526 PUEBLO RUINS NEAR WINSLOW, ARIZONA. 



they placed in shrines, and carried back water for use in a Katcina 

 dance, the Calako (Sio, Zuni), which was performed in July l in Sit- 

 comovi. These men made a pilgrimage of 80 miles to visit ancestral 

 places of worship. The fact has a significance and is connected with 

 early migrations of cults. 2 



Several sections of the leg bones of some mammalian were found near 

 the skull of one interment. Tliese were possibly hair ornaments. 3 



The second ruin in the Homolobi group which was discovered was 

 situated about 3 miles beyond the first, on the same side of the river, 

 but more distant from its bank. This ruin was a much larger one than 

 that already considered, and crowned the top of a mesa about 200 feet 

 high. The rooms were well marked out by standing walls, and in many 

 instances the remains of wooden beams were still present. 



The burial places of this pueblo were in the foothills at the base of 

 the mesa, and the graves were marked by the same rectangular stone 

 slabs recorded in the first ruin. The most instructive food bowl found 

 in these burials was ornamented with the picture of a human being 

 with flowers and butterflies. The chin of the figure is painted black, 

 as is so often the case in idols in Tusayan altars, and faces of partici- 

 pants in dances. 4 



The third ruin 5 was situated on the left bank of the river, not more 

 than 5 miles from the town of Winslow. It was a small village, and 

 so near the stream that the water had washed away one corner of the 

 mounds. I made no excavation at this place, except on one side, but 



'This ceremony has been described in the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology. 



2 The Sio-Calako was brought to Sitcomovi from Zuni by several Hopi who had 

 seen it at the latter pueblo not many years ago. As all Katcinas are the special care 

 of the Badger people, the paraphernalia of this ceremony belongs to the Badgers. 

 There are some other Katcinas which were derived from Zuni, as well as weak rep- 

 resentatives of certain priesthoods ; but as a rule the Molds have carefully guarded 

 their peculiar rites, not being willing to sell them even to the Zulus. About the 

 year 1880 representatives of eleven Zuni claus visited Walpi and tried to purchase 

 the mysteries of the Snake Dance, but were refused. The Zuni ritual is not as varied 

 or as rich as the Moki and has suffered more by losses caused by the extinction of 

 ceremonials due to the Spaniards. 



3 One of the most problematical gentes of the Hopi, which is reputed to have come 

 to Tusayan from the far South, was the "Wiksrun." This gens is said to have 

 been so called because the members of it wore sections of the leg bones of the bear 

 in their hair, hanging down over the forehead. Oiiate mentions a people between 

 the Little Colorado and the Great Colorado, called "Cruzados," from their wearing 

 crosses on their foreheads. The Coco Maricopas are said to have worn bone objects 

 in their hair, and this is true of several tribes in the Southwest. 



■The Antelope priests, Flute girls or Corn maids; see description of the Tusayan 

 Flute Observances. 



'Several clans which were later assimilated with the Tusayan villagers are 

 reported to have built homes along the Colorado Chhjnito, and some of the names of 

 these villages are. known to Tusayan folklorists. One of these is the old pueblo, 

 Etipsykjya, a home of the Squash people. From the size of some of the. ruins along 

 the Little Colorado, I should judge that some of them housed several phratries. 



