588 THE CLIFF VILLAGES OF THE RED ROCK COUNTRY. 



elements Lave replaced tlie ancient. The answer to the question, 

 whence came these innovations, is outside the limits of this report. 

 The similarities of the ancient pottery found in Tusayan ruins far dis- 

 tant from each other implies a homogeneity in the people of Tusayan 

 which was indicative of closer kinship. Since the overthrow of Sik- 

 yatki and Awatobi, the consanguinity of the pueblos has been changed 

 by assimilation of foreign blood from other pueblos of Arizona and 

 ISTew Mexico, as we know also from documentary and legendary history. 

 Groups of peoples from the Rio Grande pueblos have fled to Tusayan, 

 bringing their pottery with them, thus introducing other decorative 

 motifs as well as novel rituals and mythologies. It has thus resulted 

 that the ornamentation now used by the Tusayan potters is radically 

 different from that of the ancients. 



