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The author finds one hijjlily suggestive ai^pendage to the head — 

 the radiating crest resembles the feathers in figures of a mythical 

 conception called Shalako. We have here a picture with a helmet 

 adorned with a crest of feathei-s, i-ecalling a Shalako, which is a Zufii 

 as well as a Ilopi conception, derived in Tusayan and Zuiii from the 

 same source, or from some of the ruins along the tributaries of the 

 Little Colorado. The logical conclusion would be that the people of 

 Fonr-inile ruin likewise recognized this being. 



Apropos of the possibility, revealed by this picture of a masked 



Fig. tK). Humau figure on food bowl from Four-mile ruin (uumlter ITTOfil). 



dancer, that masked or katcina dances were once celebrated at 

 Four-mile ruin, attention is called to the short distance of this ruin 

 from a legendary home of the katciiuis near St John, New Mexico." 

 IJotli Ilopi and Zuiii legends regarding the ancient home of these 

 beings cluster so definitely about a ruin near this town that we may 

 suppose that the former inhabitants of that mythical place possessed 

 a knowledge of the cult. To the lake near by both Zunis and Hopis 



a Kothualewfl of the Zuni legends; Winema of the Hopi. It would be a most instructive work 

 from a mytho-archeological point of view to investigate the antiquities in the neighborhood of 

 St .Tolm, especially near the lake so often mentioned in legends. 



