32 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
to have made their dwellings first at Mashongnaviand Shupauloyi; but 
like the Sun people they soon spread to all the villages. 
The narrative of part of this journey is thus given by the chief before 
quoted: 
It occupied 4 years to cross the disrupted country. The kwakwanti (a warrior 
order) went ahead of the people and carried seed of corn, beans, melons, squashes, 
and cotton. They would plant corn in the mud at early morning and by noon it 
was ripe and thus the people were fed. When they reached solid ground they rested, 
and then they built houses. The kwakwanti were always out exploring—some- 
times they were gone as long as four years. Again we would follow them on long 
journeys, and halt and build houses and plant. While we were traveling if a woman 
became heavy with child we would build her a house and put plenty of food in it and 
leave her there, and from these women sprang the Pima, Maricopa, and other Indians 
in the South. 
Away in the South, before we crossed the mountains (south of the Apache country) 
we built large houses and lived there a long while. Near these houses is a large 
rock on which was painted the rain-clouds of the Water phratry, also a man carry- 
ing corn in his arms; and the other phratries also painted the Lizard and the Rabbit 
upon it. While they were living there the kwakwanti made an expedition far to 
the north and came in conflict with a hostile people. They fought day after day, 
for days and days—they fought by day only and when night came they separated, 
each party retiring to its own ground to rest. One night the cranes came and each 
crane took a kwakwanti on his back and brought them back to their people in the 
South. 
Again all the people traveled north until they came to the Little Colorado, near 
San Francisco Mountains, and there they built houses up and down the river. They 
also made long ditches to carry the water from the river to their gardens. After 
living there a long while they began to be plagued with swarms of a kind of gnat 
called the sand-fly, which bit the children, causing them to swell up and die. The 
place becoming unendurable, they were forced again to resume their travels. Before 
starting, one of the Rain-women, who was big with child, was made comfortable in 
one of the houses on the mountain. She told her people to leave her, because she 
knew this was the place where she was to remain forever. She also told them that 
hereafter whenever they should return to the mountain to hunt she would provide 
them with plenty of game. Under her house is a spring and any sterile woman who 
drinks of its water will bear children. The people then began a long journey to 
reach the summit of the table land on the north. They camped for rest on one of 
the terraces, where there was no water, and they were very tired and thirsty. Here 
the women celebrated the rain-feast—they danced for three days, and on the fourth 
day the clouds brought heavy rain and refreshed the people. This event is still 
commemorated by a circle of stones at that place. They reached a spring southeast 
from Kdibitho (Kumés Spring) and there they built a house and lived for some time. 
Our people had plenty of rain and cultivated much corn and some of the Walpi 
people came to visit us. They told us that their rain only came here and there in 
fine misty sprays, and a basketful of corn was regarded asa large crop. So they 
asked us to come to their land and live with them and finally we consented. When 
we got there we found some Eagle people living near the Second Mesa; our people 
divided, and part went with the Eagle and have ever since remained there; but we 
camped near the First Mesa. It was planting time and the Walpi celebrated their 
rain-feast but they brought only a mere misty drizzle. Then we celebrated our rain- 
feast and planted. Great rams and thunder and lightning immediately followed 
and on the first day after planting our corn was half an arm’s length high; on the 
fourth day it was its full height, and in one moon it was ripe. When we were going 
up to the village (Walpi was then north of the gap, probably), we were met by a 
