188 ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. [eth.ann.13 



It is not kuown what particular branch ofthepueblo-buildiug tribes 

 formerly made their home in the lower Verde vallej-, but the character 

 of the masonry, the rough methods employed, and the character of the 

 remain.s suggest the Tusayan. It has been already stated that the 

 archeologic affinities of this region are northern and do not conform to 

 any type now found in the south; audit is known that some of the 

 Tusayan gentes — the water people — came fi'om the south. The follow- 

 ing tradition, which, though not very definite, is of interest in this 

 connection, was obtained by the late A. M. Stephen, for many years a 

 resident near the Tusayan villages in Arizona, who, aside from his 

 competence for that work, had every facility for obtaining data of 

 this kind. The tradition was dictated by Anawita, chief of the Pat-ki- 

 nyumu (Water house gentes; and is as follows: 



We dill not come direct to this region (Tusayan) — we had no fixed intention as to 

 where we should go. 



AVe are the Pat-ki-nyil-mft, and we dwelt in the Pa-lsit-kwa-bl (Red Land) where 

 the kw5-ni (agave) grows high and plentiful; perhaps it was in the region the 

 Americans call Gila valley, but of that I am not certain. It was far south of here, 

 and a large river flowed past our village, which was large, and the houses wee 

 high, and a strange thing happened there. 



Our people were not living peaceably at that time; we were quarreling among 

 ourselves, over huts and other things I have heard, but who can tell what caused 

 their quarrels? There was a famous hunter of our peojile, and he cut ofl'the tip.s 

 from the autlers of the deer which he killed and [wore them for a necklace?] he 

 always carried them. He. lay down in a hollow In the court of the village, as if he 

 had died, but our people doubted this ; they thought he was only shamming death, 

 yet they covered him ui> with earth. Next, day his extended hand protruded, the 

 four fingers erect, and the first day after that one finger disappeared [was doul>led 

 up ?] ; each day a finger disappeared, until on the fourth day his hand was no longer 

 visible. 



The ohl people thought that he dug down to the under world with the horn tips. 



On the fifth day water spouted up from the hole where his hand had been and it 

 spread over everywhere. On the sixth day P.l-lii-lii-koua (the Serpent deity) pro- 

 truded from this hole and lifted his head high above the water and looked around 

 in every direction. All of the lower laud was covered and many were drowned, but 

 most of our people had fled to some knolls not far from the village and which were 

 not yet submerged. 



When the old men saw Pa-lii-lii-kona they asked him what he wanted, because 

 they knew he had caused this flood; and Pa-lii-lii-koua said, "I want you to give 

 me a youth and a maiden." 



The okU-rs consulted, and then selected the handsomest youth and fairest maid and 

 arrayed them in their finest apparel, the youth with a white kilt and paroquet 

 plume, and the maul with a fine blue tunic and white mantle. These children wept 

 and besought their parents not to send them to PS-lii-lu-koua, but an old chief said, 

 "You must go; do not he afraid; I will guide you." And he led them toward the 

 village court aud stood at the edge of the water, but sent the children wading in 

 toward Pa-Ui-Ui-koiia, and when they reached the center of the court where Pa-lli- 

 lii-koua was the deity aud the children disappeared. The water then rushed down 

 after them, through a great cavity, and the earth quaked and many houses tumbled 

 down, and from this cavity a great mound of dark rock protruded. This rock 

 mound was glossy and of all colors; it was beautiful, and, as I have been told, it 

 still remains there. 



