1894 
Yacoohi 
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laid up rocks marked one of the points of devotion. An older but now 
disused shrine had been made close by among the loose rooks. The tur¬ 
key feathers covered all the level space on top of the rocks where 
sj 2 P.ll bushes and other plants permitted the feathers to become matted 
among their stems and so not be blown away. In addition to the turkey 
feathers were seen fragments of shells of turkey eggs and pieces of 
broken clay pots of rounded shape and full of round holes half an inch 
or more in diameter, thus* The holes were evidently made while 
the clay was soft, ^he pots were four to five inches In diameter end 
wore probably used for burning some kind of incense, I could find no 
bones of the turkeys but marks of large fires were to be seen on the 
ridge close to the rocks, %ile searching about the sides of the rocky 
I sow where some animal had dug a hole into the earthy slope 
40 or 80 feet below the summit and was interested to note that a large 
percenter.© of the soil seemed to be made up of broken fragments of 
pottery like those lying about on the summit. 
After my return to camp a man came along from a neighboring village 
and in reply to my questions replied that the oeople of Yecochi and 
neighboring villages are in the habit of taking live turkeys up to the 
peek and offering their blood as a sacrifice 
there. The feathers are also left as an offering and the flesh is often 
cooked and placed in same hidden spot close by for the repast of the 
spirit. The people make these offerings about the middle of January 
and July each year and my informant told me to notice the first fine 
day after mj visit and I would see many men pass each with a live tur¬ 
key on his back on his way to make the offering of the season in order 
to get. good or ops. On July 12th this took place and without special 
attention I noted seven or eight men go by, each with his turkey as 
foretold. One of the men who went was from tho house of the sexton of 
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