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to aid it, and brought with them? the snow which cooled off the liquid 
lava, and hardened it into stone. 
Although summer months are not the best in which to obtain folk- 
tales from the Zufiians, and from some, if not all, of the other Pueblo 
Indians, I was fortunate enough to get on the phonograph the story of the 
origin of the lava flow from a Laguna Indian in his own words. 
Outside of its value as an account of the origin of this stream of lava, 
it is also interesting as a record—I belive the first on a phonograph— 
of a specimen of the Queres language, which is spoken by more Pueblo 
Indians than any of the several linguistic branches characteristic of 
the sedentary Indians of New Mexico. 
Not the least important of the phonographic records which were 
taken are several prayers used by hunters to their fetishes, and that of 
a member of the Pitslashewäne, or ** Priests of the Bow,’’ used former- 
ly in the wars with their foes, the Navajos. All of these, which form 
an interesting collection, are reputed to be very old. As their use is 
undoubtedly dying out, as game decreases and probabilities of war 
diminish, a permanent phonographic record of these, most of which 
have been faithfully recorded by phonetic methods, and translated by 
Cushing in his most interesting paper on Zufii Fetishes, is an important 
addition to my collection. 
In my previous paper I have stated that I was able to obtain a 
phonographic record of the Kaklan, or so-called Zufii epic, a ritual 
which narrates the history of the Zufii race. This important and 
valuable unwritten record of the past of the nation / was not able to 
obtain. When my former paper was written I thought I had obtained 
it, but I have since detected my error. After the paper was written, 
when I found that I had been mistaken, I tried in every way to get 
this ritual in the language of the priest who recites it, but always to be 
put off with other things, and at last to be refused. There is certainly 
no more valuable acquisition to be made in a linguistic study of the 
Zufii language than to persuade the Indians to entrust this account 
of their history to the phonograph, but I must confess my failure as 
yet to bring it about. 
The almost illimitable field for research on the languages of our 
aborigines which presents itself to the student demands more workers. 
Now is the time to collect material before all is lost. The phonetic 
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snow uses and effects are singularly confounded, and inn umerable 
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