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Pat'anlkiim. Place of the Bad One, is the name of a gjrave at Gila 

 Crossing. It seems prol)al)le that the grave of some Ilohokam medi- 

 cine-man has been taken for that of the son of Kakanyp. 



There is another similarly inclosed but unnamed grave at Gila 

 Crossing, also one between Sweetwater and Casa Blanca, and there 

 are tlu-ee at Blackwater. Such inclosures are called o'namOksk, 

 meaning unknown. Beads are to be found strewn about all of them. 



Ma'vit Vii-ak, Puma Lying, or Tci'apatak, Place of the Mortar, is a 

 heap of small stones (pi. xi.i, c) between the Double buttes, 10 miles 

 west of Sacaton. Stones are there piled over a shallow mortar in 

 wliich beads have been placed and partly broken. Bunches of fresh 

 creosote branches were mingled with the decaying fragments of arrow 

 shafts at the time of the writer's visit, showing that while the shrine 



FIO. 102. ni-ik allar. 



is yet resorted to it is of considerable antiquity, for wood does not 

 decay rapidly in that climate. 



E\-il spirits dwell in the Picacho and Estrella mountains, but tills 

 belief may be presumed to be an inheritance from the Apache period. 

 The writer has not learned of any shrines being located in those 

 ranges. 



It is said that in the Santa Rosa mountains there was once a tightly 

 covered medicine basket wiiich was kept on a mountain top by a 

 Papago medicine-man who carried offerings to it. All others were 

 forbidden to toucli it: but .someone found it and when he lifted tiie 

 cover all the winds of heaven rushed forth and blew awa^- all the 

 people thereabout. 



