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THE ACOMA INDIANS 



There are no toilets or outhouses at Acoma; people go out to the 

 edge of the mesa where they are sheltered by bushes or large rocks 

 in the daytime, but at night they very frequently use the street, or 

 after daybreak the roof terraces. So far as sanitation is concerned, 

 however, it is probably much better not to have outhouses where 

 filth would be preserved for flies. The sun and wind dry, scorch, 

 and sterilize everything very quickly. 



The rooms of the dwellings are usuall.v very neat and orderly. The 

 walls are plastered white. Pictures of Christ, \'irgins, girls showing 

 the benefits of certain cold creams, Indian bovs and girls at Govem- 



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Figure 1. — Key to diagram of Acoma pueblo 



[The roman Qumerals indicate the location of the dancing places used in Natyati.] 



I, Chamber of the Fire Society. 2, Daut'k'ori'ts estufa. 3, Kock'asi'ts estufa. 4, 

 Corn clan's house. 5, Coska'ts estufa. 6, Tsitcinic k'a'atc, or Mauharots, the 

 "head estufa." 7, Haimatats' estufa. 8, Cacique's house. 9, Cutrini-ts estufa. 

 10, Plaza. 11, Komanira. 12, Church. 1.3, Convento. 14, Horse trail. 15, Foot 

 trail. 16, Foot trail. 1", To water reservoir. 18, To Masewi's Rock. 19, 

 (Jraveyard. 



mcnt schools, etc., are found on the walls in numbers. In one house 

 I noted a small bowl of corn flour and an arrowhead on a ledge h\ the 

 door. Rifles, deer and antelope horns, moccasins etc. hang on the 

 walls. Sheep pelts arc placed on the floor. 



Both Bandelier and Mindeleff state that there are six kivas at 

 Acoma. ^' But, unfortunately, we do not know exactly what this 

 means. The term k'aatc at Acoma is used to designate the five 

 chambers of the five kachina groups, and also for Mauharots, the 

 ''head estufa" (the chamber of the cacique and the Antelope clan), 



=1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. I, p. '268; MindeleS, op. cit., pp. 116 and 207. 



