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Charncti rti. — A nuHliinu-si'/od tlof; of slciKlt-r inuzzle. erect ears, 

 and normal bushy tail. Hair lonj:; and dense, pale \ elloAvish, clouded 

 with dark hrown on ears and croAvn, whitish beneath on throat, belly, 

 and feet. Feet well-haired. Probably this is to be looked upon as a 

 local breed of the Plains-Indian Dog, from which it apparently differs 

 only in its lonfjer coat. 



Dtftinbiiiioii. — Known only from the Marsh Pass region of Arizona, 

 but in former times probably common to the Pueblo tribes of Arizona 

 and Xew Mexico. 



Gnnral Arcouni. — One of the remarkable discoveries of Messrs. 

 Guernsey and Kidder, while exploring for the Peabody Museum, 

 was an excellently preserved specimen of a medium-sized dog associ- 

 ated with a human burial. In the arid chmate of Arizona, the 

 dog had merely dried, so that the entire animal even to the thick hair 

 was nearly intact. It is co\ered with a dense coat of long woolly 

 hair, of a pale yellowish color, clouded on the back and head with 

 brownish. On the sides of the l)ody, the length of the hair is about 

 100 nnn.; on the toes 30 mm. The culture period to which this 

 specimen belongs, is believed l)y Mr. Guernsey to antedate that of the 

 Cliff Dv\-ellers, and hence must be at k^ast .several centuries old. 



It seems probable that it was to this long-haired dog that Mendoza, 

 a companion of ("oronado, refers in a letter of 17 April, 1540, to tlic 

 King of Spain, describing the pueblo of Cibola, then a famous Indian 

 site, near the present town of Zuni, Xew Mexico. This letter is trans- 

 lated by "Winship (1904, p. 1 r).3) from the Spanish of Pacheco y Car- 

 denas, (l)ocumentos de Indias, 2, ]). 'AM')), and contains the following 

 pa.ssage: — "In their houses they keep some hairy animals, like the 

 large Spanish hounds, which they shear, and they make long colored 

 wigs from the hair, like this one which I send to Your Lordship, which 

 they wear, and they also put this same stuff into the cloth which they 

 make." These "hairy animals, like the large Spanish hounds," 

 seem probably, in the light of Mr. Guernsey's discovery, to have been 

 the same as th<' dog found at ]Marsh Pass. It is recalled here that 

 breeds of long-haired dogs were kept for shearing not only by the 

 Inflians of Puget Sound, but by the Chonos of the Taitao Archipelago,, 

 Chile, and their hair woven into blankets (see p. 475). There was 

 formerly a breed of long-haired white or brown dogs ajnong the 

 aboriginal inhabitants of Xew Zeahuid, the product of which was 

 similarly used (Colenso, 1878). 



