograph. There is a tradition that a young man 

 was lying asleep upon the flat rock and was seen by two young w"omen 

 who were passing along the opposite hilLside. They tried to awaken 

 him by tossing the pebbles which are yet to be seen. Pima maids 

 thus awaken their lovers to the present day. 



Ha-ak A^x-ak, Ha-ak Lying, is a crude outline (if a human figure 

 sitiuited about 5 miles north of Sacaton. It was made by scraping 

 aside the small stones with which the mesa is there thickly strewn 

 to form furrows about 50 cm. wide (fig. 102). The body furrow is 

 35 m. long and has a small heap of stones at the head, another 

 at a distance of 11 m. from the first, and another at the junction of 

 body and legs. The latter are 11 m. long and 1 m. apart. The 

 arms curve outward from the head and terminate in small pyra- 

 mids. In all the piles of stone, which have a temporary and modem 

 appearance, are glass beads and rags, together with fresh creosote 

 branches, showing that the place is yet visited. The beads are 

 very old and much weathered. Beside the large figure is a smaller 

 one that is 4.5 m. long, the body being 2.7. Ha-ak is supposed to 

 have slept one night at this place before reaching IIi\-ak Tcia 

 Hak, a cave in the Ta-attikam mountains, where she remained for 

 some time. 



I'aksk, Place of Sacrifice, is a heap of stones on a knoll near Black- 

 water where it is probable that a Hohokam or Pima uiedicine-man 

 has been buried. 



