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AMERICAN SERIES.
III.
FINAL REPORT
OF
INVESTIGATIONS AMONG THE INDIANS OF THE

SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES, CARRIED ON
MAINLY IN THE YEARS FROM 1880 TO 1885.
PART I.
BY
A. F. BANDELIER.
INSTITUTE
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA,
Council, 1889-90.
CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, President.
HENRY DRISLER, Vice-President.
MARTIN BRIMMER.
FRANCIS PARKMAN.
STEPHEN SALISBURY.
FREDERIC J. DE PEYSTER.
RUSSELL STURGIS.
AUGUSTUS C. MERRIAM.
ALLAN MARQUAND.
DAVID L. BARTLETT.
ARTHUR L. FROTHINGHAM
JOHN P. PETERS.
PREFACE.
submitting this First Part of my Report to the Archae

IN ological Institute of America, I have to apologize for
the long delay in its
completion. Although the material
for it was ready long ago, circumstances beyond my con
trol have prevented my putting it into shape for earlier
publication.
I take this occasion to acknowledge the debt of gratitude
which I owe to the population of the sections of country
through which my investigations have led me, for the uni

form kindness and hospitality shown to me, for the fre
quent disinterested assistance lent me in my labors, and
for the valuable information imparted at almost every step.
This acknowledgment is due to all classes and to all races
with whom I have come in contact. I forbear offering the
thanks specially due to personal friends, since, were I to

enumerate them, the list would become far too long for a
Preface. I offer my grateful acknowledgments to the civil

and ecclesiastical, as well as to the military, authorities of
both the American and Mexican portions of the South
west, for having, by their protection, largely furthered my

work.
The orthography of Indian names which I have adopted
is not that adopted by the Bureau of Ethnology, at Wash-
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
THE ROCK AND PUEBLO OF ACOMA, SEEN FROM THE
NORTH Frontispiece
PROCESSION, FEAST OF ST. ESTEVAN, ACOMA 219
FOOT RACE AT PUEBLO OF TAGS 240
ACOMA : NORTHERN Row OF HOUSES 265
PUEBLO OF TAGS : SOUTH HOUSE 266
INTERIOR OF A HOUSE AT ZUNI 269
MAP OF SONORA AND CHIHUAHUA End Of Volume

FINAL REPORT
ON
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST.
PART I.
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST.
i.
INTRODUCTION.
country explored, or at least visited, during the
THE period of four years which the Archaeological Institute
devoted to American research, (exclusive of the year 1881,
which was spent in Southern and Central Mexico,) lies between
the 36th and 2Qth parallels of latitude North, and the ic>5th
and 1 1 2th degrees of longitude West. Since the year 1884,
when explorations were discontinued, I have, as often as it
was feasible,made short tours of investigation into regions
hitherto unknown to me. Although such excursions were
wholly independent of my connection with the Institute, that
connection terminating officially in January, 1.885, I shall
in
clude here also whatever observations I may have been able

to secure. They are not very important, still they contribute
to render the general picture more accurate. The accom
panying map give an idea of the whole ground gone over,
will
-
mostly alone, on horseback or on foot. To one bent upon
scientific observations, even journeys by rail become instruct
ive and valuable. I have therefore laid down on the map
mentioned the railroad trips also. In a country where the
aboriginal population has been so completely dependent upon

nature as the aborigines of the Southwest were prior to the
sixteenth century, the topography and hydrography of the
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land, its natural history and meteorology, form the basis of

archaeological researches. They furnish the key to the eth
nological development of primitive man through them we

;
secure the explanation of most of the changes which he has
undergone they show to us, in a measure, how present eth

;
nography has come to be. To attempt historical studies

anywhere, without first knowing thoroughly the nature of
the country, is as futile as to try astronomy without the aid
of mathematics, or mineralogy without a previous course of
analytical chemistry.
I have given to the Institute an account of all my trips,
with the exception of the last one, which occupied the period
from November, 1883, to July, 1884. Before entering upon
the general Geographical Introduction to this Report, I may
be permitted to sketch the route of these last travels.
Leaving Santa Fe, I went to El Paso del Norte, where I
resided for nearly two weeks among the remnants of the
Mansos, and among the Piros and Tiguas, who were trans
planted to this vicinity about 1680. Being obliged to return
to Santa Fe, owing to a serious attack of bronchitis, so soon
as I was sufficiently recovered, I made a flying trip to the

Pueblo of San Juan, on the Rio Grande, where I enjoyed full
access to the fine collection of Indian objects and antiquities
which my friend Samuel Eldodt has gathered in the course
of nineteen years residence among the Tehuas. The se
vere cold compelling me to go south, I accordingly removed
to Rincon, on the Rio Grande, there to investigate ruins of
small-house villages," near San Diego.
"
Thence I went to
Fort Cummings, at the foot of Cook s Peak, and thence on
to the Rio Mimbres, whose course I ascended on foot to
the source. Crossing the divide to the Sapillo, I reached the
wilderness about the head-waters of the Rio Gila, with its
remains of cave habitations, cliff-houses, and open-air villages
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. 5
of the small-house type.Returning to the Mimbres, I reached

from there Silver City, Deming, and at last, by rail, Tucson,
where my horse, the same animal that had carried me from
Santa Fe to Tucson previously, had been most kindly taken
care of by the military authorities at Fort Lowell. My inten
tion was to visit Sonora, and although the advice of my mili
tary friends was against an attempt to penetrate the Sierra
Madre, I nevertheless left the post on the /th of February

for the valley of the San Pedro, and travelled up the valley
from Tres Alamos Contencion, thence to Fort Huachuca,
to
and entered Sonora on the 2Oth of the same month, near the
head-waters of the stream between the Sierra Cananea and
the Sierra de San Jose. Once on Mexican soil, I followed
the course of the Rio Sonora almost due south, stopping at
every village and hamlet which the Apaches have failed to

destroy, as far as Babiacora, quite one hundred and forty
miles south of the frontier line of the United States. Here
the dangerous part of the journey commenced for though ;
Geronimo and his people were on the point of returning to

the North, occasional bands of Apaches might still be ex
pected to infest the mountains converging towards the Sierra

Madre from Sonora. Nevertheless, I decided upon travelling
to the eastward, with as little display as possible, relying
upon night trips and general caution for safety. By way of
Oposura the upper Rio Yaqui was reached on the 3d of April.
Here I found an opportunity of joining two young men from
Nacori, who had come in order to lay in a supply of provis
ions for their forsaken village, the last one in Sonora to
wards the and often sorely crowded by the Apaches.
east,
My horse being exhausted, I accompanied the party on foot

to their village, and thence, with an Indian guide, and with
the greatest precaution, penetrated to the western slopes of the
Que-hua-ue-ri-chi range, considered in the country to be the

highest and most central portion of the Great Sierra under

that parallel of latitude. After my return to Granados on
the Yaqui, and a few days spent at Huassavas, chiefly in ex
amining remnants of church archives from the time of the

Jesuits, and
measuring the abundant remains of ancient
in
garden-beds and dwellings, I continued my journey, taking

advantage of a convoy, to Huachinera. It would have been,
to say the least, exceedingly imprudent to undertake the trip
of fifty miles alone, and in a mountain wilderness, where the
presumption was that Apaches might be encountered at any

moment. Huachinera became another centre of operations,
and the next one was Baserac, again on the Yaqui. From
here I succeededpenetrating the formidable Sierra de
in
Teras, until then wholly untrodden, as, indeed, may be said

of this region in general, so far as scientific research is con
cerned. Babispe was my last station in Sonora. From there
I passed over Chihuahua, crossing the desert plateau to
into-
Janos. Turning south again, I reached Casas Grandes on

the 8th of May. At this important locality I was delayed
nearly a month, inclusive of another tour on foot into the
Sierra Madre as far as the Arroyo del Nombre de Dios, where
I found some very well preserved cave-houses. On the I4th
of June I came at last to Deming, within reach of regular
mail facilities and railroads. After my return to Santa Fe,

I spent a few days in the Pecos valley, to see once more the
sights which had made such a profound impression upon me
when I first engaged in the service of the Institute.
The journey into the Sierra Madre, although to a certain
extent hazardous beyond the measure of duty, has left me no
cause for regret. The numerous remains of man there have
been noticed but lately by travellers, and they have become
a source of undue wonder. As I hope to be able to show
hereafter, they are far from being so marvellous as they have

been thought. On the other hand, they are interesting and

instructive in the highest degree. They form a connecting
link between the extreme North and much more southerly
regions that does not appear at the first glance, and explain
features the origin of which is certainly not to be looked for
in North America even. These features will be sketched in
their place further on. So much for my journey.
The portion of the North American Southwest of which we

treat consists of the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona,
within the limits of the United States, and of the States of
Sonora and Chihuahua, on Mexican soil. It is a region re
markable for high average elevation above the sea level, and
for aridity. The whole area forms, so to say, a pitched roof,
whose northern gable-end is much higher than the southern,
so that there are three slopes: one to the west, towards the
Gulf of California ;
one to the east, towards the Mississippi
valley and a gradual decrease in height of mountain chains
;
from Colorado down to the boundaries of Durango. This lat

ter is not a drainage slope, although it also has its influence
upon river courses, and especially upon the volume of water

they carry. The farther south we go, on this side of the
Isthmus, the less important do the watercourses become, not
only in length, but also in power.
The
highest point of the whole region, as far as known, lies
in Northern New Mexico. The "Truchas," north of Santa
Fe, ascend to 13,150 feet above sea level. None of the peaks
of the Sierra Madre reach this altitude ; they do not even
attain the proportions of lesser mountains in New Mexico like
the Sierra Blanca, 1 "
Baldy,"
2
the Costilla, 3 or the Sierra de
1
The List of Elevations, 1877. does not give the height, but the official maps
place it at 11,892 feet. Thos. Gannett.
2
12,661 feet.
8
12,634 feet. List of Elevations, p. 118.
San Mateo. 1 The same may be said of Arizona, where only

the northern ranges, the Sierra de San Francisco and the
Sierra Blanca, rise above 12,000 feet. 2 There is a gradual
decline in size as the mountains approach the mouth of that
funnel whose wide aperture forms the North of the Mexican
Republic, and its small escape the Isthmus of Panama. It is
doubtful whether any of the summits in the Sierra Madre,

down to the Durango line, rise higher than 10,000 feet. 3
Another peculiarity is the narrowing of mountain regions
from north to south. In those portions belonging to the
United States, fully three fourths are strictly mountainous ;
in Sonora and Chihuahua, scarcely one half may be called
mountain lands. The general drift of the chains is from north

4
to although transverse ranges are numerous, and
south,
towards the south one of the characteristic features of the
landscape consists often in isolated mountain masses, rising
directly and abruptly out of a level which frequently is of re
pulsive barrenness. Such
is the case, for instance, in South
western Mexico,New
where the Sierra Florida dominates
5
the plain around Deming; in Southwestern Arizona, with the
6
peak of Baboquivari in Northwestern Chihuahua, with the
;
Sierra de en el Medio ;
and even in a measure in Southeastern
New Mexico, the huge Sierra Blanca rising to a height of
7,000 feet above the level of Fort Stanton.
1
1 1, 200 feet.List of Elevations, p. 129.
2 s Peak
in the San Francisco range, 12,561 feet.
Humphrey
3
T- Ross Browne, Report on the Mineral Resources of the States and Territories
west of the Rocky Mountains, p. 641 : "few if any points exceeding 10,000 feet
in elevation."
4 For
instance, the Sierra Diablo, and the Sierra Luera, near the head-waters
of the Gila; the Sierra del Datil, and the Escudilla, in Western Central New
Mexico also the Sierra de Zuni. In Northern Chihuahua, the Sierra de las
;
Espuelas, etc.
5
This very abrupt and picturesque group is a conspicuous object. It rises
out of the plain around Deming to a height of about 4,000 feet.
6 Visible
easily from Tucson. Its elevation is about 7,000 feet, and the plain
around it scarcely reaches 2,000.
The landscape in the Southwest is striking at all times.

The plains of Eastern New Mexico are impressive through
their immensity and absolute rigidity. They are far from
producing the feeling which is created by the ocean. A
liquid level is never absolutely at rest
the mind, as well as ;
the eye, is
always kept on the alert for something to occur,
even on the calmest day. The plains, on the contrary, are
immovable ;
there is nothing on the stark and stiff surface
to connect it with the sky. On the wanderer, they produce
easily a feeling of utter hopelessness.

1
With a sigh of relief,
he at last discovers the faint outline of distant mountain
chains, and their profile, strikingly like motionless lightning,

is to him a token of new life. The plains lie between the
luxuriant vegetation of the central States and the arid moun
tains of the Southwest, like a forbidding barrier. Without
the buffalo, primitive man could never have traversed them.
The higher ranges, especially those in the northern sections
of New Mexico, are far from being dismally arid. In the lati
tude of Santa Fe, pine timber begins at an altitude of about
seven thousand feet. It rises to varied and very irregular
heights, at the upper timber-line. That line changes in :
almost every chain it is different by a few hundred feet. 2

Still it may be said that its average level lies above eleven
thousand feet in the Southwest. This height is reached

only by Coniferae the scrub oak crowns lesser crests and
;
tops, such as the mountains on the Mexican border, the

Sierra de la Hacha, the Sierra de la Boca Grande, and the
Espuelas. Some ranges are strikingly destitute of arborescent
1
This feeling is already noticed by the chroniclers of Coronado s march.
Castaneda, Relation du Voyage de Cibola, p. 189.
2 It is sometimes more elevated in northern
ranges than in southern ones.
Thus in Lat. 33 to 34 it is n,ioo feet, in Arizona. On Pike s Peak, in Lat.
38 to 39, 11,720 feet on Buffalo Peak, in Colorado also, 12,041

it is ; ;
and in the
Sawatch range of Colorado, from 11,500 to 12,117 feet.

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vegetation. The Sierra de los Organos and its neighbors

north and south along the eastern border of the Rio Grande
valley, from the Sierra Oscura to El Paso, are completely

without timber. Steepness of the slopes, incident upon
geological structure, may be regarded as the principal cause
of this bareness.
Although the basis of the plain abutting against the moun

tain regions on the east is
mostly cretaceous and tertiary,
volcanic flows have penetrated into it, and they form isolated
videttes in the form of table-mountains or Mesas. 1 The

Mesa is one of the distinctive traits of Southwestern mountain
scenery. Frequently a thin crust or layer of metamorphic
trap or of basalt covers a base of sedimentary rocks, and
the difference in hardness between base and top has given
a hold to erosion by water as well as by atmospheric cur
2
rents, a hold that causes the sides to give way and leaves
the surface as a projecting table, whence the Spanish popular
term, now
universally accepted, derived. Erosion has been
is
exceedingly powerful not only the Mesa

:
formation, the gi
gantic gorges, or canons, are due to this agency. With their
vertical walls encasing a narrow bottom, these deep ravines
are a testimony of a slow corrosive and erosive force exerted
through long periods of time.

Withal, volcanic action has left many traces. Extinct
craters are frequent in New Mexico and in Arizona, and some
of the most important mountain clusters owe their origin
to eruptive action. The Sierra de San Francisco in Arizona,
and the Sierra de San Mateo in New Mexico, are tall extinct
volcanoes. Well delineated lava-flows fill the bottom of vales
1
Wagon Mound, on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, is a good
specimen of this kind. So are some of the Mesas around Raton, where that road
enters New Mexico.
2
Remarkable erosions through wind are visible in the valleys of Pojuaque
and Tezuque, which empty into the Rio Grande north of Santa Fe.
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. n
in Western New Mexico, 1 and they appear of relatively recent
origin. Yet it is positive that in the past four centuries
no eruption any kind has occurred in the southwestern
of
portions of the United States. On Mexican soil, the disturb

ances in the northeastern portions of Sonora and the north
western of Chihuahua during .this year (1887), are the only
trace of events of this nature within historical times. Con
fused, and perhaps unauthentic, Indian tales hint at displays
of volcanic forces in times previous to Spanish occupation,

but it is impossible as yet to determine when and where they
took place. The "
Year of Light and (Ano de la

Fire,"
Lumbre,) spoken about by the Indians of Laguna, may have

been a year of volcanic phenomena but it may equally well ;
have been one of brilliant auroral displays.
Thermal mineral springs are remarkably common in the

Southwest. Hot
springs, with a large proportion of soda
only in their water, are also numerous. There are valuable
medicinal sources in some places. 2 The importance of these
localities has been, locally, exaggerated.
A similar exaggeration has prevailed, and even to a greater
degree, in regard to the mines in the Southwest, and has a

direct bearing upon the studies which I was called upon to
pursue, since it is often stated that the Indians while in their
original condition engaged in mining, and since it is com

monly believed that the aboriginal population was diminished
in numbers, or at least degraded, through compulsory min
ing for the benefit of the Spaniards. In the Southwest, the
1
A begins near the Agua Azul on the Atlantic and Pacific
fine lava-flow
Railroad. very prominent near McCarthy s. In its passage it has scarcely
It is
ruffled the edge of the carboniferous red sandstone between whose walls it ran, at
the bottom of a narrow valley. The bottom rocks are but slightly singed.
2
Joseph s Springs, west of Taos, and Jemez Springs, north of the Pueblo, in
the Canon de San Diego. The former are arsenical the latter contain, besides
;
iodine, much lithion.

Indians were compelled to mine but very seldom, and then
only with a stipulated compensation.

1
In New Mexico and
in Arizona they never were compelled to work in the mines,
not only on account of the stringent protective laws of Spain,
but because the Spaniards, more experienced in the forma-
1 I-t is evident that in Spanish America, as well as everywhere else, the strict
decrees of the Crown in behalf of the Indian were sometimes evaded or disre
garded, and the native occasionally treated with cruelty. But these instances
were only exceptions, and not the rule. Las Casas, in his injudicious diatribes,
has completely misrepresented the facts in many cases. He was an honest, but
utterly unpractical enthusiast, who failed to understand both the Indian and the
new issue placed before that Indian through the discovery of America, and who
condemned everything and everybody from the moment that they did not agree
with his own
theories and plans. The royal decrees in favor of the Indian were
numerous, and the labor bestowed by the kings of Spain and their councils on
the "Indian question" was immense, so that it would require a special mono
graph of great extent in order to do justice to the subject. Compulsory labor in

mines without compensation, was first abolished in 1551 but Philip II. regulated
;
more explicitly the case by his Real Cedula of loth January, 1589. See Recopila-
cion de las Leyes de los Reynos de las Indias, ed. 1756, lib. vi. tit. xv., ley I a, vol. ii.
Declaramos, que a los Indies se les puede mandar, que vayan alas
"
fol. 254.
minas, como no sea mudando temple, de que

resulte dano a su salud, teniendo
Doctrina y Justicia, que los ampare, bastimentos, de que poclerse sustentar, buena
paga de sus jornales, y Hospital, donde scan curados, asisticlos, y regalados los
que enfermaren, y que el trabajo sea templado, y haya Veedor, que cuide de lo
susodicho; y en quanto a los salaries de Doctrina y Justicia, scan a costa de
los Mineros, pues resulta en su beneficio el repartimiento de Indies y tambien ;
paguen lo que pareciere necesario para la cura de los Enfermos." See also the
Reales Cedulas oi 24th January, 1594, and 26th August, 1595, etc. That the South
western mines were often a real benefit for the Indian who understood how to
take hold of them in the right way, is thus told by P. Andres Perez de Ribas,
Historia de los Trivmphos de nvestra Santa Fee entre gentes las mas Barbaras v
Fieras del Nueuo Orbe, etc., 1645, lib- viii. cap. iii. p. 475. Speaking of the
Indians around the celebrated mines of Topia in Durango, he says declarare :
"
Y
aqui lo que significa esa palabra: porque se entienda la grande ganancia que
tienen en la labor de minas los Indies trabajadores, principalmente los ladinos en
ellas, y que conocen los metales, y son barreteros, que con barretas rompen la
veta del metal. Porque estos, demas de la paga de su salario de cada dia, que es
de quatro reales de plata por lo menos pero fuera de ese, los principales traba
:
jadores tienen facultad y licencia, de escoger para si vna de las espuertas que
llaman Tenates, llena de metal, que cada dia rompe, y saca de la veta metal ;
que siempre es el mas rico y escogido porque como ellos lo conocen, y regis-
:
tran primero que sus amos, apartan para si lo mas precioso y esto no se les ;
tions of the country than the modern "prospecter"

and the
young graduate of mining schools, very soon perceived that
mines in New Mexico, as a general rule, "would not pay."
1
As for aboriginal mining, it is a myth. We have yet to find

a trace of work similar to the breaking of native copper with
huge mauls, performed on Lake Superior. Of reduction of
puede estoruar a los Indies porque al punto que eso se les estoruase, desam-
:
pararian las minas, y ellas y sus amos quedaran perdidos. La espuerta de metal
que saca, al Indio le suele valer quatro, seis, y tal vez diez, y mas reales de a
ocho. Y a esto llaman Pepenas, que son muy vsadas en todos los Reales de
minas de la Nueua Espana, y lo mismo deue de pasar en los otros Reinos de
las Indias y asi los Indios que son diestros en la labor de minas, andan luci-
;
damete tratados y vestidos."

The deceptive nature of New Mexican ores was discovered by the Spaniards
1
at an early day. In 1626 complaints were already uttered against the settlers
of New Mexico on the ground of their complete apathy in matters of mining.
Fray Geronimo de Zarate-Salmeron, Relaciones de Todas las Cosas que en el Nueito
Mexico se han visto y sabido, etc., MS., Art. 34, says De todo esto se rien los :
"
Espanoles que alia estan Como tengan buena cosecha de Tabaco para chupar,
:
estan mui contentos, y no quieren mas riquezas, que parece han hecho voto de
pobreza, que es mucho para ser Espanoles, pues por codicia de plata y oro
entraran en el mismo Ynfierno a sacarlas." In Art. 35 he tells of three Flemings
who came to New Mexico with some capital, and with the intention of working
mines but the Spaniards of Mexico burnt the machinery, which had been stand
;
ing idle since the time of Don Pedro de Peralta, Onate s successor as governor of
the province. The viceroys themselves were not much taken with mining pros
pects in New Mexico. Already the Conde de Monterey wrote to the King in
1602, Discurso y Proposition que se hace a vuestra Magestad de lo Tocante a los
Descubrimientos del Nuevo Mexico (Documentas de Indias, vol. xvi. p. 50) :
"
Y
ciertoque no tengo perdido esperanza de que se haya de verificar lo que el
Gobernador todavfa afirma, de que hay plata en algunos cerros de aquella co-
marca en que esta, y aunque Joan de Onate escribe que ahora saldria a
. . .
hacer algunas catas hondas, y que hasta tanto no asegura riqueza, porque no
sabe que haya metales de aventajada ley ; esto no me desanima, porque no hay
cuenta cierta en ello." In 1630, Fray Alonso de Benavides writes glowingly of
mines in New
Mexico, especially of those of Socorro (Memorial, pp. 17-19);
but nobody felt constrained to attempt working them. The reason for it is stated
afterwards officially by the Brigadier Pedro de Rivera, Diario y Derrotero de lo
Caminado, Visto, y Observado en el Discurso de la Visita General de Presidios, situ-
ados en las Provincias ynternas de Nueva Espana, 1736, p. 32: Hanse encon- "
trado en dicho Reyno, algunos Minerales, sin dar su metal mas ley, que la de
Alquimia, y Cobre y como no se ha podido costear el beneficio que necesita,
;
las han dejado abandonadas."

ores, even by the rude process invented by the ancient Peru

vians, there is no sign. For the Southwestern Indian, copper
ores had value only in proportion as they were bright blue
and brigJit green and the inferior kalaite, met with in New
;
Mexico, was liked as well as the bluest turquoise from Asia

Minor would have been. Mining, therefore, has had not the
slightest influence on the fate of the native in the
Southwest,
under the Spanish sway and no tale of ancient and now hid
;
den treasures, which only the Indian knew and made use
"
should ever be taken as a basis for earnest enterprise.

of,"
I am speaking here of those regions alone upon which I have

to report to the Institute.
The geology of the Southwest has given to the Indians
who inhabited the country resources more precious to them
than metal. At a certain stage men do not attempt cutting
and hewing. They have not advanced far enough to know
how to prepare instruments for such purposes, and are there
fore reduced to hammering and breaking. Metals are either
too malleable for such purposes, or too brittle, unless a much
greater advance has been made in treating them than that
which the remains in these regions show. Thus it was that
hard rock, flint, and obsidian were to the aborigines as impor
tant as iron and copper are to us to-day. These minerals are
found in abundance in the Southwest, but they are strictly
and do not appear everywhere.
localized, The mountains
converging toward the Sierra Madre from the side of Sonora,
where they merge into that backbone of the Mexican isthmus,
contain an abundance of obsidian in places. 1 Flint is scat
tered here and there. Basalt is common. To these we have
1
I saw much obsidian
in nodules on the elevated plateau called Llanos de "
Huepari," near Huachinera, on the western spurs of the Sierra Madre. The
Tahuaro also is full of it. There is obsidian in the mountains which divide the
Rio Grande valley from the sources of the Rio Jemez.
to add, as a matter of secondary importance, however, mineral

paints. Ironis plentiful, and often in the shape of iron ochre.
The copper greens and blues are found almost everywhere.

Kaolin, or rather a coarse kaolin clay, is met with occasion
ally. This exhausts the list of mineral products indispensable
to the aborigines which the Southwest afforded.
The dryness of the Pacific coast is well known. From
that side the regions of New Mexico and Arizona derive no
humidity. Only what passes over the mountains from the
northwest can occasionally irrigate the valleys and basins.
In fact, it is the contact of northerly currents, cold and dry,
with the slight moisture still contained in the air coming up
from the Gulf of Mexico, that produces rain in summer, snow
in winter. This moisture is in itself but a residue, for it has
shed its main contents over the plains of Texas. It may be
said that irrigation, both by precipitation and drainage, is fur
nished from the leavings of surrounding territories, north as
well as south. In winter northerly winds prevail in summer ;
they blow from an intermediate direction between south and

east. Both equinoxes are usually stormy, without much rain.
The rainy season is defined, inasmuch as it is limited to the
months of July, August, and September ;
but it is far from
displaying the copiousness of tropical climates. Weeks may
elapse without the discharge of a single shower ;
then again
weeks may bring a series of thunder-storms
accompanied by
floods of rain. During the other nine months of the year
there are occasional days of rain, which usually comes from
the southeast, and lasts until the wind settles in the opposite
quarter. The same happens with snow-storms the south ;
easterly winds are their

forerunners, while
northwesterly
currents bring them to a close. What, during winter months,
causes a snowfall in northern sections, appears in Southern
Arizona and Sonora as a succession of rainy days, akin to
1 6 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
"bad weather" in the Eastern States, and called "Quipata"
by the natives of Sonora and Chihuahua. "Quipata" re

A
sembles an equinoctial storm of rain, but with less violence
of wind, and perhaps less copiousness of precipitation. The
further south these disturbances occur, the more severe be
comes their character. This may be said of aqueous phenom
ena in general. The banks of the Rio Yaqui and of the Mayo
are veryhumid in comparison with those of northern rivers ;
and when it rains, even on the

dry plateaux of Central Chi
huahua, the fall is extraordinarily heavy.
In a country whose topography displays such variety of

features, and which besides extends over so many degrees
of latitude as well as of longitude, a great number of what
might be termed
"
climates
"
local appear. According to
altitude, temperature varies within short distances. 1

The
direction of mountain chains deflects and diverts atmospheric
currents ;
what is a northerly wind on the plains may enter
a narrow gorge from an opposite direction a circle of high ;
ranges around a low basin may keep it absolutely dry for

years, all the precipitation being shut off by the crests. Such
is the case on the middle Rio Gila about Casa Grande, and
near Marricopa, in Southern Arizona. Years elapse some
times ere these sandy bottoms are blessed by a substantial
shower. Santa Fe in New Mexico is much more arid than
the valley of Tezuque, although the latter is only seven miles
distant. Las Cruces and the Mesilla valley on the Rio
Grande are moist, and to a slight extent malarial, compared
There is already a marked difference between Santa Fe and Tezuque,
1
although the distance is only seven miles. Pena Blanca, twenty-seven miles from
the capital, and 1,700 feet lower, is both colder in winter and much warmer in
summer than the former. At Albuquerque the thermometer rises occasionally
to over 100, whereas at Santa Fe it never reaches 90 in the shade. At Tucson,
where the thermometer attains 120 frequently, and where it hardly ever snows,
the climate is torrid, whereas the sources of the San Pedro on the Sonora fron
tier are bitterly cold in winter.
with Socorro on the same stream, while the difference in

their altitude is only a few hundred feet. Still, the general
characteristics prevail everywhere as soon as we compare the
climate with that of other regions on the North American
continent. Dryness, comparative richness in ozone, and in
the higher portions a mild temperature, whose extremes fluc
tuate between 90 in the summer, and 12 in cold winters.
These extremes do not apply of course to the mountain zones
proper, at an elevation of 8,000 feet and beyond, nor to the
torrid lowlands of Arizona, of Chihuahua, and of the Sonoran
sea-coast.
Where the water supply is wholly dependent upon what
surrounding countries cannot absorb, the river systems suffer
from the same scantiness as precipitation itself. Rainy sea
sons do not swell streams in the northern Southwest in any
permanent manner; it is the melting of snow on the mountains

of Colorado that causes the Rio Grande and the great Colo
rado to rise, and to inundate their banks. The same is true
of the Gila,whose head-waters lie in the mountains of South
ern New Mexico. These streams are therefore highest in
May and in June, whereas during the months of rain their
volume of water is steadily on the decrease. All these rivers
have a rapid the beginning, and are constantly washing
fall in
down detritus, mostly of volcanic origin, towards their lower

course. In proportion as they approach the ocean they have
formed sandy bottoms, and this soil contributes to narrow
the river bed, even to close it, where the stream is of small
volume. The rivers of the Southwest, therefore, diminish
more or less before reaching their mouths. South of the
Rio Chama, the waters of not a single tributary of the Rio
Grande reach the main artery throughout the whole year: the
confluences of the Rio de Jcmez, of the turbulent Puerco, of
the Pecos, and of the Concho, are dry washes, except for a
few hours in the rainy season, when an extraordinarily heavy

shower causes the torrent to disgorge floods of roaring waters,
carrying huge boulders and masses of rubbish. This peculiar
ity of Southwestern rivers and streams, which causes them to
resemble mountain torrents rather than regular watercourses,
is of great importance to the historical student.
In the dry
season, early Spanish explorers could easily fail to notice
a river which, on maps, astonishes us by the length of its

course, and therefore leads us to expect a corresponding
volume of water, whereas presents at a certain
in reality it
period of the year but the appearance of a dry gulch, or at

best of a thin film lazily sinking through whitish sand. If,
for instance, Alarcon does not mention the mouth of the Gila
when he rowed up the great Colorado in September, 1540, it
should be no matter of surprise, for the Gila at that season
sometimes carries no more water than an ordinary brook,
notwithstanding the length of its course.
Under such circumstances, it follows that even the moist
ure which the Southwest derives from surrounding districts
by the channels of drainage is not abundant. That drainage

itself is limited in area, and hence the habitable portions of
the surface are small in comparison with the total expanse.

The soil is largely fertile, that is, where there is any soil at all ;
it produces as soon as it can be moistened. Vegetation there

fore bears the character that might be expected : it appears
scant along the mountain bases, and often on the lower moun
tains themselves ;
and owing to the more southerly latitude,
coupled with the elevation of the general level, it affords sin
gular associations of vegetable types, and great contrasts in

what lives and blossoms in the same neighborhood.
I have already alluded to the Coniferae as forming the vege
table covering of the higher mountains. These stately plants
are not limited to northern latitudes ; they extend into Sonora
and Chihuahua, where large portions of the Sierra Madre dis

play vast forests of splendid pine timber. Finns Chihua-
huana and strobiformis cover the central elevated basins, the
"heart of the Sierra." On the whole, forests are not abun
dant in the Southwest. What is called Monte in Spanish
"
"
embraces any description of country covered with plants,

perennial, and higher than the low shrub. Mezquite (JProsopis
juliflord), although only three and four feet high, but scattered
thickly over a number of acres, is a Monte" in the midst of

"
an arid plain. Narrow canons studded at intervals with tall

pines, high Mesas on which the low and wide juniper bushes
are scattered for miles like an irregular orchard, are called
"
Monte." Real timber regions are scarce. The cold and

well-watered Tierra Amarilla in Northern New Mexico, the
plateau of the Sierra de Zufii, the surroundings of the Sierra

de San Francisco in Arizona, are among the few typical tim
bered areas. 1 In the main, trees are farther apart than in
better irrigated sections, and the majority of valleys present
a series of groves, instead of a connected forest. 2
The change in vegetation incident upon more southern lati
tude, as well as upon decrease in altitude, is very sudden and

striking in Southern Arizona, on the banks of the Gila River.
There the transition from the pine area, clustering around the
base of the Sierra Blanca, to the thorny and threatening forms
of gigantic Cacti, of Fouquiera splendens, Larrea gigantea, Da-
sylirium, Parkinsonia, and similar brilliantly flowering mon

strosities of the vegetable kingdom, is not only interesting,
it is fascinating to the eye. Another world opens before the
1 A beautiful section of high and picturesque timber-land surrounds also Fort
Apache in Eastern Arizona. There the forest is dense, the trees stately, and
among the varieties represented is the Psendotmga Douglassii. The pines of
Chihuahua reach as far north as Mount Graham, on the southern shores of the
Gila.
2 The valley of the upper Rio Pecos is a good specimen.
traveller; with the unexpected sight of strange plants he

breathes, or seems to breathe, another equally strange air.
In other sections of the Southwest this transition is much

more gradual, certain families of plants, like the Cacti, for
1
instance, being everywhere represented, Opuntise blossom
ing in the shade of Finns Murrayana, as well as on the plain
alongside of Buffalo-grass and of Yucca angnstifolia. The
transformation from smaller into taller forms as we proceed
farther south is not so striking. In Central Arizona the
Palo Verde
"
(Parkinsonia Torreyand) creeps up to near the

"
2
Little Colorado River. In Western Sonora the specifically
Arizonian flora prevails generally in the centre, the "
Pitahaya"
takes the place of the colossal

"
Zahuaro" (Cereus
giganteus},
"
and cylindrical Opuntiae or Choyas increase in number, as

"
well as in size. Thickets are not common in the South vest,

on the whole. They are found in northern sections, in gorges
and ravines like the Canon
Santa Clara, where wild-cherry of
trees, and even elders, willows, and poplars, gather closely
along the banks of a limpid brook. Farther south, however,

the thicket is much more frequent, and what is there called
"
Monte
is but a thicket, often dangerous to penetrate on
"
account of the thorny plants of which it is constituted. Such

thickets cover the drift-hills encasing the Sonora and Upper
Yaqui Rivers they impede approach to the numerous and

;
small aboriginal ruins with which these hills are covered, and
render both difficult and tedious the surveys of rude fortifica
tion lines that sometimes furrow the slopes of more isolated

eminences.
Sonora is a country of striking contrasts. From the road
leading to Bacuachi, the eye embraces at once pine-clad crests,
1 a fine development on the plains,

Opimtia arborescens, for instance, acquires
or rather basins, of Middle New Mexico. It flowers in four different shades.
2
Through Tonto Basin. It is also found in the Mojave Desert.
slopes covered with oak, Palo Blanco, and "
Dunes "
thickly
overgrown with Mezquite and formidable Choyas. In the
narrow cleft through which the Yaqui runs past Huassavas
and Granados, wild-fig trees associate with oak. The latter
1
is also an almost steady
companion of the Fan-palm.
Farther south, on the banks of the Lower Yaqui and of the
Rio Mayo, vegetation assumes more vigorous proportions.
The sugar-cane grows well there, and orange trees thrive luxu
riantly around Hermosillo and near Guaymas on the coast of

the Gulf of California; 2 or rather near it, for the coast itself,
on Sonoran territory at least, is a forbidding stretch, marshy
below Guaymas, fearfully dry and arid between Guaymas
and the mouth of the Colorado River. What are called the
"Play,-
s"
nothing else but a desert of sand and occasional
is
rock, a dreary waste, without water, unfit for permanent

abode. Of similar character is Eastern Chihuahua. It is
a dismal region, almost destitute of water in many places,
terribly hot, and with a dwarfish and thorny vegetation. 3 As
for the Bolson de Mapimi, it is Sahara on a limited scale.
Apparent poverty of the vegetable kingdom, while it seems

to be one of the characteristic traits of nature in the South
west, does not preclude the existence of a great number of
useful plants, useful through their nourishing qualities as

well as through medicinal properties of no small value. Of
nutritive indigenous species there are a great number, and
many of them are, like the medicinal herbs and shrubs, far
Corypha. I found it with oak in many places, on the desolate stretch

1
extending between Babiacora on the Sonora River, and Oposura at the foot of
the Sierra de Bacachi. I also found it similarly associated in the State of
Oaxaca, under the iSth degree of latitude.

2 What Sonora the Date-palm appears already on the banks of
is called in
the Sonora River, at Arispe, in an isolated specimen. I met it again on the
Upper Yaqui at Huassavas.

3 The mountains
skirting the Rio Grande are fearfully arid. Mezquite is the
dominating plant.
too little known as yet. 1 Truly, the Indian feeds on many

a natural resource which we should fail to appreciate, but it
is not our taste which determines the value of a plant in

matters of historical import. The great question of subsist
ence is one which has exercised a powerful influence on the
ethnography of the American continent, for primitive man,
man destitute of iron and of draft animals, was not nature s
master ;
he lived with nature, and so to say by its pleasure
and permission, with him, life was indeed a struggle, and
the degree of culture which he attained the result of neces
sity. Inorganic forces alternately fostered and threatened

his existence, without leaving him any clue to their why and
wherefore ; vegetation appeared more congenial still it lay ;
before him like a vast field for doubtful experiments. The ani
mal kingdom, however, was more tangible its species placed :
their useful and the noxious qualities within easy reach of his
judgment. The Fauna of the Southwest, therefore, is deserv
ing of attention, even of closer notice than the other features

of nature s complete realm.
In the Fauna of the Southwest there appear, prominent
to the general observer, a certain number of species of a
high order like zoogeographic landmarks. It is not always

the large animal which has played the most important part
in man s history ; still, it cannot be denied that the Indian
associated and lived more intimately with larger species than
with inferior ones. I purposely say with for he was placed
in a state of quasi equality towards beasts whose physical

1
To enter into details here would be to undertake an almost endless task.
For Sonora, the Description Geogi-afica de Sonora (1764, MS.) contains a list
which is very important in every respect. I shall have occasion to refer to it
subsequently, as well as to the excellent treatise of Dr. Washington Mathews,
Names of Plants in the Navajo Language. The latter is especially valuable from
a medicinal point of view. The Pueblo Indians know and use, often with great
secrecy, a large number of medicinal plants. Others play a famous part in magic
performances and conjurations. I shall treat of some of these hereafter.
properties resembled closely his own. There is no clear di
vision line susceptible of being drawn in the Fauna, except

in as far as thetopography has marked out the great plains,
with their crushing uniformity, and the mountain regions, with
ever-changing accidentations. great plains only graze The

the Southwest they ; east of the Rio
lie at some distance
Grande, and do not penetrate Mexico. Their Fauna has
played a remarkable part in the past of the Indian, a part
which deserves special investigation further on. As to the
larger animals of the mountain districts, it is not easy to

draw lines of geographical distribution.
Thus the mountain- sheep (Ovis montana) is found to-day
in northern, and even in northeastern Chihuahua. 1 Among
the objects exhumed from saw
the ruins at Casas Grandes, I
and copied a whose upper end was a perfect represen

pestle,
tation of the mountain sheep with its enormous spiral horns.
The panther (Felis concolor), the
coyote (Cams latrans), the^
2
wolf, the deer, the bear species with exception of the grizzly,
are all found in Sonora, as well as on the southern border
of the State of Colorado. Mountain goats were noticed in
Southern Arizona as early as I54O. Now they have almost 3
completely disappeared from the Southwest. Antilocapra

Americana is as common on levels in the 2Qth degree of lati
tude as on the Northern New Mexican plains.
4
Lynx rufus
1
In the mountains west of El Paso del Norte, even, I presume, in the Corral
de Piedras. The Description Geografica de Sonora, cap. iii. art. 5, 1764, says:
"
Carnero cimarron, en opata Tetesso hay muchos en la Pimeria alta, en lo

:
demas de Sonora no tanto. Son mas grandes que los mansos y tienen los
cuernos sin comparacion mas gruesos y largos que los domesticos."
2 What is called Grizzly, "
Oso platiado," orbarroso," in New Mexico,

"
Oso
is a cross-breed only. The real Grizzly seldom enters the Southwest.
3
Castaiieda, Cibola, p. 159 "On : trouve beaucoup de moutons et de cheveres
sauvages ;
ces animaux sont tres-grands, ils ont de longues comes."
4 On
the plain which extends along the eastern foot of the Sierra Madre, and
southwest of Casas Grandes, beyond the abandoned hacienda of San Diego, I
saw large flocks of antelopes.
and L. Canadensis commonly designated as "wild-cats"
are found on nearly all the mountains. But the largest

of American felines, the jaguar (Felis onzd), but very rarely
treads the soil of the United States. I know of well-authen
ticated instances when strayed specimens of this beautiful

and powerful animal were discovered as far north as the 33d
degree of latitude in Arizona.
1
But the home of the jaguar
in the Southwest is Sonora, and some parts of Chihuahua.
Ajnong larger mammals the elk, Cervus Canadensis, has prac
tically been exterminated in this century, whereas formerly

itwas found, abundantly even, in the mountains north and
west of Santa Fe. Of smaller mammals, the badger, the
hares and rabbits, etc., are scattered over the entire region,
and varieties of the prairie marmot inhabit, or infest some
times, the larger level spaces, and especially the plains. 2
all
It is a surprising fact, that, in a country so devoid of water
as New Mexico, almost one fourth of the species of birds

should be aquatic. Ducks, wild-geese, herons, cranes, even
the swan and the gull, make at least sporadically their ap
pearance on the Rio Grande. In the dry and high mountain

regions, the crow and the raven rule supreme. No solitude
is so complete that the wanderer will not meet one or more
of these birds of ill omen. 3 They form almost an integral
1
In the Sierra Blanca. The fact appears to me well authenticated.
Arctomys flaviventer, for instance. The animal is not at all limited to the
2
plains. At Santa Fe, it burrows to-day in fields on the outskirts of town, and
even in town. On the Mesa between Santa Fe and Pena Blanca it is very com
mon, and renders transit for horses often dangerous, by burrowing in the mid
dle of the road. On the Rio Grande near Santo Domingo, prairie-dog holes
are of frequent occurrence. As usual, owls and rattlesnakes associate with the
harmless little rodent, and the great Mygale retire into their subterraneous
dwellings also.
3
Conms Americanus, the crow, is much more common than C. corax, the
raven. The latter is but occasionally met on Mesas, where a solitary bird
of the species may be seen to stand watching the neighborhood in search
of food.
part of the Southwestern landscape. In elevated regions
eagles (in New Mexico Aquila chrysaetns and leucocephalus]

are not unfrequent. Quails, grouse, pheasants, and the beau
tiful wild turkey, represent the Gallinaceae. Songsters haunt
groves as well as thickets the mocking-bird enlivens at night
;
the banks of the Rio Grande as well as the solitudes of the

Gila. In the immense pine forests of the heart of the Sierra
Madre, the tall green parrot is a conspicuous feature. At

sunrise, it flutters from tree-top to tree-top, filling the air with
discordant, but ever-changing cries.
Still, animal life is far from being prominent on the whole.
Nature in the Southwest is rather solemn than lively. Days
may elapse ere the wanderer meets with anything else than a
solitary crow, a coyote, or, if he chance to strike a grove of
Pinon trees, flocks of handsome but ruthlessly pilfering Pici-
corvus colnmbinus, damaging to the
a beautiful bird, though
and disagreeable on
edible fruit of this species of Coniferae,
account of the unharmonious noise with which he accom
panies his work of plunder. On smaller plains droves of ante
lopes are occasionally encountered ;

the other large mammals,
even deer, although plentiful in certain localities, shun even
the distant approach of man. There is a stillness prevailing
which produces a feeling of quiet and solemnity well adapted
to the frame of pine-clad mountains, with their naked clefts
and rents, or huge, picturesque crags, from which one looks

down on mesas and basins, beyond which the eye occasion
ally escapes towards an unbounded horizon, over arid valleys

and barren plains, with the jagged outline of other ranges far
away, where the dark-blue sky seems to rise or to rest.
This scarcity of animal life visible to the traveller prevails

also in lower orders of the Fauna. Snakes, especially the
venomous Caudisona, are but locally abundant. Months and
months may elapse before we meet a single one of the much
"
feared then, again, within a small compass, quite

"
rattlers ;
a number are seen. Heloderma suspectum (the "
Gila Mon
1 2
Mygale Heintzii (the "Tarantula" of popular fame),
ster"),
the scorpion and telyphonus, 3 the disgusting scolopenders

and julus, are noxiously frequent in certain parts, but only
at the periods of annual rains. They become then, in a fear
fully torrid atmosphere, the companions

fit of thorny Choyas,
spectral Cereus, sharp-cutting Yucca, and of the Fouquiera,

with its dangerous spines, emerald-green foliage, and flaming
red blossoms.
Thus there is a certain harmony between all the kingdoms
of Nature in the Southwest. They compose everywhere a
picture, not lovely, but very striking; attractive through its
originality rather than through beauty. It is so striking
that over primitive man it has wielded power in every sense,

and in every direction of his physical, as well as intellectual
life. The Indian was, and still is, much more helpless in
presence of nature than we are. In order not to succumb to
that nature s encroachments, he must yield where we oppose
successful and profitable resistance. The physical qualities
of the Indian, for which we envy him, are the result of com
pulsory pliability, rather than of superior endowment.
The Indian, says Lewis H. Morgan,
"
migrates under the

4
influence of physical causes." This is absolutely true ;
for
1
The Gila Monster is much dreaded, but I never heard of one authenticated
case when his bite had fatal results. I know, on the other hand, that dogs were
bitten by this ugly-looking but very slow animal (slow unless teased, when it
becomes very lively), without the slightest noxious effects.
2
The Mygale is not so common by far as reported by many. In the rainy
season it appears sometimes quite often in certain places, but, on the whole, as
it is not at all
gregarious, and two mygale can hardly approach each other with
out fighting at once, it is very rare to meet any numbers of them. As to the bite,
it is
certainly very dangerous, unless attended to without delay.
3 The so-called Vinagron."
"
4 In that very remarkable and too little known essay entitled Indian Migra
tions. I refer to it because it deserves greater attention than has hitherto been
even when superstition impels him to change his place of

abode, that belief has been created by natural phenomena.
Topography, hydrography, the flora and fauna, they induce
him to stay or to move. Relations towards others of his
race hostilities, for instance have similar effects, but
their origin is mostly a desire to obtain what Nature has
given to one locality and refused to another. The Indian,
untouched by European culture, was nowhere absolutely
sedentary; neither did he become a perfect nomad until he
learned to own and to use the horse, with one single excep
tion ;
and this was the Indian of the great plains. He was a
truenomad, because the plains nowhere afforded him perma
nent subsistence, and he could secure it only by following the
American bison or buffalo. As soon as a tribe came in con
tact with a great quadruped, and began to enjoy the manifold
benefits which it offered as a source of food, of clothing, and

of shelter, that tribe gave up sedentary life, unless the jeal
ousy of others that had preceded drove it back into the
mountains. The difference between sedentary and roving
Indians is therefore not one of kind ;
it is the result of cir
cumstances under which the sympathies and antipathies of

man have only been involuntary agents of Nature. Still, the
topographical division of the Southwest into mountain region
and steppes reflects upon ethnography. There are moun
tain Indians and plain Indians ;
the former are more sedate,
the latter more erratic. Groups of both speak the same lan
guage, and recognize each other as having a common origin.
I allude here especially to the Apaches, and to their cousins
the Navajos.
From whatever side the Indian may have come, the steppes
or plains opposed to his movements a formidable barrier. In
bestowed upon it. Much of what I say here is almost repetition of what Mr.
Morgan wrote many years ago.
the North he might cross them by following streams like the
Missouri, the Platte, the Arkansas, shifting from west to east,

or vice versa, within constant reach of water. Therefore we
notice remains of more permanent habitations vestiges of
household pottery along the Canadian River in the steppes,
far away from those sections where the Pueblos" have dwelt
"
and dwell to-day; 1

but where streams traverse the plains
from north to south, as in Texas, or where there are no water
courses at all, it was impossible for primitive man to cross
the plains in any direction, that is, without the buffalo.

The greatest of all American mammals was never perma
nent in the Southwest. Its home is in the Northwest, and
overcrowding there, it pushed its herds steadily and uninter
ruptedly to the South. Therefore the buffalo people, as we

might term the enormous droves of the American wild steer,
were constantly on the move, and the Indian followed them,
lived from them, in fact, with them. 2 Once accustomed to
1
Ruins are found in the plains both west and east of Wagon Mound. I have
not been able to visit them, and cannot therefore speak of their character.
Those east lie on Canadian River, aud twenty-five miles east from the railroad.
The pottery, of which have seen specimens, appears to be similar to that
I
made by the Pueblos. One specimen had
the bright glossy ornaments, ap
parently covered with a very coarse glaze, peculiar to some of the older Pueblo
pottery.
2
This "living with the buffalo" of the Plains Indians struck the earliest
Spanish explorers. I begin with Coronado, Car/a al Emperador, 2oth Octo
ber, 1541 (Doc.de India*, vol. iii. p. 364): Y a los 17 dias de camino, tope
"
una rancheria de Indies, que andan con estas vacas, que los llaman querechos,
los cuales no siembran, y comen la carne cruda y beben la sangre de las vacas
que matan. Estos adoban los cueros de las vacas, de que en esta tierra viste
toda la gente della tienen pabellones de cueros de vacas adobados y ensebados,
;
muy bien hechos, donde se meten y andan tras las vacas, mudandose con ellas."
Juan Jaramillo, Relacion hecha por el Capitan de la Jornada que habia ;
hecho a la Tierra Nueva en Nueva Espana y al Descubrimiento de Cibola ; yendo

por General Francisco Vasquez Coronado (Doc. de Indias, vol. xiv. p. 310) En :
"
estos principles de las vacas hallamos indios que los llamaban a estos, los de
las casas de azotea, querechos segun se entendio de estos iridios, todo su
;
. . .
menester humane es de las vacas, porque dellas comen, y visten y calzan; son
life in company with the was no longer

buffalo, the Indian
master of his destinies. He traversed the steppes hither and
thither, as the animal led him. Fragments of these wandering
tribes were sometimes cast ashore, so to say, on both banks
of the plains. There they were forced to become more per
manent, in a measure. On the other hand, the Indian from

Western mountains, as well as the Indian from Arkansas and
Missouri, was tempted to try his luck at times in the hunt of
the great quadruped. Thus the steppes became, through the
buffalo, traversable, useful to the aborigines, and almost a
mart where the two sections of the continent, the East and
the West, communicated. In hostile meetings of bands who
spoke distinct tongues, who had not the slightest idea of

each other s existence even, or in attempts at exchange of
captives, they carried over to one section of the continent

notions or objects from the opposite geographical concep ;
tions, however vague and distorted, passed from east to west,

or from west to east, wandering over the plains after the
buffalo. 1 Instead of being a barrier, the plains became a con-
hombres que se mudan aqui y alia, donde mejor les parece." Relation del
Suceso de la Jornada que Francisco Vazquez hizo en el Descnbrimiento de Cibola
(Ibid., p. 327): "En estos llanos e con estas vacas andaban dos maneras de
gente unos se llamaban Querechos e otros Teyas.

;
los No tienen otra . . .
grangeria ni asiento mas de cuidarse con las vacas, de las cuales matan todas
las que quieren, e adoban los cueros, de que se visten e hacen tiendas, e comen
la carne e aun algunas veces cruda, y aun tambien beben la sangre, quando en
sed." Relation Postrera de Sivola :
y de mas de Quatro-cientas Leguas Adelante
(MS., Libro de Oro, Fray Toribio Motolinia) El mantenimiento o sutenta-
"
miento de estos indios es todo de las vacas, porque ni siembran ni cogen

maiz." See also Castaneda, Cibola (pp. 116, 190, etc.).
1
Evidence of this is furnished by the tales of the so-called Turk, the captive
and who determined the expedition
Indian, from a tribe living east of the plains,
of Coronado in search of
Quivira through his statements. It is not unlikely
that the great river of which the Spaniards heard at Pecos, and from this same
Indian, was either the Missouri or the Mississippi. Thus the Pueblos had some
notions of the eastern half of North America. It was of necessity very defect
ive ;
but still it was a notion, and ithad reached them through that occasional
intercourse, hostile or friendly, to which the plains gave rise. Compare Casca-
necting medium between the two divisions of North America,

even in aboriginal times.
Entirely different was the fate of the Indian in the moun
tains. There it was, above all, linked to the distribution of
water. Scarcity of permanent water is one of the dark sides
of many regions in the Southwest wherever water appeared
;
to be inpermanence, therefore, created a tendency to re

it
main and to settle. The approach of others to the same

spot caused dispute, estrangement people of the same
among
stock, secessions, warfare, displacements. Water was the
most powerful agent which propelled the settlement of these
regions at the same time, it was the most immediate cause
;
for strife and disturbances.

An Indian tribe may have wandered for a long while with
out forgetting agricultural arts and their consequences for
living. As soon as necessity or natural advantages impel to

it,they settle again, adapting their customs to whatever
change nature requires. Thus we find the southern Pimas,
in Sonora, living at the time the Spaniards first came in con
tact with them in solid houses made of large adobes, each
village having besides a central place of refuge in the shape
of a house strongly constructed for defence. 1 The northern
neda, CMola, pp. 72 and 77; Jaramillo, Relation Hecha, p. 311; Relation de
Suceso, p. 325, etc.
1
This fact is stated by P. Ribas, Historia de los Trivmphos (p. 360) :
"
Pobla-
dos estauan Nebomes a orillas de arroyos de buenas aguas, y corrientes;
los
sus casas eran mejores, y mas de asieto que las de otras Naciones porque :
eran de paredes de grandes adobes, que hazian de barro, y cubiertas de azoteas,

y terrados. Algunas dellas edificaua mucho mayores, ycon troneras a modo de
fuertes, y proposito para si acometiesen enemigos, recogerse a ellas la gente
del pueblo, y valerse de su flecheria." Relacion de- los Descubrhnientos Conqttistas
y Poblaciones Jiechas por el Gobernador Francisco-, de Ybarra en las Provincias de
Copala, Nuez a Vizcaya y Chiametla (Doc. de Indias, vol. xiv. p. 482) Y que :
"
habia muchas tierras fertiles y comodas para sementeras de trigo y maiz, . . .
en partes doncle buenamente se podian regar con los rios que por cerca dellas
iban; y que ansimismo tenian muchas casas hechas dê
terrados."
Pimas and the Papagos, although their near relatives, occu
pied huts well covered, but still only huts, and their villages
were but hamlets compared with those of their southern
brethren. The Navajos cultivated by irrigation, and lived in
log cabins, while their cousins the Apaches moved to and

1
fro, subsisting on the chase and on murder and rapine. If

the reports of Espejo are correctly interpreted, the Jumanos
in Central Chihuahua were village Indians, 2 whereas those of
New Mexico lived in a condition little better than the tribes

of the plain. On the other hand, the Piros on the Rio
Grande irrigated their lands, while the Piros on the so-called
"
Medano "
those who inhabited the village of Tabira and

itsneighboring settlements, who were strictly Pueblos also
depended upon the annual precipitation for their crops, and
upon tanks for their drinking water. The Tehuas irrigated
on the Rio Grande ;
the Tanos, who spoke the same lan
guage, and had the same beliefs and customs, raised on the
arid plain of Galisteo corn and squashes by means of summer
rains and winter snow alone, without attempting to extend
their dominion by encroaching upon more amply watered
valleys. )<
It is difficult to trace the migration lines of the Indians

on a sweeping scale. In the Southwest there seems to
be, as in the configuration of the country, a general trend

from north to south ;
but transverse movements have been
as common in the vicissitudes of the same tribes as trans-
1
The first notice of the character of the culture of the Navajcs I find in Fr.
Benavides, Memorial (pp. 57, 58) Y estos de Nauajo son muy grandes labra-
:
"
dores, y eso significa Nauajo, sementeras grandes. Tienen su modo de . . .
viuienda debaxo de tierra, y cierto modo de xacales para recoger sus sementeras,
y siempre habitan en aquel puesto."
2
Antonio de Espejo, Relation del Viage (Doc. de Indias, vol. xv. p. 105) :
"
En que vimos
cinco pueblos, con mas de diez mil indios y casas de azotea,
bajas y con buena traza de pueblos."
verse upheavals of the surface, and often barriers of that

nature have changed the fate of a group, compelling it to
even to go back to the place of be
"
retrace its steps,
ginning."
The topography of the country has thus, to a great degree,
determined the sites of establishments. The Indian looks to

a few leading features to decide his settlement, apart from
the indications given by superstition. He wants, first of all,
water. Then he requires a limited extent of fertile soil. If
that soil cannot be irrigated, he relies upon rain and snow,
always grow where it rains moderately. Further

for corn will
more, he seeks a location where he may feel reasonably safe

from an enemy. In judging of defensible locations, we cannot
apply to them the principles of modern warfare. treeless A
level is often as good a protection. to an Indian village, con
structed of heavy adobes, against a foe armed with bows and
arrows, as an extensive uncommandable slope is against the

artillery of to-day. Retreats, concealed nooks, were as valua
ble to the Indian as high-perched rocks. Communities could
afford to retire into caves, on rocky recesses, where access to
water was difficult in the day-time, without thereby exposing

themselves to more than usual danger, for it is only of
late that the Indian learned to attack at night. Lastly, the
abundance of game, or its absence, and the prevalence of
certain nutritive or medicinal plants, influenced the choice of
location.
The abandonment of villages has been due to various
causes. Thus the Tehuas, of Santa Clara, assert that their
ancestors dwelt in the clusters of artificial grottos exca
vated in cliffs of pumice-stone west of the Rio Grande. The
cave villages of the Pu-ye and Shu-fin-ne are claimed by
the Tehuas as those of their own people. A few years of
drought compelled them to abandon these elevated and

sparsely watered places, and to descend upon the river banks,

where they had to resort to irrigation for raising their
crops, whereas at the caves they grew corn and squashes
by means of the rains alone. The Queres of Cochiti posi

tively state that similar artificial caves, which line the walls
of the Rito de los Frijoles, or Tyuo-nyi, were formerly the
habitations of their tribe, and that constant hostilities of the
Tehuas and Navajos, as well as the gradual disintegration of
the very friable rock, compelled their abandonment. The
latter is very plainly visible. In proportion as the material
is
easy to work, it deteriorates easily, and crumbles. The
majority of such caves have fallen in on the front, and against
such accidents there was no remedy.
On the high
"
Potreros," fronting upon the Rio Grande,

stand the ruins of a number of villages. These were succes
sively occupied by the same tribe, and therefore successively
abandoned owing
also, to
"
physical causes." Drought espe

cially has been a leading agent a single year, without ade ;
quate rain, compelled the tribe to remove to a better watered

locality.Comparative permanence of abode was possible in
the Southwest only where irrigation could be resorted to, and
even there the irregularity of water supply is such that the
Rio Grande, for instance, has been known to disappear in
the middle of its course, as at La Joya and Mesilla in New
Mexico. There is no positive evidence that the climate of
the Southwest has suffered any important changes since man

has inhabited the country every seeming anomaly in the
;
location of ancient dwellings explains itself, after a close
scrutiny, by phenomena which are of actual occurrence to
day. The existence of the long "mysterious"

ruins on the
Medano, south of the salt lagunes of the Manzano, the so-

called Gran Quivira, the Pueblo Blanco, and others, in locali
ties where there is no water far and near, where irrigation
3
was impossible, but the soil fertile and game abundant, is
fully explained by the fact that the main Indian staples

corn and calabashes grow with summer rain alone, while
the discovery of water tanks near to every ruin proves that
the inhabitants had artificially provided for the supply essen
tial to life. The same is true in regard to the ruins scattered
over arid plains of Southwestern Arizona; everywhere the ar
tificial reservoir accompanies traces of former settlements.
But while deficiency in the water supply has occasionally
determined changes of abode on the part of primitive man,
excess of it has quite as often had the same consequences.
In the mountainous parts of Sonora, the villages of the Opatas
were constructed on dunes skirting the river banks. Torren
tial rains flood these regions in summer they not only cause
;
sudden freshets, but wash even the bluffs sometimes to a de

gree which rendered the small dwellings of the Indian very
insecure, and occasioned displacements of whole villages. In
New Mexico, and during historical times, the instances of
pueblos being destroyed by a sudden rise of mountain torrents
are not infrequent. Santo Domingo, for instance, has been
washed away four times within the last two hundred years, 1
and every time it has been rebuilt on a new site. With the
exception of there is not a single pueblo standing
Acoma,
where it wastime of Coronado, or even sixty years
at the
later, when Juan de Onate accomplished the peaceable reduc

tion of the New Mexican village Indians. Such mutations
have also been caused by hostilities, or merely by fear of
them. The great insurrection of 1680 wrought an important
change in the numbers and distribution of Indian villages.
1
The
original pueblo, called Gui-pu-y, stood on the banks of the Arroyo de
Galisteo, more than a mile east of the station of Wallace. It was
partly de
stroyed by a rise of this dangerous torrent in one night. The next one has com
pletely disappeared, the Rio Grande having washed it
away. It was called
Uash-pa Tze-na. The present village has suffered three disasters

Although the Southwest is, on the whole, not subject to epi

demic diseases, the coast of Sonora excepted, it is not
unlikely that many ancient settlements owe their decay and

abandonment to sickness among its inhabitants. Mountain
fever induced the remnants of the Pecos to forsake their homes
and retire to Jemez. The villages on the lower Rio Mimbres
became deserted, in all likelihood, owing to the malarial !
qualities of the region. The Indian is much more helpless

in such cases than we are; and when the "hand of nature"
begins to weigh heavily upon any tribe, superstition comes

in and hastens the destruction through practices which, while
intended for relief, are actually more dangerous than the

1
evil itself.
The natural resources of the Southwest have been suffi

cient to induce man to settle, and to remain settled, in a
great number of localities, for a certain length of time at

least ;
but the influence of contact of different tribes has done
a great deal also towards tying them to the soil, or loosening
ties already extant. This contact has nowhere been con
stant overcrowding has not occurred, although crowding in
;
the shape of persistent harassing, as the wolf harasses and
finally wears out a steer or a drove of cattle, has been the

constant tactics of the roving Indian against the land-tilling
natives.
Contact has been occasional only, whether it was friendly
or hostile. Natural resources and wants have caused and
upheld this. The existence of products which one possessed
and the other coveted has alternately caused war and com-
1
Any disaster of magnitude, like drought, epidemic diseases, or a flood, is
quickly attributed by the Pueblos to witchcraft. In consequence of this, suspi
cion sets in, and many crimes are committed which are kept secret, but con
tributeslowly and surely to depopulate the village. Certain pueblos, like
Nambe, Santa Clara, and Cia, owe their decline to the constant inter-killing
going on for supposed evil practices of witchcraft.
merce. It may be said that no two tribes were ever so hostile

as never to trade, or so intimately connected in friendship as
never to fight each other. The possession of turquoise in the
small range of mountains called Cerrillos gave the Tanos
Indians of Galisteo Basin a prominent position among their
neighbors. The Zimis enjoyed similar privileges, which

caused their modest relations of commerce to extend as
far as the interior of Sonora and the Colorado of the West. 1
The proximity of the buffalo gave the Pecos Indians a valu
able staple of commerce. Buffalo robes wandered as far as
2
Zuni, and from there into Arizona. These robes also were,
for the Pecos Indians, an acquisition largely by trade they ;
obtained them quite as often from the Apaches, who came

down to the village in winter in order to get corn, 3 as by
actual hunt on the plains. The salt marshes in front of
the Manzano range gave the Tiguas, as well as the Piros
of Abo and an influential position, through their
of Tabira,
control over the supply of salt. Possession of such natural

treasures formed ties of friendship, or broke them, as cir
cumstances might determine. They also extended the geo
graphical knowledge of the native, by attracting to his home
people from other regions. This geographical knowledge,
very faint and still more confused, has played an important
part in the creeds and beliefs of the aborigines. What the
Indian fails to understand he assigns at once to the domain
of the supernatural ;
distant lands, of which he hears fabu-
1
This is stated by various authors of the sixteenth century, like Fray Marcos
of Nizza, Descubrimiento de las Siete Ciudades (Doc. de Indias, vol. iii. pp. 333-342).
About the veracity of Fray Marcos there cannot longer be any doubt. I hope to
have established this point fully in two essays on the subject. Compare also, in
regard to the Indians of the Colorado River, Hernando Alarcon, Relation de la
Navigation et de la Decouverte faite par le Capitaine Fernando Alarcon (in Cibola,
Appendix, p. 324, ct seq.}.
2 Ibid.
3
Castaneda, Cibola, p. 179.
lous descriptions, become the scene of folk-lore; events which

are striking, and yet inexplicable to him, pass over into the
realm of mythology.
The which plants have played in Southwestern eth
role
nography has been varied, and yet not as evident on the sur
face as might be expected from its intrinsic importance. The
same staples in the shape of domestic vegetables prevailed in
the main over the Southwest. Corn, beans, calabashes, were
cultivated almost everywhere, and only local and temporary
scarcity could cause a pressure upon the native. But there
were other plants also cultivated which could not grow every
where, and thus became an element of trade. Such was
cotton. Cotton demands irrigation, and a warm season of
considerable duration. North of Cochiti it was not raised on

the Rio Grande. Neither did it occur at the Zuni villages.
Commercial intercourse furnished it to such tribes as had it
not, and with that intercourse came all the favorable and un
favorable results of contact. Tobacco was not known to the
Pueblos until Spanish rule became established but it was in ;
constant use among the tribes of Southern Sonora, the
Yaquis, Mayos, and probably the Southern Pimas. Through

cotton the art of weaving became an accomplishment among
certain groups, whereas others, equally advanced in other re
spects, resorted to plaiting and tressing, using the yucca,

turkey feathers, and rabbit skins for their vestments.
1
I have
Zunis, for instance, raised no cotton. The Moquis, and the Rio Grande
1 The
Pueblos, however, cultivated the plant. This is so positively stated by the ma

jority of writers contemporary with the expedition of Coronado, that it is almost
superfluous to quote from them. Still I must notice a few, as they refer more
particularly to the mode of dress of the Pueblo Indians. Castaneda describes the
costume of Zuni as follows (Cibola, p. 163) : Les Indiens de ce pays sont tres-
"
intelligents;
se couvrent les parties naturelles et tout le milieu du corps avec
ils
des pieces d etoffes qui ressemblent a des serviettes elles sont garnies de houpes
;
et d une broderie aux coins ils les attachent autour des

;
reins. Ces naturels ont
aussi des especes de pelisses en plumes ou en peaux de lievres, et des etoffes de
already spoken of the part played by the buffalo in general ;
he has been a powerful agency in the formation of South

western ethnography. It is not unlikely even that he has
largely contributed to facilitate the peopling of the whole

North American continent, at least to direct the movements
of the Indian. In regard to this quadruped, and to whatever
he could afford to man, the roving Indian had the advan
tage over the villagers. He almost controlled the market.

He might, if not exclude, at least very much hamper their
endeavors to obtain hides and meat. The roving Indian
was not much below the Pueblo in arts of life. He had
even made one step beyond what the sedentary aborigine
ever achieved without the ai$ of the European, in Peru ex-
cepted, the Apache of the plains had a beast of burden !
With the Pueblos the only domestic animal was the turkey. 1
The Apaches-Vaqueros had the Arctic dog to carry his tents,
his wardrobe, his entire household goods. 2 This animal gave
coton." The Relation del Sticeso (p. 320): "... a causa que no tienen ningun
algodon e se visten de mantas de Wenegrien e de cueros de venados, e algunos
;
de vaca." Jaramillo, Relacion (p. 308) Tienen mantas de algodon cuadradas ;

:
"
unas mayores que otras, como de vara y media de largo." Relacion Postrera
(MS.) Desta gente algunos traen mantas de algodon y de maguey y cueros
:
"
de venados adobados, tambien hacen mantas de pellejos de liebres y de

. . .
conejos, con que se cubren andan las mujeres vestidas de mantas de maguey
:
hasta los pies." Fr. Geronimo de Zarate-Salmeron, Relaciones de Todas las

Cosas (1626, MS., art. 44): Vistense de mantas de Yztli texidas de cardon-
"
cillo, no tienen estos Yndios algodon." The mantles of maguey were made
of yucca leaves. Such textures are still found occasionally in cave houses and
cliff dwellings. The mantles of rabbit hair are still worn at Moqui to-day.
As to the mantles made of turkey plumes, they are out of use altogether at
present.
1
They kept the turkey for his plumage, rather than for meat or eggs.
Relacion del Sticeso (p. 320) La comida que tienen es mucho maiz, e frisoles, e
:
"
melones, e algunas gallinas de las de Mexico; y estas las tienen mas para la
pluma que para comer, porque hacen della pellones."
dog is mentioned by all the authors who were eyewitnesses
2 This domestic
of Coronado s march. Subsequent authors, like Benavides and Villasenor y

Sanchez, mention it also. Not one of them, however, gives a detailed descrip
tion. Still, it must^have been the same dog which more northern Indians still
roving man asway on the plains which the villager could not
dispute. The main staple of the plains, therefore, the hides
and meat of Bison Americanus, became of necessity an object
of commercial intercourse, even between the most hostile
groups of sedentary Indians and nomads.

On account of the demand for animal products, commerce
extended in the Southwest over much greater expanses than
might be supposed. Iridescent shells, common on the coast
of theGulf of California, wandered as far as the plains, chan
ging hands through barter, gift, or violence. The inhabitants
of the Colorado river shores, the Seris of Sonora, exchanged
these bivalves for the turquoises of Zuni, or the tanned hides
and rabbit mantles of Moqui. ,The same took place with par
rot feathers. The large green parrot is very common in the
Sierra Madre, and Cabeza de Vaca tells us that the Jovas,
who dwelt on the mountainous confines of Sonora and Chi
1
huahua, exchanged plumes for green stones farther north.
its
At Casas Grandes I saw

turquoises, shell beads, and marine
snails of various kinds, which had been exhumed from the
ruins, and among the latter were species found only in the
West Indies, or in the Gulf of California, 2 whereas Casas

Grandes lies midway between the shores of both oceans, in
the very heart of Northern Mexico. All these objects were
not necessaries of life in the strictest sense, they were luxu-
use as a beast of burden. In this case, it certainly is a variety of the Arctic. The
Relation Fostrera says of the dogs of the Querechos Esta gente tiene perros
:
"
como los de esta tierra, salvo que son algo mayores." Mota-Padilla, Historia
de Nueva Galicia (1742, p. 165) Unos perillos no corpulentos."
:
"
1
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Naicfragios, y Relation de la Jornada que
hizo d la Florida (in Veclia, Historiadores primitives de fndias, i.
cap. xxxi. vol.
p. 543) :
"
Y
dijeron que las traian de unas sierras muy altas que estan hacia
el Norte, y las compraban a trueco de penachos
y plunias de papagayos." The
Indians of whom Cabeza de Vaca received this information were Jovas.
2 There were, among others, Turritella Broderipiani, from the Pacific ;
Conus proteus, from the West Indies ;
and Coitus regularis, from the west coast
of Mexico.
40 INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST.
ries, and constitute to-day what the Southwestern Indian

regards as his specific
"
the possession of
treasure." Still,
them was regarded as essential, because they formed an ac

cessory to their religjous rites, or to the magic processes with
which their religion is so intimately linked.
Theinfluence of natural scenes, of atmospheric phenomena,
of the qualities, useful and baneful, of natural objects, on the
religious beliefs and practices of the Indians of the Southwest

is such, that one
may feel
tempted to think that that religion
itselfsprung up in the midst of a nature reflecting itself so
strongly in the mental conceptions of man.

The scenes of man appearance upon this earth are
s first
laid among the Pueblos and Navajos, in that Southwest which
they inhabit to-day. What occurred previously is said to have

been enacted below, and not on the surface of the earth, in
distant countries. Still, this may be a myth

"
of observation,"
arising from the sight of growth in plants, and from the forms
of mountains. But the peculiarly vivid tints of the skies have
given rise to the characterizing of cardinal points by colors,

and these colors are again given in the most ancient myths
to specificmountains, easily recognizable at this day. The
regions beneath the surface of the earth mentioned in myths
of the Pueblos and Navajos are naturally unrecognizable.
These myths show, at least, that, if those Indians removed to
their present homes from distant lands, it was so long ago
that recollection has become exceedingly dim and ill-defined.
The same may be said of their mythological .animals. The
earliest ofthese are shapes purely monstrous in part, but
those which have become chief characters in the practices
of to-day are well-known types of the present fauna. The
creeds and beliefs of Southwestern tribes may have at one
time possessed more elevated ideas to-day these redeeming ;
Matures are wellnigh obliterated, and it is the influence of a

nature which man was unable to master that has done it. In
order to save himself from that nature in which he was com
pelled to live, the Indian strains all his faculties to soothe it
by worship. If the Indian has ever had a clear conception of

monotheism, it is long forgotten, and the most slavish crin
ging before natural phenomena, the cause of which is incon

ceivable to him, has taken its place. 1 Idolatry is not even an
2
adequate term for it ;
it is a Fetichism of the grossest kind,
and so complicated, so systematized, that an appeal to one

particular natural object, to one specific deified feature or
phenomenon, can be resorted to, and is resorted
every to, in
circumstance of human Indian religion bows to the

life.
seasons for its rites, it borrows from them and from atmos
pheric phenomena its symbols. It places animals on a foot
ing of equality with mankind, often even they are recog

nized as his superiors, and placed before him as models of
conduct. Indian religion assumes utter helplessness on the
Mathews says of the Navajos, Some Deities and Demons of the Nava-
1
Dr.
jos :
"
It is a difficult task to determine which of their gods is the most potent.
Religion with them, as with many other peoples, reflects their own social condi
tions. Their government a strict democracy.
is Chiefs are at best but elders,
men of temporary and ill-defined influence, whom the youngest men in the tribe
can contradict and defy. There is no highest chief in the tribe. Hence their
gods, as their men, stand much on a level of equality." What the Pueblo Indian
mentions as a supreme God is the Christian God, but this supreme power is
strictly apart from the real Pueblo creed. I have noticed this often, and very
plainly, in my conversations with them, as well as in the rites which I witnessed.
2 F. H. Gushing, Znni Fetiches (1883, from the Second Annual Report of the
Bureau of Ethnology), says: "The A-shi-wi, or Zunis, suppose the sun, moon,
and stars, the sky, earth, and phenomena and elements, and all
sea, in all their
inanimate objects, as well as plants, animals, and men, to belong to one great
system of all-conscious and inter-related life, in which the degrees of relationship
seem to be determined largely, if not wholly, by the degrees of resemblance. In
this system of life the starting point is man, the most finished, yet the lowest
organism at least the lowest, because most dependent, and most helpless. In
;
just as far as an organism, actual or imaginary, resembles his, it is believed to be

related to him, and correspondingly mortal in just as far as it ;
is mysterious is
it considered removed from him, further advanced, powerful, and immortal."
OF THK
UNIVERSITY
part of man within the natural realm ;

it excuses crimes on
that account, and denies retribution beyond the grave. It
teaches no fatalism, because for every evil there is a remedy

within nature itself, which has a supernatural effect as soon
as properly employed. There is something like a poetic
hue cast over some elements of their religion, but this
poesy is not derived from the creed, it is rather a last echo
from a time when man knew better, and felt differently, -
a complaint that such times are gone There ! is no greater
slave than the Indian. Every motion of his is guided by
superstition, every action of his neighbor suspiciously scru
tinized. We wonder at many strange actions of the Indian,
at what seems to us a lack of consistency, of truthfulness,
an absence of moral consciousness. We punish him for
crimes which he commits without any regret whatever

about the consequences of his misdeed. In this we fail to
understand the motives of the Indian. He is not his own
master. Nature, deified by him to the extent of innumerable
personalities and principles, exacts from him the conduct that
we blame. His religion, notwithstanding the promise of
coarse felicity which holds out beyond the grave, reduces
it
him to utter helplessness so long as he has not crossed the

threshold of death, makes of him a timid, fettered being,
anxiously listening to the voices of nature for advice. These
voices the silent throbs of conscience; they are no guide
stifle
to the heart, no support for the mind.

This is not the place to enter into details concerning the
creeds of the Indian of the Southwest. What little I shall
have to say about them will find its place farther on. Neither
can I attempt here a discussion of the great importance that
nature has had in shaping his household arts and architecture.
Having described the nature of the country in general, and

its relation to man before the coming of European colonists,
I proceed to consider that man as he presents himself now,

as well as he presented himself when first encountered ;
to
explain the changes in his condition ; and, lastly, to examine

his vestiges from a time of which we have few if
any positive
records.
IT.
ETHNOGRAPHIC CONDITION OF THE SOUTH

WEST IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
IT may be asserted, and without danger of exaggeration,

that before the year 1600 the Spaniards had visited all the
principal regions of the Southwest comprised between the
Indian Territory on the east and the western Rio Colorado,
and had gone as far north as the southern limits of the
State of Colorado. They had even penetrated farther, for
the tribe of Quivira, which Coronado visited in 1541, were

1
living at that time in eastern Kansas. But his adventurous
expedition was a mere reconnoissance, and while it has left
us excellent descriptions of the great plains, of their fauna, and
of the general features of the existence of man in the American
steppes, little was ascertained concerning the
that was definite
tribes which the Spaniards met, and with which they had a
short period of peaceable intercourse. 2 In order to present a
picture of primitive southwestern ethnography it is

necessary
1
I all the proofs on hand of this fact.
cannot give here A careful examina
tion of the various documents of Coronado s time, as well as of those which,
while having been written by companions of Coronado, were composed from
memory years afterwards, proves the location to be as I have stated it. One
of the most important witnesses on that point is the Captain Juan Jaramillo,
Relation hecha . . . de la Jornada qne habia Jiecha en la Tierra Nueva en
Nueva Rspana y al Descubrimiento de Cibola ; yendo por General Francisco Vaz
quez de Coronado (Documentos de Indias, vol. xiv. p. 312). I also refer to the
MS. Relation Postrera de Siuola y de mas de Quatro-Cientas Legnas adelante,

in Fray Motolinia s Libra de Oro 6 Thesoro fndico.
2 That Coronado never experienced any with the
difficulty in his intercourse
Indians of the plains is a fact well ascertained.
to extend the scope of study to sources more recent than the

sixteenth century, and to embrace in it so far as possible
everything on record concerning the earliest meetings be

tween the white and the so-called man. It is not likely "red"
that a century could have wrought important changes in the

condition of tribes which were not in contact with Euro
peans, and, of such changes as there were, some even are
traceable through Spanish sources themselves. The peremp
tory orders of the Crown to all explorers about preserving
accurate records of what they experienced, saw, and heard, 1
Compare Codice de Lcyes y Ordaianzas nueiianiente hechas par su Magestad

1
para la Gonernacion de las Yndias y buen Tratamiento y Consernacion de los

Yndios, etc. (Docum. de Indias, vol. xvi. p. 458, art. 119), A. D. 1571. Also,
and in the same volume, Ordenanzas de su Magestad hec/uis para los uuevos
Descubrimientos, Conquistas y Pacificaciones (p. 149) Los descobridores por :
"
mar 6 por tierra hagan comentario e memoria por dias, de todo que vieren y lo
hallaren y les aconteciere en las tierras que descobrieren lo vayan ;
todo
asentando en un libro, y despues de asentado se lea en publico cada dia, delante
de los que fueren al dicho descobrimiento, porque se averigue mas lo que pasare
y pueda constar de la verdad de todo ello, firmandolo de algunos de los princi-
pales, el cual libro se guardara a mucho recabdo para que cuando vuelvan le
traigan y presenten ante la Audiencia con cuya licencia hobieren ido." Still
more definite is one of the preceding paragraphs (p. 107) "... por medio de :
las dichas lenguas 6 como mejor podieren, hablen con los de la tierra y tengan
platicas y conversacion con ellos, procurando entender las costumbres calidades
y manera de vivir de la gente de la tierra y comarcanos, informandose de la
sacrificios y manera de culto,
religion que tienen, ydolos que adoran, con que
si
hay entre ellos alguna dotrina 6 genero de letras, como se rigen y gobiernan,
de sangre, 6 si se gobiernan
si tienen
reyes y si estos son por eleccion 6 derecho
como republica 6 por linages que rentas y tributes
;
dan y pagan, y de que
manera y a que personas, y que cosas son los que ellos mas precian que son las
que hay en la tierra, y cuales traen de otras partes quellos tengan en estimacion ;
si en la tierra
hay metales y de que calidad si hay especena, alguna
;
manera de
drogas y cosas aromaticas, para lo qual lleven algunos generos de especias asi
como pimienta, clavos, gengibre, nuez moscada y otras cosas por muestras para
amostrarselo y preguntarles por ello y asf mismo sepan si hay algun genero de
;
piedras, cosas preciosas de las que en Nuestros Reynos se estan y se informen ;
de la calidad de los animales domesticos y salvajes, de la caJidad de las plantas

y arboles cultivados e incultos que hobiere en la tierra, y de los aprovechamien-
tos que dellas se etc.
tiene," Although this royal decree is dated 1573, similar
instructions were imparted to discoverers by the viceroys at a much earlier
had to be obeyed. Out of this resulted an accumulation of

ethnographic, historic, and geographic material, the critical
sifting of which in the spirit and from the standpoint of the
times in which it was collected gives a tolerably accurate

idea of how man was in the Southwest when he first saw man
coming from a world which, in nature as well as in ideas, was
as new to him as America seemed to the European.
The Indian tribes of Sonora and of Chihuahua were known,
and were to a limited extent described, by the Spaniards,
in the first half of the sixteenth century. But an accurate
description of them was secured only one hundred years
later, when Jesuit missionaries established themselves among
them. It is therefore essential to blend the reports of Fray
Marcos of Nizza 1
with those of P. Andres Perez -de Ribas, 2
of Castaneda 3
with those of anonymous writers of the Com "
pany of Jesus." The same is the case in regard to the inhab

itants of Chihuahua: Juan de Miranda 4 must be consulted, as
5 6
well as Fray Francisco de Arlegui, and Espejo placed
date. Witness the Instruction de Don Antonio de Mendoza, Visorey de Nueva
Espana, to Fray Marcos de Nizza, from 1538 (Docnmentos de Indias, vol. iii. pp.
325-328). When Coronado went to New Mexico he took along a special chron
icler, Pedro de Sotomayor. Castaneda, Relation du Voyage de Cibola (p. 65) :
"
Garci-lopez avait emmene avec lui un certain Pedro de Sotomayor, qui etait
chroniqueur de 1 expedition."
1
Descubrimiento de las Siete Ciudades. (Doc. de Indicts, vol. iii.)
2 Historia de los Trivmphos de nvestra Santa Fee entre Gentes las mas Barbaras
y Fieras del Nueuo Orbe : conseguidos por los Soldados de la Milicia de la Com-
panfa de lesvs en las Misiones de la Prouincia de Nueua Espana. Madrid, 1645.
8
Relation du Voyage de Cibola.
4 Relacion
hecha por Joan de Miranda, Clerigo, al Doctor Orozco, Presidente
de la Andiencia de Guaaalajara ; sobre la Tierra y Poblacion que hay desde las
Minas de San Martin d las de Santa Barbara, que esto ultimo entonces estaba pob-
lado. 1575. (Doc. de Indias, vol. xvi. p. 563.)
6
Chronica de la Provincia de N. S. P. S. Francisco de Zacat/cas. 1737.
6 Relacion del Viaje. The same volume contains
1583. (Doc. de Indias, xv.)
two copies of this report. There are important discrepancies between Espejo s
original report and the corrupted and distorted version given by Hakluyt. The
latter is completely unreliable, and does not deserve to be consulted at all.
alongside of the Litteri Annul. It is impossible, and were it
possible it would scarcely be judicious, to go here into great

details concerning any of these tribes. Much of what is re
corded in early writers is

exposedstill to misinterpretation
on our part, for none of the Sonora Indians have been sub
jected to systematic ethnologic investigation according to
the methods initiated by Mr. dishing, and so long as this
is not done we are quite as liable to reject truths as to
accept errors.
A
powerful group, divided into two dialects, of almost
sedentary Indians, barred access, so to say, to Sonora from
the south. These were the natives who spoke, and speak
1
to-day, the Cahita language, the Mayos, and their northern
relatives, the Yaquis. In the first half of the seventeenth
century these two tribes together represented a population

2
of not exceeding sixty thousand souls. I would here remark,
that the average proportion of adult males to the total num

ber of people, among village Indians, does not exceed I to 3f.
Among roving tribes it is still lower. As most of the esti

mates of population in former times are derived from those
of the "men at arms," this basis of calculation should be
stated beforehand. 3
1
So it is called by modern linguists, and I follow their lead, not having been
among the Yaquis myself.
2
Ribas, Historia de los Trivmphos, etc.
(lib. iv. cap. i. pp. 236, 237): "La
palabra, Mayo, en su legua significa, Termino por vetura, por estar este rio :
entre otros dos de gentes encontradas, y q traian guerras cotinuas con los
Mayos, y no les dauan lugar a salir de sus terminos. . . . Pero auq el Rio
no es caudaloso, era de lo mas poblaclo de gete de todos los de Cinaloa de :
suerte, que se podrian jutar en sus poblaciones ocho, 6 diez mil Indies de pelea,
y eran como treinta mil personas las q lo poblauan." In regard to the Yaquis
he states (p. 284) Quando los Hiaquis en su Gentilidad poblaua este rio,
:
"
era en forma de rancherfas terididas por sus riberas, y junto a sus sementeras, y
el numero destas rancherfas seria de ochenta, en que auia treinta mil almas."
3 A close examination of a great many old and modern estimates, lists, and
censuses has satisfied me that the average ratios are as stated. It would be
tedious to furnish the proof in detail.
The Mayos were independent of the Yaquis, and the

relations between the two groups were far from being always
friendly. There even existed on the part of the latter a ten
dency to crowd and overwhelm the former, in that gradual
but persistent manner which is characteristic of Indian war
fare. 1 Still, there was no difference in degree of culture.
Settled each along the banks of a considerable river, which
bore the name of its respective tribe, they planted Indian
corn, cotton, calabashes, beans, and tobacco, improved the
Mezcal varieties of the American agave, hunted, fished, and
fought their neighbors, as well as among themselves. 2 Owing
1
Ribas, Historia, etc., lib. iv. p. 236.
2
Ribas, (Historia, p. 237,) speaking of the Mayos Su legua es la misma :
que corre en los rios de Cuaque, y Hiaqui el natural de la gete no ta feroz

:
como el de las otras Naciones dntes mas tratable, y blado son todos labra-
;
:
dores, excepto los de qual, o qual, racherfa, q eran motarazes. En lo demas de

sus costiibres, susteto, casas, viuieda, armas, vsos de borracheras, y bailes,
multiplicidad de mugeres, 6 cocubinas, era los Mayos semejates a las demas
Naciones de q auemos escrito. A la pesca se dauan muchos, particularmete los
q tenia habitacio mas cercana a la mar, el qual, y su rio, es muy abudate de
pescado sus poblaciones estaua en forma de rachenas a las riberas del
: rio."
In a general way, this author, who saw the Indians of Sonora when they were
yet untouched by the influence of European culture, says of them (lib. i. cap. ii.
pp. 5. 6) :Las poblaciones destas naciones son ordinariamente a las orillas
"
y riberas de los rios porque si se apartaran dellos, ni tuuieran agua que beuer,
;
ni aun tierras en que sembrar. Las habitaciones, en su Gentilidad, era de

aldeas, 6 rancherias no muy distantes vnas de otras aunque en partes a dos y
tres leguas, conforme hallauan la comodidad de puestos y tierras para semente-
ras, que ordinariamente las procurauan tener cerca de sus casas. Estas hazian,
vnas de varas de monte hincadas en tierra, entretexidas, y atadas con vejucos,
que son vnas ramas, como de carfaparrilla, muy fuertes, y que duran mucho
tiempo. Las paredes que hazian con essa barazon las aforrauan con vna torta
de barro, para que no las penetrasse el so], ni los vientos, cubriendo la casa con
madera, y encima tierra, 6 barro, con que hazian a9Otea, y con esso se conten-
tauan. Otros hazian sus casas de petatcs, qe es un genero de esteras texidas de
cana raxada, y estas cosidas vnas con otras, siruen de pared y cubierta, que es
tumbada sobre arcos de varas hincadas en tierra, y sobre el la corre el agua sin
peligro de gotear, y quedan al modo de los carros cubiertos de Espana. Delante
de sus casas levantan vnas ramadas que les siruen de portal, sobre que guardan
los frutos de sus sementeras, y debaxo del es su viuienda entre dia, y les sirue
de sombra. Alii duermen de noche en tiempo de calores, teniendo por colchon
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST 49
to the almost tropical climate, their dwellings appeared frail,

canes and boughs forming the framework, palm-leaves the
y cama vnaestera de cafia de las dichas. Cerradura,ni llaue, no la vsauan, ni

la conocian, y lo que mas es, sin temor de hurtos contentandose quando algunas ;
vezes hazian ausencia de su casa, con poner a la puerta algunos ramos de arbol
sin otro guarda. Y esta tenian tambien para los frutos de la sementera, quando
losdexauan en el campo. . Las semillas que estas gentes sembrauan, y frutos
. .
de la tierra que benefician y cogen, y de que se sustentan, son en primer lugar el

maiz que en Espana llaman, trigo de las Indias, que se da con tanta multitud, q
suele rendir vnafanega sembrada ciento y mas de fruto. Demas de esse siem-
bran entre el maiz varios generos de calaba9as, sabrosas y dulces, y de algunas
dellas hazen tassajos que secos al sol les duran mucho tiempo del ano. El
frixol, que es semilla semejante a la haba de Castilla, y aun mas suaue, vsan
todos sembrarlo, con otros generos de semillas," etc. Among the nutritive
plants he mentions also Mezquite beans, Mezcal, Tunas, and others. Cotton is
mentioned by him on page 12 Y para sembrar essas semillas, y limpiar la tierra,
:
"
no tenian otros instrumentos que los de vnas cuchillas anchas, y largas, de palo,
con que mullian la tierra en que tambien ayudaban a los varones las mugeres.
;
Estas vsauan el arte de hilar, y lexer algodon, 6 otras yeruas siluestres, como el
cafiamo de Castilla, o pita; y desta hazian algunas mantas, no en telares,
que
aun esse arte no alcan9aron sino con tra9a trabajosa, hincando vnas estacas en
;
el suelo, de donde tirauan la tela." Of tobacco he says (p. 9) Y en estas :

"
tales fiestas eran tambien muy celebres los brindis del Tabaco, muy vsado de
todas estas gentes barbaras." He places considerable stress on the fact, that
all these Indians of Sonora and of Sinaloa were addicted to intemperance (p. 8) :
"El
que mas generalmente cundia en estas getes, y de tal suerte q apenas
vicio
se hallaua vna en la qual no predominasse, era el de la embriaguez, en q gastaua
noches y dias porq no la vsauan cada vno solos, y en sus casas, sino en cele
;
bres, y continues cobites que hazian para ellos :

y qualquiera del pueblo q hazia
vino, era llenando grandes ollas, y combidando a la boda a los de su ranchena,
o pueblo, y a vezes tambien a Ins comarcanos, y vezinos y como era tanto la :
gente, no faltaua combite para cada dia y noche de la semana; y assi siempre
se andaua en esta embriaguez. El vino hazia de varias plantas, y frutos de la
tierra,como de Tunas, que en Castilla llaman higos de las Indias, o de Pita-
hayas otras vezes de las algarrouillas de Mezquite, q atras

; dixe, 6 de la p ata
Mescal, y sus pencas, coforme a los tiempos en que se dan estos frutos, y de
otras plantas q molidas, 6 quebratadas, y echadas en agua,
;
en dos o tres dias
se acedan, y toman el gusto que tanto arrebataua el juizio que de almas raciona-
les les auia quedado a estas gentes. Entre todos los vinos que hazian, el mas
estimado y gustoso, era de panales de miel, q cogen a sus tiempos. es de Y
aduertir, que en este vicio de embriaguez auia vna cosa que lo templaua, porq
en no entrauan mugeres, ni los que eran 010905, y gente nueua." Segunda
el
Relacion Anonima de la Jornada de Nttno de Guzman (Collecciou de Docu-

mentos para la Historia de Mexico, Garcia Ycazbalceta, vol. ii. p. 304) El :
"
4
Split up into a number of autonomous

1
outer protective shell.
villages, each one governed after the well known tribal sys
tem, the entire dialectic cluster only coalesced temporarily
and at rare intervals, for self-protection, in case insult offered
by one of their villages to outsiders led to threatened revenge
on a larger scale. 2 No central head existed, either for war or
tienen que se dice mezquites, que dan

brebaje que tienen es de unos arboles que
unas algarrobillas delgados, y majanlas en unos almireses de palo que tienen
grandes, y aquello mezclan con agua, y otras cosas
de que hacen su brebaje
para beber."
1
See above.Also Proceso del Marques del Valle y Nuno de Guzman y los
Adelantados Soto Alvarado, sobre el Descubrimiento de la Tierra A tteva, 1541
y
(Doc. de Indias, vol. xv. p. 332) En sdbado, dia de Sant Francisco, pase el
:
"
rio, y de la otra parte halle una estancia de treinta ranches de petates con
unas ramadas pequenas; no habia gente." Castaneda, Cibola, p. 157: "On
nomme cette province Petatlan, parceque les maisons sont faites en Petates
(nattes de jonc). Cette maniere est la meme pendant deux cent quarante lieues,
jusqu a 1 entre e du desert de Cibola." Relation dd Suceso de la Jornada qne

Francisco Vazquez hizo en el Descubrimiento de Cibola, 1541 (Doc. de Indias,
vol. xiv. p. 318): "Todo este camino hasta cinquenta leguas dntes de Cibola
es doblado, aunque en algunas partes esta apartado del camino la poblacion es
;
toda una suerte de gente, porque las casas son todas de petates, e alguna entre
ellas de azoteas baxas. Tienen maiz todos, aunque no mucho, y en algunas
partes muy poco tienen melones frisoles." Ribas, speaking of the change
;
in customs and manners of the Yaquis, after their reduction to obedience

to the Church, says (ffistoria de los Trivinphos, lib. v. cap. xxi. p. 339) Los :
"
pueblos estan dispuestos en muy buena forma, sin quedar ya vno solo, que
de assienta viua en sus sementeras, ni rancherfas antiguas. Las casas hazen
ya muchas de paredes de adobes, y terrados, y las de los Gouernadores mas
amplas."
2
Ribas, lib. i. cap. ii. p. 5: "Qvado llamo naciones las que pueblan esta
Prouincia, no es mi intento dar a entender, que son tan populosas como las de
Europa ;porque no tienen comparacion con ellas. Pero llamolas naciones
. . .
diferetes,porque aunque no son tan populosas, pero estan diuididas en trato de

vnas con otras vnas vezes en lenguas totalmente diferentes, aunque tambien
:
sucede ser vna la lengua, y con todo estar desvnidas, y encontradas y en lo que
:
todas ellas estan diuididas y opuestas, es en continuas guerras q entre ellos

traian, matandose los vnos a los otros y tambien en guardar los terminos, tierras,
;
y puestos que cada vna destas naciones poblauan, y tenia por propios de suerte, ;
q el q se atreuia a entrar en los agenos, era con peligro de dexar la cabega en

manos del enemigo que encotrasse." Ibid., p. n "
Leyes, ni Reyes que casti-

:
gassen tales vicios y pecados, no los tuuieron, ni se hallaua entre ellos genero de
autoridad y gouierno politico que los castigasse. Es verdad que reconocian
in peace. 1 Still, it is not improbable that each group may

have constituted a sort of barbaric confederacy, although it is
certain that it did not possess the consistency which we ad
mire in the "
League of the Iroquois." Gentilism certainly

2
prevailed, and there are traces of similar esoteric clusters
to those discovered by Mr. Gushing among the Zufiis, and
which, guided by his observations, I have since found in ex
istence among the Queres, Tehuas, and the Tiguas, in New
Mexico. 3 Fetichism characterized their religious beliefs, as
well as those of all other southwestern Indians, and the ab
sence of the conception of one supreme being is as plain
4
among them as elsewhere.
algunos Caciques principales, que era como cabe9as y Capitanes de familias, o
rancherfas, cuya autoridad solo consistia en determinar alguna guerra o cometi-
miento contra enemigos, o en asentar pazes con otra Nacion :
y por ningun caso
se determinauan semejantes facciones sin la voluntad de los dichos Caciques,
que para tales efectos no dexauan de tener muy grande autoridad. En casa
destos se celebrauan las borracheras celebres de guerra, y tambien a estos ayu-
dauan sus subditos a hazer sus sementeras, que era lo ordinario mayores qua
de los demas. Esta tal autoridad alcan9aua dichos Caciques, no tanto por
herencia, quanto por valetia en la guerra, 6 amplitud de familia de hijos, nietos,
y otros parientes, y tal vez por ser muy habladores y predicadores suyos."
description of the hostilities between the Yaquis and the
1
Compare the
Spaniards in Ribas, lib. v. cap. ii. to vi. Also in Francisco Xavier Alegre,
Historia de la Companid de Jesus en Nueva Espana, 1842, vol. ii.
pp. 31-38.
Alegre gathered most of his information from Ribas.
2
Ribas, Historia, p. 295. The disconnected state of affairs among the
Yaquis is very well pictured in their attempts to treat with the Spaniards after
they had repelled three attacks from the latter. Alegre, Historia de la Com-
pania, vol. ii. p. 32: "Los yaquimis tuvieron su asemblea y se dividieron en
varios pareceres. Los mas juiciosos, a cuya frente estaba el cacique Anabay
lutei fueron de sentir que se ofreciese al capitan la paz y se le concediese lo
que tan justamente pedia."

3
The sorcerers or magicians were so numerous, that Ribas affirms (p. 332) :
"
En
cierto pueblo, por meclio de su Governador, quiso otro Padre corregir a
vnos quantos hechiceros, para escarmiento de los demas y ellos ;
mismos dixeron :
Padre, no te canses en juntarnos, porque qual mas, qual menos, la mitad

de los
del pueblo (que era grande) son como nosotros."
4
Ribas, p. 332 Estaua tan sepultada esta Nacion en estas tinieblas, que
:
"
vna India, ya desenganada despues que se introduxo la doctrina del Euangelio,

declaro, y dixo a vno de los Padres que se lo predicaua; Padre,
mira de la otra
These two clusters dwelt, for the most part, about the
mouths of the two rivers bearing their names they held :
but a portion of the course of each stream, and it cannot
parte del rio ves quantos cerros, motes, picachos, y cimas ay en todo este
;
contorno? pues en todos ellos teniamos nuestras supersticiones ; y a todos los

reuerenciamos, y las celebrauamos en ellos. Las viejas certificauan, que el
clemonio se les aparecia en figura de perros, sapos, coyotes, y culebras." This
belief is eminently Indian. To-day the sedentary aborigines of New Mexico,
Sonora, etc., believe in the possibility, not only of such
apparitions, but
also of the transformation, through witchcraft, of men and women into animals
of some kind. Ribas, p. 332 Indies principales, y Fiscales, afirmaron,
:
"
como
cosa sabida y recibida entre ellos, que las hechizeras ivan de noche a ciertos
bailes y combites co los demonios, y que boluian por los aires." Page 16 Vi- "
niendo aora a las gentes barbaras de que trata esta historia, y auiendo estado
muy que entre ellas auduue para aueriguar lo que passaua en esta
ateto los anos
materia de idolatna y lo que con puntualidad se puede dezir es, que auque en
:
algunas destas tales gentes no se puede negar que auia rastro de idolatrfa for
mal, pero otras no tenian conocimiento alguno de Dios, ni de alguna Deidad
aunque falsa, ni adoracion explicita de seiior que tuuiesse dominio en el mundo,
ni entendian auia providencia de Criador y Gouernador de quie esperassen pre-
mios de buenas obras en la otra vida, o castigo de las malas, ni vsaron de

comunidad culto diuino. El que en ellos se hallaua, se venia a reduzir a super
sticiones barbaras, 6 hechizos ensenados por los demonios a particulares per-
sonas, con quienes en su Getilidad tenia familiares tratos y este vnos implicfto, ;
y heredado de sus mayores, q se lo ensenaua a la hora de su muerte, encargan-

doles vsassen algunas ceremonias de hechizos, y supersticiones q serian para
curar, 6 matar, o enganar." The same author describes the Fetiches very
clearly (p. 17): "El
pacto q co estos hechizeros tiene assentado el demonio
ordinariamente esta* muy guardado en vnos cuerecillos de
aligado, y lo tienen
animales parecidos al Huro, de que hazen vnas bolsillas, y detro dellas vnas
pedreguelas de color, 6 chinas medio trasparentes, y esta bolsilla guarda como
sifuera de reliquias; y quando para bautizar se entrega estas predas, es buena
sena, de q recibe de veras la Fe de Christo, y dexan y se apartan de la familiari-
dad del demonio." It is indeed very difficult to induce any Indian to part with
the Fetich, which many of them carry in the little satchels of buckskin, or hide
of some He continues: Este muchas vezes se
kind, that F. Ribas describes.
"
les aparecia en tiepo de su Getilidad, habladoles en figura de animales, pescados,

6 serpientes, q no se ha oluidado qua a su proposito le salia el auer derribado
a nuestra primera Madre en esta forma. Horauale mucho, 6 temialo quando
se les aparecio ; y por titulo de honra le llamauan Abuelo, sin hazer discurso si
era criatura, o Criador y aunque la figura de animal, 6 serpiente en que se les
:
aparecia el demonio, la obserbauan y pintauan a su modo, y tal vez leuantauan

alguna piedra, 6 palo a manera de idolo ; pero claramente no parece reconocian
deidad, ni suprema potestad del vniuerso."
be said that their sway extended any distance into the Sierra
Madre. East of them, Indians speaking what may be dialects
of the Tarahumar and Tepehuan idioms occupied the valleys
and fastnesses. These tribes are little known, some of them
have disappeared by name, and what we know of their con
dition recalls that of the Yaquis and Mayos, locally varied
1
through environment.
North of the Yaquis, and in what might be called the
southern heart of Sonora, we meet with an interesting tribe,
about which little has been said lately, and in regard to which
the positive information of older authors has been in a meas
ure overlooked. These are the southern Pimas, also called
Orozco y Berra ( Geografta delas Lengitas y Carta Etnografica de Mexico, 1864,

1
356) mentions among the the Tepahues, Tecayaguis,

" "
p. lost languages
Cues or Macoyahuis, Vayema, Putima, Baturoque, and Teparantana. At the
same time he says Tepahue was spoken at San Andres Conicari and at
that the
La Asuncion Tepahue. The Relation de las Misiones que la Copanta de Jesus
tiene en el Ret no y Provincia de la Nueva Vizcaya en la Nueva Espana, 1678,
(Documentos para la Historia de Mexico, IVa Serie, vol. iii. p. 384,) says about
the Partido of San Andres Conicari La lengua es particular si bien una par-
:
"
cialidad de este pueblo es de Mayo en

lengua." nacion y en la
In regard to
la
"la Asuncion de Tepahue lengua es particular: distinta de la
"(p. 385) : "La
de los demas pueblos si bien todos los demas de ellos entienden la lengua tepave
y aun la caita aunque no la hablaban." This leads to the inference, that the
Tepahues and those of Conicari spoke not the same idiom. Ribas (Historia
de los Trivmphos, p. 254, etc.) says of the Tepahues, that they were settled in
the mountains higher up than the Mayos, with whom they were generally at war,
and that after the reduction of the latter they established themselves a vn "
puesto llano, cinco leguas arriba del rio de Mayo, en vn arroyo, q entra en el
donde formarS vn pueblo de hasta seiscientas familias, y como dos mil personas
de todas edades." Of the Conicaris he tells us (p. 254), tenia como de
"
dozientas familias." It is difficult to determine whether or not the Guazapares

and the Tubares belonged to Sonora. Orozco (Geografta de las Lengnas, pp. 323,
324, 326) locates both tribes in southwestern Chihuahua. There is no doubt

that they lived there in part. Alegre however (Historia, vol. iii. p. 12) locates
the Guazapares in Sinaloa, that is, either in the Northern part of that State or in
southeastern Sonora. The same with the Tubares. (Ibid., p. 52.) Pedro de
Rivera, in his Diario y Derrotero de lo Caminado visto y observado en el Discurso
de la Visita General de Presidios sitnados en las Provincias Ynternas de Nueva
Espana, 1736, p. 47, includes the Tubares among the tribes of Sonora. Orozco
y Berra classifies both languages as dialects of the Tarahumar.
-^Nebomes or Coras. I shall call them Nebomes hereafter,

in order to distinguish them from the Arizonian Pimas, which
are more generally known under that name. Their social
organization, their religious system and practices, of beliefs
were analogous to those of the Yaquis, their language so

differentiated that made intercourse impossible except by
it
signs, and the Nebomes were higher advanced than their

southern neighbors, inasmuch as they were more substan
tially dressed.
1
Their mode of agriculture and also their
1
Ribas, who visited the southern Pimas at the time of their first contact with
Europeans, speaks of the tribe as follows (Historia, p. 360) En el vestido :

"
era esta Nacion la mas compuesta de todas las demas de Cinaloa, a que les
ayudaua la mucha catidad de los cueros de venado, que sabian beneficiar, y
hazen muy buenas gamuzas, muydurable, y quelessiruen en particular de cubi-
erta, al modo de faldellines a las
mugeres, tan largos q arrastra por el suelo y :
era gala entre ellas, q los estremos de las gamuzas arrastrasson por tierra. A
que la gente moca tambien anadia otra gala de labores de almagre. En medio
cuerpo arriba, tambien era ordinario traerlo cubierto con mantas, que texia, 6
de algodon, 6 de otra planta como la pita. Y aunque en los varones no era ta
ordinario el andar vestidos, todavia muchos se cubrian con dichas matas." On
page 380 he describes the costume of a chief of the Sisibotaris," a branch of

"
the Pimas or Nebomes Vestido y cubierto con vna large manta, enla9ada al
:
"
onbro al modo de manto, y demas desta traia otro cenida a la cintura, como ]o
vsan otros desta Nacion." Father Alegre gathered his information concerning
the Nebomes from Guzman, S.J., who began his
the writings of Father Diego
mission work among them and he quotes his statements in Historia de
in 1619,
la Campania, vol. ii. p. 117, las mugeres desde muy ninos andan cubiertas
"y
hasta los pies con pieles de venado muy bien curtidas y pintadas." His infor
mation in regard to the Sisibotaris is derived from a letter written by Father
Nicolas de Arnaya in 1621 (Ibid., p. 124): "Los hombres se cubren con una
pequena manta pintada de la cintura a la rodilla y cuando hace frio usan unas
mantas grandes de algodon y pita. Las mugeres van cargadas de vestidos, y al
entrar en la iglesia hacen tanto ruido como si fueran espanolas. Las faldellines
que usan llegan hasta el suelo, de pieles brunidas y blandas como una seda, con
pinturas de colores 6 de algodon y pita, que tienen en abundancia. Se ponen
a mas de eso un delantar de la cintura abajo, que en muchas suele ser negro, y
parece escapulario de monjas. Las doncellas especialmente usan una especie
de jubones 6 corpinos muy bien labrados a todo esto afiaden en el invierno
;
unos como roquetes, y asi todas son honesti simas." Ribas (Historia, p. 385)
uses almost the identical words, but he attributes the letter to Father Pedro
Mendez.
houses are described as follows by an author of the seven

teenth century, a missionary,who witnessed the first efforts
made at their Christianization :
"
The Nebomes were settled

on the banks of creeks with good running water. Their
houses were better and more durable than those of other
were made of large adobes, which they
nations, for the walls
manufactured out of clay and covered with flat roofs of earth.
Some of these houses they built even much larger, and with
loopholes like forts, in order that, if
they should be attacked
by enemies, the people of the village might retire into them
and make use of their arrows." 1
It is not devoid of significance that the southern Pimas
dwelt in such buildings, which so closely recall the architec
ture of the Casa Grande on the Gila, as well as of the Casas
Grandes in Chihuahua.
As to the numbers of the
Nebomes, it is difficult to form
any close estimate. The tribe was divided into two groups,
geographically, the Lower and Upper Nebomes, both of
which were autonomous, often at loggerheads with each other,
and respectively inhabiting a number of equally autonomous
villages. If the Nebomes counted, all told, eight thousand
souls, it is as much as may be safely attributed to them. 2
They were consequently at a disadvantage, so far as n timbers
were concerned, as compared with the Yaquis, and only nat

ural advantages and superior architectural skill in works for
defensive purposes enabled them to maintain their existence.
Without mentioning here several smaller tribes wedged in,
as it were, between the more conspicuous groups, 3 and with-
1
Ribas, p. 360. Already quoted in the Geographical Introduction. Alegre
copies the passage almost textually.
2
Ribas, Historia, p. 370. Alegre, ffistoria, vol. ii.
p. 122.
3
These tribes were branches of the Nebomes for instance, the Sisibotaris,
;
Nures, and the Aivinos. They spoke the same language, but their settlements
lay apart from the clusters formed by the Nebome villages.
out more than alluding to the Eudeves and Jovas, two clus
ters using dialects of the Opata, and occupying a number of
villages nearly in a half-circle around the Opatas and dividing

them from the Nebomes, 1 I pass on to the Opata Indians,
important group, now so completely
"
a formerly Hispani-
cised
"
as to have almost forgotten their native tongue. The
That the Eudeve and the Jova idioms are dialects of the Opata is gen
1
erally accepted. The Eudeves began on the west of the Sonora River, at Opo-
depe, Cucurpe, and Toape, and extended as far southeast as Matape and Los
Alamos. The Jovas were along the Upper Yaqui south of Huassavas, Sahuaripa
and Aribechi belonging to their range. Thence they penetrated into the very
heart of the Sierra Madre as far as western Chihuahua. All their villages
within the great chain are now in ruins, owing to the hostilities of the Apaches.
Thus Tyopari, Mochopa, Servas, and other villages, part of which were Jova,
part Opata, had to be abandoned in the second half of the past century. Of the
Jovas, says the Description Geografica Naturaly Curiosa de la Provincia de Sonora,
1764. (cap. vi. art. i., MSS. of the National Archives at Mexico) Mas zafios :
"
y agrestes son los Jovas, especiahnente casi la mayor porcion de su casta que
no quiere reducirse a vivir en pueblos, fuera de los que estan en Ponida, Teopari
y Mochopa sino tiran a vivir en las barrancas de la sierra donde nacieron
; ;
ni cede su terquedad a diligencias que se hagan con ellos ni se enamoran con ;
el buen trato, comodidades y conveniencias que se les procuren para conser-

varles, aim despues de traidos y congregados en pueblos, como le ha sucedido
al padre Manuel Aguirre, misionero en mision de San Luis Gonzaga de Bacade-
guatzi con los de la rancheria de Satechi, y los de las margenes del rio de los
Mulatos y del de Arcs que moran entre brenas y malezas manteniendose con
raices, yerbas y frutas silvestres, consistiendo sus siembras solo en tal cual
mata de maiz y algunas calabazas y sandias donde lo consienten las angosturas,
en que dichos rios rompen por aquella Sierra. Su tal cual ejercicio es
. . .
hacer esteras, Hifet en opata de las muchas y buenas palmas de que abunda su
terreno, y llevarlas a vender a los pueblos circunvecinos por semillas y alguna
ropa que con poco se contentan, pues por comun la frazada que las mujeres
mismas se ingenian a tejer a su modo de la lana de unas pocas ovejas que crian,
al hobre sirve de capa, jubon y calzones; y a la mujer de manto, tapapies,
camisa y corpinos. Lo bueno que tienen, es no ser perjudicales, ni hazer
dano en las vidas y haciendas de los reducidos. Solo con los apaches son
bravos," etc. Of
Eudeves the same source speaks more favorably they
the ;
were more and more inclined to learn civilized arts and usages. A
docile,
number of the Jovas lived in Chihuahua. Relation de las Misiones, p. 341 :
"
Esta nacion esta. poblada a variedad de algunos

orillas del rio Papigochic,
pueblos y corre hasta cerca del partido de Sauaripa y uno de sus pueblos lla-
mado Teopari." These Jovas were still independent in 1678.
Opatas, to whom also the names

Sonora, Teguima, and of
Ure are given, held the northwestern quarter of the present

1
State of Sonora. They held sway over fully one fourth of the
State. While in who still spoke their
Sonora, the few Opatas
aboriginal idiom told me that their proper name was
"
Joyl-
Op-a-ta seems indeed to be a Pima word, a corrup
"
ra-ua!
tion of Oop, enemy, and Ootain, people, that is, people of our
own stock with whom we are at war. The Opata language,
as well known, is
closely allied to the Pima ;
both are but
members of one family.
The bulk of the Opatas were settled in the valley of the
Sonora River, from north of Bacuachi as far south as Ures. 2
West of this channel, the water supply grows scant and
scantier, towards the arid coast of the Gulf of California.
Indian settlements therefore became less numerous, and they
were no longer of pure Opata stock. East of the Sonora val
ley,forbidding mountains separate it from the upper course
of the Rio Yaqui, there called locally Rio de Babispe, Rio de
Huassavas, even Rio de Sahuaripa. Only the narrow valleys

of this stream were inhabitable for agricultural Indians, and
these vales themselves are few and far between. Thus the
Opatas became geographically and politically divided into
a number of small tribes, or rather village communities, au-
1
The terms Teguima and Ure, as applied to the language, I never heard in
Sonora. Orozco y Berra, Geograjia, etc., and Pimentel, Cuadro descriptive
Still
y comparative de las Lenguas indigenas de Mexico, adopt the words.

appears at a very early date, in 1539, when Fray Marcos of Nizza
2 This
made his bold journey to Cibola. As I believe to have established in two

publications on the subject, the villages of the Opatas reached as far north
as above the mouth of the Arroyo de las Higueritas, and perhaps to Mututi-
Compare La Decoiiverte du A ouveaii Mexique par le Maine Franciscaiii

cachi. r
Frtre Marcos de Nice, in Revue d Ethnographie, 1886, vol. v. p. 131. Also,

The Discovery of New Mexico by Fray Marcos of Nizza, in the Magazine
of Western History. That the Opatas ranged as far south as Ures is well
known. We have fair descriptions of the Sonora valley from Castaneda,
Cibola, p. 157.
tonomous and often hostile towards one another. 1 On the

Rio Sonora alone, confederacies appear to have been formed,
if the evidence of Indian tradition, as collected by me while
there, is reliable.
2
The Opatas
of Oposura made war upon
those of Banamichi and of Babiacora on the Sonora River 3 ;
there was no connection between the people of Babispe and

those Tamichopa, although both dwelt on the Upper
of
Yaqui, and only twenty miles apart. The villages of the

Opatas were small, their houses detached, and only for one
family. A slight foundation of cobble-stone
supported a
framework of posts standing in a thin wall of rough stones and
mud and a slanting roof of yucca or palm leaves covered the
whole. Such was the Opata house in the vicinity of Cumpas.
4
At Joytudachi in the Sierra de Baserac, one of the north

western spurs of the Sierra Madre, I found a house still partly
standing. It had the usual limited size, and was made of
thin plates of stone laid in mud. On the Sonora River,

where the climate is warmer and where it seldom snows, the
5
walls even seem to have been of yucca and canes; but in
This is already stated by Castaneda, Cibola, p. 157

1 Derriere cette pro
"
vince jusq aux montagnes sont batis un grand nombre de villages habitds par
des Indians, qui forment une multitude de tribus a part, reunis en petites nations
de sept ou huit, dix ou douze villages."
He gives several names, which I omit
here, as they are evidently misspelt. Ribas is also quite explicit, Historia de
losTrivmphos, p. 392. Here he speaks of the Opatas of the Sonora valley. The
population of that valley, he leads us to infer, was about four thousand souls,
perhaps five thousand. In addition to these Sonoras proper, he speaks, on
pages 358 and 359, of the tribes west from the Rio Sonora, like the Naco-
suras(Na cosaris), Cumupas (Cumpas), Buasdabas (Huassabas), and Bapispes
(Babispes). these were Opatas, like the Hures (Ures).
All
2 was
I
by the Opatas of Banamichi, that they confederated with those
told
of Sinoquipe against their nearest neighbors of Htiepaca and Aconchi.
Batonapa, near Bana

3 I was assured that the fortified hill called Cerro de
michi, was the place of refuge against incursions from Cumpas and Oposura.
4 I have not
myself seen this building, but obtained a fair description of it
through Sr. Espiridion Arvisu of Oposura.
So says Castaneda, Cibola, p. 156. He asserts that the dwellings were of
5
canes, or rather of mats nattes de jonc").

("
Ribas (Historia, p. 392) says of
the Sierra Madre proper, where the Yaqui gushes out of the
picturesque gorge descending from its source at Chu-ui-chu-pa,

there are remains of Opata villages recalling, on a lesser
scale, the stately architecture of Casas Grandes. The houses
are connected so as to form an interior square, and appear as
if raised on artificial platforms.
1
Mutual protection from
enemies, which threatened the Opatas on the Chihuahua
side of the great central chain, from the inhabitants of the
valley of Casas Grandes, is stated as having caused this
superior and defensive mode of building. 2
As late as the past century, isolated hamlets of Opata

Indians were scattered throughout some parts of the Sierra
the houses in the Sonora valley, "sus casas mas durables y compuestas." It
may not be amiss to recall here the report of Francisco de Ibarra, Relation de
los Descubrimicntos, Conquistas y Poblaciones hechas por el Gobernador Francisco
de Ybarra en las Proviucias de Copala, Ntieva Vizcaya y Chiametla (Doc. de

Indias, vol. xiv. p. 482) :
"
Y entrando en dicha tierra adentro, fue en cantidad

la
de trescientas leguas desde la dicha provincia de Chiatmela en adelante, en la

cual entrada hallo grandes poblaciones de naturales, vestidos, y que tenian
muchos bastimentos de maiz, y otras cosas, y que ansimismo tenian muchas
. . .
casas hechas de terraclos." The report of Francisco de Ibarra is not always

quite clear, and it is evident that he is careful not to diminish the impor
tance of his own achievements ;
still it is not unlikely that he saw either the
houses of the Pimas or those of the Opatas in the Sonora valley. Compare also
Relation de lo que descnbrio Diego de Ibarra en la Provincia de Copala, llamada
Topiame, etc. (vol. xiv. pp. 554, 558). The title is misleading, for it refers to
a discovery made by Diego de Ibarra, whereas it is in fact another report on the
explorations of Francisco de Ibarra. How far to the north the latter penetrated
I am unable to determine.
1
is very plain in the ruins of Batesopa and Baquigopa, east of Hua-
This
chinera, and on the very banks of the Upper Yaqui.
2 Such is the common
opinion of the Opatas of the villages from Huassabas
to Baserac and Babispe. They showed me the sites of hamlets which, accord
ing to tradition, had been deserted on account of the constant danger threaten
ing from the Chihuahua side. Whether the enemies who compelled this
abandonment, were the Sumas of Casas Grandes, or some other tribe who per
haps built the villages whose ruins have given the name to the valley and
settlements, I am unable to tell. One of my informants boldly asserted that
j
the builders of Casas Grandes were Opatas. There is nothing improbable ,
in this.
Madre. 1 The movement of the tribe appears to have been

a shrinkage from east to west, receding across the Cordillera
into the Sonoran valleys. Still the Opatas claim to have
come from the north ;

and this may have been the case. The
average general direction of a migratory route is often changed
for a while: the movements of southwestern tribes are not so
much analogous to a wave, or a steady current, as to a slow
filtration, where the fillets are frequently deflected from the
original course.
Of the agricultural pursuits of the Nebomes we have a fair
picture from the pen of Padre Ribas Nearly all the people
"
were workmen they defined

;
their land, they planted those
plants which we said were general all over the Indies, and
even in some well adapted for it they practised
localities
irrigation, leading the water therefor out of the creeks by

means of ditches. In addition to this they planted near their
houses a kind of vine, of a plant which the Spaniards call
lechuguilla, since its shape is similar to that of lettuce, only
the leaves are much stronger, and it requires one or two

years ere it matures. When ripe they cut it, and the
it is
root toasted with some of the leaves serves as an aliment.
It is savory and sweet, and when ground they make of it
2
something like a preserve."
About the Opatas we have no such explicit statements,

but vestiges of artificial tanks on barren hills, 3 and innumer
able dikes scattered all over the northern parts of the Sierra
1 For instance, east of Nacori there are a number of small ruined settlements
in the very heart of the Sierra Madre. The majority of these were inhabited
by Jovas, still there were Opatas among them. Thus, in 1678, Servas or Sereba
was an Opata village, according to F. Juan Ortiz Zapata, Relation de las Misiones,
p. 366.
2
Ribas, Historia, p. 360.
Such tanks are found for instance near the Hacienda de las Delicias, on
8
the hills near Vaynorpa and Badeuachi. The rim is of drift, and they are not
very large. The only direct information that I have been able to obtain on
the
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. 6 I
Madre and its spurs, permit us to form a conception of how

they improved the soil for their sustenance. These dikes,
called now in the (banqnitos\ are an
country
"
benches
"
interesting feature in the archaeology of the region.

The slopes of the mountain ranges are steep, and exceed
ingly gravelly or rocky in many places. Only trees and thorny
shrubs grow on them. In fact, they cannot be used for
tillage ofany kind, as the drainage is too violent, especially
in summer, with the heavy rains of that season. Still, the
Opatas, and their cognates, the Jovas, dwelt on such slopes,

forming small villages, and they used the very drainage chan
nels, the so-called arroyos," for the artificial accumulation
"
of soil, or for retaining in place what was already there. It
may be remembered, that,

my report to the Institute dated
in
August alluded to the rectangular spaces enclosed

11, 1883, I
by upright small stones which are so numerous in Arizona.

1
I have since found them in northern New Mexico, also in
proximity to and connected with ruined villages of the com

munal type of architecture. 2 In my report alluded to, I
described these enclosures as court-yards. In many places,
however, they are found apart from houses. Pima Indians of
Sonora assert that they were garden beds, where such nutri-
mode of agriculture of the Opatas dates from 1764, that is, after they had been un
der control of the Jesuit missionaries for more than a century. The Description
Gcografica (cap. vi. art. i.) Opatas and some of the Eudeves for
praises the
being "los mas aplicados al trabajo y cultivo de sus tierras y cria de ganados.
. . Sus siembras consisten en trigo, maiz, frijol, calabazas, sandias, melones,
.
e-c., de que hacen muy buenas cosechas pero como no estiman su trabajo, io
;
malbaratan a toda prisa por qualquier cosa que se les ofrezca por sus frutos."
1
Compare my report in the Fifth Annual Report of the Archaeological Insti
tuteof America, 1884, pp. 63, 64, 65, 77.
At the Ojo Caliente of the Hon. Antonio Josef (called Joseph s Hot
2
Springs), near the ruiued Tehua Pueblos of Pose-uing-ge and Ho-ui-ri at the ;
Rito Colorado, about ten miles west of the Hot Springs and near the old Pueblo
of Sepa-ue ;
also near Abiquiu. They are clearly a variety of banqnitos, and
almost an intermediate between them and the Garden beds of Arizona. "
"
62 ARCHÔLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
tious plants were raised as, like corn, grow without irrigation
and with the help of summer showers alone. Full confirma
tion of this statement has been obtained by me through the
Opatas of Sonora. By holding the soil in place by means
of a low barrier of stones, protruding above the surface
rarely more than six or ten inches, a bed of cultivable loam
is gradually accumulated. The banquitos serve a similar
purpose to a greater degree. Behind each wall, (and these

are usually from two to three feet in height and one to two
feet thick,) a small plot of loam has formed, as wide as the
bed of the arroyo, and with a length proportioned to the

the creek.
fall of These plots are commonly free from rocks,
such as mountain torrents always carry frequently the rocks ;
are heaped at the sides, showing that rock-picking has been

the chief duty of the owner, in place of weeding. 1 These
simple contrivances, to which man was driven by the nature

of the country, have rendered the heart of the Sierra Madre,
as well as its wild eastern and western ranges, like the
formidable Sierra de Teras in Sonora and the mountains
about Casas Grandes in Chihuahua, habitable by land-tilling
Indians. The fact that they resorted to such places for their
homes, where extraordinary efforts and devices were neces
sary for subsistence, is also indicative of two facts, the
aridity of the lower levels, and a state of insecurity, both of

which conditions seem to have existed from a date long pre
vious to the advent of Europeans. 2
In dress and ornaments the Opatas resembled the Pimas
1
This is very clear at the ruins of Va-yua-va-bi, east of Nacori, and at Quit-
a-mac, east of Huachinera. The rocks and stones seem to have been removed
from between the dikes and thrown aside, thus clearing the soil.
2
East of the Sierra Madre the lower levels are indeed very arid, and there
fore almost impracticable for agriculture except in some valleys. The course of
the Upper Yaqui in Sonora is very tortuous, and along it an occasional
opening
a smallbottom affords room for cultivation.
"
like
"
Many miles of rocky

gorges intervene between these rare fertile spots.
as well as the Yaquis but owing to their more northerly

;
and more mountainous home, their costume was more sub

stantial. Skins of deer and cotton mantles constituted it in
the main. 1 If Fray Marcos of Nizza was correctly informed,
we might even suspect that an occasional buffalo robe found
its way into the valley of the Sonora River. Still, the hide
of the large red deer, or of the mule deer, so common in
Lower California, may have given rise, through imperfect
and still more imperfectly understood descriptions of the
animal, to the supposition that the Opatas obtained buffalo
hides from the Zuni Indians. 2 It is certain, however, that
they secured turquoises and turquoise ornaments by com-
1
Of this custom we have early descriptions, Fray Marcos de Nizza, Descu-
brimiento de las SieteCiudades, says (p. 337): "Antes de llegar al despo-
blado, tope con un pueblo fresco, de regadio, a que me salio a rescibir harta
gente hombres y mujeres, vestidos cle algodon y algunos cubiertos con
cueros de vacas, que en general tienen por mejor vestido quel de algodon.
Todos los deste pueblo andan encaconados con turquesas que les cuelgan de
las narices y orejas, y a esta Hainan Cacona." This must have been in the
vicinity of Bacuachi. One year later, the expedition of Coronado found the
"
Sonoras." According to Castaneda (Cibola, p. 157), Les femmes portent des

"
jupons de dessous en cuir de cerf tanne, et de petits san-benitos qui leur de-
scendent a mi-corps." Ribas says (p. 392) La gente que en el esta poblada, es
:
"
del mismo natural que los Sisibotaris, y de las mismas costumbres vestidos como
ellos, y mas que otras Naciones."
2 I
doubt very much the existence of buffalo robes in Sonora at the time of ~\
Fray Marcos. The distance was too great. Furthermore, the monk only
repeated what he understood the people to say to him, and he had never seen
buffalo hides, still less the animal itself; misunderstanding was therefore easy.
I am of the opinion that the large hides shown to him were those of large deer,
like Cervus canadensis, or of the
"
Bura," or mule deer

found in The latter is
Sonora and in Lower California. The only buffalo robe that may have been ex
hibited to him was the hide which he describes as follows (p. 341) "Aquf en :
este valle, me truxeron un cuero, tanto y medio mayor que de una gran vaca, y
me dixeron que es de un animal, que tiene solo un cuerno en la frente y queste
cuerno es corbo hacia los pechos, y que de alii sale una punta derecha, en la
cual dice que tiene tanta fuerza, que ninguna cosa, por recia que sea, dexa de
romper, si y dicen que hay muchos animales destos en aquella

topa con ella ;
tierra; la color del cuero es d manera de cabron y el pelo tan largo como el
dedo." But this was among the Sobaypuris of Arizona.
mercial intercourse with the people of Cibola-Zuni, and that
parrot skins and plumes were given to the latter in return.

1
Aboriginal commerce, slow and irregular, contributed to
modify ideas and customs, by creating new desires, and fur
nishing the means of satisfying them.

In regard to the religious ideas and beliefs of the Opatas,
they do not appear to have fundamentally differed from those

of the other tribes. At the present time, it is
southwestern
very not impossible,
difficult, if to gather anything on this
subject except after a long residence among them and even ;
then it must be considered that the changes which the Opa

tas have undergone are perhaps more thorough than those
2
of any other tribe. Still, traditions are left, and one of
them, as related to me by an Indian of Huachinera, recalls
strangely the tale of the creation of the sun and moon current
3
among the Nahuatl. Some Spanish authors speak of their
4
belief in a supreme being, called Tamu-mo-ta, but the chief
1
I have already mentioned this fact in the Geographical Introduction.
2 are absolutely Christianized, on the surface at least.
They This does not
prevent them from being convinced of the efficacy of witchcraft and of the
existence of witches. I have a slight suspicion, furthermore, that
they still
maintain their former practices and rites in secret. As far as their original
condition is concerned, we must go back to Ribas in order to find some intima
tions of it (Historia de los Trwmphos, lib. vi. cap. xviii. p. 393): "Apartauanse
de costumbres Gentflicas, que en todas estas Naciones reinan, como viuen en
tinieblas,por mas morigeradas y masas que scan, y en particular el vicio tan
repetido foôsamente en esta Historia, de las borracheras, que a todos los man-
chaua." The similarity of customs between all the tribes of Sonora was such,
that itcaused Father Alegre, who had access to the reports and correspondence
of all the missionaries of his order, to include these customs in a general picture
of all the tribes of that country. In this he follows Ribas, who also includes
all the Indians of what at his time was called Sinaloa in a general view.
(Lib. ix. cap. ii. to vi.)

3 At Baquigopa, I was shown the place where the sun and moon were said
to have been created, and in the manner told by Sahagun. I shall have to
return to this further on.

4 This fact found in the document Estado de
is entitled la Provincia de
Sonora, written by an anonymous Jesuit, in 1730. It is printed in the third
attention was always drawn towards their faith in witchcraft

1
and their practice of it. This belief is indeed fundamental
with the Indians, and is a sure indication that what is cur-
series ofDocuments for the History of Mexico. 1 refer here to a manuscript

copy made by myself from the original in the Mexican Archives. The writer
says of the Opatas De aqui tuvo entre ellos origen un error oculto a los
:
"
primeros misioneros y descubierto en estos anos por algunos padres pericti-

simos en la lengua opata, este era, que estaban persuaclidos d que su primer
principle, no solamente en cuanto
a su poblacion en estas tierras, sino en cuanto
al ser y existencia, era Moctezuma, y asi le llamaban en su lengua Tamo Mota
que quiere decir nuestro primer principio, de que ya por la misericordia de

:
Dios estan desenganados." On the other hand, I again refer to the statement
of Ribas (Historia, p. 16), already quoted.
1
In this all authors of the past centuries agree, and also in that they had
recourse to innumerable presages, etc. Among these one very singular one is
related in Alegre, Historia, vol. ii.
p. 217. Since his account is probably derived
from the Description Geogrdfica (cap. v. art. iii.), I will take the quotation from the
latter document Antiguamente, para saber por donde venian sus enemigos,
"
cojian cierta especie de langosta llamada Hupitui tomandola de su cabeza la :
preguntaban ^ por donde venian sus enemigos ? y como es natural que el animalito
menee y alee los pies en tal situacion, tomaban por respuesta y creian que los
apaches entraban por el rumbo que senalaba dicha langosta con la manita que
primero alzaba." It would carry us too far to repeat here all that is told by
older authors about the superstitions of the Opatas, that people wounded by
a lightning stroke were thereafter excluded from intercourse with the rest, that
when it hailed, they placed in the doors of their dwellings a cane (Baqui-go),
believing that this would cause the hail to stop. The custom of erecting heaps
of stones, sticks, etc., alongside of trails, so common among the New Mexican
Indians and also in Peru, is thus described A las orillas del camino real se :
"
suelen encontrar unos montones de piedras, palos, huesos de animales, etc., en

dichos montones suelen echar los de a caballo, las varillas que llevan para
pegar a la cabalgadura, y los de a pie alzar algun palito por el camino y
tirarloasimismo sobre dichos montones unos dicen que con esto dejan alii el ;
cansancio, asi propio como el de la bestia otros que alii esta enterrado alguno,:
que murio de frio en tal paraje y que para calentarle hacen aquellas ofrendas,
que suelen quemar algun dia qua hace mucho This custom is well frio."
known in New Mexico, where the stones and sticks or branches signify as many
sacrifices and prayers or invocations. The sticks and twigs stand in place of
what is known among the Pueblos as prayer plumes/ or prayer sticks," and
" "
wherever these heaps are found it is a sure sign that the same ideas prevail
that underlie the complicated uses of the prayer plumes, in most instances, even,
that the tribes had the plumes also and used them as votive offerings. Analo
gies with northern tribes are therefore not wanting. The anonymous report
which I have already quoted, jEstado de la Provincia de Sonora, 1730, contains
5
^66 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
rently called their religion was more properly a fetichism,

highly developed, very complicated, and systematized in every
detail. Mention is made of places of sacrifice situated out-
the following very significant statement in regard to the beliefs of the Opatas :
No se hallo eh esta nacion opata la idolatn a ni la embriaguez muchas

"
si la luna veneraban como hermanos, y aim

solian tener, al sol y
mugeres i.
todavia escondidos en donde padre no los pueda ver en sus bailes, saludan a
el
la luna nueva esparciendole por el aire punos de pinole. Sus viejos, que entre
ellos tienen grande autoridad, les ensenan patranas muy ridi culas dire una ;
sola, enque se conoce su grande simpleza y poco discurso para convencer de

embusteros a sus viejos predicadores estos les han persuadido (con algunos
;
resabios de la fabulosa laguna Stigia) que en muriendo van sus almas a una
espaciosa laguna, en cuyas orillas por la banda del Norte estaua sentada un
hombrecillo muy pequeno, a quien llamaban Butzu-uri este, pues, las recibia,
:
y colocandolos apinadas por su multitud en una gran canoa, las remitia, a la

otra banda del Sur, a dar residencia a una reverenda vieja que se llamaua Vate-
com Hoatziqui, en una por una las iba comiendo, y a las que hallaba pintadas
con con que se afean las caras, las arrojaua a la laguna diciendo
las rayas
que no las comia porque tenian espinas, y las no pintadas pasaban a la barriga
contentas de gozar de una inmundisima bienaventuranza
"
This recalls forcibly

the lagune of Shi-Pap-u, or Cibobe, of the Queres and Tehuas of New Mexico,
and the monsters which, according to Gushing, receive the souls on their ap
proach to eternal rest and joy in the lagune of Cothluellonne. I only add here
the following from the same source Valense de los maleficios, yerbas vene-
"
nosas para quitar la vida a sus mismos parientes, y especialmente a aquellas que
quiere mas el padre 6 con quienes habla freruentemente por sus familiares, etc."
The marriage ceremonies are described as follows in the Description Geogrfifica :
Apuntare las mas decentes, y son i. juntos grandes y pequefios, ponen a los
"
mocetones y mujeres casaderas en dos hileras, y dada una sena emprenden a

correr estas, dada otra siguen la carrera aquellos, y alcanzdndolas, ha de cojer
cada uno la suya de la tetilla izquierda; y quedan hechos, y confirmados los
desposorios. Acabado este preambulo, se ponen a bailar, y segun me acuerdo
haber oido, los novios y novias en traje de la primera inocencia. A su tiempo,
como ya tienen para cada par de novios prevenidos dos petates 6 esteras de
palma, sin mas ceremonia que la dicha, los meten entre sus dos esteras a cada
par, y los demas siguen a festejarlos con sus danzas y cantares hasta que ama-
nece o se cansan, aunque solo en este con incansables. Setnejantes funciones
las hacen en los bosqes no muy retirado de los pueblos." The same document
also describes the mortuary customs Al enterrar a sus difuntos todas estas
"
naciones, a escepcion de los apaches, en su gentilidad y aim recien convertidos,

solian de enterrar con ellos todo su ajuar y vestuario, con su pinole, olla de
agua, etc. ... A los ninos y ninas de pecho les llevan en una jicara la leche
ordenada de sus pechos las mismas madres, y se las echan en la sepultura y ;
esto lo hacen por algunos dias continues." The Jesuit Father Ignatius Pfeffer-
side of the villages, 1 and many of their dances are described.

We 2
recognize among them the deer dance (Maso-daui), and
in the details of some of the others analogies with practices
of the New Mexican pueblos are quite abundant. 3 At the
korn, who was missionary in Sonora for eleven years, says in his Beschreilmng
der Landschaft Sonora Sarnt anderen merkwurdigen Nachrichten von den inneren
Theilen Neu-Spaniens, (Cologne, 1794, vol. ii. p. 214,) that the Pimas bewail their
dead. Of the medicine-men he asserts (p. 209) that they suck the sickness
through a tube, and also blow tobacco smoke on carbuncles. This agrees with
what we are told by Ribas (Historia de los Trivmphos, lib. i. cap. v. p. 17) :
El medio de curar estos endemoniados medicos es vnas vezes soplado la parte

"
lesa 6 dolorida del cuerpo, 6 todo el, con tata fuer$a y conato, q se oye muchos
passos el ruido q haze otras chupado la parte dolorida. Y auq en parte

:
pudieramos dezir, q esta accio tenia el efecto natural de la vetosa, que atrae, o
disgrega el humor, pero esso esta embuelto en tantas supersticiones y embustes,

q no nos podemos fiar q sea todo seguro, y libre de engano, 6 pacto con el
demonio porq a los enfermos les dan a entender, que les saca del cuerpo palos,
:
espinas, y pedre9uelas, que les causauan el dolor y enfermedad y todo es em-

;
buste, porq ellos traen essos en la boca, 6 en la mano con dissimulacion y ;
quando han curado al enfermo se lo muestran, vediendolos por verdad, lo q es

mentira."
patrana y
Castaneda mentions those places in Cibola, p. 157:
1
Tous les matins, "
les caciques des villages montent sur de petites eminences de terre elevees
a cet effet; et, pendant plus d une heure, ils crient comme des crieurs publics,
pour avertir chacun de ce qu il a a faire. Leurs temples sont de petites maisons
autour desquelles ils plantent une quantite de fleches quand ils s attendent a la
guerre."
This is so far the only mention which I have found of places of
worship among the Indians of Sonora.
2
The deer dance was mentioned to me while I was in Sonora. It is said to
be used to-day.
still Pfefferkorn (Beschreibung, vol. ii. pp. 79, 80) refers to
animal dances in general Sie wissen den Gang, die Spruenge, die Raenke,
:
"
das Bruellen, die Wuth, kurz, alle Eigenschaften dieser Thiere mit vieler Aehn-
lichkeit nachzumachen, und damit der Spass desto natuerlicher scheine, be-
kleiden sie sich mit der Haut des Thieres das sie vorbilden wollen. Dieses
Possenspiel nennen sie Toopter, das Thiermachen." This seems to imply
that they had other animal dances beside the Maso-daui.
3
Whoever has seen the dances of the New Mexican Pueblos must be struck
by the resemblance between the so-called Entremeseros," or clowns, and the
"
description of the solo dancers among the Opatas and Eudeves, as given by
Pfefferkorn (vol. ii. p. 80) Ihre vornehmsten Taenze sind der Pascola, und
:
"
der Montezuma. In dem ersteren koemmt ein Indianer zum Vorschein, der
einen Taenzer, und zugleich einen Harlekin, vorstellt. Seine Tracht stimmt
auch mit dieser Person ueberein, Auf dem Kopfe traegt er ein lederne
present day, the Daui-Namaca, a dance modified by ideas of

the Catholic Church, is danced during Easter week. 1 The
deer dance has almost fallen into oblivion, and the Mariachi,
one of the many sensual and decidedly obscene performances
2
constituting a part of Indian rites, has at last been abolished.
Muetze, welche mit langen vielfaerbigen und emporstehenden Federn geziert ist.
Am Hintertheile des Kopfes haengt der Schwanz eines Coyote, welcher ueber
dem Ruecken Ober dem Elnbogen, und unter den
des Taenzers hinablaeuft
Knien, ist er mit Baendern welche mit langen und niedlichen Federn
geziert,
dicht besetzt, und mit kleinen Schellen oder Muscheln zu dem Ende behaengt
sind, damit diese bei den Bewegungen des Koerpers ein Geraeusch von sich
geben. Den Unterleib hat er bis zur Haelfte der Schenkel ringsherum mit
einer Schuerze von praechtigen Federn, und den Hals mit einem Kragen von
dem naemlichen Stoffe bedeckt. Derganze uebriege Leib ist mit verschiedenen
Farben bemalt, und das Gesicht auf eine laecherliche Art beschmiert. In der
Hand haelt er einen Stab, an dessen Spitze zwei oder drei Fuchsschwaenze, oder
ebensoviele Rindsblasen angebunden womit er die Knaben, welche ihm aus
;
Neugierde oder Muthwillen zu nahe kommen, verscheucht. In diesem Putze,

tritt der Pascola auf den Schauplatz, und
faengt seine Rolle an. Er tanzt, und
bewegt die Fuesse mit einer unbeschreiblichen Geschwindigkeit so, dass diese
Bewegungen nicht nur mit alien und jeden Noten, sondern auch mit den ra-
schen Laeufen der Musik, vollkommen uebereinstimmen. Unter dem Tanzen
macht er zuweilen erstaunenswuerdige Luftspruenge, auch dann und wann
laecherliche Mienen, und naerrische Gebaerden. Die gewoehnliche Musik . . .
bei diesen Tanze ist eine kleine Trommel, und eine Floete. Ein Indianer spielt
beide zugleich, und haelt so ziemlich den Takt." The Pascol is (according to
Escudero, quoted by Orozco y Berra, Geografia^ etc., p. 355) still danced
among the Yaquis, and the description given of it agrees with that of Father
Pfefferkorn. Escudero very justly remarks La institucion de este baile
:
"
podria decirse que se haria siguiendo el principio de Horacio, Canendo ei

ridendo corrigo mores ; porque en el se satirizan los vicios y se dicen chistosos
epigramas, que casi siempre agradan a los espectadores." This same kind of
satire displayed by the Qo-sha-re of the Queres, personages whose real
is
functions are quite different from the r6le of clowns which they
play in the
dances of the Pueblos.
1
The Daui-na-maca is performed in the valley of the Rio Sonora annually.
In place of head-boards or feather bushes the dancers wear a head-band of
matting covered with colored paper, and decorated by a medallion and bright
plumes. A peculiar kilt, made of canes, is worn on the occasion.
2 The
Mari-a-chi was a round dance. Among the many dances that had to
be abolished was the Torom-ra-qui. It is described as follows in the Estado
de la Provincia de Sonora: Y por ser prueba de su docilidad no sera fuera de
"
proposito decir, que esta nacion Opata usaba un baile verdaderamente diabolico
In these displays bright plumes held, as they still hold, the

place of painted head-boards, but have been masks seem to
used also. 1Both faces and bodies were painted with bright
tints, solo dancers appeared, and the music was in no manner
distinctfrom the rhythmic noise accompanying the perform
ances of northern Indians.
The Opatas danced the scalp dance also. 2 This shows
that the custom of mutilating the dead enemy by taking his
scalp prevailed among them. As we go farther south, how
ever, the head of the foe was the most desired trophy. A
gradual change in these customs of war religion appears
from the north to the equator, from the process of scalping to
that of securing the entire body for purposes of cannibalism,
or the live enemy in order to sacrifice him to the fetiches. 3
que Haitian Torom Raqui, con que decian que asegurauan las lluvias y las
cosechas abundantes este baile comenzaba al salir el sol y duraba hasta
:
ponerse, a el asisten de todos los pueblos, sembraban toda la plaza adonde se

bailaua de todo ge nero de semillas y ramos de arboles y a trechos huecos y
pesunas de bestias, astas de reces, caracoles, y otras inmundias, en los cuatro
angulos de la plaza formaban cuatro chozas, de donde salian por torno los
bailadores con unos aullidos y clamores espantosas, y disfrazados con trajes
y monteras abominables al son de huesos y sonajas, legaban a cada una de las
baratijas que estaban esparcidas en la plaza y bailaban con tristisimos gemidos,
llantos y ceremonias diabolicas."
1
The Pascola wore a mask, according to Escudero. Orozco, Geografia,
P- 355-
2
Compare Pfefferkorn, Besehreibung, etc., vol. ii. p. 172. According to him,
the triumphant war party was received by the women. Description Geografica
(cap. v. art. v ) "Si les
: va bien en la campana, de los enemigos que matan
traen sus cabelleras, que aprecian mas que otro botin, y los cautivos, ninos
y mugeres que lleganclo a sus pueblos bailan dia y noche, que da lastima ver el
estrago que causan con esta locura en si propias, y mas en los cautivos que de
esta manera llevan en triunfo."
Torturing prisoners of war seems to have taken place occasionally among

8
the Opatas. Description Geografica En algunos pueblos aun de Opatas siendo

:
"
estos, segun todas, los mas allegados a la razon entre los demas indios, he
sabido, usarse el salir las viejas de sus casas con tizones ardientes y quemar a
los pobres cautivos en varias partes de sus cuerpos, mayormente en los muslos
con tanta crueldad, que he visto los senales en un muchachito bien tierno, y
tales que no se le quitaron en toda su vida." The Yaquis took the heads of
70 ARCH&OLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
Anthropophagy in America was practised mainly within the

1
tropics.
The same may be said in regard to the use of poisoned
arrows. That the Opatas used them is fully established, and
the counter poison is also known. 2 The custom appears to
have been general with the tribes of Sonora, and the poison
is described as mortal, though not in every instance. 3 In
addition to the bow and arrow, the usual and well known
aboriginal weapons, the club, the shield, and possibly the
sling, were handled by the Opatas in warfare, and, like less
sedentary tribes, they frequently set out in small war parties,
4
accompanied by a sorcerer or medicine-man.
Remnants of fortifications are common in Sonora. These
are the so-called
"
Cerros de Trincheras," more or less isolated
heights, on whose slopes stone parapets have been erected at
various elevations, presenting the aspect of concentric circum-
the dead enemies, not merely the scalp. So did the tribes of Sinaloa proper.
Ribas, Historia, pp. 10, 294.

1
I have not found any trace so far, of a positive nature, that any of the
tribes of Sonora have been cannibals.
2 As
early as 1542, the Spaniards experienced the poisoned arrows of the
Opatas. As to the counter poison, it is given in the Description Geografica:
Tararnatraca 6 Caramatraca, se llama una raiz pequena que se halla en la
"
costa de Guaimas, es muy medicinal y contraveneno muy apreciable para heri-

das de flechas ponzonosas, aun contra la mas brava del seri, como me lo aseguro
el padre Francisco Pimentel, de la Compania de Jesus, quien sirvio de capellan
en la espedicion contra dicho enemigo el ano de 1750, y que ninguno murio de

los heridos que se valieron de ella mascandola y tragando la saliva y ponie"ndola,
asi mascada, sobre la herida y aun comie ndola."

3
4
The warlike customs are so fully and so frequently described, that I for
bear quoting in detail. Ribas (Historia, lib. i. cap. iii.) is very detailed about
them. others he describes the war paint Para salir d la guerra se "
Among :
embijan, o pintan con vn barniz que hazen de vn azeite de gusanos, rebuelto

con almagre, 6 ollin de sus ollas, con que quedan pintados en cara y cuerpo
desuerte que parece fieros demonios del infierno." An equally full account
may be found in the Description. According to it, the young men were initi
"
ated
"
(cap. v. art. v.). Pfefferkorn also (Beschreibung, vol. ii.

pp. 163-172)
vallations, encircling a more or less conical elevation. On the

top or summit there are nearly always traces of rude habita
tions, and
round small erections, that appear to have been
of
lookouts or watch-towers. The Opata country is rich in such

remains, and the outskirts of the Sierra Madre particularly
so. Indian tradition of to-day connects their erection and use
distinctly with the Opatas. It is further asserted by the same
source, that these parapet hills were fortified, not only against
enemies of a foreign stock, but against neighboring villages
also. Thus the Cerro de Batonapa," near Banamichi on the
"
Sonora River, served as a place of refuge for the inhabitants
of Motepori, Badeuachi, Vaynorpa, etc., if attacked by the other
Opatas, those from the valleys of Oposura and Cumpas, or

even by their immediate neighbors of Huepaca and Aconchi.
The latter had a "
Refuge Hill
"
at Huepaca, quite as extensive

1
as that of Batonapa.
Villages expressly fortified were also in existence. Thus,

in the very heart of the savage Sierra de Teras, the ruins
Los Metates pueblo built on a steep

"
at
"
are those of a little
but low promontory of rocks, of which almost every projection

shows traces of having been lined by parapets. The cluster
of dwellings on the Mesa de San Antonio," near Granados
"
on the Upper Yaqui, was surrounded by a low circumvalla-

tion. Still the majority of villages were open, their people
gives details. Their tactics were the usual ones of surprises and ambusn.
But if hard pushe d, they fought desperately.
1
One of these Cerros de Trincheras," and one whose
"
size and importance

has lately been much exaggerated through newspaper reports, is near Magdalena
in Sontfra. These rude fortifications were much in use among the Sonora
Indians. Pfefferkorn says about them (Beschreibuijg,vo\. ii. p. 161) Noch :
"
stehen auf einigen Bergen die Ueberbleibsel der Brustwehren, welche diesen
Voelkern statt einer Festung dienten. Sie waren von aufgehaeuften Steinen
auf die Art einer Mauer errichtet ;
und standen vom Fusse des Berges mehrere
dergleichen uebereinander." Similar fortifications were erected by the Seris
against the Spaniards in 1758, (Ibid., vol. i. p. 414,) and by the insurgent
Tarahumares in Chihuahua.
relying for safety in case of attack upon the wide range of

view, or upon the peculiarly concealed locality, but espe
cially upon the safety resorts just described. These features

tend to indicate that, at the time when they were in use,
there was as yet little or no danger from that prowling and
incessant harassing which has rendered the Apaches so for
midable to the village Indians of northern Mexico during
historical times. While these military constructions are of
course evidences of continual dissensions among the Indians

of Sonora, they indicate a warfare less persistent and less
unrelenting than that which the Apaches have since made

1
upon them.
Between the Opatas and Eudeves in the east, and the
arid shores of the Gulf of California on the west, a branch
of the greatand numerous Pima stock, the Papap-Otam or
Papagos, roamed over, rather than inhabited, northwestern
Sonora and southwestern Arizona. The Papagos came in
contact with the Spaniards in the latter half of the seven
teenth century. 2 From the nature of their country, they
could scarcely be called village Indians. Though they spoke
the Pima language, they were much more unsettled than
either the Nebomes or the Arizonian Pimas. Mostly re
duced to hunting, to wild plants, and to a limited exchange
with other tribes for their subsistence, the Papagos were
shunned and feared, as nearly all roving Indians are by
1
Pfefferkorn mentions (vol. ii. p. 161) frequent wars between the Opatas
and the other tribes, but they were not as unremitting in their hostilities as the
Apaches have shown themselves to be. There were periods of peace, or at
least of security.
2 The name Papa-Otam is taken from the Description Geografica (cap. vi.
art. ii.). On the map accompanying the work of Father Pfefferkorn they are
Papabi-Ootam sive Papagos." Ootam signifies man in the Pima
"
called
language what the other word means I am unable to say. That they are Pimas
;
is fully established. It was the celebrated Jesuit Father Eusebius Kiihne or
Kino who made the Spaniards first acquainted with them. They were not
hostile, only shy, in the beginning.
Still, it was shyness rather than ferocity

1
sedentary tribes.
that kept the former aloof from intercourse. Their situation
was such as to render life dismal. In the southwest, their
neighbors were a tribe which has left in the records of Sonora
Although the Papagos were never, on the whole, dangerous to the whites,
1
they enjoyed a bad reputation for a long time. The so called Papagueria is
very well described in the Description Geografica (cap. vi. art. ii.) Verdad "
es, que en todo este vasto espacio hay mucho despoblado, como son casi todas
las marismas, y aun la mayor parte de ellas incapaz de poblarse por la
gran
escasez de agua y esterilidad de la tierra, porque todo el largo ^trecho que
lo ay desde Caborca hasta cerca de la boca del rio Colorado, que pasa de
ochenta leguas, son casi puros medanos y paramos tan escasos de agua, que
apenas se halla por toda la costa para poderla registrar caminando y aun ;
para esto falta del todo las ultimas treinta leguas antes de llegar a dicha
boca. ... La unica mision que se erigio el ano de 1751 por Mayo en San
Miguel de Sonoitac, cerca de cincuenta leguas al nor este de Caborca, aun
ella sola padecia escasez de agua, y asi no hay donde congregar a los pipages
6 papapootam, que asi se Hainan los pimas que viven en aquellos paramos, de
semillas de zacate, yerbas y frutas silvestres, y aun de conejos y ratones."
The Noticias de la Pimeria (anonymous, its date 1740) mentions the Papagos
as tambien es nacion Pima, pero muy inferior a la otra, respecto a que estos
"
no tienen rio, arroyos ni ojo de agua, y viven el verano en los llanos haciendo
vatequi o pozos para beber, y en dichos llanos siembran de temporal maiz,
frijoly calabazas, muy poco de este, y apenas se les acaba, se reparten a las
rancherias 6 pueblos de los otros pimas a servirles como criados por solo el
interes de la comida, y aun se alargan hasta venir a San Ignacio y Dolores ; son
muy afectos a comer cafne, que aprecian en estremo la que fuera, aunque sea
de caballo, burro, etc., y al tiempo de volverse a sus tierras, no estan seguros
los perros de que los hurten para comer ;
es nacion muy pusilanime y afecta a
los espanoles como las demas." Father Kiihne, in his letter to the Padre
Visitador Horacio Polici, dated September 22, 1698, (Carta del Padre Eusebio
Francisco Kino, al Padre Visitador Horacio Polici, acerca de una Entrada al
Noroeste y Mar de la California, etc ,) says that the Papagos, that is. the inhab
itants of the country between Caborca and the Rio Gila, he does not mention
them as Papagos by name, consist of" mas de cuarenta rancherias entre chicas
y grandes, todas d^ gente muy amigable, docil y tan afable que en todas partes
nos recibieron con casas prevenidas, con cruces y arcos puestos y con muchas
de sus comidas de maiz, frijol y calabazas, sandias y pitahayas, y de sus cazas,
liebres, etc y con muchos bailes y cantares de dia y de noche."
,
In the winter
of 1697, same missionary had already traversed a part of
tri e the Papagueria and
had been kindly treated. Compare Relation del Estado de la Pimeria, que remite
el Padre Visitador Horacio Polici, 1697; and in it the joint report made of the
trip by Cristobal Martin Bernal, Eusebio Francisco Kino, and others, Dec. 4,
a stain scarcely less dark than that made by the Apaches.

These neighbors were the Seris, linguistically allied to the
Arizonian Yumas, 1 and of whom little is known except that
they were a terrible scourge to the village Indians of Sonora
2
first, to the Spanish settlements and to the missions afterwards,
1697. Father Jacob Sedelmayr, S. J., Relacion que hizo con la Ocasion de . . .
haber venido a Mexico por el Mes de Febrero del A no de 1746, a solicitar Operarios
para fundar Misiones en los Rios Gila y Colorado, etc. Las rancherfas que hay :
"
desde casas grandes hasta abajo, Pimicas, Papalotes que viven a su lado del
Sur en tierras secas y esteriles, y inadministrables y por eso las mas gentiles."
Notwithstanding the docility of the Papagos, we find them described as wild,
and even as dangerous. Of their other customs and of their religion, etc., we
have nothing except the well grounded complaint that they were much addicted
to witchcraft, and that their superstitious practices contributed to diminish their
numbers with the ultimate prospect of their complete extermination. Without
referring to other sources which speak positively on the subject, I quote here
Fray Juan Domingo Arricivita (Cronica serafica y apostolica del Colegio de Pro
paganda Fide de la Santa Cruz de Queretaro, Segunda Parte, lib. iii. cap. xiii.
P- 397) Son estos Indios muy inclinados y propensos al exercicio y trato de
-
"
la hechizeria, cuya raiz les viene de su antigua prosapia gentflica supersticion.

. . .mismos son sus crueles verdugos, que por un ridiculo sentimiento
Ellos
hacen duelo, y por rencor, envidia 6 venganza, y aun por sola vanidad y loca
presuncion, se acometen y se matan unos a otros con crueles y torpesmaleficios."
This is what may be observed to-day among the Apaches, Navajos, and among
the New Mexican Pueblos.
The Seris appear first under the name of Heris, and thus they are called
1
by Ribas (Historia, lib. vi. cap. i. p. ^58). He speaks of them in a very appro
priate manner Es sobremanera bozal, sin pueblos, sin casas, ni sementeras.
"
No tienen rios, ni arroyos, y beuen de algunas lagunillas, y charcos de agua:

sustentanse de caga," etc. He had ascertained that a portion of the Seris
dwelt on an island in the Gulf of California, for he says (p. 359) Y dentro :
"
de la misma mar, en isla, se dize que habitan otros de la misma nation."

The first white man who came in contact with the Seris was undoubtedly Fray
Marcos de Nizza, 1539 (Descubrimiento de las siete Ciudades, p. 331)
in Asi- :
"
mismo me vinieron a ver indios de otra isla mayor quella, questa mas adelante
de los cuales tuve razon haber otras treinta
islas pequenas, yobladas de gente y
pobres de comida, ecebto dos, que dicen que tienen maiz. Estos indios traian
colgadas de la garganta muchas conchas, en las cuales suele haber perlas e yo ;
les mostre una perla que llevaba para muestra, y me dixeron que de aquellas
habia en las islas, pero yo no les The discovery that the Seri language
vf."
|
belongs to the Yuma family of idioms is due to Mr. Albert S. Gatschet.
2 From the latter part of the seventeenth century to the close of the eigh
teenth, the documents relative to Sonora are filled with complaints about ravages
and that at the present time they huddle together oh the

isles of the Californian Gulf, shy and difficult of approach,
living, as they always have as long as Europeans, known to

on marine productions, and whatever game they
fish, shells,
might occasionally secure, and having some commerce. To

day they perform occasional work at the port of Guaymas,
whereas in the sixteenth century and previously they even
depended Indian corn upon barter with the inland tribes. 1
for
Close by the Seris dwelt, along the coast also, the Guaymas
and Upan-Guaymas. Both clusters may be said to have been
exterminated by the Seris, in the same relentless but slow
manner in which the Apaches wiped out some of the Indians
of Chihuahua. 2 Little, if anything at all, is therefore known
of them, and they have been classed linguistically with the
Seris themselves. 3 I am informed, however, on the authority
committed by the would be needless to refer to them in detail.

Seris. It
Their stronghold was the Prieto," where they finally surrendered in

Cerro "
last
1770. The Seris never were numerous with the exception of the Guaymas, they
;
constituted the weakest tribe of Sonora in point of number. But their home
if a range of arid coast may be called a home was such as to render offensive
warfare against them almost impossible, whereas they could prey upon their
neighbors with impunity.
1
Ribas says (Historia, p. 358): Sustentanse de ca$a aunque al tiempo de
"
cosecha de maiz, con cueros de venados, y sal que recogen de la mar, van a
rescatarlo a otras naciones. Los mas cercanos destos a la mar tambien se sus-
tentan de pescado." This, having been written about the year 1645, of course
refers to commerce as itexisted previously to the advent of the Spaniards.
2 The enmity between the Guaymas and the Seris must have been hereditary,
or at least traditional. Thus, in 1754, while the Seris were temporarily at peace
with the Spaniards, the Guaymas attacked one of their rancherias unexpectedly,
and committed some murders. In matters of war between Indian tribes it is
difficult, nay, often impossible, to ascertain which party is to blame.
3
See Orozco y Berra, Geografia de las Lenguas, p. 354. I was told in Sonora,
that the name Guaymas was an Opata word, and signified wher e they ate." I
"
cannot vouch in the least for the correctness of this interpretation. The
Description Geogrdfica (cap. v. art. i.) says of the
Guaymas: Hablan con muy "
poca diferencia una misma lengua con los Seris ; pero es tan corto su numero,
que en ninguna manera merece el nombre de nacion a demas de vivir ya mes-
;
clados con los hiaquis en Belen y otras, por haberse visto obligados a ceder su
of a distinguished traveller, Mr. Alphonse Pinart, that the
Guaymas were of the stock of the southern Pimas, or Ne-

bomes. This would suffice to explain the savage hatred
with which the Seris persecuted them. The Guaymas,
furthermore, are represented as having been land-tillers on
a very low scale, 1 a feature in which they differed es
sentially from the

Seris. The latter may be regarded as
something maritime Indians, akin to the Antillean and
like
South American Caribs. The Isla del Tiburon and other

islands them not only homes, but also their places
were to
of refuge, or lairs. 2 Here they were invulnerable by the

tribes of the mainland, and safe unless caught on one of
theirmarauding expeditions away from the coast. But once
near the sandy and waterless, treeless Playas,"
or on the "
shores of the Gulf, the Seris could hoot at the idea even
of pursuit.
It is a well known fact that the Seris used poisoned
arrows. It even asserted, and commonly believed, that
is
they stiH, use them. 3 In presence of the positive assertions

of early chroniclers, that the Opatas also used these dan
gerous weapons against the first Spaniards who came to
Sonora, assertions which are substantiated by the descrip
tions of symptoms and by the indication of well known
naturaleza al sangriento furor de los Seris." The mission of Nuestra Senora

de Belen had been recently founded according to Ortiz apata (Relation
in 1678,
de las Misiones, etc., p. 379) :

"
Nuevamente fundada de indios que llaman de la

nacion Guaymas los cuales algunes anos ha que han ido acudiendo a este partido
atraiclos de la Divina Providencia," etc.
1
Perhaps this was due to their contact with the Yaquis. They were neigh
bors, although hostile to each other, as Ribas relates on page 319. He calls
them Guayamas.
2 See Description Geografica Otro asilo tienen, asi en su isla del Tiburon,
:
"
casi como cuarenta leguas al Poniente de la hacienda de Pitiic, como en la . . .
de San Juan Bautista."
3
Orozco y Berra, Georafia, p. 354. Charles P. Stone, Notes on the State
of Sonora, Washington, 1861, p. 19.
counter poisons, the fact can hardly be doubted. The na

ture of the poison was evidently vegetable, and no credit is
to be given to tales ascribing the mortal effects of arrow
wounds to snake poison collected on arrow-tips and preserved
there in a dried state. A document of whose great value

for aboriginal medicine there can be no doubt, the celebrated
Rudo Ensayo," gives the name of the plant whose milky sap
was used to anoint the weapons, and thus render them fatal. 1
Ere leaving the Indians of Sonora, and before I pass on
to the tribes of Chihuahua, I must add a few remarks on
their medical art, if their empirical practice may be so called.
It appears certain that the Opatas, Pimas, and probably the
Yaquis, possessed and used a vast arsenal of medicinal herbs
and other remedies, in addition to the superstitious practices
resorted to by them for purposes of healing and curing. 2
I cannot go into any duty to call the
details, but it is my
attention of students of other branches of science than eth
nology to the given by Jesuit fathers of the medicinal

lists
plants Sonora, and to their accounts of the virtues at

of
tributed to them, and of the preparation and application of

remedies. 3 I have myself experienced the value of some
The Rudo Ensayo, published by Buckingham Smith in 1863, is the same as
1
the Description Geordfica. In the latter there is mention of a plant : 230.

"
Magot en lengua opata es un arbol pequeno muy lozano de verde y hermoso a

la vista; pero contiene una leche mortal, que a corta incision de su corteza
brota, con la que los naturales solian untar sus flechas, y por eso la llaman Yerba
de la Flecha, pero ya pocos la usan. Sirue tambien dicha leche para abrir
tumores rebeldes, aunque no lo aconsejaria por su caracter venenoso." This
would indicate a Euphorbiacea. In regard to the poison used by the Seris the
writer is not so positive as to the ingredients employed, but is of the opinion that
it must be vegetable. The tale of snake poison being used he rejects.
2 I cannot sufficiently from a practical point of view, upon a thorough
insist,
study of the medicinal plants of the Southwest in general. There are certainly
many of great value.
3 The
Description Geogrdfica, or Rudo Ensayo, appears to be the source from
which Alegre gained his information on the plants, etc. of Sonora. The work
of Pfefiferkorn, Besckreibttng der Landschaft Sonora, also contains information,
but it
may have come from the same source, since the Beschreibnng is posterior
of them, and have become inclined to suppose that a study

of them, with the methods and means of modern science,
might be profitable, independent of its value as a contribu

tion to knowledge of Indian culture.
While in Sonora we have mostly met with tribes almost,

if not exclusively, sedentary, (the Seris and Papagos being
the only ones to whom this designation cannot be properly
applied,) on the soil of Chihuahua the proportion of roving
Indians to those of more sedate habits is greater. It is easy

to account for this, when we consider the physical geography
of the country.
The western Chihuahua, generally speaking, 1 is
half of
occupied by the Sierra Madre and its immediate ramifica

tions. That region is therefore better watered than the
eastern half, large portions of which, while not strictly plains,
are still broad valleys, through which the water supply is
2
scant, and often but periodical. The southeast is particu
larly forbidding in this respect ;
furthermore it is hot, and the
3
mountains are rugged and arid. With the limited mechanical
means Indian could not well subsist by
at his disposal, the
agriculture on an area of this sort there was little incentive

;
for him to become or remain a permanent settler, but often
to the Description by thirty years, and P. Pfefferkorn was in Sonora when the
Description was written. He was then missionary at Toape (cap. vii. art. iii.).
As for the author of the Description, I am convinced it was the Padre Nentwig,
S. J., priest at Huassavas in eastern Sonora.
1
use this term, because there are levels of considerable extent, and also long
I
valleys, like those following the course of the Rio de Casas Grandes and Rio de
Galeana. But the whole region belongs to the upper drainage of the great
central chain.
2 The eastern half of Chihuahua is not absolutely barren. Still, the watered
expanses are isolated, and the region near the Rio Grande may be termed arid,
and it is excessively hot and unattractive, even at present.
8See above. Mezquite beans have been the chief support for days of the
horses of the United States troops that entered Chihuahua from that direction,
in pursuit of Apaches, according to convention between the governments of the
United States and Mexico.
the necessity of shifting seemed absolute. In consequence

of this, we find village Indians clustering three centuries
ago in the southwest and west of Chihuahua, as also in the

extreme east, on the triangle formed between the Rio Grande
del Norte and its western
tributary, the Rio de las Conchas,
or Conchos. 1 The former people, or the mountaineers proper,
belonged linguistically to the same great family with the
Yaquis, Pimas, and Opatas. They lived in the extreme
Southwest, the Tepehuanes in the South and as far as
2
Namiquipa, and the Tarahumares south of Casas Grandes.
Outposts of Sonoran Jovas, perhaps of Opatas too, reached
over into Chihuahua from the west in small villages. Since
the boundary line between Sonora and Chihuahua is
yet
imperfectly worth while attempting to
defined, it is not
locate such advanced colonies of the one or the other cluster
with any great precision. 3
1
The name has been corrupted into "
Conchos," but the original designation

was "
Rio de See Joan de Miranda, Relacion hecha al Doctor

las Conchas."
Orozco, Presidente de la Audiencia de Guadalajara, etc., p. 566 A diez y a :

"
doce leguas de las minas de Santa Barbara, al Norueste, esta* un rio muy grande
que corre hacia Lebante llamanle el rio de las Conchas, y 5. esta causa, llaman
;
los indios que en el hay, de las Conchas." It was called thus in the documents
of 1582. Testimento dado en Mejico sobre el Descubrimiento de doscientas Leguas
addante de las Minas de Santa Barbola, Gobernacion de Diego de Ibarra, etc.
(Doc. de Indias, vol. xv. pp. 83, 90). It was Antonio de Espejo who (Relacion del
Viaje, Doc. de Indicts, vol. xv. p. 104) perverted it into Conchos.

2 not possible to establish definite boundaries, for the simple reason
It is
that there were none. The tribes were so scattered, that they seemed to
overlap one another s grounds, and the settlements frequently shifted their
location. Orozco y Berra s ethnographic map seems to be correct in the main.
Tutuaca, however, was a mission of the Tepehuanes, and Tutuaca lay almost in
the latitude of the city of Chihuahua, near the present boundary dividing Chihua
hua from Sonora. The fact that Tutuaca was a Tepehuan settlement in 1678 is
established by the Jesuit P. Juan Ortiz Zapata, Relacion de las Misiones, p. 340.
3 Ortiz
Zapata, Relacion, p. 342. These Jovas probably were the Indians
whom Cabeza de Vaca met in the Sierra Madre, who lived partly in houses <
made Relacion de Naufragios (in Vedia s Historiadores Primitives de

of sod,
Indias, vol. i. p. 543), Entre estas casas habia algunas de ellas que eran de
"
tierra," and who told him about so called Pueblos farther north.
8o ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
In the valley of Casas Grandes and north of it, tribes oc
cupied the country which have completely disappeared, and

to which I shall refer later on. Whether these tribes were
land-tilling or not is a point yet in doubt.
In the east we find the Jumanos, a tribe also extinct as
such, settled between the Rio Grande and the Conchas.
When first met with and described, in 1582, the Jumanos
lived in villages of houses with upright walls and covered
with mud roofs ;they cultivated corn, squashes, and beans.
They may consequently be classed, so far as that part of
the tribe is concerned which lived in Chihuahua, among
the sedentary Indians of the Southwest. 1
Antonio de Espejo, Relacion del Viage {Documentos de Indias, vol. xv.

1
p. 168) Acabadas de salir desta nacion, entramos en otra que se llama de los
:
"
Xumarias, que por otro nombre los llamaban los espafioles, los Patarabueyes,
en que parecia habia mucha gente y con pueblos formados grandes, en que
vimos cinco pueblos con mas de diez mil indios, y casas de azotea, bajas, y con
buena traza de pueblos y la gente desta nacion esta rayada en los rostros y
; ;
es gente crecida, tienen maiz y calabazas, y caza de y vuelo, y fn soles y pes- pie"
cados de muchas maneras, de dos rios caudalosos, que es el uno que dicen viene
derechamente del Norte y entra en el rio de los Conchos, que este sera como la
mitad de Guadalquibi, y como Guadalquibi, el cual entra en
el de Conchos sera
la mar del Norte." A
and clearer description of the delta formed by the
better
junction of the Rio Grande and the Conchos could not be wished. The other
copy of Espejo s report, in the same volume of the Documentos de Indicts (p. 105),
has distinctly que se llama de los Jumanos." The corrupt version given in
"
Hakluyt describes the dwellings of the Jumanos as being de calicanto." There

"
is nothing of it in the original reports.

It is strange that there should be, so far as anything appears, such a long
silence on the Jumanos of Chihuahua, after Espejo s journey, for it is more
than likely, it is almost certain, that they continued to inhabit the delta above
mentioned. They were there in 1683, and of their own choice no mission ;
ary had induced them to settle there. This is clearly established by the docu
ments relative to the reconnoissance made by Juan Dominguez de Mendoza
as far as the Rio Nueces in Texas in the year 1683 (see El Diario del Viaje de
Juan Dominguez de Mendoza a la Junta de los Rios y hasta el Rio Nueces,

MS. copy in my possession), and more particularly by the documents annexed
to it. See also Felipe Romero, Carta al Gobernador Don Domingo Gironza Petriz
de Cruzate, and Pedimento al Maestre de Campo Juan Dominguez Mendoza.
Father Nicolas Lopez, who accompanied Dominguez, says the same in his Memo
rial acerca de la Repoblacion de Nuevo Mexico y Ventajas que ofrece el Reino de
The centre of Chihuahua cannot be said to have been per
manently occupied by any cluster of natives. It was how-
Quivira, April 24, 1686 Y en la sazon halle treinta y tres capitanes infieles de
:
"
la nacion Jumanas y otras que venian a peclir el baptismo, nos fuimos . . .
caminando a pie y descalzos en compani a de dichos infieles sin escolta de espano-

les, haste llegar a la Junta de los Rios, ... a donde nos tenian estos infieles
fabricados dos ermitas aseadas," etc. Also Fray Alonzo de Posadas, Informe al
Rey sobre las Tierra de Mievo Mexico Quivira y Teguayo, 1686. It is true that
Dominguez calls these Indians Julimes, but from the contexts I must conclude
that they were also Jumanos. It looks as if the two tribes had lived together at
the "Junta
de los Rios." In 1715, when the missions were re-established there,
the following tribes or clusters are mentioned as living at the Junta in Los
" "
Titulos y Advocaciones de los Once Pueblos contenidos en esta Relation (Documented
para la Historia de Mejico, Cuarte Seria, vol. iv. p. 169) Mesquites, Cacalotes, :
Oposines, Conejos, Polames and Sivolos, Puliquis, Conchos, Pasalmes. These

names are repeated, with many others, as those of tribes inhabiting New Biscay
in 1726, by the Brigadier Pedro de Rivera (Diario y Dcrrotero de lo Caminado
visto observado, etc., p. 22). Juan Dominguez de Mendoza (Diario, fol. 46) gives
y
the names of a number of tribes connected at least with the Jumanos, which
he met in northwestern Texas, and
"
among that list the "
Poliches (Puliquis ?)
are mentioned. I suspect, however, that these names are not always those of
separate tribes, but rather names of clans or bands. The Jumanos are ranked
among the Chihuahua tribes by Orozco y Berra (Geografta, etc., p. 386). But
he considers them as a branch of the Apaches-Faraones. There are no grounds
forsuch a conclusion beyond the possible fact, that the remnants of the Juma
nos may have become absorbed by the Apaches, upon the latter obtaining
sway over Chihuahua. This is only a possibility, and as yet no certainty. Of
the language of the Jumanos we know nothing. Fray Nicolas Lopez asserts
(Memorial] that he composed a vocabulary of the Jumano idiom, but we have
no knowledge of its existence. He says Yo Senor, saldria de esta ciuclad
:
"
a fines del que viene para aquella custodia ; llevo dispuesto el animo a en-
trar segunda vez a dichas naciones, por saber ya la lengua jumana y haberla
predicada a aquellos y haber hecho vocabulario muy copioso de dicha lengua,

como consta juridicamente en los instrumentos que tengo presentados." Father
Lopez is not an absolutely reliable authority. He took the part of Juan
Dominguez Mendoza in the latter s quarrels with nine of his men, who subse
quently deserted his camp, returning to El Paso del Norte at their own risk.
Compare his Diario, fol. 14, Auto, fol. 15, Petition, etc. ; also Felipe Romero
and others, Carta al Gobernador, fol. 1-3 ; Pedimento, p. 2. He was even
accused of conspiring with Dominguez against the Governor Petriz de Cruzate,
in 1685. Testimonio d la Letra dela Caussa Criminal que se d segtiido contra el
Campo Juan Domingues de Mendoza y los demas, etc., September, 1685,
Maestre de
MS. Some of his claims to services performed may be exaggerated.
The Jumanos of Chihuahua disappear in the eighteenth century. In regard
to their possible linguistic connection with the Julimes, see further on.
6
ever claimed and roamed over by Indians whose idioms are
yet unclassified, simply because some of these idioms have

disappeared from the surface. In the south, we find the
Conchas, or Conchos, and, hanging about them like Arabs

of the desert, a wild, ferocious, errant stock, the Tobosos.
What New Mexico
the Seris were to Sonora, the Apaches to
at an early date, the Tobosos were to the aborigines of
Chihuahua, and later on to the Spaniards, namely, an inces

sant scourge. Their incursions extended over a wide range,
embracing the States of Nuevo Leon, of Tamaulipas in part,
of Coahuila, and of Chihuahua. So omnipresent were these
nomads, that each one of these districts now claims to have
been their home at one time, while in fact they wandered
everywhere and dwelt nowhere.
1
The Conchos were not
1
The Tobosos also appear first in Espejo s reports, Relation del Viage,
p. 167. He calls them Tobozos, and in the other version there is the misprint
Already Espejo noticed that they were shy and shiftless Son esqui- "
Jobozos. :
vos, y fueron de todas las partes que estaban pobladas, en xacales, por
asi se
donde pasabamos sustentanse con lo que los dichos Pazaguates usan de

;
. . .
;
arcos y flechas ;
andan sin vestiduras; pasamos por esta nacion que parecia
haber pocos indios, tres jornadas, que habria en ellas once leguas."
Caspar Castano de Sosa, who marched from Nuevo Leon to New Mexico in
1590, makes no mention of the Tobosos in his Journal. Neither does Juan de
Onate in his diary ot 1596. The Tobosos were, then, to be found mainly in
Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, and also in Tamaulipas. They became formidable to
Chihuahua only in the seventeenth century, after missions had been established,
and the contact with civilization gave some pretext for depredations. I say
pretext, for in most cases, as with the Apaches, for instance, Such tribes only
waited for some opportunity to resort to murder and rapine. In his Carta
Etnogrdfica, Orozco y Berra localizes, so to say, the Tobosos in Coahuila and
Nuevo Leon. It seems certain that they most habitually infested those districts,
but they were also a terrible scourge to Chihuahua. On the whole, it would
be as difficult to assign to them a definite territory as it would be to the Apaches
in former times, previously to their reduction to reservations. In 1630, Fray
Alonzo de Benavides mentions again the Tobosos, Memorial que Fray Ivan de
Santander de la Orden de San Francisco, Comisario General de Indias, presento a
la Magestad Catolica del Rey don Felipe Cvarto Nuestro Senor, Madrid, 1630, p. 7.
He speaks of the Tobosos along with a number of other tribes of Chihuahua,
like the Tarahumares, Sumas, Janos, etc., and says of them collectively: "Gente
muy feroz, barbara, y indomita ; porque andan siempre totalmente desnudos,

any more tractable, neither do they appear as having been

more civilized in the beginning, yet they showed afterwards
sementera alguna, viuen de lo que cagan, que es todo genero

sin tener casa, ni
de animales, aunque scan inmundos, mudandose para esto de unos cerros 4
otros y sobre el juego suelen estas naciones tener guerras ciuiles, y se matan
;
brutalmente, sus armas son arco y flecha, que son las generales de todas las
naciones quando passamos por entre ellos, nos embisten cara a* cara, si ven
;
poca gente, y hacen el mal que pueden por lo cual no se puede passar menos
;
q co doze hombres co sus cauallos, de armas mui bie apercibidos, y aun desta
suerte se ha de ir con cuidado, haziedo lubre a prima noche en vna parte,
para
diuertirlos, y passarla lo mas adelante que se pudiere y por lo menos quando
;
ven mucha fuerga y gente, procuran de noche en sus emboscades hazer el dano
que pueden en la cauallada ; y desde que se descubrio el Nuevo Mexico, siempre
que se passan estas cien leguas, ha auido guerras con estos indios, en defensa de
los danos que pretenden hazernos." The historian of the Jesuit missions in
Mexico, P. Francisco Xavier Alegre, says of the Tobosos, speaking of their first
appearance as fomenters and leaders in the insurrections of contiguous tribes
(Historia de la Compama de Jesus en Nueva Expand, vol. ii. p 244) Comen- "
zaron las hostilidades por los tobosos, gentes belicosas y barbaras, y que Servian
como de asilo a todos los foragidos y mal contentos de aquellas provincias. Los
robos y las muertes eran ordinaries no solo en los carros y espanoles que encon-
traban en los caminos, pero aun en las poblaciones y en los reales de minas mas
poblados. En los reales de Mapinii, del Parral y en San Miguel de las Bocas
se vivia enun continuo sobresalto, especialmente en las crecientes de las lunas,
en que solian juntarse." This recalls vividly the condition of New Mexico and
of Arizona not more than twenty-five years ago. The same custom of starting on
forays and killing expeditions with the waxing moon, is well known to exist
also among the Apaches. What Father Alegre says refers to 1644, however.
A witness of the times, the Jesuit P. Nicolas de Zepeda, says, Relation de lo
Sucedido en este Reino de Vizcaya desde el Ano de 1644 hasta el de 1645, etc (Doc. -
para la Historia de Mejico, Serie 2) :

"
Como
tambien tan cercano a las cosas tan
nobles que han sucedido de dos afios a esta parte que ha que comenzaron a
malograrse los indios de la nacion tabaz, que es y ha sido siempre la mas cruel,
bulliciosa y guerrera pues no obstante que casi cada ano de nuevo les bajaban
de paz los senores gobernadores y capitanes de presidios." The historian
of the Province of San Francisco de Zacatecas, Fray Francisco de Arlegui,
devotes several chapters to dissertations on the manners and customs of the
Indians inhabiting or roaming over the various regions through which the
missions of that Province were scattered. He enumerates a long list of tribes,
and among them the Tobosos. But his picture of habits and mode of life
is general, embracing all the forty and more tribes of his list, and without
special reference to any of them in particular. The dissertation embraces

chapters ii. to xii. inclusive of his Chrtnica de la Provincia de N. S. P. S. Francisco
de Zacatecas (ist edition, 1737, pp. 148-208). It would be impossible to tran-
1
a much greater willingness to adopt permanence of abode.
Almost in the heart of the Concho range we find the Julimes,
a small tribe classified linguistically with the Tepehuanes.
permitted here to call attention to the possibility

I may be
of the Julimes having been properly but Jumanos, and of
stating that my reasons for this suggestion are

found in
comparisons of the Reports on the Missions of the Junta de

"
scribe the whole of it here, and I simply refer the reader to the work, pointing
out to him, however, that of the many and often interesting statements we are
never told to which particular tribe they refer.
The constant hostilities of the Tobosos were, for more than a century, the
greatest obstacle to the colonization of Chihuahua,
and they seriously impeded
communication between Parral and New Mexico. The authors of the past cen
tury designatethem as the scourge of northern Mexico. Says Fray Isidro Felis
de Espinosa, Chronica Apostolica y Serdphica de los Colegios de Propaganda Fide de
Queretaro (1746, lib. v. p. 481) Como son los Indies Tobosos, apostatas de
:
"
nuestra Santa Fe, y azote de las Provincias de la Nueva Vizcaya y de Coahuila."

And the same author uses almost the identical words in the Peregrino Septen
trional Atlante (Biography of Fr. Antonio Margil de Jesus, 1737, p. 271). It was
only after more than a century of frequently unsuccessful warfare very similar
to that which the United States troops have had to carry on against the Apaches,
although numbers were, on the part of the Spaniards, much inferior to those of
the American troops employed in the Southwest, and there was much less
disparity in armament between the Spaniards and the Tobosos than between
the Americans and the Apaches fifteen years ago that the Tobosos were finally
exterminated and the Apaches took their place as the curse of the unfortunate
provinces. In 1748 the Tobosos, according to Villa-Senor y Sanchez (Theatro
Americano, vol. ii. lib. v. cap. xi. p. 297), were reduced to not over one hundred
families. Together with another tribe from Coahuila, the Gavilanes, they were
stillcommitting depredations. The Gavilanes decorated their faces with a blue
line on the forehead.
It is not unreasonable to suppose that the few remaining Tobosos, if any,
joined the Apaches, when the latter began to infest Chihuahua. But this would
be no proof of the assumption by Orozco y Berra, that the language of the
Tobosos belonged to Apache or Tinne stock. See Geografia de Lenguas,
PP- 39> 32 5> 3 2 7- 1* i s perfectly true, as the author just quoted says, that
the Tobosos prepared the road for the Apaches in central and southern Chi-
huahua, in Coahuila, and in neighboring States but while it is not at all im ;
possible that they were a kindred tribe, there is as yet, to my knowledge, no

evidence to that effect.
1
Compare Arlegui, Chronica, p. 308, on the labors of Fray Alonzo de Oliva
among the Conchos.
los Rios," which date back as far as I683-

1
The Julimes
are said to be extinct, and there is no doubt as to their hav
ing disappeared as an autonomous tribe. Whether every
trace of their idiom is really lost, is yet to be ascertained.
In 1725, a list is given of the tribes of Chihuahua, which
counts up as many as twenty-seven. 2 Some of these (as the
catalogue includes all the Indians of New Biscay in general),
lived outside of the limits of the present Mexican state, and
others are evidently but the names of different bands or clans
of one and the same tribe. 3 While it is possible, therefore,
that I
may omit one or more small tribes in my enumeration,
it is quite as likely that future researches will connect
some of those which, in the present state of knowledge, I
am compelled still to treat as independent groups.

Among the tribes of northern and northeastern Chihuahua,
most of which have ceased to exist politically, if the term
may be employed in designating societies of the Indian kind,

1
have already alluded to the contradictory reports about the Indians of the
I
de los Rios," dating from 1683 to 1686. Thus, Dominguez Mendoza, in

"Junta
his Diario (fol. 5), calls them "Jente de la nasion Julimes jente politica en
la lengua mexicana y que todos siembran mais y trigo y otras semillas."
Also Felipe Romero (Carta, p. i), este puesto de Xulimes."
"a But Fray
Nicolas Lopez, Memorial, calls them Jumanos. So, on the other hand, Fray
Silvestre Velez de Escalente, Carta al Padre Fray Agustin Morfi (April 2,
Llegaron a la junta de los dos rios Norte y Conchos,

"
1778, paragraph 7), says :
predicaron a los indios que aliiestaban, que eran de las tres naciones, Con
chos, Julimes y Chocolomes." The documents of 1715 do not mention the
Jumanos as living there. It may be that, as Sabeata, the Jumano Indian

who guided Dominguez, considered the people at the Junta as his own, and as
Espejo had, in 1582, met the Jumanos at that very place, that the Julimes were
in fact but a branch of the Jumanos. I give this as a mere suggestion. In
a witchcraft trial of 1732, (Causa Criminal contra tmos Yndios del Pueblo de Santa-
Ana denunciados por Echiseros, MS. in my possession,) there appears a Jumano
Indian from El Paso, but whose relatives lived at Julimes. Orozco y Berra
(Geograjia, p. 326) classifies the Julime with the Tepehuan, without giving any
authority for so doing.
2
Rivera, Diario y Derrotero, p. 22.
3
Surnames given to clans or to bands have often appeared as tribal names,
e. g. those of the various fractions of the Apaches.
are the Mansos, the Piros, and the Tiguas. All three reside at
or near El Paso del Norte, the Tiguas even on the Texan side
of the river, but none of them were original Chihuahuefios. 1
The Mansos were transplanted to the south in the middle
of the seventeenth century, 2 the others in 1680 and i68i. 3
Therefore they belong to New Mexico, which was their origi
nal home. It is different with the lost tribes called Sumas,
Janos, and Jocomes.
The Janos became known to the Spaniards as early as
the beginning of the seventeenth century, if not earlier, and
it is likely that the Jocomes were
equally well known about
the same time, since they were near neighbors of the Janos,
and their allies and confederates in every subsequent enter
4
prise against other Indians, as well as against the Spaniards.
Considerable interest attaches itself to these lost tribes,
since they were found occupying the vicinity of the large
1
Not even Juan de Onate met them, or some of them, in or
the Mansos.
near the Pass Paso del Norte(
on the 3d of May, 1 598. Discttrso de las Jornadas
) ,
que hizo el Campo de su Magestad desde la Nueva Espana d la Provine ia de la

Nueva Mexico (Doc. de Indias, vol. xvi. p. 243). But these were only men Y :
"
vinieron Real quarenta de los dichos indios, arco turquesco, cabelleras corta-
al
das como porrillas de milan, copetes hechos 6 con sangre 6 con color para atesar
el cabello : sus primeras palabras fueron Manxo, Manxo, Micos, Micos, por
decir mansos y amigos."
2 In
1659 the mission of El Paso del Norte was founded. Fray Garcia de
San Francisco, Auto de Fundacion de la Mision de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe
de los Mansos del Paso del ATorte, Dec. 8, 1659 (MS. copy from the Libra pri-
mero de Casamientos of El Paso del Norte, fol. 74, 75) Y aver bajado, no :
"
con pocos trabajos, al passo del Rio del Norte, de la banda de N? Espana que ;
es el medio de la cuztta y prouya del N? Mexico y en dho citio auer congregado

las mas de las Rancherias de los gentiles Mansos." .
3
Upon his retreat from Santa Fe, Ant. de Otermin gathered many Indians
and Socorro, Tiguas as well as Piros, and carried them to
of Isleta, Alamillo,
El Paso, where they were afterwards settled in the pueblos of Senecu and
Socorro del Sur (both Piros), and Isleta del Sur (Tiguas). Compare on the sub
ject Salida deOtermin para el Paso del Norte (MS. 1680, copy). The facts need
no proof, they are too well established.
4 The earliest
mention I can find of the Janos, as a tribe, dates from the first
half of the seventeenth century.
ruins called Casas Grandes. The most numerous and most

extended of them were the Sumas, of which by the way, the
last survivor still dwelt at El Paso del Norte in 1883. With
his death, so my informant, a Manso Indian, pertinently re
marked, the Sumas would die out completely, since, said he,
"There are no women left to perpetuate the tribe." This sim
ple statement conveys the valuable information that among
the Sumas also descent was in the female line.
Sumas appear to have been divided

Geographically, the
into two branches, one part of them hovering about the
environs of El Paso, the other in possession of the fertile
valley in which the ruins of Casas Grandes are situated. Of

the first, we only know that they appear to have lived in
very frail abodes, to, have been hostile to the whites for a
long time at least, that their dress was very scant, and their
weapons the customary ones of all southwestern aborigines.
Of their creed, their superstitious practices and medicine,
and their religious organization, nothing as yet has become
known beyond the fact that the peculiar office or dignity
"
termed erroneously Cacique

"
to-day existed among them,

that they had at least three principal shamans or leading
medicine-men," and that they celebrated dances of a reli

"
gious nature, which often had a sensual and even obscene

character. 1 These northern Sumas appear not to have been
That the Sumas lived about the Pass of the North at a very early date is
1
certain. They are mentioned as forming a part of the first mission there,
under the name of Zumanas, by Fray Garcia de San Francisco, Auto de Funda-
1
don, 1659 For aver ido, a dha custta los Capitanes y ancianos de la gentili-
:
"
dad, de los indios Mansos y Zumanas, a suplicarme ; les bajase a predicar el

SS evang de nro Sr. Jesuxpto." At a still earlier date, in 1630, the Sumas
are mentioned by Benavides, Memorial, p. 7. Vetancurt, Cronica de la Pro-
vincia del Santo Evangelic de Mexico (edition of 1871, p. 308), speaks of the
Zumas and Zumanas as living somewhat below the Paso. Of their original
numbers I have no idea. They became very turbulent after the uprising of
1680. As early as 1681 there were signs of trouble. Autos que se ysieron sobre
damar los Vesinos de este Reino para Salir d Mejorarse de Puesto, 1681 (MS.
numerous, and their style of living, even during the past

century, whenever they could return to their pristine condi-
copy, fol. i): Y mas abiendo corrido vnas vozes de que a ymitacion de los
"
del Nueuo Mexo, an tratado de perder la obediencia a su Rl mag." This

occurred at the instigation of Pueblo Indians from New Mexico, who had accom
panied Otermin to El Paso. Autos Criminales contra Juan Paititi, India, 1682,
(MS. copy). Causa contra Juan Cucala, same year (MS. copy). Interrogatories
de Indies hechos en el Pueblo del Paso del Norte, 1 68 1 (MS. copy). Coufesion y
Declaracion de vn Yndio de Naciott Pecuri que dijo llamarse Juan, 1683 (MS.
copy). They finally broke out in 1684, (Causa Criminal por Denunciation de
Andres Jopeta contra Nuebe Yndios, etc., 1684, MS. copy,) and dragged the
Mansos into the fray, (Causa Criminal que se d seguido contra los Yndios
Xptianos Manssos, etc., 1684, MS. copy,) and compelled the Governor Domingo
Jironza Petriz de Cruzate to march against them, and against the Janos, their
confederates Lista y Muestra dela Jente de Gua que por Orden del Capn Dn
:
>
Domingo Xironza Petriz de Cruzate va d aser Castigo y Justa Gua alos Yndios
Xptianos Apostatas Janos Sumas y demas A asiones, Sept. 6, 1684 (MS. copy).
7
They were definitively reduced in 1686: Escalante, Carta, 1778, par. 7. Several
settlements of Sumas were formed by the Spaniards around El Paso at various
times, but only one remained, San Lorenzo del Real. In 1744 it had fifty
Indian families, in 1765 only twenty-one. Fray Agustin Morfi, Descripcion
Geogrdjica del Nuevo Mexico, 1782 (MS. copy, fol. 114). From a document
of the latter part of the past century, the exact date of which I am unable
to ascertain, although a copy of its text is in my hands, I gather that the
population had at an early date decreased to one hundred and eighty-nine.

Estado de la Mision de San Lorenzo el Real Pueblo de Zumas (MS ). Current
tradition among the Mansos of El Paso attributes their decline to the small-pox.
It is certain that between 1693 and 1709 severe epidemics prevailed among the
Indians at the Paso. Libra Tersero de Difuntos. El Paso del Norte (MS.).
In regard to the customs of the Sumas of the Rio Grande, little is positively
known. That they originally lived almost like nomads is certain. The docu
ment above cited, Estado de la Mision de San Lorenzo* contains some information
on their condition at that place. Among the one hundred and eighty-nine indi
viduals of all ages and sexes, there were still twelve who never had embraced
Christianity. Even among those who had been baptized, there were three ac
knowledged sorcerers: Obseruan su especie de religion, vsan de infinitas
"
supersticiones y abusos como pudieran en la gentilidad. Los principales

agoreros de los christianos son tres, llamados Santiago Chicama, Antonio
Colina y Felipillo. A estos juntamente con todos los gentiles seria conuenien-
tisimo separarlos del pueblo," etc. The Cacique had recently died. Among the
many bad habits charged to the Sumas, in general terms, the use of the Peyote
is specially mentioned. This herb has a very bad reputation in the southwest
among Indians and Spaniards. Says the document before quoted "Es gente
:
mui viciosa dada a la embriaguez, y no es la peor la del vino y aguardiente si la de

tion, was little, if any, better than that of the Apaches.

1
Of
their language may yet be possible to save some fragments,
it
by searching at El Paso del Norte, where, as I have stated,

the "last of the Sumas
"
may still be alive.

As early as 1645, an author of high importance for the
history and ethnology Sonora speaks of the Sunas
"
of "
as
living in the northwestern part of the present territory of

Chihuahua. 2 Fifteen or twenty years later began the con
version of the Yumas," who occupied the valley of Casas
"
Grandes. 3 There is no doubt that these Yumas were but
layerua que llaman Peiote esta los trasporta de modo que los vuelve furiosos.
Es entreellos yerva misteriosa y la vsan en sus juntas de religion, que por lo
comun acaban en las mayores impurezas y obcenidades. A estas juntas se
congregan de noche y con escasa luz. Se inciensan por todos los de los demas,
y aquellos explican los principales dogmas de su religion y acaban como dexo
Touching the office of the Cacique the document says: Pues este "
dicho."
tiene entre ellos una especie da soberam a que todo quanto manda se ejecuta
sin repugnancia; a este solo obedecen, prefiriendo su dictamen en qualquier
asunto al de qualquier Justicia, y Ministros, y aun el Gobernadorcillo que de
ellos se les nombra por el Juez Real, esta subordinado en vn todo al Cazique."
It is easy to recognize, for any one who knows the religious organization of
the New Mexican Pueblos, the same office of chief oracle combined with the
duty of chief penitent, which the so-called Cacique of the Pueblos fills to this
day.
In thedocuments forming the acts of the prosecution against the Mansos
Indians when
the latter, induced by the Sumas, rose against the Spaniards in
1684, there is a mention of a ceremony performed by the Sumas, Declaration de
Juan del Espiritu Santo (fol. 21) Y llebandole de buelta a la Rancheria,
:
"
les hallo a todos Juntos en Rueda, y con un cuchillo clauado en medio de ella
en el suelo." This ceremony appears to have been connected with their cus
toms of war. Among the Pueblos I never heard of a similar practice, but it is
said that the Apaches have some performance of that kind.

1
Estado de la Mision de San Lorenzo el Real .
"
Aspiran siempre a la indepen-

dencia, lo que comprueba el modo de vida que observan, semejante al de los
Apaches."
2
Ribas, Historia de los Trivmphos (lib. vi. cap. i. p. 359) La Nacion de los :
"
Batucos, caminando al Norte, tiene tambien por confinantes muchas Naciones

de Gentiles amigos Cumupas, Buasdabas, Bapispes; y declinando al Oriente, a
los Sunas." The location could not be more definite.
3
Arlegui, Chronica de Zacatecas, (p. 105,) says that the mission of San Antonio
de Casas Grandes was founded in 1640. This appears to be erroneous. In the
the Sumas, and that the word is a misprint. Different from

their brethren who roamed near the Rio Grande, the Sumas of
Casas Grandes are described as a docile, even as a sedate
stock, whom became easy to accustom to culture
it of the
soil after the methods in vogue among the Spaniards of the
seventeenth century. 1
How far they had been agricultural
already, it is impossible to determine. Still, it seems as if
there had been more stable settlements of theirs around the
important ruins appropriately called "the Great Houses."
third volume of the fourth series of Documentos para la Historia de Mejico, there
are a number of documents concerning the establishment of the missions of
Casas Grandes, Torreon, and Carretas. In the Patente, dated October 11, 1666,
(p. 238,) it is stated: Certifico y doy fe como el senor maese de campo D.
"
Francisco de Gorraez Beaumont, caballero de la Orden de Calatrava, gober-

nador y capitan general de este reino de la Nueva Vizcaya que fue habiendo
certidumbre y clara noticia de que los indios barbaros que asisten en el Distrito
de Casas Grandes distancia de este real del Parral mas de cien leguas, pedian
el santo Evangelio y ser instruidos y catequizados en los misterios de nuestra
santa fe catolica, condescendiendo a sus piadosos ruegos y llevado del celo
cristiano que le acompana, envio al dicho puesto con licencia de sus prelados
al padre Fray Andres Perez, religioso de esta provincia, aviandolo de todo lo
necesario para el efecto mencionado, el cual se ha ejercitado mas de dos anos
en catequizar, bautizar y casar mucha cantidad de indios, formar poblacion."
This places the beginning of the missions at about 1664. The principal mis
sionary of Casas Grandes was however Fray Pedro de Aparicio Patente, Ibid. ; :
Andres Lopez de Gracia, Carta al Gobernador Antonio Oca Sarmiento (Ibid.,

p. 242). He Andres Lopez, Carta al Padre Provincial Valdes
died soon.
(Ibid., p. Informe al Virrey Marques de Mancera, October 23, 1667,
245) ;
(p. 232). Francisco de Gorraez Beaumont, Informe al Virrey (p. 233): Al "
segundo ano de mi gobierno en aquellas provincias, haciendome capaz de ellas,

tuve noticia como en esta paraje citado de las Casas Grandes y otro llamado el
Torreon y las Carretas y su circunferencia habia muchos indios llamados Yumas
y otras naciones." That the Yumas and the Sumas were one and the same
tribe can hardly be doubted. Aside from the fact that it was generally admitted
in the latter half of the seventeenth century that the Sumas were the inhab
itants of the Casas Grandes valley, there is the testimony of various documents
to the effect. The Yumas are nowhere spoken of, and the word appears to be
simply a misprint.
1 This is shown
by the kind reception given by them to Fray Andres Perez,
to Fray Pedro de Aparicio, and to Fray Nicolas de Hidalgo. See the docu
ments above quoted.
But I have not been fortunate enough to find any vestige of

authentic Suma tradition concerning those ruins themselves.
It is likely, from reasons that will be stated further on, that
Casas Grandes were built by another stock it is certain that, ;
when first heard of by the Spaniards and missionaries, Casas

Grandes was already a cluster of stately ruins. 1
The fate of the Sumas of northwestern Chihuahua is so
intimately connected with -the history of the Apaches and

of their devastations, that I prefer to turn to it again when
I shall treat of that much dreaded tribe. But I cannot over
look Jiere the very positive statements of the Opatas of
eastern Sonora, that the people living at Casas Grandes
were always their bitter enemies, and that the villages in the
Sierra Madre like Batesopa, Baquigopa, Quitamac, and oth

ers, owe their destruction to incursions of these foes, raids
made long ere the white man entered the valleys of the
Upper Yaqui.
Concerning two tribes who were immediate neighbors of
the Sumas, and often their allies, not much more than the
name and their manner of disappearance is as yet known.
These were the Janos and the Jocomes, both ranging to the
north of Casas Grandes and as far west as the present village
of Fronteras in Sonora, 2 who vanished within the grasp of
1
Franc, de Gorraez Beaumont, Informe, p. 234 For haber tenido noticia
:
"
que en este puesto de Casas Grandes era panino de minen a y segun tradicion
antigua, y ruinas que se veian que decian ser del tiempo de Moctezuma." The
Casas Grandes are spoken of as ruins in all the documents relating to the
place.
2 The headquarters, so to say, of the Janos were Janos and Carretas. There
two missions were established. Both, however, were soon abandoned, owing to
the incursions of the Apaches, and their forming a league or alliance with the
Janos, Jocomes, and some Sumas. This league was, according to Alegre,
Historia de la Compania de Jesus, (vol. iii. p. 53,) at Casas Grandes, in October
or November, 1684. The originator of the conspiracy is said to have been an
Opata Indian of Sonora, and it included, in addition to the Conchos, Tobosos,
and Opatas, los sumas 6 yumas, a los janos, a los chinanas," etc.
"
The
the Apaches, and were absorbed by the latter. The names

of these tribes are frequently mentioned in the early re
ports and registers of the Jesuit missionaries of Sonora ;
they are always characterized as so many fiends who har

assed and hampered the docile village Indians of Opata
stock. 1 And yet, at the same time, while they were the
greatest impediments to progress of the Jesuit missions, the
Janos and Jocomes had submitted willingly to the con
trol of Franciscans.
the Such a strange condition could
not last the Spaniards, especially the clergy, could not al
;
low the converts of one order to remain persecutors of the

other and of their neophytes. When the great insurrection
initiated in New Mexico began southwards through
to spread
the Apaches, found the Janos and their allies willing to

it
join in it. Their incursions soon extended as far as southern

Arizona, but this course of action was the doom of the tribe,
which before long disappeared among those who had led them
into the new career of rapine. A few remnants of it were
still left around Janos in the first half of the past century ;
but now the name of the tribe is extinct.
Ihave designated these Indians by such names as the

Spanish authors have applied to them, but it is by no means
certain that such designations are genuine. It is not im
probable that thewords Janos, Jocomes, etc., were derived
from some other Indian idiom, and were given to them by
Jocomes were of course included. These lived west of the Janos, partly in
Sonora, near Corodehuachi or Fronteras, partly in Chihuahua. Of the language,
manners, and customs of either tribe nothing is known. The assertion of Orozco
y Berra (Geografi a, pp. 325, 386), that their idioms were de filiacion apache,"
"
may ultimately prove true, but he fails to give any evidence of it.
1 These depredations are so well known, that it is useless to adduce proof.
As early as 1655, the church books of Bacadehuachi in Sonora report the O-pa-ua
(enemies) as killing the inhabitants of caves in the Sierra Madre. In the past
century, the Janos and Jocomes are yet mentioned frequently. Difuntos de este
Real de Opoto, 1677 to 1743 (MS.).
foreign tribes, or that the names are the product of misunder

standings or misapplications. Whether traces may yet be
found of the language spoken by the lost clusters of north-
weste rn Chihuahua, that of the Sumas excepted, is in my
estimation doubtful. It may be, that among the Apaches
traces of the Janos idiom still linger, and the statement of
Orozco y Berra which makes of that language, as well as
of the Toboso, a branch of the Apache may yet prove cor

rect. No vocabulary of it has been discovered, but this is no
proof that none ever existed.

The main aboriginal groups of Chihuahua, and those who
are best known to-day, are thus the village Indians of the
mountain regions, the Tepehuanes, and especially the Tara-
humares. The Conchos are extinct as a tribe, the Tobosos
were destroyed. The Jumanos were not of such importance
in Chihuahua as they were in New Mexico, and they also
lost, so to say, their individuality in the whirlpool consti

tuted by the Apache tribe. It is to the Tepehuanes and
Tarahumares that I must devote more attention now.

The former 1
properly Indians of Durango, and
are only
their most northern spurs extended into Chihuahua. They
inhabited that celebrated mining region of the Southwest
where San Jose del Parral now stands. 2 They were village
Indians, they cultivated the nutritive plants common to
all
the American native before the coming of wheat, barley,

the potato, fruit-trees, etc., and other vegetables imported
from the eastern continent or from the southern half of
America. Cotton appears also to have been raised by them ;
they wore cotton mantles and used the fibre of the yucca
for making garments also. Their abodes were of wood, of
1
Orozco y Berra, Carta Etnografica.
2 The ethnographic map just cited includes Parral within the range of the
Tarahumares, but I still suspect that the Tepehuanes formerly reached into that
neighborhood.
branches, and sometimes of stones and of mud. The vil
lages or rather hamlets (rancherias) commonly occupied

the banks of streams. 1 Their country being mountainous,
they clustered together in valleys and sheltered nooks, where
it was easy to raise some limited crops, and where at the same
time protection from enemies was relatively easy to secure.
For the Tepehuanes bordered upon tribes whom, through their
own ferocity, they had turned into hereditary enemies.
All authorities agree in describing the Tepehuanes as a
group not only warlike, but decidedly ferocious, as a scourge

to all who lived within reach of their grasp. The Acaxees
of Durango, and the Tarahumares of Chihuahua were in
mortal dread of them. 2 The object of the Tepehuanes in
description of the Tepehuanes at my command dates back to

1 The oldest
the year 1596. It is contained in the Documents for the History of Mexico, and
bears the title, Del Anna del Ano de 1596. It says of them "Los tepehuanes :
hacen grande ventaja a los de la Laguna para recibir la fe, asi por ser de natura-
leza mas blandos y llegados a razon como por tener algun rastro de politica
humana de que carecen todos los de la Laguna. Andan vestidos de lana y algo-
don ;
tienen cosechas de maiz ;
habitan de asiento en sus casillas o chozas, crian
con amor y cuidado a sus hijos." But the most complete description has been
left by Ribas (Hist, de los Trivmphos, lib. x. cap. i. p. 574) "El sustento era el :
general de los Indios, maiz con otras semillas propias suyas que sembrauan, por
ser casi todos labradores, aunque no de grandes sementeras y a falta dellas ;
se valian de los otros frutos siluestres de que vsan otras Naciones. De la

caya, y otros animales, y aues tambien se valian, de que ay abundancia en sus
tierras. El vestido es el que se ha dicho de otras Naciones serranas, vsando
muchos dellos de mantas de algodon, que sembrauan, y pita que se da en sus
montes y de las mismas hazian a su modo faldellines las mugeres. De la
;
planta de Mescal, y otros frutos siluestres, hazian vino y celebraua sus em-
briaguezes frequentemente, que estas en todas estas gentes las tenia introducidas
el demonio. Las casas eran 6 de madera y palos de monte, 6 de piedra y
. . .
barro y sus poblaciones vnas rancherias,

: modo de cafilas, cerca de aguajes
a"
arroyos, y rios, que no les faltauan, y el principal era el de Santiago Papaz-

quiaro, su principal pueblo." Arlegui (Chronica, p. 187) says: "La qual se
estiende desde la Sierra del Mezquital hasta el Parral, en que habitaba toda la
Sierra multitud de Indios en Pueblos muy bien formados hasta adelante de
Topia, y muy cerca de caponeta."
2 The relations between the Tepehuanes and their neighbors are thus de
scribed by Ribas, Historia, p. 574 El natural de los Tepeguanes, de suyo fue
"
:
these constant hostilities was the killing of the men in order
to secure their heads, and the carrying of women and fe

male children into slavery. The Tarahumares were specially
were more particularly
afraid of them, for their settlements
menaced by the Tepehuanes. It took the Jesuits a long time,
and it cost them many martyrs, ere they succeeded finally in
restoring peace between the tribes, and accustoming the fero
cious Tepehuanes to cease preying upon their neighbors.
The Tepehuanes more properly belong to the State of
Durango, and should be referred to the Indians of that

section. I
may be permitted to screen myself behind this
geographical accident in order to escape the duty of entering
at any length upon the question of their creed and beliefs.
The information which we as yet possess on this topic is

not as detailed and positive as might be desirable. Still, it
is not devoid of importance.
It appears from the reports of early Jesuit missionaries,
that they succeeded in obtaining, and destroying, according

to custom, a great number of large and small idols which
were held veneration by the Tepehuanes.
in The major
ity of thesewere of stone, and had at least human faces, if
not the entire human form. They were real fetiches, to
siempre mal sujeto, brioso, y guerrero, y que se preciaua de leuantar cabeâ, y

sujetar, y hazerse temer de Naciones vezinas, en particular de la Acaxee de la
Taraumara, y de otras ; a, las quales tenian tan acobardadas, y ellos a ellas tan
superiores, que sucedia entrar en vna poblacion de las dichas poco numero de
Tepeguanes, y sin atreuerse a hazerles resistencia, sacar della las mugeres, y
donzellas que les parecia, y lleuarselas a sus tierras, y apreuecharse tiranica-
mente dellas." Still they sometimes confederated with fractions of a neighbor
ing tribe against the other branches of that tribe. So it happened with the
Tarahumares, and this was the origin of the establishment of missions among
Porque leuantandose vn alboroto de guerra entre
"
the latter. Ibid., p. 592 :
estas dos Naciones, Tepeguanes vezinos a los Taraumares, y que poblauan

los
en el valle del Aguila, embiaron a pedir socorro de gente a los demas pueblos
Tepeguanes," etc. But Alegre (Historia de la Campania, vol. ii. p. 6) repre
sents the case differently. He says that the Tepehuanes of the Valle del Aguila
had confederated with some Tarahumares.
which the Indian applied for the most varied purposes, as

in case of disease, failure of rain and of crops, in war, etc. 1
While, of course the medicine-men had the most important

idols in charge, every Indian family harbored and revered its
proceed chronologically as far as possible. The oldest mention of the

1
I
idols of the Tepehuanes that I can find is that of the Jesuit P. Juan Fonte,
Semejante fue el numero de bautismos
"
given by Alegre, Historia, vol. i. p. 452 :
en la mision de Tepehuanes. Estos gentiles (dice el padre Juan Fonte en

. . .
la relacion que hace al padre provincial), guardan la ley natural con grande
exactitud. El hurto, la mentira, la deshonesticlad esta muy lejos de ellos. La
mas de recato 6 muestra de liviandad en las mugeres, sera bastante
ligera falta
para que abandone su marido a las casadas y para jamas casarse las doncellas.
La embriaguez no es tan comun en estas gentes como en otros mas ladinos,
no se ha encontrado entre ellos culto de algun dios y aunque conservan de ;
sus antepasados algunos idolos, mas es por curiosidad 6 por capricho que por
rnotivo de religion. El mas famoso de estos idolos era uno a quien llamaban
Ubamari, y habia dado el nombre a la principal de sus poblaciones. Era una
piedra de cinco palmos de alto, la cabeza humana, el resto como una column-a,
situada en lo mas alto de su montesillo sobre que estaba fundado el pueblo.
Ofrecianle los antiguos flechas, ollas de barro, huesos de animales, flores y
The instances of idols among the Tepehuanes being described by
frutas."
early witnesses are not unfrequent. Thus Ribas (Hist, de los Trivmphos, p. 582)
speaks of an idol that was, after many fruitless endeavors, at last delivered
Saco de su casa y choza idolo y a escusas de los demas, embuelto y

"
up : al
cubierto, lo truxo, y se lo entrego al Padre auisando a los circumstantes, q ;
saliessen fuera, sino querian caer alii muertos." When the idol was at last
y hallaron que tenia por encima tres, 6 quatro telas muy sutiles,
"
uncovered,
que jusgaron ser membranes de sesos de cabecas humanas. Estas cubrian vna
piedra rolliza, como de jaspe, y poco mayor que vna mansana." Such fetiches
of rolled pebbles are common among the New Mexican Pueblos to-day. Ibid.,
p. 598. An Indian who had been Christianized turned to idolatry again :

"
Este
apostata de la Fe, y trayendo consigo vn Idolo, por medio del qual se entendia
con el demonio, y era como su ordculo." For further details, I refer to Anna
del Ano de 1596, p. 24. In the same volume and under the heading of Del Anna
del Ano de 1598, p. 47, is the following paragraph: En viendo algun remolino "
causado de viento solian todos los que lo veian tirarse a tierra de espanto,
diciendose unos a otros Cachiripa Cachiripa que asi llaman al demonio
! !
;
y preguntando que ? por que hacen esto ? Decian que porque no se muriesen,
que iba alii el demonio." The whirlwind is one of the most common symbolical
figures on ancient pottery in the Southwest. For the rest of the superstitions
and idolatries of the Tepehuanes, I again refer to Arlegui, Chronica, Tercera
"Parte, cap. iii., to the end of the third part. It would be superfluous to quote
in detail.
own, and the general features of their worship are in strict

accordance with the celestial or supernatural democracy pe
culiar to all Indian mythologies. There existed no belief
in one really supreme god. Locally or occasionally, one or
the other of the idols appeared endowed with certain advan
tages over all others. As the necessity of the case dictated,

such or such a fetich was applied to in preference to all others.
As was the case with the Navajos, the Olympus of the Tepe-
huanes reflected their own and governmental organiza
social
tion. Split into a number of autonomous villages, each at

liberty to fight for or against its neighbors, the tribe formed
no political unit. So the mythology did not give rise to any
hierarchy ;
the multiplicity of fetiches was evidently sys
tematized, but after the basis of their efficiency and not from
the standpoint of tradition or chronological creation. 1
Sorcery and witchcraft of course played an important part

in the life, public the Tepehuanes. 2
as well as private, of
The prevalence of rites of this description is a sure sign of
the existence among the Tepehuanes of esoteric societies.
That clans existed among them, there can be no doubt either.
These features describe sufficiently the standard of culture
reached by the tribe ; they place it on a level with the Yaquis,
1
The reference to the Navajos is based upon the excellent pamphlet of my
friend Dr. Mathews on the Navajo Mythology.
2
Ribas, Hist, de los Trivmphos, p. 574 En todo lo demas de costumbres
:
"
gentilicas, principalmente de hechizeros, introduxo el enemigo infernal en esta

Nacion, lo que en las otras y aun desta se auia ensenoreado tato mas, quato
;
la hallo mas conforme en su natural, a la fiereza y crueldad de que se visti6 esse
enemigo, luego que cayo del cielo, para perseguir a los hombres." This accusa
tion of witchcraft, fulminated against the Indians, is often taken with a smile of
disdain by such as do not know the real nature of the aborigines. But it is cer
tain that, for the Indian, therenothing more dreadful than sorcery. He believes
is
in it, he lives partly through it, and he punishes it in secret as severely as
possible. The mention of sorcerers among Indians, on the part of early mis
sionaries, should therefore never be taken lightly. On the contrary, it reveals
a condition which is characteristic of Indian society.
7
Mayos, and others of Sonora, with whom they were, besides,
linguistically connected.
The same may be said of the Tarahumares. They stood
on the same level as their neighbors and enemies, had anal
ogous habits and customs, their language was fundamentally
related to the others, and they bowed to the same species of
1
worship. But the Tarahumares, owing to the nature of the
country which they inhabited and to the constant danger to
which they were exposed, were in many places cave-dwellers.
They lived in natural cavities, as well as in open-air dwellings
of mud, stone, or wood. These caves they partitioned to suit

their convenience whole families, even small villages, occu
;
2
pying such troglodytan recesses. If the verbal information
imparted to me lately is correct, the Tarahumares are, at
Wherever there appears a religious organization indicated by systematized

1
sorcery, gentilism always prevails. Another sign of gentilism is the absence of

family names. Both are clearly defined among the Tepehuanes.
2
Ribas, Historia, p. 594 La morada de mucha gente es de cueuas (q ay
:
"
muchas en su tierra) y algunas tan capazes, que en vna viue vna paretela,
haziendo sus diuisiones de casillas dentro. Vsan el vestido de sus mantas de
pita, q sabe bien labrar las mugeres : son muy recatadas, y no vsan sentarse ni
entremeterse con los hombres. En enterrar sus difuntos se diferencia de otras
Naciones, en tener lugar senalado y apartado a modo de cementerios donde los

entierran,poniendo con el difunto todo el ajuar de que vsaua, y comida para
el viaje ; y la casa donde auia muerto se quemaua, d totalmente se clesam-
paraua ; y el El natural de la
luto de los parientes era cortarse el cabello.
gente es mas modo de recibirme

blando y docil que el de los Tepeguanes. El
era, que antes de llegar a su pueblo, como dos leguas, tenian puestas atalayas,
para que en descubriendome fuessen de carrera a auisar al pueblo decide toda
la gente, hombres, y mugeres, con sus ninos, se juntauan en hileras para el
recibimiento, precediendo el Cacique con su lancilla, o chuzo, plumena, y otros

adornos q ellos vsan." Ribas quotes this from a letter written by Father Juan
Fonte, who the Tarahumares in 1608.
visited Alegre, Historia, vol. ii. p. 6.
The Tarahumares dwelt at least partly in caves cannot be doubted.
fact that the
Cave-dwelling, on the whole, seems to have been quite common in the moun
tains of Chihuahua, in those of Sonora bordering upon Chihuahua, and in
Sinaloa. In the Libra de Entierros de la Mision de Bacadehuachi, 1655, (MS.,) it
is mentioned that the Janos and Jocomes used to surprise and the people
kill
of the Sierra Madre in their cave dwellings. In many places of the Sierra, the
the present time, and in a few secluded localities, still the

cave-dwellers of the American continent.
About the numbers of these different tribes at the time of
their first contact with Europeans of Spanish blood, nothing
absolutely trustworthy is known to me. There are very
detailed counts by Jesuit missionaries, but these refer only to
such as had embraced Christianity. 1 The manner in which
formation of rocks favors the existence of natural cavities, therefore ancient

cave houses and whole cave pueblos are of common occurrence.
In regard to the creed and beliefs of the Tarahumares, little is reliably ascer
tained. We might judge from what is known of the Tepehuanes, who, in addi
tion to being their near neighbors, spoke a kindred language. It is certain that
witchcraft played an important part with them. Drunkenness was among them
too. Compare, for instance, Testunonio de Carta Escrita por los Padres Tomas
de Guadalajara y Jose Farda, February 2, 1676 (Doc. para la Historia de Mejico,
4th series, vol. iii.
p. 283). In a general way, I also refer to Arlegui, Chronica,
ut supra,
On the whole, the Tarahumares were a numerous, scattered, and quite docile
tribe. At the instigations of the Tepehuanes, Tobosos, and of some of their
own sorcerers or medicine-men, they rose upon the missionaries several times
during the seventeenth century, and behaved with as much cruelty as any other
Indians. Otherwise they were quiet, and tilled their plots of land, raising the
usual kinds of crops.
1
The oldest census of the Tarahumares, for instance, which is at my com
mand, dates back to 1678. There are certainly older ones, and even this one
embraces only such Indians as had become Christian. It is found in the
Relacion de las Misiones, by P. Juan Ortiz Zapata, S. J. According to it, the
number of persons administered by the Jesuits in the districts of western Chi
huahua, almost exclusively Tarahumares, with but a few Tepehuanes and Con-
chos, was about 8,300. In addition to these, there are mentioned a number of
heathens in the mountains, but their numbers were of course unascertainable.
In 1570, the Cabildo Eclesidstico of Guadalajara reported to the king, Infonne
al Key por el Cabildo Eclesidstico de Giiadalajara, acerca de las Cosas de aquel Reino,
January 20, 1570 ( Ycazbalceta, Collecion de Documentos, vol. ii. p. 503) "Item:
:
enviamos copia autorizada de los indios, y por ella parece haber en este reino
la
hasta veinte y cuatro mill y trecientos indios tributaries, que en uno de los
medianos pueblos de Tlaxcala 6 Mexico hay mas indios que en todo este Reino."
New Galicia, to which this statement applies, extended then over southern
Chihuahua also, but only Santa Barbara and San Bartholomew, or the regions
of Parral and Allende, were included in the report. The bulk of the numbers
applies therefore to the southern Tepehuanes (those of Durango), and to other
more meridional tribes. In speaking of the Jumanos in 1582, Espejo (Rtla~
the Indians of Chihuahua have disappeared is varied, and

"
the term "
extermination can hardly be applied to any.
In regard to the sedentary stocks proper, civilization or

assimilation to Spanish American habits has more than any
thing else contributed to destroy the Indian, without how
ever obliterating the man. Through bringing the natives
into Missions, and often congregating there representatives of
different, even hostile stocks, a new population has been

formed of land-tillers and herders that is still
largely Indian
without the organization of society that more than anything
else distinguishes the Indian in his natural condition. To
search among these for remains of their ancient culture and
traditions will be the task of the practical ethnologist ;
it is
hardly doubtful that such researches will be richly rewarded.

The Apaches are also considered as belonging to the abo
riginal inhabitants of Chihuahua. In point of fact, they did
not penetrate so far south before the latter half of the sev
enteenth century. The career of this adventurous and dan
gerous tribe deserves separate treatment, and I shall devote
to it a special section after I have spoken of the Indians of
Arizona and New Mexico.
don del Viage, p. 168) estimates their numbers at 10,000, but all through his
report, those estimates, for reasons which I shall give further on, are greatly
exaggerated, sometimes even tenfold and more.
In 1684, Juan Dominguez
Mendoza (Diario, 49) gathered at the Junta de los Rios
fol. todos los goberna- "
dores y Capitanes con mas de quinientos Yndios que unos y otros son de las
Siete nasiones que tienen dada la obediencia a su mag d Of the Mansos, Vetan- "
curt says (Chronica, p. 308) Tiene [the mission of El Paso] mas de mil feli-
:
"
greses." In 1744, the various villages composing the jurisdiction of El Paso del
Norte contained, in all, 360 families of Indians, and their number was on the de
crease. Morfi, Description Geografica, fol. 114. The census of 1749 (Relation de
las Misiones del Nuez o Mexico, MS. copy) gives for the same district 1,328 Indians
of various tribes. Rivera (Diario y Derrofero, p. 22) says of the
In 1725,
Indians of New Biscay in general Y hauiendose computado su numero, se
:
"
halla hauer de todas hedades y sexos cinquenta y vn mil novesietos y diez y ;
todos estan administrados por Religiosos de Nro P. S. Fracisco, y de la Sagrada

Compania de Jesvs." This included Durango also.
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. IQI
Although the Arizonian natives became known fully to

the Spaniards later than the Pueblos, I hold it to be in order
to speak of them first. It is true that from the reports of
Fray Marcos of Nizza and of Coronado s chroniclers, both

treating of events which occurred between the years 1539
and 1542, some data may be gathered about the Arizonians ;
still, it is not until 1604 that an insight is obtained into the

1
ethnography of the whole territory as constituted to-day.
Detailed statements concerning the tribes of central Ari
zona appear only after 1680, when the Jesuits extended their
travels to the Gila and beyond, and for northern Arizona,
where the Moquis had been well known for some time,
we must look to the letters of Fray Francisco Garces and
Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante for satisfactory informa
tion. Fray Marcos, Castaneda, and Jaramillo describe, with
out naming them, the Sobaypuris or Pimas of the valley of
the Rio San Pedro, and they hint at the Apaches also. The
former are represented as agricultural Indians living in vil
lages scattered along the banks of the little stream. Among

them Cibola-Zuni was well known, and a certain commerce
existed with the most westerly pueblos of New Mexico. 2
Through the expedition of Juan de Onate to the mouth of the Colorado.

1
Unfortunately, I have not the report of Fray Roque Figueredo on that impor
tant journey, but its lack is partly supplied by the manuscripts of Fray Geronimo
de Zarate-Salmercn and of Mateo Mange, to both of which I shall refer
further on.
2
Fray Marcos de Nizza, Descubrimiento de las Siete Ciudades (Doc, de Indias,
vol. iii.
p. 338) Otro dia entre en el despoblado.
:
"
Al cabo dellos, entre en

. .
un valle muy bien poblado de gente, donde en el primer pueblo salieron a mi

muchos hombres y mugeres con comida y todos traian muchas turquesas que
;
les colgaban de las narices y de las orejas, y algunos traian colares turquesas."
Aqui habia tanta noticia de Cibola, como en la Nueva Espana,
"
Ibid., p. 339:
de Mexico y en Peru, del Cuzco." That Fray Marcos was a truthful and re
el
liable reporter Ihave established beyond a doubt, I believe, in The Magazine of

Western History ( The Discovery of New Mexico by Fray Marcos of Nizza) and ;
in the Revue d* Ethnographic (La Decouverte du Nouveau Mexique par le Frere
Marcos de Nice).
JO2 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
To condense the material in a general sketch, we find that
the ethnography of Arizona has not much changed since

about the year 1600. The main changes which have taken
place are due to the Apaches in the last half of the seven
teenth century, and to the settling of the country since its
annexation by the United States. The Apaches caused the
Sobaypuris to give up their homes on the San Pedro and to
*
merge into the Papagos. During the wars with the Apaches,
the Tontos were either destroyed or absorbed by the former.
Therefore the appellative of Tonto-Apaches. The last men
tioned wars were waged only about thirty years ago, and
their real cause is still wrapt in doubt.
In the beginning of the seventeenth century, we find that
Arizona was inhabited in the south by tribes speaking the
Pima language. The extreme southeast of the territory
seems have been desert, only a band of Apaches traversing
to
it
occasionally. Along the San Pedro valley, the Sobaypuris
had their settlements, which extended as far north as within
a short distance of the Rio Gila. West of them commenced
the range of the Papap-Otam, or Papagos, whom we have
already met in northwestern Sonora, and who roamed over
rather than resided in the southwestern corner of Arizona
1
The Sobaypuris being in no way different from the Pimas, to whose lin
guistic stock they belonged, I do not refer here specially to their customs, etc.
In regard to their fate, it is known that the Apaches compelled the abandon
ment of their settlements on the Rio San Pedro. Arricivita, Crbnica Serdfica y
Apostolica del Colegio de Santa Cruz de Queretaro (part ii. p. 410) Vio las que "
habian sido habitadas por los Indies Sobaipures, que son parcialidad de los Pimas
lastimosamente desiertas por la barbara persecucio de los Apaches." The
Description Geografica de Sonora (cap. vi. part ii.) fixes the date of the abandon
ment of the San Pedro valley in 1762: Ya cansados de vivir en guerra con-
"
tinua, han abandonado el ano de 1762 su ameno y fertil valle, retirandcse unos
a Santa Maria Soamca, otros San Javier del Bac y Tucson, y otros al pueblo
a"
de visita de Guevavi llamado The date seems correct. P. Manuel

Sonoitac."
de Aguirre, Carta al Ttniente Coroncl D. Juan de Pineda, Doc. para la Historia

de Mexico, 4th series, vol. i.
p. 125.
to within a short distance of the Gulf coast. 1 The country

is so bleak, so destitute of attractions for village Indians,
that no large population of any numbers could remain there
for any length of time so long as general safety was not
firmly established. An agricultural stock could prosper in
those regions only with a great deal of patient toil. There
fore the scattered remains of more permanent villages, with
artificial tanks, mounds of houses constructed of clayey
marl and sometimes more than one story high, which are
met with here and there throughout the Papagueria, are
evidences of a period of relative quiet that has long since
disappeared.
North of the Papagos, and along the Gila River, between
the Canon of San Carlos and Yuma, the Pimas proper, or
Aquira-Otam, dwelt in scattered hamlets, the houses of
which combine to-day the mud roof of a typical New Mexi
can Pueblo with the temporary frame-work of frail branches
characteristic of the roaming savage. 2 The frailty of these
abodes seemed so apparent to the first missionaries who vis
ited them, and at the same time so adapted to the intensely
hot and arid climate, that their intricate construction, the sig-
1
Caborca, for instance, was a Papago mission.
2 It would seem that the Sobaypuris dwelt in more substantial houses. See
Christobal Martin Bernal, Eusebio Francisco Kino (Kuehne), and others (Rela-
cion del Estado de la Pimeria, 1697, MS. copy) Tienen muy buenas y fertiles
"
tierras con sus acequias, son indios laboriosos en algunas partes, tienen principio
de ganado mayor y menor, de sementeras y cosechas de trigo y maiz, y casas de
adobe y terrado para los reverendos padres que piden y esperan recibir." This
would indicate that the Sobaypuris, even if they did not dwell in such houses,
at least knew how to construct them. Among the Gila Pimas the buildings
erected for the missionary were, however, invariably de Petates." Relation
"
del Viaje al Rio Gila (MS. copy). P. Jacob Sedelmair (Relation, 1746, MS.).
The term Ranchena, which is always applied to the settlement of the Gila
Pimas, implies a group of frail constructions or huts. The roof of the Pima hut,
although dome-shaped, is in material exactly similar to the ordinary mud roof

of the New Mexican pueblos in fact, it is only a convex one of the same kind,
;
and also similar to the roof of the Casa Grande ruin near by.
nificant touches of a more permanent style of architecture,
escaped their notice, as well as that of observers of a later

period who were better equipped than the devoted missiona
ries of two centuries ago, and who enjoyed the benefit of all
the intervening growth in methods of research.
The Pimas lived then very much where they live now, and
as they live to-day. They cultivated their little patches of
indigenous plants, they irrigated to amoderate extent, using
mountain torrents rather than the river. For this there was
a good reason. The Gila, while at times a large stream,
does not afford a regular supply. During some of the months
when water is most needed, its level is often lowest. During
the same upon the environing moun
period, showers descend
tains daily,and their waters escape through gulches into the
plain below. It was more advantageous for the Pimas to
collect the torrents and guide them to their fields, than to
dig long canals along the river bottoms, as their ancestors

are said to have done at a time when they were yet undis
turbed by prowling intruders. 1
Of the social condition of the Gila Pimas, of their organi
zation, and of their beliefs and religious rites, nothing of

importance can be gathered from older sources beyond the
conviction that they were very much the same at that time
as they are to-day. A close study of these people, after the
manner in which Mr. Gushing has studied the Zunis, appears
1
The information on the condition of the Arizonian Pimas is meagre, and
not sufficiently specialized. Nearlythe sources already quoted refer also
all
to their agriculture and accompanying arts. That they irrigated is beyond a

doubt. They raised cotton and dressed in cotton. As to the localities occupied
by their rancherias, they extended from the western end of the San Carlos
Canon to beyond Gila Beno. In 1697 the number of rancherias was about six.
Rdacion del Estado de la Fimeria. In 1746 Father Sedelmair, Relacion, speaks
of three rancherias about Casa Grande on the Gila. When the Franciscans
took charge of the former Jesuit missions, the number of Pimas and Papagos
settled there at the missions was 3,011. Arricivita, Cronica Serafica, p. 402.
therefore of much importance. There is more originality,

in the sense of absence of contamination through European
influence, among the Pimas of Arizona than among most
other Indian stocks. This is easily accounted for. They
became quickly reduced, that is, gathered to larger commu
nities receiving a light coat of Christianity ;
but the abolition
of the Jesuit missions followed so closely upon their reduction
that the effects of these first missions were but transient. The
Franciscans, the successors of the Jesuits, had to begin anew,
and they had in addition to contend with an almost insur
mountable obstacle, one which in the exhausted condition
of Spain was beyond hope, the sudden expansion of the
Apaches. The influence which it exercised was not detri

mental through its devastations alone. It was the moral
infection which did the greatest harm. Whenever an Indian

tribe is persistently harassed by another, it tends to incline
towards its tormentors, or at least to turn away from those
who pretend to protect it. The Spanish administration in
Mexico was unable to protect the missions, and the Pimas,
who had been unsuccessfully rebellious once before, gradually
became indifferent. At last, the missions were abandoned
as useless, and the Pimas relapsed almost into their pristine
state, with the exception of a few dim and mythologized
recollections of the earliest teachings of the Christian faith
among them.
I have been thus explicit in regard to the Gila Pimas only
in order to show that what may yet be secured from their
traditions and beliefs possesses intrinsic interest, and should
be gathered as soon as possible. have already alluded toI
my Report of I883- What I have

1
some of these traditions in
since heard through Mr. Cushing, gained from his long resi-
1
Fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Archceological Institute
of America, Appendix, p. 80.

dence in the vicinity of the Pimas near Tempe, corroborates

my former statements. The Pimas are still divided into
clans they have no central government, but among them
;
the esoteric societies constitute a mutual tie that supplies the

want of a central political nucleus. They form, so to say, an
unconscious unity, through the bonds of language, of creed,
and of ceremonial congruence.
While the Pimas occupied the specially arid portions of
Arizona, another linguistic stock, the Yumas, extended along
the great Colorado River of the west, and had penetrated
inland as far as the Tonto Basin. From its issue from the
terrible Canons in northwestern Arizona to its mouth, the
Colorado River was controlled by tribes speaking the lan
guage to which modern philology has applied the name of
Yuma. The Spaniards knew all these tribes, they met them
in the localities where they became known to subsequent
explorers, and they describe them accurately in their original

state. The Amacavas are the Mojaves of to-day. We find
a plain mention of the Yavipais, and of the Huallapais. As

we approach the mouth of the Gila, the Yumas are mentioned,
originally under a different name, but the identity of the tribe
is unmistakable. The Cocapas are even named as such by
Juan de Onate, in I6O4.
1
All these tribes held commer
cial relations with Zuni they were village Indians within
;
the limits prescribed by the nature of the region they lived ;
1
Fray Geronigo de Zarate-Salmeron, Relaciones de todas las cosas que en el
Nueuo Mexico se han Uisto y Sabido asst par Mar como por Tierra, desde el A no de
1538, hasta el de 1626 (MS. in the National Archives of Mexico):

"
Luego
los Cocapas, son 9 pueblos, esta es la ultima que se vio, y llego hasta lo ultimo
donde se puede beuer el agua dulce que es cinco leugas de la Mar." Mateo
Mange, Luz de Tierra Incognita, en la America Septentrional 6 Indias Orientales
de la Nueva Espana, 1720, (MS., cap. xix. p. 237,) merely transcribes Fray
Zarate s relation, who in turn evidently gathered his information from the report
of Fray Francisco de Escobar, who accompanied Onate, and who was then
commissary of his order.

partly in large communal houses accommodating a number

of families, and the autonomy of the various hamlets was
carried to the extent of absolute independence. Of their
rites, creeds, and beliefs we know very little, but what is
told of them fosters the idea that the principles pervading all
Indian creeds were also paramount among theirs.

For the ethnography of northwestern and western Arizona,
the report on Juan de Ofiate s journey from San Gabriel del
Yunque on the Rio Grande opposite the pueblo of San Juan

de los Caballeros to the mouth
of the Colorado, in the years
1604 and 1605, is an excellent guide; but for the ethnology

of the Lower Colorado, to about as far north as Long Bend,
there are earlier sources of considerable value. I refer to
the report ofHernando de Alarcon on his boat voyage up the

great stream in 1540, and to the statements concerning the
expeditions of Melchior Diaz and Garcia Lopez de Cardenas

to the same river in the same year, the former crossing it
above Fort Yuma, the latter visiting the plateau above the
Grand Canon, whence he looked down into the frightful
chasms without being able to descend into them. 1
Alarcon certainly held intercourse with the Cocapas, the
Yumas, and the Mojaves. Melchior Diaz met the two last
mentioned tribes, and possibly some of the first. He calls
attention to the large communal accommodating a

sheds,
number of families, which constituted the homes of the
Lower Colorado Indians. 2 Alarcon obtained some dim no-
1
There docs not seem to exist an original report on the trip made by Mel
chior Diaz. The information I have on it is, however, from a member of
Coronado s expedition, Pedro de Castafieda, Relation du Voyage dc Cibola
(French translation of the Spanish original, in Ternaux-Compans s collection
(vol. i. chap. x. and xvii.). There is also a short, but quite valuable, notice of it
in Mota-Padilla, Historia de la Wueva Galicia (cap. xxxii. p. 158).
2 The fact that Alarcon came up as high as Long Bend, that is, higher than
the mouth of the Rio Gila, is doubted. But there is no reason to doubt the
accuracy of his statement that he proceeded eighty-five leagues up the Colorado
tions of the faith and creed and he ascertained that, far ;
as was the distance to Zuni-Cibola, that cluster of villages
of the West, counting from its mouth. Relation dela Navigation el de la Decouverte
faite par le Capitaine Fernando Alarcon (in Relation du Voyage de Cibola,
"
Appendix, 347) J ai fait quatre-vingts cinq lieues en montant le fleuve."

p. :
Herrera, Historia General, Dec. vi. Jib. ix. It is alleged that Alarcon failed
to notice the mouth of the Rio Gila, and that he must have seen and men
tioned it in case he had gone higher up the Rio Colorado. But at the time
of the year when Alarcon made his exploring expedition, (August, September,
and the beginning of October,) the Gila is so low that it scarcely would attract
attention from any one who, like Alarcon, was ascending the main stream in boats.
As to the journey of Melchior Diaz, it is much more difficult to trace his course.
There is no doubt however, that he crossed the Colorado River into southern
California. His description of the large communal dwellings of the Colorado
River Indians is in Castaneda, Voyage de Cibola (p. 49): Apres avoir fait
"
environ cent cinquante lieues, il arriva dans une province dont les habitants,
d une taille prodigieuse, sont nus, et habitent de grandes cabanes de paille construi-
tes sous terre. On ne voyait que le toit de paille qui s elevait au dessus du sol :
1 entree etait d un cote et la sortie de 1 autre. Plus de cent personnes, jeunes et

vieilles, couchaient dans chaque cabane." More than two hundred years later
this statement about the dwellings was confirmed by Father Sedelmair, S. J.,
Relation, 1746 (MS.) Sus ranchen as, por grandes de gentio que scan, se
:
"
reducen a una 6 dos casas, con techo de terrado y zacate, armadas sobre muchos
horcones por pilares con viguelos de unos a otros, y bajas, tan capaces que
caben en cada una mas de cien personas, con tres divisiones, la primera una
enramada del tamano de la casa y baja para dormir en el verano, luego la segunda
division como sala, y la tercera como alcoba, donde por el abrigo meten los
viejos y viejas, muchachitos y muchachitas, escepto los pimas que viven entre
ellos, que cada famiiia tiene su choza aparte." It seems, then, that this style of
communal living was peculiar to Indians of the Yuma group. This division of
the house into three compartments is still found among the Nahuatl Indians
of Central Mexico. See Archceological Tour into Mexico, pp. 124, 129, 132.
In connection with the above confirmation, by authority of a later date, of the
statements of Melchior Diaz, I may advert here to another point, also related
by Diaz, or rather by Castaneda (Cibola, p. 49), which has given rise to the
name Rio del Tizon (river of the firebrand), applied in older sources to the
" "
Colorado of the West. It relates to the custom of the Indians there of carrying
a firebrand in order to keep themselves warm, whenever they undertook journeys
during the cold season. Quand ils voyagent pendant les grands froids, d une
"
main portent un tison qui leur sert pour rechauffer 1 autre et tout le corps ;
ils
de temps en temps ils le changent de main. Get usage a fait donner le nom de
Rio del Tizon a une grande riviere qui arrose le pays." This custom is also
reported as extant, in 1746, among the Cocomaricopas, by Sedelmair, Relation:
Su frazada en tiempo de frio es un tizon encendido que aplicandole a la boca
"
was known to the Yumas and the Mojaves, and occasionally

1
visited by them. In 1583, Antonio de Espejo penetrated
into northwestern Arizona from the Moqui pueblos, a dis
tance of one hundred miles at least, and he is the first to
2
mention the "
Cruzados," a tribe which it is not very easy

to identify, although, from the direction in which they were
met, we might suppose them to have belonged to the Yavi-
pais. In the report of Onate
journey there is a list of the s
tribes which he encountered between the Moquis and the
Colorado, as well as along that river to its mouth. From

the Moquis to the Little Colorado, and even beyond the
latter as far west as the
country vicinity of Prescott, the
appeared to be a desert. In the region where the present
capital of Arizona has been located, probably a little to the
west, the Cruzados were found ;
and the inference that these
Indians were the Yavipais is thus confirmed. 3 Here Onate
del estomago caminan por las mananas, y calentando ya el sol como a las ocho
tiran los tizones, que por muchos que hayan tirado por los caminos. pueden
ser guias de los caminantes de suerte que todos estos rios pueden llamarse
;
rios del Tizon, nombre que algunas mapas ponen d uno solo."
Alarcon, Relation da la Navigation ft de la Decouverte, p. 309

"
1
Je parvins, :
par signe, a apprendre que le soleil ce qu ils reverent davantage."

etait He
speaks of thisalleged sun-worship several times. In regard to intercourse
with Zuni, alluded to very distinctly and positively on pages 321, 325, 331,
it is
etc. Even the name or word Cevola seems to have been familiar to the natives
on the upper course of the river.
2
Relation del Viage, p. 183. Pie marched to the west of Ahuatuyba (a now
deserted Moqui village) forty-five leagues. "Hay algunos pueblos de indios
serranos, los cuales nos salieron recibir en algunas partes, con cruces pequefias
en cabezas
las The Indians told Espejo that
" "
detras de aquellas serranias,
que no podimos entender bien que tanto estaba de alii, corria un rio muy grande."
This river must have been the Colorado.
3 ZaVate-Salmeron
(Relaciones. par. 46) indicates that the Cruzados lived in
the vicinity of the Sierra de San Francisco, in northern Arizona. After cross
ing the Little Colorado River, Onate struck por las faldas de unas mui altas
"
sierrasdonde los espanoles sacaron mui buenas metales. ... En esta sierra
tienen sus moradas los Yndios Cruzados, son rancheados, las casas de paja, no
siembran bastimento sustentanse con la caza que matan, venados, y carneros
:
heard of the Amacavas, or Mojaves, and he shortly afterwards

found them on the Great Colorado. 1 Lower down were the
Bahacecha, who spoke the same language, or very nearly the
same, and who therefore were either a branch of the Mojaves,
or else of the Huallapais, since the latter belong linguistically
to the same family. The Bahacecha extended to near the
mouth which river Onate gave the name of
of the Gila, to
Rio del Nombre de Jesus, and there he met a tribe which he

calls Ozarrar. As he says that the Ozarrar occupied the
banks of the Gila for some distance it may be
to the east,
supposed that they were the Maricopas. Below the mouth

of the Gila dwelt successively the
Halchedoma, the Haclli,
the Cohuana, the Halliquamayas, and finally the Cucapas,
who ranged as far as the Gulf of California. 2
It is to be observed, that Onate found the villages of
these tribes sometimes on one, and sometimes on the other
bank of the stream. 3 Some of the names can easily be recog
nized. The Cohuana, for instance, are the Yumas, or Cuchan,
which is the same word as Gohun or Ko-un, applied in the
latter case to the Tontos. In the Halliquamayas we find the
4
Comoyei ;
in the Cucapas, the Cocopas. The others appear to
be names of single groups of one tribe, local appellatives.
monteses (que hay muchos). Con los pieles se cubren las carnes ellos,
. . .
y ellas,andan calzados chicos y grandes Tambien tienen para su sustento

:
Mescali que es conserva de raiz de Maguey." Ibid., par. 47 Llaman a estos :

"
Yndios Cruzados, por unas cruzes que todos, chicos y grandes, se atan
los
del copete que les biene a caer en la frente y esto hacen quando veen a los
;
Espanoles."
1
Ibid., par. 47. The identification with the Mojaves is fully made out by Mr.
A. S. Gatschet, Classification into seven Linguistic Stocks of Western Indian Dialects
contained in forty Vocabularies. U. S. Geological Surveys, vol. vii., Archeology
P- 4I5-
Zarate-Salmeron, Relaciones, par. 47, 53. It may be also that the Gila Pimas
2
are meant, at least in part. For the other tribes, see the same paragraph.
Already Alarcon had made a similar remark.
8 Ibid.
4 This identification is after Gatschet, Classification, p. 415.
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. ill
The dwellings of the Mojaves and their neighbors, the
Bahacechas, are described as low, constructed of branches and

covered with mud. 1 Of the Ozarrar it is stated that they
wove mantles of cotton, and wore the hair long, plaited, and
covered with a piece of cloth or buckskin. 2 The tribes of
it
the Lower Colorado as far as the Gulf are represented as
being similar to the Bahacecha and the Mojaves, their lan

guage but little differentiated, their mode of living identical.
All cultivated Indian corn, and gathered shells, and even coral
and Their numbers are mere guesswork, and show
pearls.
the exaggerations that such estimates usually reveal. 3 It is
only in the seventeenth century that we obtain anything like

reliable estimates of the numbers of most of the Yuma
tribes.
The
celebrated Jesuit missionary, Father Eusebius Francis
Kuehne, or Kino, visited the Lower Gila.
4
In 1744, Father
Jacob Sedelmair followed the Gila as far down as its mouth,

and he gives a catalogue of the numerous hamlets inhabited
by the Coco-maricopas along the stream. He noticed the
admixture gradually taking place between the Maricopas and
5
Pimas, several of the rancherias speaking both languages.
The Maricopas extended also along the Rio Colorado, and
were neighbors of the Yumas. 6 North of them lived the Ni- "
jores,"
in whom we easily recognize the Yavipai. 7 Father
1
Zarate-Salmeron, Relaciones, par. 50.
2 Ibid , par. 53.
3
Ibid., par. 53, 54.
Father Kuehne made the journey to the Colorado and Gila first in 1698.
4
See his Diario de la Entrada al Norueste, MS. It was not his only trip in
that direction.
6
Sedelmair, Relation Desde la junta [of the Gila and the Salado] hasta
.
"
la primera rancheria hay como doce leguas es ranchen a de mucha gente llamada
;
stue, cabitio, tripulados, pimas y cocomaricopas, que los mas saben las dos
lenguas."
6 Ibid.
7
Ibid. Also Noticias dc la Pimerta, 1740 (anonymous MS.).
I I 2 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
Sedelmair describes all these river tribes as kindly disposed,
eager to treat with the new-comers, agricultural, and the

men going almost naked, while the women dressed in
as
cotton mantles and in skirts made of buckskins or of willow
bark. Sorcerers, that is Indian Shamans, were numerous,
and the missionary found traces of fetiches. 1
It is to the Franciscan Fray Francisco Garces the heroic

priest who travelled without escort through central Arizona
as far as the Moqui villages, in order to make a fruitless
attempt for the reduction of the latter that we owe a

reasonable estimate of the numbers of all these tribes, as
well as a correct picture of their geographical distribution.
He but confirms, in the latter case, the statements of his
predecessors in the main, but he corrects them in details,

and adds further information. According to him, the Pimas
and Papagos numbered together 6,500 souls the Maricopas, ;
2,500; the Yuma tribes on the Colorado, 5,500; the Mo-

javes (whom he calls Jamajabs"), 3,000; the Cocopas and
"
other Indians settled on the lowest course of the Colorado,

like the Comoyei, etc., 8,ooo.
2
He also names the Htiallapai
and Yavipai for the
time as such, without attempting
first
an estimate of their numbers. 3 Through him, also, we obtain

a glimpse at the most northern Indians of Arizona, who in
1
Sedelmair, Relation Su religion es ninguna; no tienen /dolos, ni adorato-
:
"
rios, niculto publico, aunque desde nuestras entradaspor nuestras

predicaciones,
tienen conocimiento del verdadero Dios. hechiceros no faltaran entre ellos
. . .
como hay entre todas estas naciones y son los que estorban mas la conversion,
lo
y uno de ellos me lo afirmo, y yo viendo en la pared de casa grande una cueva,

meti mano y saque un bulto en forma de hombre, que lo queme delante de un
monton de indios de Sudacson."
2
Diario y Derrotero que sigtdo el M. K. P. Fr. Francisco Garces en su
Viaje
hecho desde Octnbre de 1775 hasta 17 de Setiembre de 1776, al Rio Colorado, etc.
(Doc. Hist. Mejico, 2d series, vol. i. p. 350).
3
Ibid., p. 351. He calls the Huallapai Jagullapai," and the Yavipai are sub
"
divided by him into Yavipaicajuala, Yavipai Cuercomache,

Yavipai Jabesua,
and Yavipai Muca Oraive.
CALIFORI
*BOEC
1
point of fact but sporadically visited the territory, the Yutas.
In addition to these, the Navajos roamed over the northeast,
and claimed it as their soil. But since the Navajos belong
with the Apaches, mention only can be made of them here,
a fuller sketch being reserved for the proper place later on.
Of the Tontos, or Gohunes, little, if any, notice is found
in the documents of Spanish times. The tribe held the val
ley of the Upper Rio Salado and the so called Tonto basin.
Into these regions, which are difficult of access from the
south, the Spaniards hardly penetrated, and the missionaries
were busy with the Gila Pimas and with the tribes of the
Colorado River. Still, Fathers Sedelmair and Keller both
visited the banks which they baptized Rio de
of the Salado,
la Asuncion, and they also examined part of the Lower Rio
Verde. 2 On his trip to the Moquis, Father Garces did not go

through the wild and dangerous country between the Gila
on the south and the Moqui plateaus. But he mentions the
inhabitants of the valleys in that direction, around the Sierra
Ancha, the Sierra Final, etc., as Yavipais-Tejua." 3 They
"
were enemies to the other Indians, who inclined in favor

of Christianity. The Tontos already, then, seem to have
1
Ibid., p. 351. As Payuchas and Yutas.
2
Sedelmair, Relation :
"
Esta uno en su junta con el rio de la Asuncion,

compuesto del Salado y Verde." The name Rio de la Asuncion applies
" "
therefore only to that part of the Salado below the mouth of the Rio Verde.
In the year 1743, Father Ignatius Keller travelled through that region when he
attempted to reach the Moquis De estas ranchen as [on the Gila] sale camino
:
"
derecho para la provincia de Moqui hacia el Norte, pero tiene muy cerca al
Oriente una sierra poblada de los enemigos apaches, que el ano 1743, salieron
al padre Ignacio Keler de la Compania de
Jesus cuando iba al Moqui, y le
llebaron la caballada y volvio su reverencia con trabajo."
3
Garces, Diario Derrotcro, etc., p. 352: "El intermedio del Colorado y
y
Gila, ocupan los yavipaistejua, y otros yavipais al sur del Moqui son todos yavi- :
pais, que es lo mismo que apaches, donde se conoce el gran terreno que ocupa
esta nacion." Ibid., p. 351 En el dia de hoy, todas las del rio Gila y Colorado
:
"
estan en paz, y todas sus colaterales, menas los yavipaistejua enemigos de los
pimas y cocomaricopas."
been classed with the Apaches, 1 as they were afterwards in

the popular mind. Their idiom, however, is declared to be
of Yuma stock by high recent authority.
The extermination of the Tontos as a tribe is represented
as having been an absolute necessity. Such may have been
the case, but it is not to be forgotten that very little isknown
as to the manner in which it was accomplished. One thing
however is certain, namely, that if the Spaniards had done
it in the manner in which it is said to have been per
formed, there would be a hue and outcry about "cruelty"
and over the whole civilized world. I have
"
"
treachery
conflicting tales about the so called Pinole
"
heard too many

treaties," and other incidents of the Tonto war, to venture
any opinion of my own on the subject. But at any rate
it is a dark and certainly interesting matter in the study of
Anglo-American Indian policy.

Longest, and above all best, known among the Indians of
Arizona, are the Pueblo Indians of the north, the Moquis, or

Shinumo. They were mentioned to Fray Marcos of Nizza
-- a
1539, under the name of corruption of
"
in Totonteac,"
a Zuni term which applied to a cluster of twelve pueblos
lying in the direction of Moqui, and already abandoned in

the sixteenth century, but the reminiscence of which still
remained in the name. 2 In 1540, one of Coronado s lieu-
worth noticing that Father Garces clearly intimates that the Yavipai
1 It is
were the Apaches also. So, on page 355, he speaks of the Yavipai-Lipanes,
Yavipais-Nataje, Yavipais-Navajai, and Yavipais-Gilenos. All these names are
those of Apache tribes.
2 The ruins of the villages whose name,
as given by the Indians of Zuni in
their idiom, has been corrupted into Totonteac, lie between Zuni and Moqui.
It is interesting to note how the reports which Fray Marcos gathered in Sonora
concerning the northern Pueblos frequently relate to events which had oc

curred some time previous to his coming. Tribes were mentioned to him, like
Marata and Totonteac," who had ceased to exist, though the distant
" " "
southern Indians had no knowledge of their disappearance. This is very in

structive in regard to the value of historical tradition in point of chronology.
tenants, Don Pedro de Tobar, visited the seven villages of

Tusayan, a few days journey northwest or west of Zufii.
There is not the slightest doubt that the Tusayan of Casta-
neda is the Moqui The group consisted of seven
of to-day. 1
pueblos, and that same number subsisted until the begin

ning of the past century, when one of the seven disappeared,
2
Ahuatu, was promptly replaced by a village
although it
founded mostly by Tanos fugitives from New Mexico, and to

which, in deference to the language there spoken, the name
ofTehua has been given. 3
Not much importance can always be attached to the
numbers and names of Indian villages, according to Spanish
sources of an older date.
Thus, at the time of Coronado, the
seven pueblos of Tusayan Moqui admit of no doubt. Forty
years afterwards, the Asay or Osay of Chamuscado had,
1
In addition to the abundant documentary evidence, Mr. Gushing has lately
obtained from the Zufii Indians another and quite satisfactory proof of the iden
tity of Tusayan with Moqui. Two of the largest Moqui villages were formerly
called by the Zunis Usaya-kue, or people of Usaya. Hence T-usayan, the Asay
and Osay of Chamuscado.
2
Ahuatu, Aguitobi, Aguatuvi, or Ahuatuyba, was destroyed by the Moquis
of Oraybe, in the year 1700. It existed in June of that year: Fray Juan
Garaycoechea, Carta al Gobernador Pedro Rodriguez Cubero, June 9, 1700. In
1701, Cubero made an unsuccessful expedition against the Moquis. Relacion
Andnima de la Reconqtrista del Nuevo Mexico (MS. Sesto Cuaderno). The
cause for this military movement is stated in the declaration of the New Mexican
clergy, November 20, 1722, as follows (Autos y Parezeres dados p or Orden de Don
Antonio Cobian Busto Visitador de los Presidios en la Tier ra adentro, MS.) :
Se mobio [Cubero] con las armas de este Rl Presidio a la venganza del estrago
"
qe dhos apostatas executaron contra los Yndios del Pvio de Aguatubi de su

misma Nazion, qe pacificos y combertidos a nra Sta Fee passaron a sangre y
fuego las vidas bienes y alajas, del culto diuino de los miserables qe solo con la
firmeza con qe se hallauan de nra Sta Fee sin otro motibo hizieron en ellos tan
pernisiossos estragos." It appears, therefore, that Ahuatu was destroyed either
towards the end of the year 1700, or in the beginning of 1701.
8 The Tehua
pueblo in the Moqui region was erected in the first years of the
eighteenth century at any rate, between 1696 and 1706. It certainly existed at
;
the latter date. Juan Roque Gutierrez, Junta de Guerra en el Paraje de los
Chupaderos ; Camino para Moqui, October 4, 1706 (MS.).

according to the statements made to that explorer by Zuni

1
Indians, he himself never visited the locality, only five.
Two years later, Antonio de Espejo went among the Mohoce,
who are the Moqui again, and he finds the same number of
villages. In 1599, when Juan de Onate received the formal

2
3
allegiance of the Moquis, he mentions only four. Six years
later, Onate passed through the country on his way to the

Colorado River, and his chroniclers record seven Moqui
4 5
villages. In 1680 only five are counted; but ever since
seven has been admitted as the real number, and there
are indeed seven of them at this day.
The Moquis are Pueblo Indians to all intents and purposes,

their language excepted, which has been classed with the
Shoshoni or Numa group of American idioms.
6
Nothing
can be said about them, as they appeared in the past centu
ries to the first European visitors, that does not apply to the
New Mexican Pueblos also. The differences are purely local,
and can at once be explained by physical causes. Thus,
the Moquis raisedcotton, whereas the Ztmis did not and ;
the reason for it is found in the southerly exposure of the

lands which the Moquis cultivate. 7 The blankets of rabbit
1 Testimonio dado en Mexico sobre el Descubrimiento de Doscientos Leguas

adelante de las Minas de Santa Bdrbola, etc., 1582 (Doc. de Itidias, vol. xv.
pp. 86, 93).
2 Relacion del
Viage, p. 182.
8 D
is curso de las Jornadas, p. 274. Obediencia y Vasallaje a su Magestad por
los Indios de la Provincia de Mohoqui (Doc. de Indias, vol. xvi. p. 137).
4
Zarate, Relaciones, par. 44.
8 de Vargas found only
Vetancurt, Cronica, p. 321. In 1692, Diego five.
Relacion de la Reconquista, Primer Cuaderno, MS.

6 As Mr. Gatschet, Zwolf Sprachen aus dem Sudwesten Nord
early as 1876,
Amerikas, p. 56, Dass die Moquis Shoshonen sind, wird man mit
asserted :
"
ziemlicher Gewissheit den untenstehenden Zusammenstellungen entnehmen kon-

nen." In his Classification, p. 412, he is more positive yet :
"
The Moqui lan
guage is
certainly Numa."
7
That they cultivated cotton is amply proved. Castaneda, Cibola, p. 61, says
that there was no cotton raised in Tusayan. But the Relacion del Suceso de la
hair, which Fray Marcos was informed were made and worn
at Totonteac, 1 were not exclusively Moqui the Zuilis made ;
them also. There is one point, however, that attracts our

attention in regard to the Moquis, and that is the feeling of
coldness, not to say hostility, which prevailed between them
and their nearest neighbors, the Zuni Indians. As early as
the time of Coronado, the two clusters were not on good
terms. 2There was comparatively more intercourse between
the Moqui and some of the Rio Grande Pueblos than between
the Moquis and Zuni. Up to the present day this feeling,
3
strengthened by events subsequent to the reconquestof i694,
is very marked. Another curious fact, which may be de
duced from the report of Fray Marcos, and which is corrob
orated by Moqui and Zuni tradition, is the existence of a
cluster of twelve pueblos inhabited by people of Moqui stock,
the ruins of which villages exist to-day, and which have given
rise to the name of Totonteac. We are led to infer in this
case, as well as in that of the ancient villages at the salt

marshes near Zuni, that the said cluster of twelve was aban
doned but shortly before the sixteenth century. One of their
number, Ahuatu, even remained occupied until the first half
of the past century. These are among the few historical data
hizo en el Descnbrimiento de Cibola (Doc. de

Jornada que Francisco Vazquez
Indias, vol. xiv. p. 321) says Los pueblos son algun tanto mnyores que los de
:
"
salvo que estos

Cibola, y en los demas, en comida y en todo son de una manera,
coxen algodon." Zarate, Relaciones, par. 44.
de las Siete Cindades, p. 338.
Fray Marcos de Nizza, Descubrimiento
1
*
Castaneda, Cibola, p. 58 Car ils n avaient pas de rapports avec
:
"
cette
province."
3 Not only were the relations between the Zunis and the Moquis very much
but this
strained by the attitude taken by the Moquis during the reconquest,
tension brought about open hostilities. Francisco Cuerbo y Valdes,
Orden
al Cappn Dn
Francisco Valdes Soribas sobra la Guerra contra los Moquis (MS.,
1706), says: Entendiendo en la guerra defensiba que se ase alos reueldes y
"
contumases apostatas de la dha Provinzia de Moqui quienes continuamente

ynbadiendo ostillisando y ynfestando la dha Provinsia de Zuni."
Il8 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
that may be gathered from early Spanish records now at my

disposal, ancl which relate to a period anterior to the coming
of the white man.
the beginning of the seventeenth century, we find
In
mention made of a tribe, now reduced to a few families that
have sought shelter at the bottom of the abyss of Cataract
Creek, one of the tributaries of the great Colorado, where
they live in small permanent dwellings made of mud, stone,
and wood. These village Indians of to-day are mentioned
in former times as the merest savages. If the Cosninos,
Cosninas, or Hava-Supay, as they are variously called, have

progressed in culture while diminishing in numbers, it can
only have been through force of circumstances. It would be
an interesting illustration of how dire necessity may work
upon the culture of a people. On a very small scale, it
would recall the progress achieved at one time by the ancient
Mexicans, when driven into the marsh or swamp called the
"
Lake of Mexico." The Cosninos appear to be kindred to

theMoquis, although their language is classified with the
Yuma group and the present condition of the Hava-Supay
;
may therefore be but a "
return to first principles," compelled

by accident. At all events, it is very desirable to continue
among them the researches begun by Mr. Cushing. 1
I now pass to the Indians of New Mexico. The seden
tary groups, the Pueblos par excellence, will first be con
sidered. As already "stated, whatever is said in regard to
1
The Cosninos are frequently mentioned by older authors. As to the origin
of the name, Fray Francisco Garces, Diario, p. 352, says: En los nombres de "
las naciones puede y suele haber muchas variacion, v. g. los cocomaricopas y
jalchedunes, llaman a los jamajabs Cuesninas o Cuismers, y los demas Jama-

jabs."
This would imply that the Cosninas were Mojaves. But is also sup it
posed that the language is Moqui, or at least of the same stock. Mr. Gatschet,
however, than whom there is certainly no higher authority, classifies the Cos
ninos among the Yuma tribes. Classification, p. 415.
customs and habits of the New Mexican Pueblos, applies

to the Moquis too, at least in a general way. Discrepancies
of an important or interesting nature I shall call attention
to if
necessary. Furthermore, under the head of New Mexi
can Pueblos, I include the remnants of New Mexican tribes
now settled in Chihuahua and Texas, the Piros and the
Tiguas. The Mansos will be treated of among the roaming
Indians of New Mexico.
In the first half of the sixteenth century, and until the great
uprising of 1680, the villages or pueblos" extended, or were

"
scattered rather, on a line from Taos, in the extreme north,

where San Marcial now stands, or a length of
as far south as
nearly two hundred and thirty miles. From east to west

they spread from about longitude 105 30 (Taos, Pecos, and
the pueblos south of the Salines or Manzano) to nearly
/
110 3O (the Moqui villages). Within the area thus defined
the villages were scattered very irregularly, and in fact their
inhabitants occupied and used but a small quantity of the
ground. Extensive desert tracts often separated the groups,

and these spaces were open to the roving Indians who prowled
about and between the permanent settlements, much to
in
Thus, Acoma is separated

the detriment of their inhabitants.
from the Zuni group by at least seventy miles of waste, and
the Navajos raided over this space at will, endangering com
munications. From Acoma to the Rio Grande Tiguas, an
other forty miles of desert intervened. Between the latter
and the Tiguas of Cuaray, Chilili, and the Manzano, both
groups of one and the same linguistical stock, the uninhab
ited region is from thirty-five to forty miles wide,
and here
the Apaches could lurk and assault at any time. The Pu
eblos, far from being masters of New Mexico previous to the
coming of the Spaniards, were, on the contrary, hemmed in

and hampered on all sides by tribes who, while not mere sav-
ages, were of wild habits, and, having no permanent abode,

were swift in their movements, and, as we shall see further
on, had a great advantage in number over the Pueblos.

The Pueblos, besides, were not harmonious among them
selves. Divided into seven distinct linguistic groups, the
difference of languages created a barrier that often led to
intertribal hostility. Moreover, there was not even unbroken

peace between the villages of the same stock.
1
The villages
of that time were on an average much smaller than those of
to-day inhabited by Pueblo Indians, but there was a greater

number of them. 2 The aggregate population of the pueblos
1
I have already alluded to the unfriendly relations between Zuni and Moqui
The reports of Fray Marcos about Marata afford another instance. Descubri-
" "
miento de las Siete Ciudades, p. 340: Dice que a la parte del Sueste, hay un
"
reino que se llama Marata, en que solia haber muchas y muy grandes pobla-
ciones, y que todas tienen estas casas de piedra y sobrados, y questos han tenido
y tienen guerra con el Senor destas siete cibdades, por la cual guerra se ha
disminuido en gran cantidad este reino de Marata, aunque todavia esta sobre si
y tiene guerra con estotros." The current Zuni tradition confirms this report.
The ruins of the villages of "
Ma-tya-ta," or "
Ma-kya-ta," lie along the old

trailleading from Ha-ui-cu to Acoma, and there are to-day according to
Mr. Gushing, to whom I owe the knowledge of these facts descendants of
their former inhabitants among Fray Marcos therefore reported on
the Zunis.
events which, at his time, had but lately occurred. Hernando de Alvarado saw
these ruins in 1540 on his way to Pecos, and speaks of them in his Relation de
lo que Hernando de Alvarado y Fray Joan de Padilla desciibrieron en Demanda de
la Mar del Sur (Doc. de Indtas, vol. iii. p. 511). Evidence of actual hostilities,
probably between Pueblos, is given by Caspar Castano de Sosa, Memoria del
Descubrimiento que Caspar Castano de Sosa hizo en el Niievo Mexico (Doc, de Indias,
vol. xv. p. 256) Y andando tomando la posesion de los dichos pueblos, fue por
:
"
entre unas sierras donde hallo dos pueblos despoblados, respeto de que por guerra
de otros habian dejado sus pueblos, como en efeto hera, porque otros indios que
con nos iban nos lo dieron a entender, e lo vimos claro ser asi, por las muestras
de muchas muertes que habia senales."
2 enumerates 71 pueblos.
Castaneda, Cibola, p. 172, Onate, Obedicncia y
Vasallaje a Sit Magestad por Indios del Pueblo de San Juan Baptista, (Doc. de
los
Indias, vol. xvi. pp. 108-117,) more than one hundred, although several pueblos
appear two or three times under different names. Benavides, Memorial, over
eighty. This includes the period from 1540 to 1630. That the villages were
small is stated by Castaneda, Cibola^ p. 146 :
"
Des villages de deux cents ames

in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries did not exceed

1
twenty-five thousand souls.
au lieu de grancles villes, et tout au plus huit-cents ou mille habitants dans les
plus grands villages."
Castaneda, Cibola, p. 182: "Us peuvent renfermer environ vingt mille

1
hommes a en juger par apparence." The original has indeed "veinte mil
1
hombres," but this evidently means, not men, but inhabitants, as the term
"hombre" is also used in Spanish. This is clearly denoted by the passage above
quoted from page 146. If only the largest towns had from 800 to 1,000 souls,
there-is no possibility of a population of 70,000, which 20,000 male Indians

would imply. The contemporaneous reports on Coronado s expedition, also,
when speaking of Cibola, for instance, assign to its villages but a moderate
population. Relacion Postrera de Sivola (from the Libra de Oro of Fray Toribio
de Paredes, alias Motolinia, MS.) Son siete pueblos en esta provincia de
:
"
Sibola en espacio de cinco leguas el mayor sera de ducientas casas y otros dos
:
de a ducientas, y los otros a sesenta y a cincuenta y a treinta casas." The term

is to be taken in the sense of household, and not as an independent
"
casa
"
building. This results from Relacion del Suceso, p. 319: "Los pueblos son de
a trescientas e docientas, e de a cien cincuenta casas ; algunos estan las casas
de los pueblos todos juntos, aunque en algunos pueblos estan partidos en dos
6 tres barrios ; pero la mayor parte son juntos y dentro sus patios."
Antonio de Espejo has given a quite different idea of the former population
of the New Mexican pueblos. If we sum up the number of souls attributed
to them by him, we arrive at about a quarter of a million. Wherever we go
into details, however, and compare his estimates for certain well known villages
with the possibilities and the true conditions, or with other statements of older
sources about them, it becomes clear how this otherwise acute observer was
misled in his estimate of the numbers of the people. Thus, for instance, Acoma
(Relacion del Viage, p. 179) is reckoned at "mas de seis mil animas," whereas
Castaneda (Cibola, p. 69) says that it can place on foot about 200 warriors, and
on the rock of Acoma there is, furthermore, not room for much over 1,000 people.
The Pecos, or the Tamos, as he calls them, are credited with 40,000 (p. 185), but
the pueblo of Tshi-quit-e, or the old Pecos village, shows that over 2,000 souls
could never have lived in it. Indeed, Castaneda (p. 176) asserts that the people
of Cicuye might place on foot 500 warriors all told. Such evidences of very gross
exaggeration could be multiplied. Espejo has consistently exaggerated, but not
intentionally. He was led astray by the appearance of the pueblos, most of
which he saw at a distance, in the first place, and then still more by the custom
of the Indians flocking to the place where strangers arrive, in great numbers,
and remaining about these strangers so long as they are new and interesting
visitors. Also out of suspicion. Wherever Espejo stopped, he found, not
merely the inhabitants of that particular pueblo, but nearly the whole tribe,
congregated, ai>^ft|aving once begun to form his estimates, he applied the same
toêry? place. His figures are therefore to be absolutely rejected,
criterions o yvefy? wlace.
The distribution of the linguistic stocks was as follows.
Beginning at the extreme north of New Mexico, we meet
without invalidating thereby the exactitude of other parts of his valuable

report.
I am not in possession of official data emanating from Onate directly, and
establishing the population of the pueblos about the year 1600, hut the investiga
tions into his administration, made at the instigation of the Viceroy Conde de
Monterey, contain some information at least on the ideas then prevalent on the
subject. The factor Don Francisco de Valverde examined five witnesses on
the subject. Memorial sobre el Descubrimiento del Nuevo Mexico y sus Aconteci-
mientos, 1595 to 1602 (Doc. de Indias, vol. xvi. p. 210): Uno dice que diez e "
seis mill indios ; otro, doce mill, para guerra y trabajo; otro treinta mill 6
cuarenta mill ; y otro treinta mill ; y todos dicen sin mugeres y ninos al respeto."
In regard to such statements the Viceroy very justly observes, Disctirso y Proposi
tion que se hace a VueslraMagestad de lo Tocante a los Desctibrimientos del Nuez o
Mexico, 1602 (Doc. de Indicts, vol. xvi. p. 45) Se colige que realmente para :
"
labranza y crianza hay tierras y pastos aproposito y no es aquella tan esteril ;
como la gente que se vino la pintaba, ni tan prospero como otros lo hacen y lo
represento el Gobernador en las relaciones del ano de noventa y nueve, que algo
mejor informado con mas moderacion escribe de esto, y con la misma hablan
los suyos aqui por donde se dexa de entender, que debe de ser cosa corta lo de
:
alii. .
Coligese tambien que hay razonable numero de indios."
. .
In 1630, Benavides gives an approximate enumeration of the Pueblos, and he

figures theirnumbers at 70,000 about. Acoma appears in that list with 2,000.
(Memorial, p. 32.) We know what an estimate; it is twice as
to think of such
much as the rock will hold conveniently. There are other equally glaring
inaccuracies. On page 26, the Tehuas are credited with eight villages, whereas
they had only seven. On page 33, the Zuni pueblos are set down at eleven or
"
twelve," whereas there were only half that number. The population of Taos,
given at 2,000, is also vastly exaggerated. In short, the Memorial is, in many
respects, a purpose was to induce the King to
"
campaign document." Its
favor the Missions, to create a better impression of the missionaries than the
Spanish government had at that time, after their constant quarrels with the
Governors of New Mexico, and to obtain the establishment of a bishopric at
Santa Fe. The latter fact is very plainly established in the Real Cednla of
May 19, 1631, MS., in which the King, among other matters touching the pro
posed establishment of an episcopal see, says Fray Franco de Sosa Comis-
"
sario de Corte y Secreto General del orden de San Francisco se me ha hecho

relacion, y estan oy convertidos mas de quinientos mill Indios y de ellos
. . .
bautizados mas de ochenta seis mill." This is said of New Mexico.

The earliest actual census of the Pueblos which I know dates back to 1660.
Vetancurt (Cronica, 314): "Pues el ano de 1660 se hizo padron general, en
p.
que se hallaron mas de veinticuatro mil personas, chicas y grandes, indios y

espanoles." There were then about 1,000 Spaniards in all New Mexico, so that
there the tribe of Taos, or Te-uat-ha, which, as far as ascer-
tainable, lived then, as they do to-day, in a single large pueblo. 1
Southwest them about twenty miles stood, and stands

of
to-day nearly on the same spot, the pueblo of Picuries, the
aboriginal names of which are both Ualana and Ping-ul-tha.

2
Both villages spoke the same idiom dialectically differentiated,

3
the Tigua.
A
desert stretch of another thirty miles, about, separated
Picuries from the next group of sedentary Indians, the Tehuas.
Whereas both Taos and its neighbor, Picuries, are some dis
tance away from the Rio Grande, in side valleys whose water
courses are tributaries of that stream, the northern Tehuas
cluster near the great river. Their most northerly village,
San Juan de los Caballeros, or Oj-ke, lies about thirty miles
southwest of Picuries, on the left river-bank. Then followed,
when the Spaniards first came among them in 1541, Yuge-
uing-ge,
4
now in ruins and its site occupied by .the little
the number of Pueblo Indians was a little over 23,000. This corresponds very
well with the statements of Castaneda, one hundred and twenty years previously.
1
Taos is the Braba of Castaneda (Ctbola, p. 139).
" "
His description,
taken from the reports of Francisco de Barrionuevo, is excellent, and can only
apply to Taos: "II etait bad sur les deux rives du fleuve, que Ton traversait
sur des ponts construits en madriers de pins, tres-bien equarris. L on vit dans
ce village les etuves les plus gfandes et les plus extraordinaires de tout le pays."
Further on, he says that Braba was the most northerly of all the pueblos (p. 182).
No mention of Taos is found, as nobody visited it until 1598, when Onate went
there on the I4th of July (Discurso, p. 257). But in this document, as well
as in the Obediencia y Vasallctje, etc.de San Juan Baptista, (p. 114,) Taos is called
a Province. It is also named Tayberon. In 1630, Benavides speaks of only
one pueblo at Taos, and thus it appears in all posterior documents.
2 Onate
(Discurso, p. 257) mentions the "gran pueblo de los Picuries."
Also Benavides. There was but one village of that tribe.

8
Benavides, Memorial, p. 29.
Yuque-yunque of Castaneda (Cibola, p. 138). The

4
Yuge-uing-ge is the
Tehuas occupied, says he, two pueblos on the Rio Grande, and four in the
mountains. The four in the mountains may have included, in addition to the three
mentioned further on, Cu-ya-mun-gue. The information is of course imperfect,
as Barrionuevo had no intercourse with the people, who fled at his approach.
hamlet of Chamita, opposite San Juan on the right bank, ;
Santa Clara, or Ka-po and a few miles lower down, San ;
Ildefonso, or Po-juo-ge. Some six to nine miles eastward

from the Rio Grande valley were three more Tehua vil
lages Pojuaque, or more properly Pozuang-ge

:
Nambe, or ;
Na-imbe and Tezuque, or Te-tzo-ge. The last named lay

;
some eight miles north of the site where the settlement of

Santa Fe was founded in I6O5.
1
The date of the foundation of Santa Fe can as yet be but approximately

1
determined, although it is certain that it cannot have taken place before April,
1605. Onate returned to San Gabriel, or Chamita, where the Spaniards all
resided, on the 25th of April, 1605, from his expedition to the Colorado of the
West. The date is given by Zarate-Salmeron, Relaciones, par. 47. It is con
firmed by the inscription on the Rock of the
"
Morro," or
"
Inscription Rock,"
which states that Onate passed through there on the i6th of April of the year
"
del descubrimiento de la Mar

Consequently, there was no settle
del Sur."
ment at Santa Fe at that time. What

has been said and published concerning
the foundation of the present capital of New Mexico by Antonio de Espejo in
1583, or by Coronado in 1540, or by an unknown founder in 1550, is devoid

of all Espejo founded no colony, could not found any with
historical basis.
his little and the propositions he subsequently made to the
band of fourteen,
Crown for the settlement of New Mexico had in view the establishment of a
post at Acoma, whereas the country of the Tanos, in which the site of Santa Fe
was situated, is treated by him merely as one of the many ranges of sedentary
tribes which might be brought under Spanish sway in course of time. Expe-
Diaz de Vargas, de ir al A uevo
T
diente sobre el Ofrecimiento que hace Francisco
Mexico, y refiere la Historia de este Descubrimiento (Doc. de Indias, vol. xv.

pp. 156, 157) [from the Queres] ira a la provincia de Acoma,
: "Y desde alii
ques una pena alta que esta hacia el Norueste y en ella, poblados, mas de seis
mil indios a donde hara hacer un fuerte y casa Real, entre la dicha provincia y
un rio pequeno, donde mas comodidad le paresciere ; y se pondran alii los
dichos cient hombres casados, y se hara de forma que aunque no sea necesario
guerra, esten apercibidos para ello ; y a este fuerte han de venir las otras dos
companias." The date of this proposal to the King is 1584. It was never
carried out, as Espejo died soon after. hen Onate came, in 1598, he moved W T
directly to San Juan, established his camp there, and proceeded to found San
Gabriel, on the opposite bank of the Rio Grande (Discurso de las Jornadas,
pp. 256, 263). It is abundantly proved, by documentary evidence, that from
San Gabriel the camp and seat of government were moved to Santa Fe, and this
appears to have been done in 1605. Fray Alonzo de Posadas, Informe al Rey
(MS.) La villa de Santa-Fe
:
"
. . . descubriola el ano de 1605 el Adelantado

D. Juan de Onate, llevando en su compafiia algunos soldados y religiosos de
That site was deserted in the sixteenth century, the two

pueblos of Tehua Indians that stood there once having been
abandoned long previous to this date. Consequently an in
terval orvacant space of some thirty miles separated the
northern Tehuas from their southern kinsmen, the Ta-ge-
uing-ge, or Tanos.
1
The nearest Tanos village to the locality
of Santa Fe was then the Cienega, called by its inhabitants
Tzi-gu-ma. It is twelve miles to the southwest. A few

miles southeast of it was San Marcos, or Cua-ka. Both pue
blos are in
Twenty-two ruins. miles south of Santa Fe
began the Galisteo group of Tanos villages, consisting of

Galisteo or Ta-ge-uing-ge proper, of San Lazaro or I-pe-re,
of San Cristobal or Yam-p -ham-ba, all of which clustered
in a radius of ten miles on or about the Galisteo basin, and
possibly the Pueblo Largo or Hishi. Whether any other of

the ruins in that region were inhabited in the sixteenth cen
tury I am unable to decide. But west and south of it the

Tanos dwelt in the village of Tung-ke, on the northern
still
spurs of the Sandia range in one of the little pueblos whose

;
site is known, but whose remains have disappeared, near the
mining place called Golden in the small pueblos of O-ja-na

;
and Ki-pa-na, near the hamlet of Chimal and finally at San ;
2
Pedro, where the ruins of Ku-kua are still visible.
Tanos settlements and skirting the course

Parallel with the
of the Rio Grande, the most easterly villages of the numerous
(comparatively speaking, of course) Queres stock were scat-
mi serafica religion, y por Presidente alpadre predicador Fr. Francisco de

Escobar." In 1606 Oiiate was at Santa Fe. Therefore it must have been
founded in 1605.
1
is nowhere any mention of a pueblo at Santa Fe.
There There had been
one formerly, as the ruins attest, but when the Spaniards came it was in ruins.
These ruins are now almost obliterated, and they are not those of the so-called
oldest house," opposite the chapel of San Miguel.
"
2 Both Ojana and Quipana are mentioned in the Obediencia de San Juan
Baptista, p. 114.
tered on the banks of the river. Twenty-seven miles south

west of Santa Fe is Cochiti, or Ko-tyi-ti.Three miles east
of the stream, on the dangerous Galisteo Creek, was the old
pueblo of Santo Domingo, or .Gui-pu-y, the predecessor of
the village of to-day. On the same side, but directly on
the river banks, stood Kat-ish-tya, the antecessor of the
present San Felipe. This exhausts the list of the Rio
Grande Queres, but farther west, along the Jemez River, the
tribe inhabited several sites. There was the cluster of the
Cia or Tzia towns, of which but one remains, 1 and old Santa
2
Ana, or Ta-ma-ya.
North of Cia began the range of another linguistic group,
that of Jemez. Until the first half of the seventeenth cen
tury, theJemez inhabited a number of pueblos along the

upper course of their stream, and on the towering mesas
which skirt its headwaters. There was Guin-se-ua, where
the famous hot springs of San Diego issue from the rock,
and the old church stands in its ruined and picturesque
beauty. There was Amo-xium-qua, on the mesa above the
mouth of the great gorge, Asht-ia-la-qua, on the very point
of the table mountain overlooking the valley, and others
besides. The number of these which were inhabited simul
taneously in the sixteenth century is variously stated, but

the probability is that there were ten, scattered along the
1
The present village of Cia is surrounded by ruins of old pueblos formerly
inhabited by the same stock. In 1540, Castaneda mentions but one village but ;
Espejo in 1582 says (Relation del Viage, p. 178), "hallamos otra provincia que
Hainan los Punames, que son cinco pueblos, que la cabecera se dice Sia."
Onate, in Obediencia de San Juan (p. 115), mentions only gran pueblo de
"el
Tria." When the smaller villages were abandoned, I am unable to determine

as yet.
The first pueblo of Tamaya stood near the
2
Mesa del Cangelon," and
"
far from the mouth of the Rio de Jemez. The historic pueblo, that was
stormed by Pedro Reneros de Posada in 1687, was on the summit of what is
called to-day the Mesa de Santa Ana." This was the one, probably, which
"
Ofiate alludes to in his papers.

Jemez River from San Diego in the north to near Cia in

the south. 1
The Jemez group of villages is the most distant one west
from the Rio Grande in the latitude of Santa Fe. In a
straight line, it lies nearly thirty miles from the great New
Mexican artery. Strange to say, another branch of the same
linguistic stock, speaking the identical idiom, was met with
about forty miles east of the Rio Grande, and southeast of
the present capital. These were the Pecos, with their large
pueblo, the most populous one in New Mexico or Arizona,
whose ruins were described and figured in the first series
of American papers published by the Institute. 2 Tshi-
quit-e, or Tzi-quit-e, according as the sounds are clearly

or less clearly pronounced by the Indians of Jemez or the
remaining Pecos, is
Ci-cuic, Ci-cui-ye, A-cuique,the of
Coronado and his chroniclers. 3 It was separated from its
kinsmen west by two linguistic groups, distinct from

in the
each other and from the Jemez, the Queres, and the
Tanos, or southern Tehuas. This is an interesting fact in
New Mexican ethnography, and even in pre-documentary
1
Castaneda (Cibola, p. 138) speaks of seven Jemez villages. Espejo
(p. 179) gives the same number. Onate (Discnrso, p. 261): "A quatro, baja-
mos a otros pueblos de los emmes, que por todos dicen, son honce, vimos los
ocho. ... A
bajamos al hultimo pueblo de la dicho provincia, y vimos
cinco,
los maravillosos banos calientes que manan en muchas partes y tienen singu-
lares maravillas de naturaleza, en aguas frias y muy calientes, y muchas minas
de piedra azufre y de piedra alumbre." In 1626, Zarate (Relaciones, par. in)
mentions the pueblos of Amoxunque (Amo-shium-qua), and Quiumzique (Guin-
se-ua). The pueblos of the Jemez were abandoned after 1622, and resettled
previously to 1627. Benavides, Memorial, p. 27. Vetancurt, Menologio, p. 76.
2
Report on the Aboriginal Ruins in the Valley of the Rio Pecos, 1881.
3 The name I heard given to the Pecos
or Paequiu," which
"
"Aquiu,"
the year 1880, is It applies to the Pecos tribe, but the

"
in Pae-quiua-la."
proper name of the great village that Coronado saw, and where the old church
was in the beginning of the seventeenth century, is or Tzi- "
"
Tshi-quit-e,"
quit e." I have this information direct from the Pecos Indians living to-day at
Jemez, some of whom dwelt in the old village up to 1840.
128 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE,
history. The Pecos

declare that they came into their valley
from the southeast, but that they originated in the north,
and shifted across the Rio Grande. The Jemez say that
their origin waswhence they slowly drifted
in the northeast,
into the Jemez valley. Probably more than one village was
inhabited by the Pecos three hundred years ago. It is not
unlikely that the ruins at Las Ruedas (Rowe), and at

" "
Gusano
"
"El
(Fulton), are those of smaller villages, possi
1
bly contemporaneous with the large pueblo of Pecos.
It is certain that along the Pecos River, below its upper
valley, there were no inhabited pueblos in the sixteenth cen

tury. In 1590, Caspar Castaiio de Sosa travelled up the
whole length of the Rio Salado, as the Pecos was then called,
to above Anton Chico, and he did not find the slightest
traces of human occupancy on either bank. West of it, and
south of both Galisteo and Pecos, a string of small villages,
which extended from east to west over to the Rio Grande,
were visited by the explorer. These appear to have been
2
the Tanos villages already mentioned. South of them, on
the east side of the Cordillera which runs at some distance
east of and parallel with the Rio Grande, began the settle
ments of the Tiguas, with their pueblos of Chilili, Ta-ji-que,
The fact of their having been inhabited in 1540 is yet in doubt. The Pecos
1
Indians assert that they were not, and that they had been abandoned previously
to the
"
first conquest." But Espejo (Relation, p. 185) mentions three pueblos

of the That the Tamos were the Pecos is proved by the same authority
Tamos.
when he says (p. 186)medio legua de un pueblo de la dicha provincia,
: "Y
llamado Cicuique, hallamos un rio, el cual nombre de las Vacas, respeto que
caminando por el seis jornadas, como treinta leguas, hallamos gran cantidad
de vacas de aquella tierra." Onate (Discurso, p. 258) Al gran pueblo de .
"
los Peccos, y es el que Espejo llama la provincia de Tamos." The aboriginal

names of the villages at Rowe and Fulton are, respectively, the Pueblo de las
Ruedas, or Kuuang Ua-la, and Se-yu Pae-la.
a
It is very difficult at the present time to identify the numerous pueblos
visited by Castano. Compare Memoria del Descitbrimiento, pp. 221-253. Some

are of course easily recognized, like San Cristobal, San Marcos, etc. From these
it
may be possible to locate many of the others.
Manzano which
have not yet been able to find the
(of I
aboriginal name), and Cua-ray. These towns ranged along

the west and southwest of the salt marshes it seems that ;
they were not the only ones inhabited by the Tiguas in that
vicinity, as their number is variously stated from
"
"
many
to a half-dozen. The latter
is probably correct. number 1
The same feature which

have noted in regard to the I
Jemez, namely, a division of the stock into two geographically

distinct groups, repeats itself with the Tiguas. Not only do
we find a northern, or Taos and Picuries cluster, and a
southern one divided from the former by a distance of nearly
one hundred and fifty miles and by the tribes of the Tehuas,
Tanos, and Queres, but of the southern Tiguas there were
also two clusters, those around the Salines, already mentioned,
and on the Rio Grande, in the most fertile part of its valley,
the series of Tigua pueblos called by Coronado
"
"
Tiguex
(which is the correct Indian pronunciation of the word, as
it
may still be heard to-day), beginning at Bernalillo in the
north, and extending as far as the present village of Tshya-

ui-pa, or Isleta.
2
On this stretch there were, close by the
1
I am
only positive about three, Tajique, Chilili, and Cuaray. Of the
Manzano, have not as yet been able to find anything reliable. There are
I
vestiges of Indian remains there, but I do not know if they belonged to the
communal or to the small house type. During my stay at Manzano in 1883
the ground was covered with deep snow.
2 This extent of
territory, or this stretch, includes both the Tiguex and the
Tutahaco of Castaneda; unless, indeed, the latter were the northern Piros, which
extended certainly as far north as "
La Joya,"
or Sevilleta. I have identified, in
Historical Studies among the Sedentary Inhabitants of New Mexico, the location of
Tiguez more properly and specially with the vicinity of Bernalillo. Notwith
standing adverse opinions, I am more than ever convinced of the correctness
of this view. In addition to the evidence there adduced, I can quote the testi
mony of Espejo, Kelacion Speaking of Puaray, where the
del Viage, p.
175.
two monks had just been and which pueblo stood directly opposite the
killed,
present town of Bernalillo, he states: donde hallamos relacion muy verda-
"A
dera que estubo en esta provincia Francisqo Vazquez Coronado y le mataron

;
en ella nue ve soldados y cuarenta caballos, y que por este respeto habia asolado
river-side, ten or twelve towns, mostly small, the most cele

brated of which became the one called Pua-ray, or village of
the worms or insects. 1 Where Bernalillo stands to-day, there
2
were probably two ;
there was one called Na-fhi-ap, which
is the
present aboriginal name of the pueblo of Sandia,
another one near Los Corrales," and several as far down as
"
3
the vicinity of Isleta. South of that place, and almost
touching the lands of the Tiguas, began the range of the
Piros, which reached as far south as San Marcial, and con
sisted of "at least ten settlements in sight of the river bank.
4
Conspicuous among them were Alamillo, north of Socorro,
5
Pil-a-bo, on the site of Socorro itself, and Se-ne-cu, whose
ruins are now covered by the village of San Antonio. 6 San
la gente de un pueblo desta provincia, y destos nos dieron razon los naturales
destos pueblos por senas queentendimos." This corresponds exactly with what
Castaneda (Cibola, vol. i.
chap, xv.) relates concerning events at
"
Tiguex."
1
The site of Puaray iswell known to the Indians of Sandia. It is further
more .established by documentary evidence. Vetancurt (Crbnica, p. 312) places

cerca de una legua de Zandia, a la orilla del rio." Venta real del Capitanjuan
"
it
Gonzalez, 1711 (MS.).

2
Napeya, Obedienda de San Juan, p. 115.
Near the Mesa de las Padillas. Where Albuquerque now stands, there
3
appear to have been no villages but farther south, on the right bank, there ;
were several, like Hyem Tu-ay on the Mesa de los Padillas, and Be-jui Tu-uy,
or the village of the Rainbow, near Los Lunas.
4 was then abandoned,
Alamillo was a conspicuous pueblo as late as 1680. It
the inhabitants scattering, and in part removing to El Paso with the Spaniards,
on the latter s retreat from Santa Fe.
6 The name of Pilabo, for the old pueblo on the site of the present town of
Socorro, is taken from Benavides (Memorial, p. 16) otro en el Pueblo : "el
Pilabo, a la Virgen del Socorro." On the other side of the Rio Grande, nearly
opposite Socorro, or probably at what is called "El Pueblito de la Panda," in
front of there was a pueblo called Onate (Discurso,
"
"El
Barro," Tey-pana."
p. 251) :
"
Dormimos frontero de Teipana, pueblo que llamamos del Socorro.

Onate was travelling up the left bank of the Rio Grande.
6 The village of San Antonio de Senecu was the first mission founded on the
southern Rio Grande on New Mexican soil. According to Vetancurt (Crom ca,
p. 309), it was established in 1630. Its founder was the Capuchin Fray Antonio
de Arteaga. Benavides (Memorial, p. 15) places the foundation of the mission
as early as 1626. It was abandoned, and the pueblo destroyed, in the year
Marcial stands on or very near the place where the most

southerly pueblo inhabited in the sixteenth century was
found. It was the village of Tre-na-quel. 1 It is worthy of
remark, that here the many-storied, honeycombed, large com

munal house reaches its meridional limits.
But the Piroshad crept up towards the coveted salt
also
lagunes of the The picturesque valley of A-bo,

Manzano.
northeast of Socorro, contained at least two of their villages,
A-bo proper, and Ten-a-bo, probably the ruin called to-day
"
El Pueblo de los Siete Arroyos." Lastly, still east of it,
at the foot of the Mesa de

Jumanos, there was Ta-bir-a, los
now famous under the misleading surname of La Gran "
Quivira." It lay very near the range of the New Mexican

Jumanos, so that not unlikely that the Pueblo de los
it is
Jumanos, mentioned as a Piros village, is but another name

2
given to Tabira.
1675, on tne 2 3^ f January. The Apaches pounced upon it, killing the priest,
Fray Alonzo Gil de Avila, and many of the people. The remainder fled to
Socorro or to El Paso. Martin de Solis Miranda, Parecer del Fiscal Real (MS.,
1676) Yal Pe. Fr. Alonzo Gil de Avila, Ministro del Pueblo de Zennecu en el
:
"
dia 23 de Enero del ano pasado de 1675." Fray Juan Alvarez, Carta al Gobernador
Francisco Cuerbo y Valdes, 28th April, 1705 (MS.): Tembien el pueblo de
"
Senecu, mattaron al Pe. For Fr. Alonzo Gil de Avila, y destruieron lo mas de
la gentte indiana."
p. 240) says that the second pueblo after passing the

Onate (Discurso,
1
mesilla de guinea, por ser de piedra negra," was Qualacu. This black mesa
"
is that of San Marcial, a very conspicuous object in that region for any one
coming up the river or through the Jornada del Muerto." In Obediencia de

"
San Juan (p. 115), he speaks of "Trenaquel de la mesilla, que es la primera

poblacion de este Reyno, hacia la parte del Sur y Nueva Espana."
2
Of these three, or four pueblos, it is only known that they were aban
doned between 1670 and 1680, probably about 1675 or a little previously. The
descendants of their inhabitants to-day live at Senecu in Chihuahua. Of the
cause of their abandonment there is but one report, namely, that the Apâches
compelled the people to leave. Fr. Juan Alvarez (Carta, MS.) places the loss
of the six pueblos of the Salines immediately before the slaughter at Senecu,
and after the massacre at Hauicu in 1672. Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante
(Carta al Padre Morfi, 1778, par. 2) mentions the event as follows: Pocos "
anos antes dela dicha sublevacion, destruyeron los enemigos apaches con casi
West of the Rio Grande, and towards Arizona, we find but

two groups of Pueblo Indians, isolated from the others, as
well as from each other,
by long distances. I have already
named the celebrated rocky retreat of A-co, or Aco-ma, the
Hacus of Fray Marcos and the Acuco of Coronado. 1 Im
pregnable to Indian assault, Acoma might well remain alone
in the vast solitude surrounding the basin from which the
rock arises, and its people need have no fear of the hostile
Navajos so long as they did not descend from the stronghold
to attend to their crops. The Acomas are Queres, and there
was no other settlement of the same language nearer than
2
Cia, a distance of seventy miles. The same distance sepa-
continuas invasiones, siete pueblos de los cuarenta y seis dichos que fueron :
Chilili, Tafique y Quarac, de indios Tehuas Abo, Jumancas y Tabira de Tum-

;
piros, todos los cuales estaban en la falda oriental de la sierra de Sandia, menos
dos que estaban distantes de dicha sierra hacia las these, it seems
Salinas." Of
thatCuaray or Quarac fell first. Dilixencias practicadas sobre la Solizitud de el
Cuerpo del venerable Padre Fray Gerommo de la Liana, 1759 (MS., fol. 2, 5).
The people fled to Tajique. Those of the Piros villages retired to Socorro and
Alamillo, or to El Paso, for safety.
The chief interest, historically, centres in the ruins called "La Gran Quivira."
There no doubt that they simply are the remains of the pueblo of Tabira.
is
The name of Quivira was given to them in the latter part of the past century in
consequence of a misunderstanding. The mission at Tabira was founded, and
the older and smaller of the two churches built, by Fray Francisco de Acevedo,
between r625 and 1644. Vetancurt, Menologio, p. 260. The large church and
convent are posterior to that date, and were evidently never, used, not even
finished. There were Indians (Piros) from Tabira at El Paso in 1684. Causa
Criminal por Denunciation de Andres Jopita (MS., p. 4).
Whether the pueblo de Jumanos was the same as Tabira it is difficult to
" "
determine. I suspect it to have been the same. In the document entitled,

T
Confessiones y Declaraciones de varios Indios de los Pueblos del A tievo Mexico, 1683,
(MS. fol. 6,) there is the deposition of an Indian calling himself Juan, and de
"
nacion piro natural del pueblo de Jumanos en el Nuebo Mexico." There was one
Jumano village, if not more, but this particular one strikes me as being possibly
a surname given to Tabira, owing to the latter being situated on the southern
declivity of the Mesa de los Jumanos."

"
1 The origin of these two words is the Zuni name for Acoma, Ha-ku Kue.
2 The
pueblo of Laguna was founded in 1699. Fee Relacion de la Recon-
quista (Sesto Cuaderno). That the site of the actual pueblo of Laguna was
vacant previous to that date is amply proved.
rated them from Zuni, and the latter spoke an idiom distinct
from the Queres language.
Zuni, as is well known by this time through the investi
gations of Mr. Gushing, was the Cibola of old. Until after
1680, the tribe inhabited several villages, whose inhabitants
were finally concentrated into the actual pueblo called Ha-
lo-na by its people. The seven cities of Cibola were
"
"
Ha-lo-na, on the site of the present one ; Kia-ki-ma, in a recess
on the south of the gigantic mesa the village where the ;
1
negro Estevan was killed, Ma-tza Ki, on the northern base of
the same mesa ; Pin-a-ua, three miles southwest of the actual
Zuni ; Ha-ui-cu, or Aguas Calientes (Zuni hot springs), fifteen
miles southwest of Zuni also ;
and Chan-a-hue, in the same
vicinity. The name of the seventh I am as yet unable to
give. That last village (so much appears to be certain) was

2
abandoned between 1542 and I58o. After 1604, and prior
to more pueblos of the Zuni cluster were aban
1680, three
doned, and when the rebellion broke out the tribe was hud
dled together in three pueblos only to wit, Halona, Mat- ;
3
zaqui, and Kyakima. After the reconquest, Halona alone
remained.
This tradition was recorded by Mr. F. H. Gushing.

1
2 I have made another trip to Zuni, and, guided by

Since writing the above,
Mr. Gushing, have again examined the question of the seven cities of Cibola.
Mr. Gushing has elicited fresh information from the Indians, and has led me to
other localities.The following pueblos appear now fully identified, Hauicu,
Halona, Kyakima, Matzaqui, Chyanaue. Pinaua and Quakyina appear both
equally probable, but neither is absolutely certain as far as identity with the
Aquinsa of Onate, Obediencia y Vasallaje par los Indios de la Provincia de Agus-
cobi (Doc. de Indias, vol. xvi. p. 133). As to the seventh, the Indians of Zuni
assert that thereis a chapel in ruins at Ketchip-a-uan. In that case, the latter
pueblo would have been occupied after 1629, when the Zuni missions were
founded, and Pinaua or Cuakyina would be the one that was abandoned between
1
540 and 1
580.
Vetancurt, Cronica, p. 320. He includes Hauicu in his list also, and says it
3
contained over one thousand souls, including the population of other smaller "
villages."
But Hauicu had been sacked by the Navajos in the year 1672, on
has been the custom to give the name of Old Zuni

"
"
It
to a group of small and ruined pueblos which lie on the
summit of the great mesa called by the Indians Thun "
der Mountain
"
(To-yo-a-la-na). The idea has arisen, con

sequently, that villages on that formidable table
the six
height were the original ones of the Zunis. This is an

error, for the pueblos on the top of Toyoalana were built
after 1680 and previous to 1692 during the interregnum
succeeding the withdrawal of the Spaniards from New Mex
ico, and while the Pueblos, left to their fate, were often
sorely pressed by the Navajos and Apaches. Thunder Moun

tain, thus much appears certain, besides being the site of
important and consequently the centre of many re

folk-lore
ligious performances, was the place of refuge, the citadel

or safety place, for the people of Zuiii. It was but little
fortified, some parapets of rocks along the most accessible
parts of brink or rim being the only attempts at strength

its
ening the naturally almost impregnable position. The Span

iards never took it by force of arms, never stormed it, as
they did Acoma in 1599. Three times, according to the

records within my reach, did the Zuni flee to the plateau
of the gigantic mesa within the course of two centuries, and
each time they were induced to return to the basin below,
in a peaceable manner. 1
the 7th of October (Miranda, Patecer, MS.), and was not permanently occupied
any longer.
1
That Toyoalana was a point of refuge, a citadel, for the Zunis in case of
urgent necessity, is recognized as early as 1540. Traslado de las Nuevas y

Noticias que dieron sobre el Descobrimiento de tina Cibdad que llamaron de Cibola
situada en la Tierra Nueva (Doc. de Indias, vol. xix. p. 532) Y que a xix del mes
:
"
de Julio pasado, fue quatro leguas de esta Ciudad a ver un penol, donde le dixe-
ron que los Yndios desta provincia se hacian fuertes." It is not stated whether
the Zunis retreated to Thunder Mountain at the time of Coronado, but they
had murdered Fray Francisco 4-etrado and
certainly did so about 1630, after they
Fray Martin de Arvide. Autos y Traslados de Autos sobre las Misiones de Zuni,
1636 (MS., fol. i) For quanto los yndios del penol de caquima de la prouyca
:
"
Of the pueblos of the Moquis I have already spoken, but

it
may not be superfluous to return to them, their numbers
and names, again. There were seven Tusayan,
villages of
five of Asay, five of Mohoce, and Onate mentions by name
only four in 1598, but found seven six years later. Up to
1680 the following can be recognized A-hua-tu, Gualpi, :
Oraybi, and Mishongop-avi.

1
The names of the others are
so distorted that I do not venture to mention them. In the
year 1700, Ahuatu was destroyed by the Moquis of the

other pueblos, who hated those of Ahuatu for their loyalty
to the Spaniards. The Tehua
village took its place in the
list of the seven. In 1782, the names of the seven Moqui
pueblos as given are very similar to those current to-day,
and in most cases identical. 2
The total number of pueblos, as stated in the sixteenth and

in the seventeenth centuries, does not at all agree with that
number as it stands at the present time. It is much larger,
and varies from forty-six (Escalante, from reports at the
time of the rebellion) to over one hundred (Onate, in the
Acts of Submission of 1598). The latter number is exagger
ated, mainly from one cause. The names of the villages
de cuni qe se abian alsado en tiempo del gen. don Franco de Silua los quales
yndios, don Franco de la Mora qe susedio en el gouierno los dejo de paz, la
qual siempre an conservado desde qe enbio el dho don Franco de la Mora al
mro de campo Thomas de Albisu y subieron los religiosos qe yvan con el dho
mro de campo al penol con algunos soldados." Carta del Cabildo de Santa-Fe
a Don Antonio de Otermin, 5th October, 1680 (MS., in Diario de la Salida de
Otermin para El Paso del Norte, p. 71 ).
Again they fled to the mesa after 1680, and Diego de Vargas found them
there in 1692, and for the third time they took refuge on the inaccessible height
in 1703, after having killed three Spanish soldiers.
1
Vetancurt, Cronica, p. 321.
2
(Description Geograjica, fol. 112) mentions Moqui,
Fr. Agustin Morfi
Tanos, Gualpi, Mosasnabi, Xipaolabi, Xongopabi, and Oraybe. Fr. Francisco

Garces (Qiario, p. 352) Los nombres de los pueblos del Moqui son (segun
:
"
lengua de los yavipais) Sesepaulabe, Masagneve, Janogualpa, Muqui, Concabe

y Muca a quien los Zunis llaman Oraive."
are given,and frequently the same one is repeated in more

than one idiom. This was a source of error against which
it was impossible for the Spaniards to guard. Unacquainted
with the native tongues, and having but one set of inter
preters, they recorded every name given, and it was difficult
for the Indians to make themselves understood in case when,
as at Santo Domingo and at San Juan, there were three and
four linguistical stocks represented at the council.
1
The
list Onate must be considerably reduced, also, in view of
of
the more accurate numbers of Castaneda, who gives the

number of villages at seventy-one, exclusive of those of the
Salines. 2 The average

population of each did not exceed
three hundred souls, a fact which derives additional confirma
tionfrom surveys of over three hundred ruins in the whole
Southwest. In placing the original pueblo population at
twenty-five thousand, we are near the limits of truth, and do

not overstep them. 3
Political autonomy of each pueblo even complete in
dependence from its nearest neighbor of the same stock, to
1
Obediencia y Vasallaje por los Indios de Santo Domingo, p. 102. Obed. de
San Juan, p. 109. In the former, we clearly recognize the Queres, Tiguas,
Jemez, and possibly the Piros. In the latter, it is stated
"
Ayunto los indios :
capitanes de de los Chiguas y Puaray de los Cherechos, de los

las provincias
Teguas, de los Pecos, de los Picufies y de los Taos."

2 No mention is made of those villages. It was Chamuscado who, in 1581,
J
first visited them. 7 eslimonio Dado, p. 86: alii tubieron nueva de unas
"Y
salinas que estaban catorze leguas del dicho pueblo, las cuales fueron a ver y
hallaron que estaban detras de una sierra, que llamaron Sierra Morena, las
cuales son las mejores que se han descubierto hasta hoy, y junto a estas . . .
salinas se vieron otros muchos pueblos y estuvieron en ellos, los cuales tenian la
traza que los demas
y les dieron nuevas de otros tres pueblos que bigurficaban
;
los naturales estan cerca de las dichas salinas y ser muy grandes."
;
1680, the Cabildo of Santa Fe (Carta a Otermin, MS., fol. 9) estimates

3 In
the number of the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico who were implicated in the
uprising at over 16,000 Y el numero de todo el gentio de naturales que hoy

:
"
se halla en el Nuevo Me xico de los Apostatas alzados, no es tan corto que no
pase de 16 mil almas."

such a degree that it led not infrequently to hostilities
was the condition of the Pueblos when the Spaniards first

visited them, and it remains thus to the present day, with
the difference that intertribal warfare was not further tol
erated as soon as the villagersbecame subjects of the King

of Spain. The government of each village was vested in
the council, and the execution of that council s decrees was
intrusted to two sets of officers, civil and military, both
elective. At the head of the former was the equivalent of
the Governor of to-day, and there are traces of his assist
ants or lieutenants. Public crying was the
manner in which
everything of import was promulgated and made known.
The Governor is called
"
Cacique
"
in the early reports, and

is not to be confounded with that strange office to which the
title of Cacique is now erroneously given.
1
*
1
Although there is no doubt about these facts, I will nevertheless give the
authorities on which my statements are based. Too much of an antiquated ter
minology is still lingering in regard to the organization of the Pueblos, and I

hold it proper to prove that I am not setting forth assumptions under the guise
of facts. Beginning with the time of Coronado, we find in Castaneda (Cibola,
p. 61), speaking of the Moquis and Zunis: Ces Indians sont gouvernes, comme
"
ceux de Cibola, par un conseil de vieillards. Us ont des gouverneurs et des

capitaines." On page 164, he partly contradicts himself in regard to Zuni II :
"
n y a pas de caciques reguliers, comme

a la Nouvelle Espagne, ni de conseils de
vieillards. Us ont des pretres qui prechent, ce sont des gens ages ils montent ;
sur la terrasse la plus elevee du village et font un sermon au moment ou le

soleil se leve. Le peuple s assied a 1 entour et garde un profond silence ces ;
vieillards leu/ donnent des conseils sur leur maniere de vivre; je crois meme
qu ils ont des commandements qu ils doivent observer." And on page 168, as to
the other pueblos of New Mexico Toutes ces provinces ont les memes mreurs
:
"
et les memes coutumes. . Elles sont gouvernees par un conseil de vieillards."

. .
Espejo, Relation del Viage, p. 173 Tienen en cada pueblo sus caciques conforme
:
"
a la gente que hay en cada pueblo asi hay los caciques, y dichos caciques
;
tienen su tequitatos que son como alguaciles que executan en el pueblo lo que
estos caciques mandan, ni mas ni menos que la gente mexicana y en pidiendo ;
los espanbles a los caciques de los pueblos cualquier cosa, llaman ellos a los
tequitatos y los tequitatos publican por el pueblo, a voces, lo que piden y luego
acuden con lo que se les manda, con mucha brevedad." Juan de Onate, Carta
escripta al Virrey Conde de Monterrey, March 2, 1599 (Doc. de Indias, vol. xvi.
War captains, also elective, and commanded by the council,

to a certain limit and extent at least, formed the military
executive. 1 There no trace of military confederacies after
is
the manner of the Iroquois and Nahuatl leagues, and there

were no higher captaincies than those for each pueblo.
If the tacit agreement that still to-day prevails among the
p. 308) Su gobierno, behetria, que aunque tienen algunos capitancillos,

:
"
obedecenles nuiy mal y en muy pocas cosas." Caspar de Villagran, Hisioria de

la Nueva Mexico, 1610 (Canto xv. fol. 139) :
"
No tiene ley, ni Rey, ni conozemos,

Que castiguen los vicios ni pecados.
Es toda beherria no ensenada,
A professar justicia, ni tenerla."
Siempre ha sido gente de gouierno y republica,

"
Benavides, Memorial, p. 39 :
juntandose los viejos con el Capitan major, a conferir y dicernir las cosas que
les conuenian, y despues de determinadas salia el Capitan mayor personalmente
pregonando por el pueblo lo que se mandaua, y esta es aun oy accion de grande

autoridad pregonar los Capitanes mayores lo que se ha de hazer en el pueblo."
Thus far eyewitnesses of the early times of Spanish occupation or contact.
But there is evidence from sources whose authors never visited the Pueblos,
and who report from the statement of eyewitnesses.
Fray Juan de Torqueinada, who wrote about 1612, says, in Monarchia Indiana
(2d ed., 1723,lib. v. cap. xl. p. 681): De los Oficios de la Republica, es el "
primero el Mandon, a quien dan mano, para que mande en lo que es Govierno :
Y despues de el, el que pregona, y avisa las cosas, que son de Republica, y que
se han de hacer en el Pueblo. Demas de estos dos, tienen Capitanes para la
Pesca, para el Monte, para la Ca9a, y para las Obras y a cada cosa que de ;
nuevo les piden, o imponen, se juntan en vna Estufa grande, que tienen de
Comunidad (como Sala de Cabildo) y de alii sale acordado lo que han de hacer,
6 responder." A more accurate statement of affairs, and one more analogous
to the present organization of the pueblos, could hardly be desired.
The term Cacique was applied in the beginning, as the preceding quota
" "
tions show, indifferently to civil and military officers. At the present day it
is misapplied to a religious functionary, of whose duties I shall treat in the
course of this Report.
1
Benavides (Memorial, p. 39) gives the following description of the manner
of initiation of what he calls a captain Para hazer a vno Capitan se juntauan
:
"
en vna pla9a, y le amarrauan desnudo en vn pilar, y con vnos abrojos crueles le

a$otauan todos, y despues le entretenian con entremeses, y otros juguetes, y si a
todo estaua muy sesgo, y no lloraua, ni hacia gestos a lo vno, ni se reia al otro,
lo confirmauan por muy valiente Capitan." The Capitan Mayor corresponded
to the war captain of to-day.
Pueblos is a reminiscence of olden times, as I have good

reasons to
suppose, case any village begged of
then, in
another military assistance, and it was granted, the war cap

tain of the first one was ex officio commander in chief of the
campaign. In case of absolute necessity, tribes of distinct

idioms called upon each other for aid, and the instances are
not rare where two villages of the same language quarrelled,
and one turned to another of another stock to help him
1
against their kinsmen. Pueblo society was tribal society in
1
I have already alluded to the fact of war being waged between the pueblos.
This is further confirmed by Torquemada, Monarc/ria, p. 680 Estos pobla- :

"
dos han tenido tambien, entre si, y vnos con otros, guerras." As to the manner
in which the villages confederated and organized in case of joint warfare against
an outsider, the same authority gives information, the case being that of assault
by Apaches : Conocen de mui lejos venir los enemigos, y para que les ven-
"
gan a socorrer los Pueblos comarcanos, se suben las mugeres a lo mas alto
de sus casas, y hechan cenisa en alto, y tras de esto hacen lumbre ahogada,
para que hechando mas espeso humo, sea mas visto de los otros Pueblos (cuio
favor piden) las mugeres, dando con las manos en las bocas abiertas, hacen vn
:
grande clamor, que se oie mucho, y de mui lejos." In the various attempts at
uprisings against the Spaniards which preceded the great revolt of 1680, the
proposals for them issued mostly from one pueblo or from a certain group of
pueblos. Thus, after the conspiracy formed during the administration of
Governor Hernando Ugarte y la Concha had been discovered and the criminals
punished (1650 about), another one sprang up and the appeal to the other
villages was issued by the Taos and went as far as Moqui. Interrogatories y
Dedaraciones de varios Indies, 1 68 1 (MS., fol. 135) Y despues de algun
:
"
tiempo despacharon del pueblo de Taos dos gamuzas con algunas pinturas por
los pueblos de la custodia, con senales de conjuracion a su modo, para convocar
la gente nuevo alzamiento, y que dichas gamuzas pasaron hasta la provincia
de Moqui donde no quisieron admitirlos, y ceso el pacto por entonces."
Another conspiracy was afterwards started at the pueblos of the Salines, and
spread to all the others. Ynterrogatorio de Preguntas hecho por don Antonio de
Otermin, 1681 (MS.). How the final conspiracy, which resulted in the outbreak
of 1680, was organized, is well known. Also that it started from the village of
Taos, although instigated by an Indian from San Juan, the famous Po-pe, who,
however, after the war had begun, exercised but limited authority. He was a
medicine-man, and no war chief. Confesion y Declaration de vn Yndio de Nation
Peciiri,1683 (fol. 22, MS.). In that year, the southern Indians (Queres, etc.)
followed the lead of Catiti, (fol. 23,) and Luis Tupatu was regarded as leader of
the northern Pueblos: "Que ya tiene declarado quel dho Don Luis Tupatu
its full meaning, with lack of consistency, and yet with

all its
those original ties that bind together clusters of that nature,

and make of them such singularly solid and resisting bodies.
Thus the gens or clan was fully developed among them. It is
beyond a doubt that the gentes of the Pueblos are almost,

if not absolutely alike. Along the Rio Grande, for instance,
whether Tehua, Tigua, Queres, or even Piros, the same clans
are met with such differences only as arise from the differ
ences of language. The eagle, the bear, and especially the corn
and water clans, are found from Taos to Isleta, from Tezuque
to Zuni. In older sources of information concerning the New
Mexican villages, the existence of the gentile system is indi
cated, but not plainly. Thus descent in the female line, such
as exists to-day, is hinted at. The custom of the women
building and owning the dwellings, whereas the men tilled
and owned the fields, is another trace of gentilism. 1 Among
ai desde el pueblo de la Cienega hasta los Taos, y que

gouierna las naciones que
Alonso Catiti gouierna lo demas del Reino." But when Otermin marched up the
Rio Grande valley in 1681, and the Indians retreated into the mountain region
called the Canada de Cochiti," they were commanded, so to say, by Catiti,
"
who sent word to the Picuries to come to their assistance. The Teguas and
Picuries came, but Catiti remained in command, and his counsels prevailed
against those of Tupatu, who was in favor of peace.
Interrogatories y Declara-
ciones (fol. 129, 132, 140). Also, Ynterrogatorio de Preguntas. Catiti was an
Indian from Santo Domingo, therefore one of the Queres, who were more
directly threatened by the Spanish forces.
In regard to war having been waged by villages of one stock upon their
kindred, and of having even confederated with other stocks for that purpose,
there is the example of 1696, when the Queres of Cochiti, Santo Domingo, and
Acoma confederated with the Jemez and Zunis against the Queres of San
Felipe, Santa Ana, and Cia. See Autos de Guerra sobre el Alzamiento de
1696 (MS.).
1
It is not to be wondered at if no direct mention is made in older sources
of clanships among the Pueblos. The fact that the clans exist to-day is suffi
cient proof of their existence centuries ago, for the introduction of Christian
rites of marriage and baptism, in place of strengthening gentilism, tended to
destroy it. Notwithstanding, it exists, and is therefore a survival. In regard

to the custom of the women building the houses in place of the men, it
was noticed by Castaneda (Cibola, p. 168) Les maisons :

"
se batissent en
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST, 141
the Pueblos, as well as among all sedentary tribes, the posi

tion of woman was not that of a slave. But marriage was
rather an act of the clan, and therefore the parties stood to
each other in relations of greater independence. Chastity
was an act of penitence to be chaste signified to do penance.
;
Still, after a woman had once become linked to a man by

the performance of certain simple rites, it was unsafe for her
tobe caught trespassing, and her accomplice also suffered a
penalty.
1
But there was the utmost liberty, even license, as
towards girls. Intercourse was almost promiscuous with
commun ce sont les femmes qui gachent le platre et qui elevent les murailles.
;
Les hommes apportent le bois et construisent les charpentes." Still more

explicit is Benavides (Memorial, p. 41): Como lo testifican bien todas las
"
iglesias y conuentos, que tienen hechos, los quales todos parecera encareci-
miento el dezir, que siendo tan suntuosos y curiosos, los ha hecho tan solamete
las mugeres, y los muchachos y muchachas de la dotrina porque entre estos ;
naciones se vsa hazer las mugeres las paredes, y los hombres hilan y texen sus
mantas, y van a la guerra, y a la caza, y si obligamos a algu hombre a hazer
pared, se corre dello, y las mugeres se rien."
1
That the Pueblos were officially monogamous is generally affirmed by the
older sources. I refer to Castaneda (Cibola, p. 164):
"
Un homme n epouse
jamais qu une seule femme." Mota-Padilla (Historia de Nueva Galicia, p. 160) :
"
No tienen estos indios mas que una mujer."
Marriage rites are variously described. Castaneda (Cibola, p. 170)

"
Quand :
un jeune homme se marie, c est par ordre des vieillards qui gouvernent. II
1
doit filer et tisser un manteau on lui amene ensuite la jeune fille, il lui en
:
couvre les epaules, et elle devient sa femme." Mota-Padilla (Historia, p. 160) :
"
En hay costumbre, que cuando un mozo da en servir a una

los casamientos
doncella, la espera en la parte donde va a acarrear agua, y coge el cantaro, con

cuya clemostracion manifiesta a los deudos de ella la voluntad de casarse."
Villagran, Historia de la Nueva Mexico (canto xv. fol. 135) :
"
Y una cosa aquestas gentes,

tienen
Que en saliendo las mozas de donzellas,

Son a todos comunes, sin escusa,
Con tal que se lo paguen, y sin paga ;
Es una vil bageza, tal delito,

Mas luego que se casan viven estas,
Contenta cada qual con su marido,
Cuia costumbre, con la grande fuerga,
Teniendo por certissimo nosotros,
Seguiamos tambien aquel camino,
Juntaron muchas mantas bien pintadas,
members of the tribe. Towards outsiders the strictest absti
nence was observed, and this fact, which has long been over
looked or misunderstood, explains the prevailing idea, that
before the coming of the white man the Indians were both
chaste and moral, while the contrary is the truth. Only,
and this has been lost sight of, adoption into one of the
clans was necessary in order to share the privileges which
were considered essential for propagation. 1
The Pueblo Indians had in fact no home life. Their dwell
ings have been so frequently described, and are therefore so
Para alcangar las damas Castellanas,

Que mucho apetecian y quisieron."
Villagran an execrable poet, but a reliable observer. What he states here

is
occurred in one of the Piros villages near Socorro. Benavides (Memorial,

p. 38) : Las mugeres que querian que los hombres las apeteciessen, salian al
"
catnpo gordas, y buenas, y aâuan vna piedra, 6 algun palillo sobre algun cerrillo,
y alii le ofrecian harina, y en ocho dias, 6 los que podian, no comian, sino cosa
que las inquietasse los estomagos y prouocasse a trocar, y se a9otaiian cruel-
mente, y quando ya no podian mas, y que de gordas se auian puesto flacas, y

figuras del demonio, se venian muy confiadas en que el primer hombre que las
viesse, las apeteceria, y les daria mantas q es su principal Finally, there fin."
isthe proof as furnished by the Indians themselves after the departure of the
Spaniards from New Mexico in 1680. The first measure taken by the Pueblos
was a return to the customs of the "
olden times." This is plainly expressed
in the depositions of the Indians themselves, in 1681. Interrogatories y Declara-

ciones (fol. 116) Y las mugeres que tenian de santo matrimonio las devasen, y
:
"
cogiesen las que ellos quisiessen." Even later there are from time to time
evidences of a design of "returning to first principles." Causa Criminal contra
Geronimo Dirucaca Indio del Pueblo de Piciiries, 1713 (MS.). This Indian was
accused by his own people of living in concubinage with several women, at the
same time being legitimately married. Several witnesses declared that he had
publicly told the people, que no creiesen lo que el R. P. les dezia sino lo que
"
les auian ensenado sus antepasados, que eso lexitimamente era lo que deuian
guardar y no otra cosa, y que para que ha de ser uerdad, y ser buena uida tenian
el exemplar en la mano en el pues no ignorauan de la manera
que el auia
uiuido amancebado siempre."
1
In order to marry into a tribe,
adoption into a clan is essential. There
are, of course, in many pueblos, females who will not hesitate to But
yield.
this is a transgression of older rules, when the concession is made to a stranger,
whereas, among the Rio Grande villages at least, cohabitation often precedes mar
riage, and promiscuity, as in favor of the "village boys," is an established fact.
well and widely known, that a fresh description of them is

needless. Specimens of them can be seen to-day in at least
twenty-four pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona. Their ar
chitecture has been correctly called communal. The village
in its original form was a bee-hive. But one feature of its
life, and an interesting one, no longer exists, at least in
New Mexico. This

the separation by sexes.
is At present
the Indian dwells with his wife and children, and a num
ber of families occupy one large, mostly two or more storied
house. When the Spaniards came, they found that the wo
men and their offspring occupied the cells and the houses,
whereas the men, even after marriage, spent the nights in
those singular constructions of a public nature which are

now known under the name of Estufas." It is commonly "
supposed that an estufa is always round, and at least partly

subterraneous, but this is not the case. Where the estufa
could be dug out, it was so made, and then it was natural
that it should be circular; but where this was impossible,
as is the case to-day at Acoma, Laguna, and at Zuni, an
inner room, well secluded and easily guarded, served instead.
It may be said that there are to-day two kinds of estufas,
the official or public estufa, and the private one, which often
is
temporary. When the Pueblos were in their primitive
condition, the estufa was not only the place of abode for the
1
males, but it also served the purpose of the Mexican Tel-
1
Castaneda Les maisons appartiennent aux femmes, et
(Ctbola, p. 170):
"
les etuves aux hommes. aux femmes d y coucher et meme d y

II est de fendu
entrer, autrement que pour porter a manger a leurs maris ou a leurs fils."
Speaking of the young men (Ibid., p. 169) Us habitent les etuves, qui sont
:
"
sous terre dans les cours de village. II y en a de carrees et de rondes."

Zarate-Salmeron (Relaciones par. 74) La ultima, en que duermen las mugeres
:
"
y sus hijos. Los hombres duermen en la estufa, en cuyo medio encienden lum-
bre, y con los pies hacia ella." As late as 1704, this custom certainly prevailed
among the Tehuas Diego de Vargas, Autos Formados sobre la Llegada de nnos
Indies Moqtiis al Pueblo de Taos (MS., Qe vn yndio del Pueblo de los
"
fol. 2) :
puch or house of education for the boys. 1

Calli, It is prob
able that, as in Mexico, there were in each pueblo as many

estufas as there were clans. This explains the great num
ber of these constructions among many of the ruins. There
the boys slept, ate, and whiled away their time when not
strolling; there the men gathered also, and generally the

women brought them their meals into that House of "
the
Males." The estufa was of necessity the council-house, for
"
the "
business of the clans as well as of the tribe was in
charge of the men, not so much as a right as a duty. That

many were performed there is evident, but
religious rites
the estufa was not, as has been supposed, the permanent

"
temple" of the Pueblos. There were places of worship

and conventional places of sacrifice, sacred spots and rooms,
distinct from the estufas. 2 A reminiscence of this state of
taos qe no conoze vino al Pueblo de thezuque y selo dijo asi a este declarante
r!omo a otros yndios del Pueblo de thezuque estando en la estufa unos traua-
jando y otros platicando y otros jugando a los patoles."
Compare On
1
the Social Organization and Mode of Government of the Ancient
Mexicans, p. 616.
2
Torquemada (Monarchia, vol. i.
p. 681) gives a description of one of these
permanent places of worship, as he calls it, although it is by no means certain
that it was permanent Su templo es vn aposento alto, de diez pies de ancho,
:
"
y veinte de largo, todo pintado, y vnos arquillos tambien pintados. El idolo

es de piedra, 6 de barro, y esta asentado a la mano derecha de el Templo, con
vna huevos de gallina de la tierra ; y tiene a la otra mano
xicara, con tres
izquierda otra xicara, con elotes (6 macorcas de maiz) y delante de si tiene
vna olla llena de agua." This looks very much like the outfit of a temporary
or occasional place of worship." Another description of a similar locality
"
is
given by Villagran, Historia (Canto xv. fol. 135) :
"
Y i. nuestro General ouedecieron,

Alojandole dentro de su pueblo,
En cuias casas luego reparamos,
En una gran suma que tenian,
De soberuios demonios retratados,
Feroces, y terribles por extreme,

Que claro nos mostrauan ser sus dioses,
Porque el dios del agua, junto al agua,
Estaua bien pintado, y figurado,
Tambien el dios del monte. junto al monte,
affairs is found to-day in the private estufas (of the medicine

men, etc.), and it is still fully developed in the customs of
outside worship in the desert timber, or on secluded meass,
as practised by the Rio Grande villagers it is
especially well ;
exemplified among the Zuni Indians in every branch of their

religious life. Religious practices in vogue to-day are more
or less exactly described by authors of the seventeenth, and
even of the sixteenth century, although not with their full de-
Y junto pezes, siembras, y batallas,

a"
A todos los demas que respetauan,

For dioses de las cosas que tenian."
Espejo says (Relation, p. 174) en cada uno destos pueblos una casa
: "Tienen
donde llevan de comer al demonic, y tienen fdolos de piedra pequenos donde

idolatran ; y como los espanoles tienen cruzes en los caminos, ellos tienen en
medio de un pueblo a otro, en medio del camino, unos cuizillos a manera de
humilladeros hecho de piedras donde ponen palos pintados y plumas, diciendo
va alii a reposar el demonio y hablar con ellos."
From the time of Coronado we have some statements in regard to places of
worship. Relacion del Suceso, p. 320 Los ritos sacrificios que tienen son :
"
algunos idolos ; pero a lo que mas husan es a la agua, a la qual ofrecen unos
palillos pintados, e plumas, e polvos amarillos de flores, y esto es lo mas ordi-
nario en las fuentes. Tambien ofrecen algunas turquesas que las tienen,
aunque ruines."
Onate, Carta escripta al Virrey, p. 308 Su religion es adorar idolos que :

"
tienen muchos, y en sus templos a su modo los reverencian con fuego, canas
pintadas, plumas y ofrenda universal, casi de todas las cosas que alcanzan,
animalejos, aves, legumbres," etc.
But the principal object of the estufa seems to have been, not worship, but a
home for the males recalling the time when only sexual distinctions formed the
basis of society. During the Spanish occupation of the country the aboriginal
worship was largely suppressed, but as soon as the Pueblos felt themselves
once again independent they at once re-established the estufas and together ;
with the estufa, the outside places of worship, the shrines, reappeared. This
results from the proceedings following the expulsion of Otermin. Interrogatories
y Declaraciones, fol. 130 :
"
Y
pusieron por sus Iglesias a los quatro vientos y en
medio de la plaza unos cercadillos de piedra amontonada, donde iban a ofrecer
arina, plumas, y la semilla del meague, del maiz, tabaco, y otras supersticiones,
. . . mandaron leuantar todas las estufas, que son sus casas de idolatria." Ibid.,
Que mandaron de orden del dicho Pope, Alonso Catite, Gobernador
"
fol. 139 :
y cabeza de la nacion Queres, que pusiesen en el pueblo, y sus alrededores

montones de piedra, para que alii ofreciesen maiz quebrado y otras semillas, . . .
hicieron muchas estufas en los pueblos."

tails. Sometimes they are erroneously explained, but enough

is stated concerning them to prove that recent discoveries
about the pueblos rest on solid fact, and are not the product
of imagination.
The
idea of one supreme being is not mentioned as ex
isting among the New Mexican villagers. But the strongly

fetichistic nature of their creeds, beliefs, and rites struck
the early missionaries very forcibly. This is graphically ex

pressed in the statements that they worshipped the devil
and demons in general, and that witchcraft and adoration
of the elements, etc. were their chief religious practices.
Idols of wood were found among them in
stone and of
great numbers, and some of the Spanish authors made not
incorrect guesses at the signification of some of them. 1 The

practice of performing sacrifices outside of the villages, at
small heaps of stones and near to springs or other places
marked by their natural features, is often emphasized, and
the prayer plumes, or sacrificial plume-sticks, are frequently
referred to. 2 The custom of doing penance, of fasting and
1
again to Villagran, Historia, fol. 135.
I refer Idols of stone are frequently
mentioned. In addition to the sources already quoted, see Gaspar Castano de
Sosa, Memoria del Desaibrimiento, p. 244 Porque tienen muchos idolos que
"
atras nos olvidaba de declarar ; y en el primer pueblo, doncle esto sucedio,

al maese de campo el susso, habia muy gran cantidad, e los tienen todos."
Onate, Discurso, 252 Doncle habia gran cantidad de maiz, y muchos idolos
p. :
"
pintados, tantos, que en solas dos piezas, conte sesenta." This is a confirma
tion of Villagran. Ynterrogatorio de Preguntas, MS., 1681 Y habiendo des- :
"
cubierto esta traicion ahorcaron yndio Estevan, y sosegaron a los

el clicho
demas, y en los bienes que se sequestraron del dicho yndio se hallo dentro de
su casa cantidad de idolos."
2
Relacion del Suceso, p. 320. Espejo, Relacion, p. 174. Onate, Carta, p. 308.
Ynterrogatorio de PregJintas "Y ollas enteros de polvos de yerbas idolatricas,
\
plumas y otras porquerias." Benavides, Memorial, p. 38 Su Religion, aunque :

"
no era porque para qualquiera accion ofrecian, como

idolatria formal, casi lo era,
era al tiempo que ivan a pelear con sus enemigos, ofrecian harina, v otras cosas
a las cabelleras de los que auian muerto de la nacion enemiga. Si ivan a cagar,
ofrecian harina a cabe9as de venados, liebres, conejos, y otras animales muertos ;
si a pescar ofrecian al rio." Ibid., p. 39. Torquemada, Monarchia, vol. i. p. 681 :

47
abstinence, is insisted upon as common, and resorted to for

various purposes. Even the strange religious organization
1
that Mr. Gushing has re-discovered did not escape the no

tice of writers in the seventeenth century.
It is true that this religious organization, which at the
present day is kept as much as possible secret from the
outsider, was then public property in so far that every

member of a tribe knew of its existence, and belonged more
or less to a certain branch of it. The workings of the sys
tem were plain to every one, and they would have remained
plain to this day had it not been for its baneful effects, which
more than anything else contributed to retard the advance
of the Indian on the path of progress. It caused a con
stant clash with the European element, and created the ab
solute necessity of suppressing customs so directly opposed
to the ideas of civilization as understood by the whites.
Witchcraft was one of the principal weapons used by the
leaders of Indian faith ere they resorted to force of arms,
and, while the formulas and magic means employed were of

course harmless, the intention of doing injury was manifest,
and it required, when persuasion failed to check it, the
strong hand of force ; just as a child, when teachings and
reprimands are no longer effective, must be convinced by
the corrective rod. But the system was so strongly rooted,
it had taken such a powerful hold on every thought and
action of Indian life, that, upon suppressing its public mani
festations, it continued to prevail as an occult affair, secret

from all who did not believe in it. Of this religious organi
zation, which now takes an esoteric form, at least three
las mugeres con harina y plumas, a vnas piedras

Luego de manana, van
"
toscas, que tienen levantadas, y les hechan vn poco de la harina que llevan,
y de aquellas plumas, porque las guarden aquel dia, para que no calgan de las
escaleras, y tambien para que les den mantas."
1
Benavides. Memorial, p. 39.
components are plainly mentioned as early as 1630 namely, ;
the warriors, the medicine-men, and the highest Shamans or
priests of the tribe. Their influence was then so prominent,

that intertribal dissensions are attributed to their mutual
antagonism.
1
We may infer that the power which they then
1
Even in the first years after Onate s settlement of New Mexico, secrecy
about religious matters became noticeable among the Pueblos. Torquemada,
Monarchia, vol. i. p. 6Si Esta Gente es sagaz, y de mucho secreto y por
:
"
esta causa no se han podido ver mas cosas, ni saberlas, acerca de su falsa
religion."
Allusion to the esoteric orders is found in Benavides, Memorial,
p. 37 :
"
Toda
esta gente y naciones en su gentilidad estaua diuidida en dos
parcialidades, guerreros, y hechizeros, procurando los guerreros reduzir a su

imperio y mando, en oposicion de los hechizeros, toda la gente; y los hechizeros
con la misma oposicion persuadian a toclos a que ellos hazian llouer, y dar la
tierrabuenas sementeras, y otras cosas de que mofauan los guerreros, por lo
qual auia entre ellos continuas guerras ciuiles, tan grandes, que se matauan, y
asolauan los pueblos enteros."
Witchcraft is one of those features of Indian creed and worship which
most strongly attracted the attention of early writers, and whose operations
were directly felt; not that the incantations themselves could produce any
effect, but they were a sign of hostility which could be but a prelude to more
effective action. Besides, witchcraft was then regarded as a fact, as a real and
substantial crime, and liable to punishment. Therefore, as I have already ob
served, when speaking of other tribes, witchcraft embodied in the eyes of the
European new-comers the substance of Indian creed and of Indian cult. Among
the Pueblos, the sorcerers attracted most attention idolatry appeared practi ;
cally only in the background.

The mentions of witchcraft are frequent, and we meet them at an early day.
They abound in the documents of the period preceding the revolution of 1680.
It was indeed a case of witchcraft which brought into prominence the noto
rious Po-pe, and which caused that Indian, already a medicine-man of repute
to assume a leading position among his people. Castaneda does not mention
sorcerers. He only says (Cibola, p. 172), "Us out des predicateurs." Mota-
Padilla (Historia, p. 160) says of their religious practices: "No se vio templo
alguno, ni se les conocio idolos, por lo que se tuvo entendido adoraban al sol y
a la luna, lo que se confirmo, porque una noche que habo un eclipse, alzaron
todos mucha griten What are usually called sorcerers in the older sources
a."
" "
are the members of the secret orders, the medicine-men or "
priests
"
of each
tribe. cannot here give a detailed explanation of these organizations,
I this
must be reserved for the next section, but the practical working of them, as
towards the Spaniards, is instructive. Benavides is probably the first who has
given a clear notice of these strained relations. He says (Memorial, p. 34) .
Es costumbre general entre todos los Indies infieles, recibir al principle muy
"
wielded over the social public as well as private life of their

tribes was larger than it is to-day, for it had full sway over
the imagination of the people. Among its leading exterior
tokens were the numerous dances which occupied part of the
time of the public, and many of which are easily recognized
as still practised now. Thus Antonio de Espejo describes a
festival at Acoma during which
snakes were handled by live
the dancers, after the manner of the snake dance that is still
danced among the Moquis. 1 Several other performances of
a similar nature are occasionally described, 2 although, on the
bien en sus pueblos, y reduzirse luego al bautismo, y viendo quando

al religioso
les catequizan, que ban de dexar sus idolatrias, y hechizerias, sientenlo tanto
los hechizeros, que inquietan a todos, y los diuierten, para que no scan Chris-
tianos, y no solo esto, sino que echen al religion 6 del pueblo, y sino que le
maten." In these performances of witchcraft, poison was not unfrequently
employed against the Spaniards, as well as against the missionaries. I shall
have to treat of these facts at length in the next section of the present Report,
and therefore limit myself to one single quotation in regard to the existence of
sorcerers among the Pueblos at the time of Onate. Villagran, Historia (canto xv.
fol. 139) :
"Y en sus prestigiosos hechizeros,

Idolatras perdidos."
1
with no small personal gratification that I quote here as old an eye
It is
witness as Antonio de Espejo in favor of the veracity of my friend Captain J. G.

Bourke, U. S. Army, in regard to the snake dance still practised among the
Moqui Indians. It has, besides, been not unfrequently stated to me by Indians
from the Rio Grande pueblos, that they also had that dance at one time. But
Espejo saw performances with live snakes on the rock and in the pueblo of
Acoma in 1582, during a solemn dance. He says (Relation, p. 180) Hicieron :
"
nos un mitote y baile muy solemne, saliendo la gente muy galana y haciendo
muchos juegos de manos, algunos dellos artificios con viveras vivas, que era
cosa de ver lo uno y le otro."
2
Villagran (Historia, fol. 222) describes a nocturnal dance at Acoma, which
was danced as a preliminary to the fight with Juan de Zaldivar, in 1599:
"Y ellosempezaron luego el baile,
Y entraron tan briosos y gallardos,
dial suelen los cauallos que tascando
Los espumosos frenos van hiriendo,
Con las herradas manos lebantadas,
Los duros empedrados, y asi bravos,
Hollandose ligeros, mil pedazos,
whole, the student will regret to find that the Spanish au

thorities fail to give us ample descriptions of what to-day is
"the
greatest curiosity" among the Pueblos for tourists and
ethnologists. This apparent lack of due attention is misin

terpreted if it be attributed to carelessness, or even to obtuse-
ness created by prejudice. Its causes are different. The
Spaniards came from Mexico, and had mostly lived in Mexico
at a time when idolatrous dances were performed with an
amount of display in costumes and ornaments with which
the modest paraphernalia of the Pueblos not only could not
compete, but in comparison with which they dwindled into

insignificance. Not that the dress and decorations worn
by the Nahuatl, the Maya, etc. bore testimony to any great
advance in art or industry over the culture of the New Mexi
cans. The costumes were similar in many particulars, but
tropical nature afforded to the southern tribes so much more
richly colored and showy material, that the appearance to

the eye was incomparably superior. There was a like sim-
Canosos de arrancar se van haziendo,

Assi los bravos baruaros soberuios,
Haziendo mil lindezas y saltando,
Heriendo aquel penasco a"
puros golpes,
De las valientes plantas que assentauan,
Y con fuerga de gritos y alaridos,
Un infernal clamor alii subian,
Tan horrendo y grimoso que las almas
De todos los danados parecian,
Que alii su triste suerte lamentauan,
Este baile turd hasta el alua."
Torquemada, Monarchta Vistense galanos para hacer sus

"
p. 681):
(vol. i.
mitotes y bailes, cada barrio por si ; salen a ellos vestidos, asi hombres, como
mugeres, con manias pintadas y bordadas lo qual lodo pintan, y bordan los
;
hombres, porque mugeres no lo aprenden, y asi no lo hacen. Quando piden

las
agua a sus dioses, andan los indios desnudos junto a las casas, y las indias
desde los corredores, les hechan agua con ollas, y jarros, con que los banan
bien, y lambien bailan en las eslufas, y a9otan a vn indio cruelmente, y lo
aranan, y rasgunan con vnos como peines de manera, que lo dexan todo desol-
;
lado y rasgado, y todo esto hacen porque llueva."

ilarity in the music, in the custom of wearing masks, and in

the general order and motions of the dances. 1 The dances
of the Pueblos were therefore no surprise to the whites ; they
had seen more striking displays of the same nature, and
far
unless a calisthenic feast showed features which farther south
they had not seen, it was passed over in silence or slightly

noticed. Nevertheless, there was one class which became
soon very prominent in the eyes especially of the clergy, and
to which great attention was paid, not for ethnological pur
poses, since ethnology was not yet a branch of knowledge,

but owing to their signification and their practical bearing
upon the religious and social life of the Indian. These

dances have been handed down to us under the common
designation of
"
Ca-chi-nas." The origin of the word is found

in the Tehua language, where "Ka-tzin-a"
signifies the spirits
2
of the fetiches of game. To dance a Katzina was therefore
to perform some animal dance with the object of performing
an incantation, either for purposes of the hunt, or of war, or

some other work of public utility. The deer dance, when
1
Espejo, Relacion, p. 174: Tienen todas las pinturas de sus casas y otras
"
cosas que tienen para bailar y danzar, asi en la musica como en lo demas, muy
al natural de los mexicanos."
2
Torquemada (Monarchta, vol. i. p. 681) mentions these deities, three in
number, and it is clear from the context that he particularly refers to idols of
the Tehuas. Other similar deities are mentioned on occasion of the uprising
of 1680. Interrogatories y Declaraciones, fol. 135. While Po-pe was concealing
himself in the estufas uf Taos three demons are said to have appeared to
"
"
him, and these demons or deities are called, respectively, Caudi or Cadi, Tilim,
and Heume. In the same document mention is also made of the sacred lagune
whence the Pueblos claim to have issued, and this lagune, the Tehua name for
which was Cibobe. is called Colela and Copiala, porque siempre deseaban
"
viuir como salieron de la laguna de Colela."

The Cachina, as the name of a particular class of idolatrous dances, appears
in the middle of the seventeenth century. The dance was early prohibited, but
was never completely suppressed, and the Spaniards soon found out that, when
ever a Cachina was preparing, it meant surely some mischief. One of the first
things the Pueblos did after the expulsion of Otermin from New Mexico was
to re-establish the Cachinas.
performed with a religious intent, and not merely for the en

tertainment of visitors, the dance of the mountain sheep, the
much discredited snake dance, in fact, all animal dances, are
the original Cachinas. But the name was very soon extended
to all idolatrous dances in general, and as a number of them
were very obscene, it was necessary to prohibit them. Ob

scenity and public immorality enter into Indian belief and
creed as symbolism. With the Indian, form and shape ap
pear so intimately connected with substance that they are
inseparable, and the surest way, in the Indian s mind, to make
a prayer effective, is to symbolize the matter prayed for by
a close imitation thereof.
To the numerous rites of a religious nature, whose per
formances strike the eye even of the most inattentive, be
longs one which consists in the representation of particularly
obscene rites. It is variously called, according to the idiom
of the tribe to which it belongs, and a description of the ritual
dress as well as paint has been handed down to us from as
early a date as 1
599. At that date it was performed in con
1
nection with warlike operations.
easy for one who has se&n the so-called Ko-sha-re or Entremeseros
1 It is
act the part of clowns at some of the Pueblo dances to recognize these ob
scene and disgusting personages in the graphic description furnished by Vil-
lagran of the manner in which the Acomas received the Spaniards when
Vicente de Zaldivar approached their inexpugnable rock, in January, 1599 (His-
toria, fol. 226) :
"Tambien entre varones y mugeres,

Andauan muchos baruaros desnudos,
Los torpes miembros todos descubiertos,
Tiznados, y embijados de unas rayas,
Tan espantables negras y grimosas,
Cual si demonios brauos del infierno.
Fueran con sus melenas desgrenadas,

Y colas arrastrando, y unos cuernos,
Desmesurados, gruessos y crecidos,

Con estos trajes todos sin verguenca,
Saltauan como corgos por los riscos,
Diziendonos palabras bien infames."
Information as to the burial rites of the Pueblos is exceed

ingly meagre and unsatisfactory. It points to cremation, but
in presence the pre-Hispanic burial grounds discovered
of
lately, which contain complete skeletons, cremation cannot

be asserted to have been a general custom. 1
Religion, or rather magic, was essential to warfare. Many
of its details,important as well as unimportant, were con
nected with articles of Indian faith. Such, for instance, was,
and is yet, the act of scalping. In securing the scalp of the
dead, the captor secures the faculties, mental as well as physi
cal, of him whom he has slain, and renders them so to say
tributary to himself and to his tribe. The Pueblos scalped,

2
they danced with the scalp, and honored it. The scalp dance
also was therefore a Cachina. Fasts preceded a campaign,
as well as among other tribes. The warrior before and. im
mediately after his military enterprise was almost a sacred
being. The mode of warfare of the Pueblos did not differ
from that of other Indians. Its tactics were ambush and
surprise, its weapons those of the savage. The Pueblos
carried the shield, the bow and arrows in their respective
1
Castaneda (Cibota, p. 165) says of the Indians of Zuni-Cibola Us brulent :
"
les morts, et avec eux les instruments qui leur ont servi a exercer leur metier."
Mota-Padilla (ffistoria, p. 160) describes a cremation witnessed by Coronado s
men :Y en una ocasion vieron los espanoles, que habiendo muerto un indio,
"
armaron una grande balsa 6 luminaria de lena, sobre

que pusieron el cuerpo
cubierto con una manta, y luego todos hombres y mujeres,
los del pueblo,
fueron poniendo sobre la cama de lena, pinole, calabazas, frijoles, atole, maiz
tostado, y de lo demas que usaban comer, y dieron fuego por todas partes, de
suerte que en breve todo se convertio en cenizas con el cuerpo." Mota-Padilla
had access to sources extant at Guadalajara in the past century which are
unknown to me.
2
The custom of scalping the dead seems to have been an ancient one among
the Pueblos. Benavides, Memorial, p. 38 Como era al tiempo que ivan a
:
"
pelear con sus enemigos, ofrecian harina y otras cosas a las cabelleras de los
que auian muerto de la nacion enemiga." The taking of scalps is mentioned in
documents of a posterior date, but always in a manner that leads to suppose
thatit was an ancient custom.
OF THK
"CTNIVERSITY
quivers, and the war-club ;

whether the lance was in use is
still undetermined. But in addition he wore a sort of hel

met ;
it
cap made of buffalo hide, strong
was a close-fitting
enough to resist an arrow at long range. This military

garment has now gone out of use, and the shield of buffalo
hide is little more than a mere ornament or keepsake. Both
have shared, or are bound to share, the fate of the flint-tipped
arrow and of the war-club with a massive head of stone. 1
The question whether slings were used for hurling stones is
not certain. Pebbles and rocks were largely resorted to for

defensive purposes. The flat roofs contained accumulations
of such material. 2 The villages were defended from the
1
The helmet or cap of buffalo hide mentioned by Castaneda, Cibola, p. 67.
is
Indians from Pecos (Cicuye) came to those of Zuyi, and they offered to
visit
Coronado "des casques." The helmet was well known to the Zuriis and used
by them, according to Mr. Gushing. As to the shields of buffalo hide, they are
so frequently mentioned by the oldest authors that it is superfluous to quote.
The same is the case with the other weapons mentioned. I merely quote one
author, Villagran, who when he describes the people of Acoma arming them,
selves against the Spaniards, gives the following inventory of the weapons used
by the tribe (Historia de la Ntieva Mexico, canto xviii. fol. 157) :
"
Los unos con gran priesa descolgando,

Del alto techo la formida mac,a,
Otros gruesso leno bien labrado,
el
Qual la rodela y hasta bien tostada,

El arco, y el carcax de agudas puntos,
Con otras muchas armas que a su modo,
Han conserbado siempre, y ban guardado."
In regard to the macanes or war-clubs, it seems that the club of to-day, a

short stick with a heavy notch at one end, -was in use three centuries ago.
Espejo (Relation, p. 175) Y las macanas son un palo de media vara de largo,
:
"
y al muy gordo." One and a half vara, or about eighteen inches, is

cabo del
the customary size of the war-club of to-day. That the arrows were tipped with
flint or stone scarcely needs proof, still I shall quote here Espejo (p. 174)
"
Que :
las flechas son de varas tostadas y la puntas dellas de padernal esquinadas, que
con ellas facilmente pasan una cota."

2
When Coronado had to storm the village of Hauicu of the Zuni group of
pueblos, he was himself hurt by rocks thrown from the houses. Traslado de las
Nuevas y Noticias, fol. 532 :
"
Dieronle en la cabeza y hombros y piernas muchos

polpes de piedra." Castaneda, Cibola, p. 43 Le general fut renverse d un
:
"
house-tops
1
in a few rare instances, as at Pecos, a rude
;
2
stone wall encompassed the place. In case of dire neces
sity the pueblo was temporarily abandoned, and the tribe re

tired to the nearest convenient rock or plateau for a time.
If in the interval the village had been sacked or burnt, it
was rebuilt, but seldom on the same site. As a general rule,
changes of location were common and easy ;
hence the great
number of ruins to-day. They indicate, and I cannot enough
insist upon this fact, numerous shif tings, and not a large
3
simultaneous population.
There is nothing in the natural resources of New Mexico
that could maintain a large number of people whose me
chanical and industrial means of support were those of what
has been called the "
stone age."
The water supply of the
territory is
remarkably scant, and, while the Indian knew and
used springs which the present settler is sometimes unac
quainted with, the value of such springs was not very great.
They might suffice for the wants of one or a few families,
sometimes for a small village. To such watering places the
Indian was limited, outside of the river bottoms of larger
coup de pierre en montant a 1 assaut et il aurait etc tue sans Garci-Lopez,

;
etc.
qui se jeterent devant lui etre9urent les pierres qui lui etaient destinees et qui
n etaient pas en petit nombre." As to the custom of storing pebbles on the
house-tops, it is
abundantly proved. Caspar Castafio de Sosa (Memoria del
230) also mentions

"
Descubrimiento, p. hondas."
1
Almost every engagement with the Pueblos proves this. Already the
Relation Postrera de Sivola (MS,) says: Es gente que defiende bien su capa,
"
y desde sus casas, que no curan de salir fuera."

2
This stonewall is still visible at Pecos. It existed in 1540. Castaneda,
p. 177.
3 The changes that have occurred in the sites of the various pueblos within
three centuries are considerable. It required the dispositions taken by the
Governor Don Domingo Gironza Petriz de Cruzate in 1689 to compel the Indian
to remain within a certain circuit at least. The so-called Pueblo Grants are not
grants, they are limitations placed to the erratic tendencies of the sedentary, or
rather land-tilling aborigines. Previously the villages were moved about within
the range at will, and upon the
slightest provocation.
streams. But the larger streams are few and far between,
and only portions of their course suitable for cultivation.

Only the Rio Grande, the San Juan, the Chama, parts of the
Pecos, Jemez, Puerco, and Upper Gila, irrigate large valleys.
True it is, the Indian did not need to irrigate everywhere.
His domestic plants did not all require artificial watering.
Corn, for instance, grows by means of summer rain and
winter snows alone, provided both come at the right time.
Wheat the Pueblo Indian knew only after the advent of the
Spaniard. Squashes, or calabashes, and beans required irriga

tion. But corn was the great staple, and corn may grow on
elevated table mountains or plateaus that are many hundreds,
nay thousands, of above a spring or a brook. In such

feet
cases, the village Indian subsisted on a scanty crop and on

game : he sacrificed to security of living the comforts of a
more productive location. 1
The Tanos of the Galisteo basin had no watercourses from
which channels for the wants of their crops. 2 The
to derive
Piros of Tabira, and the Tiguas of Cuaray, subsisted from corn

watered only by rain. Nor was it indispensable that the pre
cipitation should be very abundant but only that the rain or
;
snow should come in season. The Pueblo had no stock to

water, the turkey was his only fowl.
3
Mammals he did not
1 The testimony in favor of the assertion, that the Pueblos irrigated previous
to the advent of the Spaniards, whenever the water-courses gave a sufficient
supply, are abundant and conclusive. I only refer to those from the earliest
times, and in regard to which there can be no suspicion of reporting features
introduced by Europeans. Espejo, Relation, p. 174: Y de todo esto hay se-
"
menteres de riego y de temporal con muy buenas sacas de agua y que lo

labran como los Mexicanos." Old irrigating ditches are quite common in New
Mexico.
2
Espejo, p. 176.
3
Turkeys, as a domestic fowl, are frequently mentioned. Castaneda, Cibola,
p. 171. Relacion del Suceso, p. 320. Hernando de Alvarado, Relation de lo que
descubrieron en Demanda de la Mar del Stir, p. 512 Tienen mucha comida de
:
"
maiz e frisoles y melones y gallinas en grande abundancia." Relacion Postrera :

know how to domesticate and to raise. If, therefore, neces
sity compelled him to retire into regions where running water

or springs did not exist, a tank or simple artificial cistern
was sufficient for his needs. Thus, the village of Tabira
(Gran Quivira) had four large pools from which the
artificial
people derived drinking water. The pueblo of Acoma sub

sists to-day upon the water collected in a picturesque basin
on the top of the rock, three hundred and fifty feet above
the utterly dry valley. To such and similar devices the New
Mexican villager had to resort, and it was a relief to him
when he could by the side of a permanent river, and
nestle
raise beans and calabashes with the aid of primitive channels
of irrigation. The tribes on the Rio Grande, and the people
of Taos and Pecos, enjoyed such privileges more than any of
the other tribes. With them irrigation was easy, and fre
quent mention is made of it
by the older writers.
As far north as the village of Santo Domingo, or Cochiti,
that is, in the latitude of Santa Fe, cotton was raised by
the Pueblo Indians. The introduction of sheep has, in this
colder climate, caused wool to supersede cotton among the
natives ;
but previously to the seventeenth century the abo
riginal dress consisted largely of cotton sheets, or rather
simple wrappers, tied either around the neck or on the
shoulder, or converted into sleeveless jackets. This was
the custom especially in the cotton-raising villages, but the
others also, like Zuni, Acoma, and the Tanos, used cotton,
1
obtaining it by barter. Beside cotton, the materials used
for the dress of the Pueblos were deer skins and buffalo
Tienen algunas gallinas, las cuales guardan para hacer mantas de la pluma."
"
Espejo, Relation, p. 175.

1 The fact that
cotton was raised along the Rio Grande is so universally
stated by older authors, that I refrain from quoting. In regard to Zuni, it is
doubtful, although I believe that it was not the case. The Moquis, however,
did raise cotton.
robes, rabbit hair or skin (particularly at Zuni and at Moqui),

and leaves of Yucca bacata and Y. angustifolia. Of the fibre
of the Yucca, the Zuni Indians made skirts and kilts of ;
rabbit skins, very heavy blankets were made. 1 The northern

Pueblos, the Tehuas, Taos, and also the Pecos and Tanos,
2
dressed in buckskin preference to anything else.
in But
still, even when cotton was unobtainable for whole
gar
ments, they sought to secure cotton scarfs and girdles woven
in bright colors, which were used for belts as well as for
garters, etc. The dress was more simple than that of to
day. Leggings of buckskin were worn in winter only, and

then mostly by the northern Pueblos. The moccason, or
protected the feet. stated

"
tegua,"
It is explicitly that,
of this shoe without heel were of deer
"
while the uppers

"
3
skin, the soles were frequently of buffalo hide. The Pueblos,
1
Skirts made from Yucca leaves are frequently mentioned. At Zuni, for
instance, Relacion se visten de mantas de
"
del Suceso, p. 320 :

Henegrien,"
that is, I presume, of Hennequen, a species of the Agave. Relacion Postrera :
"
Andan lasmugeres vestidas de mantas de maguey hasta los pies." Zarate,

Relaciones, par. 44 :
"
Vistense de mantas de Yztli texidas de cardoncillo."
As for the robes of rabbit skins, they are mentioned by Fray Marcos de Nizza,
Descubrimiento, p. 338; Don Antonio de Mendoza, Denxieme Lettre a PEm-
pereur, i;th April, 1540; Cibola, Appendix, p. 294, after the statements of
Melchior Diaz, Relacion Postrera Tambien hacen mantas de pellejos de liebres
:
"
y de conejos, con que se cubren."

2
Hernando de Alvarado,
Relacion, p. 513. Espejo, Relacion, p. 177. Rela
cion Postrera. Relacion del Sliceso, p. 325.
3
Descriptions of the Pueblo costume are very frequent in older sources. Of
Zuni, Castaneda (Cibola, p. 163) says: Les Indiens de ce pays sont tres-intel- "
ligents, ils se couvrent les parties naturelles et tout le milieu du corps avec des
pieces d etoffes qui ressemblent a des serviettes elles sont garnies de houpes ;
et d une broderie aux coins ils les attachent autour des reins.
; Ces naturels
ont aussi des especes de pelisses en plumes ou en peaux de lievres, et des
etoffes en coton. Les femmes portent stir les epaules une espece de mante
qu elles nouent autour de cou en les passant sous le bras droit; elles se font
aussi des vetements de peaux tres-bien preparees, et retroussent leurs cheveux
derriere les oreilles en forme de roue, ce qui ressemble aux anses d une coupe."
I omit the descriptions furnished
by Fray Marcos and by Melchior Diaz, since
neither of them saw the costume, and they report from
hearsay merely. Juan
as well as the roaming Indians, knew the

art of tanning, and
the astringent qualities of the "Cana agria" (Rumex
venosns]
were not unknown to them, but the plant came into use for
tanning only under the Spanish regime.
Thus both agriculture and the hunt furnished to the vil
lagers not only food, but dress

turkey, which also. The
was kept around the houses of the pueblo, was domesti
cated, not so much for its meat as for its feathers. Feather
mantles were a part of the wearing apparel, and afforded
both protection and ornament. 1 We meet among the New
Mexicans the two elements which, farther south, consti-
Jaramillo, Kelacion hecha de la Jornada que habia hecho d la Tierra Nneva,

p. 308 El vestido de los Indies es de cueros de venados, estrenadisimo el
:
"
adobo, alcanzan ya algunos cueros de vacas adobado con que se cobijan, que
son a manera de bernias y de mucho abrigo tienen niantas de
algodon cua-
;
clradas, unas mayores que otras, como de vara y media en largo las indias las ;
traen puestas por el hombre a manera de gitanas y cenidas una vuelta sobre
otra por su cintura con una cinta del mismo algodon." Rclacion Postrera :
"
Andan cernidas : traen los cabellos cogidos encima de las orejas como ro-
daxas." Testimonio Dado en Mexico, pp. 84, 90 la gente vestida de
:
"
Y
mantas de algodon y camisas de lo propio." Espejo, Relacion de Viage, p. 173 :
"
En esta provincia se visten algunos de los naturales, de mantas de algodon y

cueros de las vacas, y de gamuzas aderezadas y las;
mantas de algodon y cueros
de las vacas las traen puestas al uso Mexicano, eceto que debajo de partes
vergonzosas traen unos panos de algodon pintados, y algunos dellos traen
camisas, y las mugeres traen naguas de algodon y muchas dellas bordadas con
hilo de colores, y encima una manta como la traen los indios Mexicanos, y
atada con un pano de manos como tohalla labrada, y se lo atan por la cintura
con sus borlas, y las naguas son que sirven de faldas de camisa a raiz de las
carnes, y esto cada una lo trae con la mas ventaja que puede y todos, asi ;
hombres como mujeres, andan calzados con zapatos y botas, las suelas de
cuero de vacas, y lo de encima de cuero de venado aderezado; las mugeres
traen el cabello muy peinado
y bien puesto y con sus moldes que traen en la
cabeza uno de una parte y otro de otra, a donde ponen el cabello con curio-
sidad sin traer nengun tacado en la cabeza."
1
The manner of making these feather mantles is described as follows by
Juan Jaramillo (Relacion hecha de la Jornada, p. 309) Cueros unos pellones :
"
de plumas que las tuercen, acompanando la pluma con unos hilos, y despues
las hacen a manera de tegido raro con
que hacen las mantas con que se abrigan."
Alvarado (Relacion, p. 512) also mentions the pellones de la pluma de las
"
gallinas."
tuted the fine robes of the Mexican Indians, the feather or
plume, and the rabbit skin or hair. In Mexico, the two

were combined in a garment that astonished the Spaniards
by the beauty of its color and its intricacy of design. Farther

north, each material was used by itself : the Pueblos had not
yet advanced to the idea of a combination.

The hunt as well as fishing was mostly communal. What
in Peru has been described as the "
Cha-cu," or great hunting
expeditions of the Incas, could be witnessed in New Mexico

even as late as this century. It was nothing else than a
wholesale slaughter, in the most cruel and sometimes wanton

manner, of all the game within a circle encompassed by a
large number of people. Such communal hunts were under
the special direction of the war captains, and not unfrequently
several villages associated for the purpose. The meat was
distributed among the households, and it would seem that a
portion was reserved for rainy days. 1 For the Pueblo was
not as improvident as the roaming Indian, who has the re
source of changing his abode in case the local supply is
exhausted. The Pueblo laid in communal stores ;
certain
small tracts were cultivated for that purpose, and the crops
were housed in advance of the individual ones. There is
still one remnant left of the ancient custom of communal

hunting. These are the periodical rabbit hunts, made osten
I merely mention them
sibly for the benefit of the Cacique.
here because they were accurately observed and described as
2
early as the last years of the sixteenth century. There is of
This custom reported by the Pueblo Indians as being an ancient one
1 is : it
is now falling into disuse.

2 The communal hunts are described, or at least noticed, by Torquemada,
Monarchi a, vol. i.
p. Para ir a caca, hechan vando, y lo pregonan tres
680 :
"
dias continuas ; pasados los tres dias, salen a los campo y a la ca9a, que ya
esta pregonada." An excellent description of it, particularly of the rabbit hunt
still practised to-day, is found in Villagran, (ffistoria, canto xvii. fol. 163,) but
it is too long to be copied here.
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. l6l
course a great deal of superstitious practice connected with

all these performances, for the Indian is so fettered to his
complicated creed that his most insignificant actions are

associated with some ritualistic performance.
Landed tenure was simple, and had not risen to the con
ception of individual ownership. The tribe or village claimed
a range, the limits of which were ill defined. Within this
range each male was at liberty to till a plot or tract, and

since he it was who did the work on it, to him, and not to
any female, was the right conceded of controlling the field.

But he could not alienate it except to members of the tribe
or of the clan. To such he
could barter away and exchange
his field, his crop even, so long as it was not housed. After
housing, the crop belonged to the family, for the house was
its abode, and the house had been built by the woman.
There consequently truth in the broad assertion, that the
is
land belonged to the men and the dwellings to the women,

with the restriction, however, that such possession was sub
ject to the claims of social organization ;

it was a possessory
right rather than an absolute title. The fields, after the
father demise, might descend to his. male children, or one
s
of them but any young man had the opportunity to obtain

;
a plot of his own, and strict rules of inheritance cannot be

said to have existed. With
personal use, the
articles of
brothers seem to have stood nearer than the children the :
Pueblos were approaching a state of transition from mother

1
right to descent in the male line.
It is almost superfluous to enter into any details about
the agricultural and household implements of the Pueblos.
To say that these Indians knew no metal of any kind, that
1
These facts have been told me by a number of old Indians, belonging to
the esoteric groups among which traditions are preserved with the utmost care.
They refer more particularly to the Rio Grande Pueblos.

ii
consequently basalt, flint, obsidian, granite, bone, and wood

were the materials out of which they manufactured their
instruments, designates their average type. To the student
of details many interesting local variations will appear, but it
suffices for our purpose to establish the degree of culture in
general. I must, however, observe that the use of stone im
plements does not imply absolute imperfection and rudeness
of work. By means of a simple pebble or fragment of stone,
the Pueblo Indian could perform sometimes as much as many
of us can to-day with an implement of steel. Only the na
tive, who had no idea of the value of time, supplemented the
imperfection of the instrument by a degree of patience which

we cannot afford to practise. It is well known that every
principal tool of modern times had prototype in the so

its
called stone age, and this fact is illustrated by the ancient

Pueblo implements. The plough they of course did not have,
because they had no beasts of draught a planting stick and ;
stone knives took its place. Bone saws have been found ;
the fire drill wasauger and their gimlet. The axe, the
their
hatchet, the hammer and maul, as well as the club-head, are

all represented in basalt, in granite, and similar material. The
Pueblo, as we have seen, spun and wove ;
he made wicker-
ware and pottery, the latter without the potter s wheel.
In the main, the pottery of pre-Spanish times appears bet
ter made and more handsomely decorated than the modern
pottery of the Pueblos. But the patterns are similar, and the
symbols used are identical. There are of course many local
differences, but they can be explained by local resources or
lack of resources. Where mineral paints were abundant, and
varied in shades, the colors of the designs show brighter hues ;
where good clay was not accessible, the pottery suffered in

durability. The Pueblo, however, knew how toimpart a cer
tain lustre or glaze to some of the decorations on his earthen-
ware, and this art is lost. How the decadence in ceramics

is to be accounted for, I shall state further on.
Divided -into petty communities, the Pueblo traded with

his neighbor, or fought with him, as circumstances might
dictate. Trading was simple exchange, for there was no
money. The solemn dances served often as marts, where
the people came to enjoy themselves and to barter. But
the village Indian also made longer trips for commercial
purposes. In 1540, the Pecos Indians came to Zuni with
buffalo hides. The two extremes, west and east, possessed
distinct commodities, commerce. 1 Again,
which gave rise to
certain groups of villages in the very heart of New Mexico

controlled natural resources coveted by others, and for their
possession they bartered or wrangled. The Tanos held the

veins of turquoise, or kalaite, at the Cerrillos, about twenty
miles southwest of the present Santa Fe. branch of the A
Tiguas and another of the Piros were settled in the neigh
borhood of the salt marshes. The Zunis enjoyed a similar

privilege in being within a short distance of the Salines of
the Carrizo. The Queres of San Felipe had in front of
their village large veins of mineral paint, valuable to the In
Such and other natural
"
dian for his pottery.

"
treasures
were guarded as jealously as the limited power of their pos
sessors permitted they both divided the pueblos from one
;
another at times, and held them together by the great tie
of commercial intercourse.
Although never clearly defined, a certain solidarity existed

between all the villages, of whatever language or geographical
position. The tie was very nearly unconscious, and it made
1
Such commerce is frequently alluded to. Thus Pecos occasionally traded
buffalo hides with the Zunis. Castaneda, Cibola, p. 68. Salt was an important
article of commerce not that the people of the villages situated near the Salines
;
the coveted condiment, but those of the other pueblos had to sub
"
"exported
mit to the conditions which those who held the marshes exacted.
1
itself felt only in the hours of greatest need, at what might

be termed supreme moments. It originated from community
and creed. It did not prevent inter

of customs, organization,
tribal squabbles, it was not formulated by any compact of the
nature of league or confederacy. The Spaniards felt its force

several times, and for the last time in 1680. This tie, which
acknowledged the beliefs of all the Pueblos to be one, and
which hinted at a community of origin too, was quite as much
a product of necessity as of anything else. It was also the
result of contrast in condition between the village Indians

and the roving tribes surrounding them, and constantly
threatening more or less their existence.
The relation between these two classes of natives, the agri
culturaland the nomad, were peculiar. In general there was

war between them, war to the knife, a war of extermination.
Nevertheless commerce existed. The people of Acoma ex
changed cotton mantles against deer-skins with the Navajos; 1
the Yutas traded at Taos, the Apaches of the plains came
to Pecos with their buffalo robes. But on such occasions
the people of Pecos did not allow them to enter the village,
because, says Castaneda,

"
they are people who cannot be

trusted. They receive them kindly, trade with them, with
out however allowing them to spend the night in their vil
lage. They even keep watch with trumpets, the sentinels

2
calling out to each other as is done in Spain."
This ap
plies to the Pueblos in general, and expresses the true re
lations between them and the nomads. The latter could
never be they might trade peaceably to-day, and
"
trusted";
1
Espejo, Relation, p. 180 Los serranos acuden a servir a los de los pobla-
:
"
ciones, y los de las poblaciones les llaman a estos, querechos tratany contratan ;
con los de las poblaciones, llevandoles sal y caza, venados, conejos y liebres y
gamuzas aderezadas y otros generos de cosas, a trueque de mantas de algodon
y otras cosas con que les satisfacen la paga el gobierno."
2
murder to-morrow those with whom they bartered. The

Pueblos had always to be on the qui vive.
Ere I speak of the tribes called savages, I must refer to
two clusters which were included under that denomination
in part, but which still may not have deserved the name,
since they showed a more docile spirit and a greater ten
dency to assume stability of abode than have been found
in the others, the Navajos excepted. These two tribes are
the Mansos and the Jumanos. Both of them I have already
enumerated among the Indians of Chihuahua.
The Mansos also are called Lanos and Gorretas, but the
name which they themselves recognize is not ascertained as
yet. It is certain that they formerly lived on the Rio Grande
in New Mexico, some fifty-five miles north of El Paso del
Norte. 1 Their dwellings were made branches and boughs,
of
and they tilled the soil to a limited extent, but in dress

they
were like the Apaches and other Indians of the plains. To
wards the Spaniards they showed themselves hostile in a
small way, or rather distant and intractable for a while,
until in the middle of the sixteenth century they were re
duced to a permanent colony at the Pass and definitively

settled. 2 Their numbers originally cannot have been more
The place is indicated by Pedro de Rivera, Diario y Derrotero, p. 26. He

1
places it twenty-one leagues north of El Paso del Norte, or in the vicinity of

the present railroad station and military post of Fort Selden. That the Mansos
did not live at El Paso originally is clearly proved. Benavides, Memorial, p. 9
That they were settled at the Pass by Fray Garcia de San Francisco in 1659 has
been mentioned already.
2
Fray Garcia de San Francisco, Auto de Fundacion, 1659 (MS.). The
most detailed description at my command is the one by Benavides, Memorial,
q comunmente llamanos, Mansos, 6 Gorretas ; porque de tal suerte se
"
p. 9 :
afeitan el cabello, que parece traen puesta vna gorreta en la cabefa y asimismo, ;
escarnentados de que nuestros perros los han mordido algunas vezes, quando
ellos nos reciben de guerra ; y quando vienen de paz y mansos, dezimos a los
perros, sal ai, porque no los muerden, suelen ellos tabien preuenirse, que les
atagenos los perros diziendones, sal ai, sac ai, manso y por este nobre de Man-
;
than from five hundred to a thousand souls. 1 About their
idiom no studies have as yet been made. They have to-day

the same officers as the Pueblos, and, although reduced to a
dozen families, maintain their organization, and some of their
rites and dances, which are very similar to those of the New
Mexican villagers. They acknowledge having come from the
north; the clans that are still extant are the same as the clans
of the Pueblos, and they confess that, while they lack at pres
ent the medicine-men or shamans, the need might be supplied
by applying for the necessary idols and paraphernalia to any

of the northern Pueblos. This confession is important, since
it proves that the Mansos also recognize that tacit solidarity
which binds together the sedentary Indians of New Mexico.
I call particular attention to the Mansos, for they are fast dis
2
appearing, and ought to be studied while it is
yet time.
sos son conocidos comunmente entre nosotros. Tambien esta es gente que no
tiene casa, sino ranches de ramas, ni siembran, ni se visten ellos en particular,
sino todos desnudos ; y solamente se cubren las mugeres de la cinta a baxo, con
dos pellejos de venado, vno adelante, y otro atras. Tambien son de la condi-
cion de los antecedentes, que si ven la suya ha/en todo el mal que pueden ;
pero no pudiendo, se vienen todos de paz a buscarnos, para que los demos de
coiner que este es su principalfin, y se comen entre pocos vna baca cruda, no
dexando nada de la pan9a, pues aun para limpiarla de la vascosidad no reparan

en tragarsela assf, como perros, cogiendola con la boca, y cortandola con
cuchillos de pecernal, y tragando sin mascar. Estos Mansos pues, como estan
en el passo del rio, es fueiâ topar siempre con ellos, y suelen lleuarnos a sus
propias ranchenas para que les demos de comer a sus mugeres, y hijos, y tam-
bien nos suelen regalar con lo que tienen, que es pescado y ratones. Es gente
muy dispuesta, bien agestada y fornida." Of the creed and beliefs of the
Mansos I have not been able to find
anything reliable.
1
Vetancurt, Cronica, p. 308, speaks of over one thousand previous to 1680.
But number are manifestly included the Sumas and other Indians (Piros,
in this
Jumanos, etc.) who had intermarried with the Mansos or were living among
them. In 1749 the number of Indians at El Paso is estimated at one thou
sand, which comprises Mansos, Tiguas, and Piros, Relacion de las Misiones del
Nuevo Mexico (MS.). According to Father Agustin Morfi, Description, fol. 114,
there were fifty Indian families in 1744, and two hundred and ninety-four Indians
in all in 1765.
2 I shall refer to these details in the third part of this Report.
The Jumanos have disappeared from the surface, and,
strange to say, although mentioned as an important and even

numerous tribe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, I
have not as yet been able to traceany description of the cus
toms, manners, etc. of that northern branch of them which
belonged to New Mexico proper. They ranged in the south
eastern part of the territory, south and southeast of the salt
lagunes of the Manzano, where the name of Mesa de los Ju

"
manos" still commemorates their former presence. 1 About

their abodes, their mode of dress, their rites and creed, we
know as little
language, as of their
nothing. Still it is
certain that a vocabulary of the latter was made in 1684
by Fray Nicolas Lopez, but it has disappeared. Benavides

states that the Jumanos of New Mexico subsisted on the
1 In 1598, Onate visited the three great villages of the Jumanos, or Rayados," "
in the vicinity of the Salinesand of Abo, consequently on or near the Mesa de

los Jumanos of to-day. Discurso de las Jornadas, p. 266 Uno muy grande."
:
"
In the Obediencia de San Jiian Baptista (p. 114) are mentioned "Los tres Pue
blos grandes de Xumanas 6 Rayados, llamados en su lengua, Atripuy, Genobey,
Quelotetreny, Pataotrey con sus subgetos." This would make four instead of
three. The Obediencia y Vasallaje a stt Magestad por los Indies del Pueblo de
Cueloce (Doc. de Indias, vol. xvi. p. 126) mentions the pueblo of Cue loce as "que
llaman de los rayados."
Cueloce may be another version of Cuelotetrey. In
the same document Xenopue is mentioned, and Patasce. The former is most
likely the same as Genobey, and the latter may stand for Pataotrey. I place
some stresson these local names, as they may be authentic remains of the lan
guage. Onate (Carta escripta 1599, p. 306) mentions the Xumanas as the
second tribe encountered in New Mexico, coming to that country from the
south. In 1630, Benavides (Memorial, p. 77) locates the Jumanos 112 leagues
east of Santa Fe. Fray Alonzo de Posadas (Informe al Rey, 1686) locates them
on the Upper Rio Nueces, in Texas, 80 leagues east or northeast of the Junta de
los Rios, or mouth of the tonchos. Dominguez Mendoza (Diario, 1684, fol. 12)
also places them in that vicinity. In connection with the location of the Juma
nos I may be permitted here to recall the mention made of the Teyas, a tribe of
the plains, which tribe Coronado met on his adventurous trip to Quivira,
Carta d Magestad, 2Oth of October, 1541, old style (Doc. de Indias, vol. xiii.
sit
p. 263) Y otra nacion de gente que se llaman los teyas, todos lobrados los
:
"
cuerpos y rostros." The fact that the Teyas tattooed their faces and bodies
might possibly indicate that they were the Jumanos, who, in quest of the buffalo,
had gone as far north as eastern or northeastern New Mexico.
buffalo almost exclusively, and I have not been able to find
any documentary evidence that they cultivated the soil. And

1
yet Espejo found their kindred in Chihuahua living in per

manent abodes, and raising the same crops as the Pueblo In
dians. not unlikely that the northern branch of the tribe
It is
succumbed to the remarkable influence which the great quad

ruped exerted over the aborigines, who attached themselves
to its immense hordes, and, becoming accustomed to the life
which the following of the buffalo required, discarded per

manence of abode, exchanging it for vagrancy with its con-
1
The only peculiarity which is attributed to the Jumanos in the sources at
my disposal is the custom of striating the face. From the word used, rayado," "
is not quite certain whether this was done

it
merely with paint, or whether it
was done by incising. It may be the latter. It is certain that, as late as
J
697>
a Indian, a female described as
Jumano striated one of the Jumano "a
nation," was sold at Santa Fe for a house containing three rooms and a small
tract of land besides. This woman had been sold to the Spaniards by other
Indians, who had captured her. Escrittura de Uentta de una Casa de las Hijas de
Fco Luzero que isieron al Sarjento Mayor F
co de
Anaya Almazan (MS.) "Por :
una india rrayada de nazion Jumana auida y comprada de los amigos christianos."
In regard to the habitations of the Jumanos I can find nothing precise that ;
is,so far as the New Mexican Jumanos are concerned. From the statements of
Benavides might be inferred that they had no fixed abodes, but lived almost
it
exclusively on the buffalo. Memorial, p. 79: Viendo el demonio, enemigo de

"
las almas, que aquellos Religiosos ivan a librar de sus vnas las que alii gozaua,
quiso defenderse, y vso de vn ardid de los que suele, y fue, que seco las lagunas
del agua que bebian, a cuya causa tambien se auyento el mucho ganado de
Sibola que por alii auia, de que todas estas naciones se sustentauan, y luego,
por medio de los Indios hechizeros, echo la voz, que mudassen puesto, para
buscar de comer." This intimates an erratic life. On the other hand, however,
Onate, as I have shown above, mentions at least three large villages. In 1700,
a village of the Jumanos reappears, and that village cannot have been situated
outside of New Mexico, as the news of its destruction (by the French) was
carried to Taos in the most northerly part of the territory by the Jicarilla
Apaches. Relacion Andnima de la Reconquista (MS., Sesto Cuaderno) "El :
ano de 1700 refirio un apache de los llanos, que los franceses habian destruido
el pueblo de los Jumanos, y esta noticia, que el alcalde mayor del pueblo de
Taos comunico a Cubero, hizo temer a todos los del reino que los franceses
podian hacer suya esta tierra." The village of Jumanos here mentioned cannot
have had any connection with the pueblo of Jumanos, which had been abandoned
previously to 1680.
sequences. The Jumanos were lost sight of after the great

convulsions of 1680 and succeeding years, and their ultimate
fate is as unknown as their original numbers.
Tribes properly belonging to the area of Texas also roamed
occasionally over southeastern New Mexico. Such were the

Ayjaos, the Utacas, and others.
1
It is not improbable even
that stray bands of Indians from Chihuahua, crossing the

Rio Grande in quest of the buffalo, may have grazed at least
the southern parts of the territory. In 1590, Caspar Castano
de Sosa met Tepehuanes on the Lower Rio Pecos. 2 The
steppes formed a vast expanse of territory, on which repre
sentatives of all the stocks living or roaming in their vicinity
could be met. Among these are named the Pananas, or Paw
3
nees, a northern tribe, and another group, from the north
also, the Quiviras, or Tindanes.
The name
"
has played a very remarkable part in

"
Quivira
the events of Spanish colonization of the Southwest. I say
the name, for there is no substance to the pictures asso

ciated with it. The origin of the name is not known ;
it is
not a Spanish fabrication, but in all probability some word

of an Indian tongue, misunderstood or misapplied, as so fre
quently happened and yet happens.

4
We must divest our-
1
As these tribes apparently belonged to Texas rather than to New Mexico,
I forbear referring to them otherwise than in a passing manner. The Ayjaos
of Ayjaclos appear already in the documents touching the expeditions of Oiiate,
or about the year 1600. They roamed over the eastern plains, along the borders
of New Mexico, the Indian Territory, and Texas.
2
Memoria del Descubrimiento, p. 207. He calls them Despeguanes." "
3
That the Pananas are the Pawnees needs no proof. They sometimes made
their appearance in northeastern New Mexico, and were found among the
Indian captives which the Spaniards purchased from the Apaches or Cunian-
ches or Yutas. The Pananas are frequently mentioned.
4 The word Quivira was first heard by the Spaniards either at Pecos or among
the Tiguas at Bernalillo, and from an Indian who was not a native of New Mexico,
but who seems to have belonged to one of the tribes of the Indian Territory who
frequented the plains, where this Indian was taken prisoner by the Pecos. Rdcu
selves totally of the notion of Quivira being anything else

than a name given band of Indians,
to a roving a name
which has become famous through a series of misstate-
ments and misunderstandings, as well as involuntary and in
tentional deceptions. Here, I have to deal only with the
tribe of Quivira. From the itineraries in my possession it
appears that in 1541 Coronado found the Quivira Indians in
Northeastern Kansas, beyond the Arkansas River, and more
than one hundred miles northeast of Great Bend. They
were a tribe of nomads, who depended for livelihood prin
cipallyon buffalo hunting, but also cultivated some corn.
Their dwellings were mere huts, of the kind now termed
"
Typees
"
or "
Wickeeups," made of tree branches and cov

ered with reeds or grass. Not a trace of metal was found
in their country, and the only piece of it in their posses
sion was a lump of native copper which one of their chiefs

carried on a string of leather around his neck. I must
reiterate that they are positively stated to have been a
wandering tribe, who shifted with the buffalo herds, and

were by no means of the Pueblo type. 1 But it is strange,
cion del Suceso, p. 325 El indio que daba tanta razon de lo que decia como
:
"
si fuera verdad e lo ubiera visto era de trescientas leguas deste rio al levante
de un pueblo que llamaba Harall." This Indian was the notorious "Turk."
His plan was evidently to lead the Spaniards into the plains, with the expecta
tion that there they would perish.
1
The
descriptions furnished of Quivira and its inhabitants by Coronado and
all the other eyewitnesses or their companions are precise, and it is a mystery
to me that modern writers have still continued to treat of Quivira as a large
town, or of its people as a powerful tribe considerably advanced in civilization.
Although the quotations are long, I feel compelled to refer to the sources here,
and in full, to show what Coronado and his men saw, and what they said of
Quivira. I begin with the commander s own report to the Emperor, Carta a
su Magestad, 1541, p. 264: Al cabo de aber caminado por aquellos desiertos
"
setenta y siete dias, llegue a la provincia que llaman Quivira, donde me llevavan
los guias,y me abian senalado casas de piedra y de muchos altos, y no solo no
lasav de piedra sino de paja, pero la gente dellas es tan barbara como toda la
que he visto y pasado hasta aqui, que no tienen mantas ni algodon de que las
although not without many parallels in the annals of the

Southwest, both ancient and modern, that the majority of
hacer, sino cueros que adovan de

las vacas que matan, porque estan pobladas
entrellas, en un grande ; comen la carne cruda como los querechos y

rio bien
teyas son enemigos unos de otros, pero toda es gente de una manera, y estos de
;
Quivira hacen a los otros bentajas en las casas que tienen y en sembrar maiz en
esta provincia, de donde son naturales los guias que me llevaron me recibie- ;
ron de paz, y aunque quando parti para ella me dixeron que en dos meses
no la acabariade ver toda, no ay en ella y en todo lo demas que yo vi y supe
mas de veinte y cinco pueblos de casas de paja. ... La gente dellos es crecida
y algunos indios hize medir, y halle que tenian diez palmos de estatura ; las
mujeres son de buena disposition, tienen los rostros mas a manera de moriscas
que de indias ;
alii me dieron los naturales un pedazo de cobre que un indio
principal traya colgado del quello embiolo al Visorey de la Nueva Espana,
;
porque no he vislo en estas partes otro metal sino aquel, y ciertos cascabeles de
cobre que lo embio, y un poquito de metal que parecia oro, que no he sabido de
donde sale, mas de que creo que los indios que me lo dieron le hubieron de los
que yo aqui traigo de servicio, porque de otra parte yo no le puedo hallar el
nascimiento, ni de donde sea." Ibid., p. 266: Porque los guias que llevava me
"
avian dado noticia de otras provincias adelante de ella, y la que puede aver es
que no abia oro ni otro metal en toda aquella tierra, y las demas de que me
dieron relacion no son sino pueblos pequenos y en muchos dellos no siembran ni
tienen casas, sino de queros y canas, y andan mudandose con las vacas, por
manera que la relacion que me dieron fue falsa porque me mobiese a ir alia con
toda la gente, creyendo que, por ser el camino de tantos desiertos y despoblados
y falto de aguas, nos metieran en partes donde nuestros caballos y nosotros
murieramos de hambre, y asi lo After this plain state
confesaron los
guias."
ment from Coronado himself, turn to the report of one of his officers,
I will
Juan Jaramillo (Relation /iec/ia, p. 315): "Las casas que estos indios tenian
eran de paxa y muchas dellas redondas, y la paxa llegaba hasta el suelo como
pared que no tenia la proportion de las de aca; por de fuera y encima desto,
tenian una manera como capilla 6 garita, con una entrada donde se asomaban
los indios sentados 6 echados."
The anonymous Relacion del Suceso, written in New Mexico in 1541, therefore
by one of Coronado s companions, says (p. 326) Lo que en Quibira hay es :

"
una gente muy bestial sin policia ninguna en las casas, ni en otra cosa, las cuales
son de paja a manera de ranches tarascos, en algunos pueblos juntas las casas,
de a docientas casas tienen maiz e frisoles e calabazas, no tienen algodon, ni
;
gallinas, ni hacen pan que se cueza, sino debajo de la ceniza."
The Relacion Postrera was written before Coronado s return from Quivira,
and does not, therefore, contain anything on the subject.

Castaneda, Cibola, p. 194 Leurs moeurs et leurs coutumes sont les memes
:
"
que celles des Teyas, et leurs villages ressemblent a ceux de la Nouvelle Espagne.
Les maisons sont rondes, n ont pas de murailles ;
les etages sont semblables a
people rejected the testimony of Coronado, and of those

who went with him to Quivira. 1 Quivira became a golden
vision in theory practically, it was a delusive spectre.
;
In 1541 and 1542, we find the Quiviras in northeastern

Kansas. About 1600, they were in southwestern Kansas
or southeastern Colorado. 2 Thirty years later, they roamed
des soupentes. Les habitants couchent sous le toit ;

c est la qu ils conservent
ce qu ils possedent : ces toits sont en paille."
The agreement of all these witnesses on the condition of the tribe of Quivira
is They concur in picturing the Quiviras as a people of nomads,
striking.
following the buffalo, planting some little corn wherever they stayed for any
number of years, in short, as Plains Indians of the purest type. These re
ports were reproduced in standard works of the time, and it shows that contem
poraries placed full confidence in them. Francisco Lopez de Gomara, Historia
General de las Indias, Primera Parte, edition of Vedia, in Historiadores primi
tives de Indias, vol. Vista por los espanoles la burla de tan famosa ri-
i. p. 278 :
"
queza, se volvieron, etc. No

hay algodon y vesten cueros de vacas y venados."
Gomara s work was published in 1554.
Antonio de Herrera was not a contemporary, but he compiled his great work
from the most authentic sources. He gives a description of Quivira that is
manifestly taken from Coronado s or Jaramillo s writings, probably compiled
from both. Historia General, vol. ii. p. 206. As his work was published un
der the special sanction of the Crown, about 1610, it shows that there were no
extravagant notions about Quivira current in governmental circles at the time.
Torquemada was Herrera s contemporary. He says in his Monarchia (vol. i.
p. 610): que llevo consigo, y en todo quanto anduvo, no -hallo

"En el interim,
ninguna gente congregada, y en esto se detuvo tiempo de seis Meses y cien ;
leguas adelante de donde estaba alojada el exercito. The document called -
Demarcation y Division de las Indias (Doc. de Indias, vol. xv. p. 461), of the
sixteenth century, says of Quivira Dozientas [leguas] de Ci bola, al orierite
"
aunque de esto se tiene poca certidumbre, ni de la qualidad de la tierra, mas de

set fria por estar en mucha altura y por esto pobre." Until Onate, the expe
ditions to New Mexico paid hardly any attention to Quivira. It was Onate s
reports, and especially the inflated descriptions of Fray Geronimo de Zarate-
Salmeron and Fray Alonzo Benavides, which directed the attention of the pub
lic to imaginary riches and supposed numerous populations, to which the name
Quivira was applied.

1
Even the soldiers of Coronado disbelieved at first the reports about Quivira
which their commander and his companions made. Castanecla, Cibola, p. 142.
2
According to Zarate-Salmeron (Relaciones, par. 37), the Indian Jusepe, who
had accompanied Humana and Leyva-Bonilla on their disastrous journey to the
unknown North about 1585, led Onate first into the plains, and then to the
along the boundary line of New Mexico and the Indian

Territory of to-day.
1
From 1684
beginning of the to the
eighteenth century they were looked for farther south yet,

2
about the northern frontier of Texas. Lastly, in 1719, the
"
Cancey, whose principal village is that of the Quirireches,"

were located on the head-waters of Red River. 3
northeast, in all about 200 leagues, or approximately 540 miles. This must have
carried them into Colorado or Kansas. There they met the "
Escanxaques,"
or Kansas, and finally the Quiviras. The reports about the condition of the
latter are so vague and conflicting, that it is not worth while to discuss them.
The same authority (par. 43) states that when the Quiviras sent to Onate a
messenger or ambassador, that delegate remarked
"
Que les Espanoles habian :
rodeado mucho por el camino que fueron, que si salieran al Norte llegaran en
breve, de suerte que segun lo que dijeron se ha de ir por los Taos, y por tierras
del gran capitan Guima por aquellos llanos." This points clearly towards
southern Colorado. The investigations made officially and by order of the
crown in regard to Onate s undertakings and administration prove the same.
See Information que por Comision del Visrey hizo en Mexico el Factor Don Fran
cisco de Valverde con cinco Testigos (Doc. de Indtas, vol. xvi. p. 210), and Informa
tion hecha en la Audiencia de Mexico por parte del A delantado Don Joan dc Onate
en Abril (Ibid., p. 214).
1
Benavides, Qvando estos dos Religiosos estuuierS
"
Memorial, p. 85 :
obrando aquellas marauillas en la nacion Xumana. Llego tabie esta voz . . .
al Reyno de Quivira, y al de los Aixaos, q estaua de alii 30 6 40 leguas al mismo
rumbo del Oriente." The Jumanos were then, as I have shown, in eastern or
southeastern New Mexico. Ibid., p. 86: Siendo pues assi, q la villa de Sata
"
Fe esta en treinta y siete grades, yendode alii al Leste cieto y cinqueta leguas
dase en este Reyno, y assi esta en la misma altura."
Fr. Alonso de Posadas, Informe (MS.). In 1634, Alonso Vaca found the
Quiviras due east of Santa Fe.
2
I omit here the pretended reports of Diego de Penalosa. It is not improba
ble that that adventurous officer made an expedition into the plains, but what he
has attributed to Fray Nicolas de Fleytas (not Freytas) on this point is most
likely a forgery perpetrated by Penalosa himself. But in 1684, Juan Dominguez
de Mendoza made
his journey to the Rio Nueces in Texas, and he heard of
the Quiviras in that vicinity. Memorial informando acerca de las Naciones del
Oriente (MS.). Everything points to a confirmation of the statements made
by Coronado and his people, namely, that the Quiviras were a band of no
madic Indians, and that they were gradually pushed southward by other tribes,
like all the Indians of the plains.
3
Journal Historique de I Etablissement des Franfais a la Lonisiane, pp. 200
and 211.
The Quiviras had another name, by which they became

known to the Spaniards of New Mexico as early as 1600,
or a little afterwards. It is the name Tindan. This word
has an analogy with Thinthonha, as the Teton Sioux were
1
called by Hennepin. nothing unlikely in the There is
supposition that the Quiviras were a band of southern Da-

cotas, who penetrated farther south in pursuit of the buffalo,
7 and finally disappeared among the Indians of Arkansas and
Texas.
That the Yutas occasionally impinged upon the northern
sections of New Mexico is a well known fact. They were
the neighbors, therefore also the enemies, of the most north
erly Pueblos, the Taos and Picuries. 2 Of their congeners,

the Comanches, I shall treat briefly hereafter. The Coman-
ches are the latest of the aborigines of the Southwest.
It remains for me now to consider the most numerous of
all linguistic groups in New Mexico and in Arizona, and one

that has played a conspicuous part in its history, past and
present. These are the southern Tinnehs, the Navajos
and the Apaches.
That the Navajos and Apaches are a branch of the Tinneh
family is unquestionable. But the usual custom of treating
1
Description of Louisiana, by Father Louis Hennepin, published by Mr. Shea
in 1880. On the map accompanying the work, and which bears date 1683, there
is, at the head-waters of the Mississippi, in 50 N., Thinthonna ou gens des
lat.
"
prairies." (p. 200.)

"
They merely told me

that twenty or thirty leagues below
there is a second fall, at the foot of which are some villages of the prairie
people, called Thinthonha, who live there a part of the year." Also Journal
Historique de I* Etablisjement des Fran$ais (p. 70). Among the western Sioux,
"
Tintangaoughiatons Village de la grande cabane."

. . .
2
Declaration de un India Pecuri, fol. 23. Relation Andnima de la Reconquista
(MS.). In the first half of the past century, the Yutas troubled the settlers at
Abiquiu greatly. They even caused its temporary abandonment. See Declara
tion deBentura Yndio Genizaro Christiana, sobre el Estado en que oy se halla la
Provincia de Nabajo y sus Naturales, 1748 (MS.) Providencias y Mandamiento ;
sobre el Repueble del Parage de Abiquiu, 1750 (MS.).

the Navajos as a part of the Apaches is incorrect. It is the
Apaches that are ramifications, degenerated and vagrant, of

the Navajos. The Navajos are, and always have been, the
main body. They have also preserved their original tribal
name with greater purity, calling themselves Din-ne, while
the Apaches have perverted it into N day. Their relative
numbers also indicate that the Navajos constitute the ma
jority. The proportion to-day is as three to one, the latter
counting 21,000, the Apaches hardly more than 6,000 to

7,000 souls. That nearly the same proportion existed in the
beginning of the seventeenth century can be gathered from
the enormously exaggerated estimates of Benavides. 1 Lastly,
the state of culture Navajos is not so widely dif
of the
ferent from that of the northern Tinnehs as are the social
condition and the habits of life of the Apaches.
When first met with, the Navajos occupied the same range
of country they now inhabit, namely, northwestern New Mex
ico and northern Arizona. They were then, as they are
to-day, land-tillers to a certain extent, and while not so sta
tionary as the Pueblos, yet they lived in dwellings, partly un

derground, and more substantial than those of the Apaches,
and they erected special storehouses for their crops. 2 Had
the Navajos possessed organization, they would
a central
have been a very formidable power, and the Pueblos, scat
tered and widely distributed, could not long have held their
own against them. But clanship so predominated among
them that no tribe or association of tribes became possible.
This also worked unfavorably for permanence of abode.
Their bands, consisting of a clan, or fragment of a clan,
1
Memorial, p. 70. He estimates the Navajos alone at over 200,000.
2
Ibid., p. 57 :
"
Y estos de nauajo son

muy grandes labradores, q esso sig-
nificaNauajo, sementeras grandes." Ibid., p. 58 Tienen su modo de viui-
:
"
enda debaxo de tierra, y cierto modo de xacales para recoger sus sementeras, y
siempre habitan en aquel puesto."
moved hither and thither, according to circumstances and
superstitious indications. Their country, in many portions

of it, fostered separation into small bands for its deep val ;
leys are long rather than broad,

and the arable and irrigable
spots lie in nooks, corners, and bay-like openings. There
was therefore little cohesion between the clusters, and, as
Dr. Washington Mathews has most correctly observed, a
democracy prevailed that forbade all idea of central will
and force. The Navajos fought the Pueblos nearly every
year at one or more points, and the villages of the Jemez,
for instance, were brought by them to the verge of utter
ruin. 1
But this did not preclude commercial intercourse,
and the desultory warfare never grew into any attack on a
larger scale, at least not in past centuries. 2 The Navajos
irrigated at places, and raised corn, as well as the other
vege
tables common to the Indian. Cotton, it seems, they did not
grow, and their dress consequently was of skins and hides,

8
perhaps also of yucca. Their implements and weapons were
the same as those of all the others. Of their house life and
social customs
general in the authors of
the past tell us
hardly anything, and they are equally silent about their rites
and beliefs. What has been ascertained concerning the cult
and religious customs of the tribe is due almost exclusively
to the efforts of investigators of the present generation, and
1
Benavides, Memorial, p. 27. Vetancurt, Cronica, p. 319. Menologio, p. 76.
Their trading with the Pueblos, so far as Acoma is concerned, is mentioned
2
by Espejo, Relation, p. 180. There is no evidence of any concerted attack

upon the Pueblos such an attack they could scarcely have withstood, as they
;
were hardly so numerous as the Navajos, and were much more widely scat
tered. Had there been concerted action on the part of the Navajos, they
could, at any time previously to 1700, have wiped out both the Pueblos and
the Spaniards.
3 The famous Navajo blankets are nowhere mentioned. On the contrary,
Espejo positively states that they obtained cotton mantles from the Pueblos by
barter. The art of weaving appears to have been learned by the Navajos from
the Pueblos.
of Anglo-American origin. It may be that the Spanish civil

or ecclesiastical archives still contain unknown documents
with valuable information on the subject, but the sources so
far accessible tome are as good as silent. Benavides speaks,
in terms general and vague, of idolatry among the Apaches,
consequently among the Navajos by inference. He men

tions sun-worship, for instance. 1
regard to But details in
these matters, which are comparatively numerous in regard

to the Pueblos, are sought for in vain in his pages, though
he bestowed much and intelligent attention on the Apaches

and their kindred. 2
The Apaches proper have played such an important part in
the history of the Southwest, that we might expect to find
them a tribe of considerable numbers. Indeed, if we accept

the wild statements of the honest but over enthusiastic
Benavides, such would appear to have been the case. But
Benavides judged from appearances only. He found the
Apaches everywhere, on the plains, in the mountains, all
around the villages, north, south, east, and west, and
he concluded that they must be exceedingly numerous. He
estimated their numbers from the bands which came in to
treat with the Spaniards, not knowing that these bands were
all, or nearly all, that there were of the tribes.
The earliest notice of the Apaches was certainly in 1541,
by members of Coronado s expedition and by Coronado
himself. A
report on that exploration, written about thirty
years after the event by one of the soldiers, Castaneda, is
the only known document of that time which speaks of the
Apaches in Arizona. Speaking of the country around the

so-called "
Red House," a ruin situated where now is Fort
1
Memorial, p. 55.
2 Benavides says, that to him are due the first successful efforts to reduce
the Apaches to Christianity. How far this may be true, I am unable to decide.
12
I
Grant, on the south of the Rio Gila, near the Aiivaypa,

he -mentions its inhabitants as follows These Indians dwell :
"
in isolated huts, and subsist on the chase alone."

Previously,
he says of them that they "
are the most barbarous people

l
thus far found in these parts." Still they opposed no obsta
cles to the passage of the Spaniards, even when they travelled
2
in groups of a few men only.
The Apaches who supported
of the eastern plains, those
themselves exclusively by following the herds of buffalo
and almost living in company with them, attracted the at
tention of the Spaniards in a greater degree. Coronado
fell in with them in 1541, about two weeks after he had
left the Pecos village on his adventurous journey to the
northeast in search of Quivira. It was consequently about
due east of the present settlement of Mora, on the great

3
plains. He, and all the other chroniclers of his expedi
tion, describe them as being taller than the Pueblos, and
as living exclusively upon and with the American bison.
This animal gave them meat, clothing, fuel, shelter, and to a
great extent the material for their implements and weapons.

They dressed in its hides, and made their tents from them ;
they burned manure, drank its blood, and made awls,

its
arrow-points, needles, and other instruments out of its bones.
Speaking of the Red House, or Chichiltic-Calli," he says:

1 "
Cibola, p. 162.
"II
parait qu anciennement par les habitants, qui forment la
elle fut detruite
nation la plus barbare que Ton ait encore trouvee dans ces parages. Ces
Indians habitant dans des cabanes isolees, et ne vivent que de chasse."
2 The
chroniclers of Coronado are unanimous in declaring that no opposition
was offered to the Spaniards between Culiacan, in Sinaloa, and Zuni. Relation
del Suceso, p. 319: Todo este camino hallamos los naturales de paz
"
Cas-
"
tanecla, Cibola, p. 40 Le general et ses compagnons traverserent tran-

:
"
quillement le pays qu ils trouverent entierement pacific car tous les Indians ;
connaissaient Frere Marcos, et quelques-uns d entr eux avaient accompagne

Melchior Diaz et Juan de Saldibar dans leur voyage de decouverte."
3
As Coronado travelled to the northeast after leaving Pecos, he struck the
plains in the vicinity of Mora, to the east of it.

The name given to at that time was

these Apaches
Ouerechos. Of their numbers no adequate conception can
be obtained, for they were roving, constantly changing about,
and the same band might be counted often. But they
frequently, in winter, came into the neighborhood of the
Pueblos, in order to trade with their inhabitants. 1 It was
noticed as a peculiarity of theirs that they used the dog as
a beast of burden. This fact alone, were there no other
-*
reasons for identifying the Querechos with the Apaches of

the plains, would be an important indication. 3 The Quere
chos, however, were not the only Indians of the great plains
who thus employed dogs a tribe which roamed in the same
:
region, and farther east, called the Teyas, and which I am

unable to identify so far, used them for the same purpose.
1
Castaneda, Cibola, p. 179. Espejo, Relacion, p. 180.
2 Us ont de grands troupeaux de chiens qui portent leurs
Cibola, p. 190 :
"
bagage ils attachent sur le dos de ces animaux au moyen d une sangle et d un
;
1
petit bat. Quand la charge se derange les chiens se mettent a hurler, pour
avertir leur maitre de l arranger." Relacion del Suceso, p. 328 Y quando :
"
van de una parte a otra, las llevan en unos perros que tienen, de los quales
tienen muchos, y los cargan con las tiendas y palos y otras cosas por ser la ;
tierra tan liana que se aprovechan en esto, como digo, porque llevan los palos
arrastrando." Coronado, Carta, p. 263 Tiene perros que cargan en que
:
"
llevan sus tiendas y palos y menudencias." Relacion Postrera Esta gente .

"
tiene perros como los de esta tierra, salvo que son algo mayores, los cuales
perros cargan como a bestias, y les hagen sus ensalmas como albardillas, y las
cinchan con sus correas, y andan matados como bestias en cruzes. Cuando van
a caa cargan] os de mantenimientos, y cuando se mueven estos indios, porque
no estan de asiento en una parte, que se andan donde andan las vacas para se
mantener, estos perros les llevan las casas, y llevan los palos de las casas arras
trando atados a las albardas, allende de la carga que llevnn encima podra ser ;
lacarga segund el perro arroba y media y dos." I omit the testimony of authors
who were not eyewitnesses.
3 In 1630, the or the Apaches of the plains, used dogs
"Apaches Vaqueros,"
in great numbers. Benavides, Memorial, p. 74 Y las tiendas las lleuan :
"
cargadas en requas de perros aparejados co sus enxalmillas, y son los perros

medianos, y suele lleuar quinietos perros en vna requa vno delante de otro, y
la gente lleua cargada su mercaden a, que trueca por ropa de algodon, y por
otras cosas de que carecen."
l8o ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
name Querechos is applied by Espejo to the

In 1583, the
Navajos who haunted the mountains in the vicinity of Acoma.

The term Apaches is first met with in the documents con
cerning Onate s colonization of New Mexico, in I5Q8. From 1
that time on, these Indians are associated with every period
of the history of the Southwest.
Different groups are mentioned from time to time, but
the present appellatives of the Apache fractions, such as
Mescaleros, Jicarrillas, Chiricahuas, and White Mountain "
Apaches," appear but gradually, and subsequent to 1630.

The first two of these groups are the remainder of what were
then known
Vaqueros and Apaches del Perrillo." These
as
"
two divisions became afterwards subdivided into many frac-

tiotis, to each of which a name was given, not so much by
the Indians themselves as by the Spaniards, who gathered
the designations from various sources. 2 The Apaches recog-
1
It occurs in two documents, and is misspelt or misprinted in one. Obedien-
cia de San Juan Baptista (p. 114) has Apaches. Onate, Carta Escripta (p. 308),
"
es infinita gente los Apiches, de que tambien hemos visto algunos."

2 The
changes in the names of Apache tribes, as found in Spanish au
thors, are to be accounted for by the fact that the Spaniards, according to
the shiftings of the bands, applied to them fresh designations. So, in 1630,
Benavides distinguishes the following groups (Memorial, p. 13): on the Rio
Grande and in the Jornada del Muerto, the "Apaches del Perrillo"; to the
west and into present Arizona, Apaches de Xila "
the
"
"
(p. 53) Apaches cle ;
Navajo," where the Navajos are to-day (p. 57); in the eastern plains (p. 71),
the Apaches Vaqueros." At the time of the Reconquest, and in the first
"
quarter of the eighteenth century, the Faraones

"
and "Jicarrillas" became

"
very prominent. It seems that they were subdivisions of the "Vaqueros"

of Benavides. The Jicarrillas were the northern, the Faraones the southern
branch. Compare on the subject Autos de Guerra dela Primera Campana que
s
el Sr. Marq de la Naua de Brazinas, etc., en Persona sale d hazer la Gnerra
ofenziba d los Apaches Faraones desde la Sierra de Sandia y Canute, etc. (1704,
MS.) ;Auttoy Junta de Guera sobre si sele deue azer la Gucra a los Yndios Jentiles
de la Nazion Faraona (1714, MS.); Testimonio delas Juntas de Guerra que se
formaron para hazer la Campana d la Sierra de los La drones, etc. (171^ MS.).
The Jicarrillas were generally friendly, or at least much less hostile than the
other bands. Haunted by the Comanches, they finally sought shelter with the
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. i8l
nized properly but their generic name of N-de, and each band
was known to itself and its neighbors (if any) of the same
stock by appellatives akin to gentile terms. Nearly every
such name ended with the termination n-de also. 1 Thus the
word "
Lipanes
"
is a corruption of Ipa-nde.
2
Sometimes
the personal name
prominent leader was applied by the
of a
Spaniards to the horde which he directed, rather than com

manded, for the Apaches were always loth to bow, except
on special occasion, to any authority, including even that of
their shamans. Constant success could alone secure lasting
Indians of Taos and of Pecos. Testimonio sobre lo Acaesido en el Pueblo de

Pecos (1748, MS., fol. 6).
The Lipanes appear in Texas, in the middle of the past century, whence the
Comanches drove them into Coahu ila and Chihuahua. In 1705, an attempt
at confederacy of the Apaches, Navajos, and Yutas against the Spaniards and
the Pueblos was discovered, and the
following subdivisions are mentioned.
Juan Paez Hurtado, Diligenzias sobre hauer contraydo Anristad los Yndios Xptiet
nas con los Yujieles (MS.): Que lo que saue es que toda la apacheria de
"
Nauaô de su nacion se hauian combocado con todas las demas naciones

Apaches como son los de la Xicarilla, Trementino, Acho, Faraones,
y Xilas."
The Chiricahuis appear in the first half of the eighteenth
century. Finally, in
1796, Lieutenant-Colonel Don Antonio Cordero, in his Noticias Relativas a la
Nacion Apache, etc (MS.), establishes the following groups Tontos, Chiricahuis, :
Gilenos, Mimbrenos, Faraones, Mescaleros, Llaneros, Lipanes, and Navajos.

Most of these names are those of bands whose duration was more or less
ephemeral. It would be useless, or at least superfluous, to enter into details con
cerning each one of them. Other fractions are also mentioned, as, for instance,
the "
Natajees," the "
Apaches del Cuartelejo," etc. These two groups were

Apaches of the plains. Those who mostly infested Sonora and Chihuahua in
early times were the Apaches of the Gila, of whom the Chiricahuis are but an
outgrowth. Villa-Senor y Sanchez (Teatro Americano, vol. ii. p. 348) says of
the Chiricahui Mountains Corcmala la naturaleza de muchas penas que le
:
"
sirven de antemural y defensa a los Indios Apaches, que es la Nacion

recogida
en ella y en la que hacen sus destacamentos para los puertos y entrada de los
caminos, con el destine de robos, y muertes . . . tiene esta Sierra mucho
Mescal."
1
Cordero, Noticias relativas a la Nacion Apache, 1796.
2
Arricivita, Chronica Serafica y Apostolica, p. 346: Son los Apaches llama- "
dos Ipandes y Natages." Ibid, p. 349: "Por no baxar todavia el Capitan

grande Ipandi." This seems to indicate that the word Ipande is derived from
a personal name. On p. 383, we finally read "
Ipandes
"
!
I 82 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. i
influence ;unlucky sorcerer was as quickly discarded

the
as the unsuccessful war captain.
1
Scattered over an immense territory, abiding nowhere per

manently, often penetrating into the ranges of the Pueblos
and trespassing upon them, while at the same time they
roamed all around the territory at except where their
will,
kindred, the Navajos, held them at bay, the Apaches created

the impression of being powerful in numbers, while in fact
they were but outlying bands of the Navajos, long separated
or outcast from the mother stock, and dangerous alike through
their great mobility and the superior skill in waylaying and
hiding which their roving life imparted. They knew the
country more thoroughly than the Pueblos, were better ac
quainted with all its resources, and were a hardier, that is,
a tougher stock, since exposure and hardship were their only
school. The Apaches and the Navajos are sometimes de
clared to be superior to the sedentary Indians in intelligence,
as well as in physical characteristics. On the whole, the
Navajos are taller and stronger built than the Pueblos so :
are the northern bands of the Apaches. They are quick of
perception, cunning rather than bright,

cunning and this
and a certain practical turn of mind captivate easily the

sympathies of a civilized people. But while quicker, they
are not so persistent as the Pueblos, and while the latter
may learn more slowly, they will profit more from what they
learn. That the Apaches should appear more intelligent
than the village Indian is natural : the difference between
them is like that between the much travelled man and
the one who has always remained within the boundaries of
a small territory.
No tribe in the Southwest has exercised such a power
ful influence on the fate of its inhabitants as the Apaches.
1
Cordero, Noticias, etc.
They were the most formidable barrier to an extension of

the Pueblo stocks. To their constant harassing .it is due
that the Pueblos receded from their eastern advanced limit.
Nothing worries and disheartens so much as permanent inse

curity, and for centuries no group of Indians, the Iroquois
excepted, understood so thoroughly the art of keeping people
on the qui vive as the Apaches. Their sudden appearance
might always be expected, and their sudden disappearance
promised no permanent relief. They stood towards the land-
tilling Indians in the relation of a man-eating tiger to East
Indian communities. Nobody knew, even if there was but
a single enemy in the neighborhood, where he might strike
next. One Apache could keep a pueblo of several hundred
souls on the alert, and hamper them in their daily work. He
had nothing to attend to but his purposes of murder, rapine,
and theft, which were his means of subsistence, whereas the
till, and in the performance
others had their modest fields to
of such duties danger was lurking unseen, always likely to
display itself when and where it was least expected.
The hostility between the Apaches and the Pueblos was
rather traditional than hereditary. From the Pueblos it was
transmitted to the Spaniards, with whom the Apaches had
remained on good terms until the Spaniards were forced to
protect the villagers, who had become vassals of the Crown,
against the untiring aggressions of the nomads. This is not
the place to sketch the history of the Apaches under Span
ish rule. It is enough to say here, that the tribe played a
very important part in the history of Spanish domination.

It may be affirmed that during that period they completely
changed the ethnography of the Southwest.

Of their creed and belief almost nothing can be gathered
from older sources beyond the fact that their idolatry was not
as complicated and thoroughly systematized as that of the
sedentary Indians. Sun-worship of course existed

1
but the ;
true position of the sun in their mythology has been misun

derstood. It is not the orb proper which the Indian
worships,
it some personal deity with whom the sun is connected,
is
either as his abode, or as an ornament. Such is the case

among the Navajos. It is quite clear to the Indian that the
sun a created object, and not a spiritual being
is ;
2
the same
is true of the moon. Among the Pueblos, the moon is the
abode of a celestial mother, the sun the home of a celestial
father.
Of the warlike customs of the Apaches not much is to

be said here. It would require a series of monographs to
do justice to them. That cruelty to prisoners which has
rendered the tribe so terrible, even during the present gen
eration, was early noticed. 3 Scalping was sometimes prac
tisedby them, but not so generally as by the Pueblos. Their
weapons were in the main the same as those of their seden-
1
Whenever no well defined system of idolatry could be found, sun-worship
isalways taken for granted by the older authors. It stands for worship of the
elements in general. Benavides quotes what he asserts to have been the words
of an Apache (a chief, of course) to himself (p. 55) Padre, hasta aora no :
"
auiamos conocido otro bienhechor tan grande como el Sol y la Luna, porque el
Sol nos calientay alumbra de dia y nos cria las plantas, y la Luna nos alumbra
de noche y assi adorauamos a estos dos, como a quien tanto bien nos hazia,
;
y no sabiamos que auia otra cosa mejor." On page 52 he asserts No tiene :

"
otra iclolatn a que la del sol, y aim no es general en todos y se rien mucho de
las demas naciones que tienen idolos."
2 In the part next following, I shall have occasion to treat more extensively
of this matter, and to quote the remarkable information derived from my friends
Messrs. Gushing and Mathews on the subject.
3 Not
only among the Apaches, but even among the Pueblos, were the cap
tives sometimes tortured, if Torquemada was correctly informed. Monarchic
vol. i.
p. 680: "
Al que cautivan y llevan preso, le matan despues con grandes

Instances of torture of prisoners by Apaches are not unfrequently
crueldades."
related in older sources and it would be as unfair and unreasonable to attrib

;
"
ute such atrocities to simple retaliation for alleged Spanish cruelties as it

"
would be to charge the English and French with the burnings at the stake of
the Iroquois and other Eastern tribes. The custom of tormenting prisoners was
an old Indian custom, and partly of a religious nature.
tary neighbors ;
but their tactics were rather more desul
tory, and consequently they appeared more formidable. They

rarely attacked in large numbers; worrying, slow wearing
out by persistent harassing, was their mode of warfare,
and against it the Pueblo was, in the long run, almost
defenceless.
While the Apache of the plains lived in tents of buffalo
skins, the mountain hordes erected frail huts of tree branches
and leaves. Neither made pottery, and only the women,
whose social position was rather inferior, in some instances
tilled small But their chief sup
patches of Indian corn.
port was game they subsisted on ;meat vegetable food ;
was limited mostly to wild fruits like that of the Yucca,

to the stalks of the Maguey baked into a sweet conserve
called Mezcal, to roots and the beans of the Mezquite in
the southern steppes. Even to-day the Pueblo Indian at

tributes the physical vigor of the Apache to the fact that he
has more opportunity of being exclusively carnivorous than
the house-dweller. There is in this belief as much supersti
1
tion, in all likelihood, as reality.
With this brief mention of theApaches, the sketch of the
ethnography of the Southwest at the time of the first discov
ery by Europeans must terminate. It presents the region as

sparsely inhabited on the whole, and separates its population
into two divisions, land-tilling Indians with a tendency
That the Querechos, or Apaches of the plains, dwelt in tents of buffalo

1
hides is frequently stated by Coronado, and by the other chroniclers of his
journeyings. It is needless to refer to them in detail. Onate says of the

"
Apiches
"
(Carta, p. 309) Y aunque tobe noticia, vivian en rancher/as cle

:
"
pocos dias a esta parte he averiguado viven como estos en pueblos." Torque-
mada (Monarch/a, vol. i. p. 679) "Estos no siembran, ni tienen casas, comen
:
yervas, y raices, y vacas, y otras ca9as, que matan con arco, y flechas."
Benavides (Memorial, p. 51): "No viuen en poblados, ni en casas, sino en
tiendas, y rancherias, por lo que se mudan de serranfa en serranfa, buscando
que es su sustento."
to permanence of abode, and wandering tribes. The latter
are found mostly in the eastern half, on or near the plains,

and the question involuntarily arises whether unsteadiness
of abode has not been the result of causes of a physical
order. In point of numbers the sedentary tribes exceeded
the others by far, (if we do not include the Navajos
with the latter,) just as the herbivorous mammals out
numbered the carnivorous who still
preyed upon them.
Among the village Indians, there were variations in cul
ture, but these variations appear due to physical causes and

influences. Even the difference between the arts of the
savage and those of the Pueblo slight, and marked only

is
in degree, according as the mode of life exacted from

man a peculiar development under altered circumstances.
The religious system, the general character of creeds and
beliefs, appear analogous, if not uniform. So were the sys
tem of government and the social institutions. It was lan
guage that separated the various groups, and kept them
apart.
In respect to their language I can but follow the results
of the investigations of others. These investigations have
established that of those languages which have been studied
two groups can be formed, both of which are radically con
nected with stocks now existing in the Northwest. Mr. A.
Gatschet, than whom there is no better authority, holds that
the Yutas, the Moquis, the Pimas of Arizona, as well as the
Nebomes of southern Sonora, the Opatas, the Yaquis and
Mayos, the Tepehuanes and Tarahumares of Chihuahua, all
belong to the same linguistic stock as the Snakes of Oregon
and the Shoshonis of Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. On the
other hand, the Yumas and their kindred of the Colorado
River country, as well as the Seris of Sonora, are linguisti
cally allied among themselves, as well as with the tribes of
the Californian peninsula. 1 The Navajos and Apaches are

of Tinneh stock. The majority of the inhabitants of the
Southwest, therefore, spoke languages affiliated to others
on the Northwest Coast. The Pueblos still await their
classification. If the late Orozco y Berra is right, the
Concho and Julime of Chihuahua should also be classified
among the Numa languages to which the Yuta, Moqui, etc.,
2
belong. This still further increases the majority with North
western affinities. Of the remaining idioms, several are to
day unknown, but would most earnestly suggest that the

I
vicinity of El Paso del Norte be searched for traces of them.

I positively know that the Manso and Piro are still preserved
there, at least in fragments. It is not altogether impossible

and of the important Jumano may be
that traces of the Jano
found among the indigenous population of that region.
What may be the true position of those idi ms designated
"
latterly as
"
Pueblo par excellence, is yet to be established.

The Zuni is stated to be allied to the Moqui. The Tehua
and the Jemez are closely related to each other. 3 To these
Pueblo languages the Piro must be added, as it was only in
1681 that the tribe was transported to its present location.
There has been a change in some of the Pueblo idioms in
the course of the past three centuries. Many words have
been imported from the Spanish, the Nahuatl of Mexico, the
Apache of Navajo, the Yute, the Comanche, and even the
Opata. This tends to obscure the proper affiliations of these
languages, and to impart to them the strange character of

isolation which they now exhibit.
1
Gatschet, Ueber die Yiima-Sprachen.
As already stated, Orozco classifies the said idioms, but gives no evidence
2
in support of his classification.

3 Also with the southern Tigua of Isleta. Gatschet, Zwolf Sprachen aus
dem Sud-westen, etc., pp. 48 and 49.
III.
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE INDIAN TRIBES.
I. INTRODUCTION.
THEIndian of to-day is in many respects different from

the Indian found by the first Europeans who visited the
American continent. This truth holds good in all parts of
America, more or less. Even tribes that came but indirectly
in contact with the Europeans were affected, through their
neighbors, by means of the slow vehicle of primitive com
merce, etc., in their arts, their industry, and especially in
their religious notions. I cannot sufficiently insist upon the

marked influence that "
news from the outside world," or

the sight of objects carried for long distances from tribe to
tribe, have exercised upon the mythological ideas of primi

tive man in America, probably of primitive man in every
quarter of the globe.

To understand the present condition of the Indian it is
therefore indispensable to know, first, his condition at the
time when he first came in contact with people from the
eastern and, secondly, the nature and manner
continents ;
of working of the influence which those people could and did
bring to bear upon him. In the preceding pages of this
Report I have attempted to give, as far as able, a picture

of the condition of the tribes of the North American South
west while yet in a pristine state. Ere I can presume to
speak of these tribes as they appear to-day, must therefore
I
cast a glance at the policy pursued towards them by the

Europeans who occupied the territories in which these In-
dians lived, or over which they roamed. These Europeans

were the Spaniards, for Anglo-American influence has
been but very lately,
felt and whatever change has been
wrought among the Southwestern Indians within the last
three centuries is attributable to the Indian policy of Spain.
"
Tlie term Indian policy includes also the action of the

"
Catholic Church for while the Church strove to maintain,

;
and in factmostly maintained, a certain independence of

the political power, nevertheless Church and State were
so intimately connected, so closely interwoven, that they
generally had a common policy.
The effects of contact between the Indians and the Span
iards may, in a general manner, be considered under three
heads :
1. Changes in customs wrought through Spanish legisla

tion and administration.
2. Changes in art and industry, agriculture of course
included.
3. Changes in the religious condition. This last class em

braces modifications of the constitution of the family, which
of necessity had to be attempted at least, especially in regard
to education and the transformation of matrimonial customs.
Simple personal contact alone, without the systematic
processes indicated by the action of law and of religion,
would have produced results different from those obtained
in the course of Spanish domination. Still the effects of
this personal intercourse cannot be overlooked, and I shall

refer to it appears to have produced results not
wherever it
attributable to any of the three classes mentioned.

The manner in which Spain obtained its hold in America
was, as is well known, different from that of other nations.
While England and France, but more especially the former,
advanced with comparative slowness and timidity, perhaps
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
resulting as much from indifference at home as from other

causes, Spain spread its domination, nominally at least,
over the new continent with amazing rapidity. One hundred
and had elapsed since Columbus planted the
six years only
Spanish banner, figuratively speaking, on the shores of Wat-

ling Island, when that banner actually floated from the thirty-
sixth parallel of latitude north to the extreme end of South
America. And not the coasts alone, the very heart of both
continental sections had been searched, explored, and partly
occupied by Spaniards. This gigantic performance was far in

excess of the legitimate powers of so small a nation as Spain
in reality was it became an element of the weakness and
;
ultimate decay of that nation itself.

"
Oui trop embrasse,

mal etreint." This popular adage of the French tells better
than the most elaborate specifications the weak points and
unavoidable fate of Spanish sway in both Americas. In
those regions most remote from the coast and of most diffi
cult access, like our Southwest, the intrinsic weakness of
Spanish domination largely determined the character of its
relations with the aboriginal inhabitants.

To describe Spanish domination in the New World as a
mere system plunder and mercenary rapine, is a
of brutal
kind of so called historical appreciation the time for which

ishappily past. The popular and religious passions kindled
in the sixteenth century, flaming with greatest vehemence
in the seventeenth, and adroitly nursed by England, are out
of seasonnow, and we no longer admit that a people could

have achieved great things without at least some great and
noble motives still less, that it could have maintained its
;
hold at such great disadvantages as the Spaniards labored

under, without manifest ability, wisdom, and some humanity
in its directing power. Even the conquerors themselves,
as historic science turns its attention to their deeds in a
light uncolored by passion, appear of more modest abilities,

but of more humane motives and actions. The better also
we become acquainted with the character of the Indian
by direct intercourse with him, the more we become con
vinced that military necessities dictated often, if not nearly
always, deeds which have hitherto been considered as wanton

barbarities. That the periods of first conquest entailed ex
treme measures there is no doubt ;
but after the three great
Spanish footholds in America, the Antilles, the Isthmus
including Mexico, and Peru, had been gained, further con

quests did
not require many striking instances of display
of martial power, unless called forth by the Indians them
selves. 1 The conquistorial period is the most attractive, the

most romantic part of Spanish American history, but we
must look to subsequent times for the agencies that have
determined the true influence of Spain upon the American
aborigines, in other words, the establishment of regulated
administration and the framing of special legislation for the

Indian. They are the criterion by which to judge the part
played by Spain on American soil.
Close upon the heels of the conquerors, the organizers and
1
There is no doubt that many of the most bloody occurrences in Spanish
American history, which have been charged to the Spaniards as acts of wanton
cruelty, will yet be explained and justified as legitimate measures of war. What
I have said of the occurrences at Cholula in regard to Cortes (see Archaeological
Tour, p. 164, note i) will eventually prove to have been the position in which
Pizarro found himself at Caxamarca. That excesses were committed is be
yond a doubt, but these excesses were the exceptions, and rot the rule, and
furthermore they were punished. See, for instance, the ultimate career of
Nuno de Guzman, and the punishment awarded to Hernando de Bazan, and to
many others. Spanish justice was slow, but it was sure, and no official, however
exalted his position, escaped the dreaded Residencia," or the still more dan
"
gerous
"
Visita." On such occasions a functionary had his misdeeds charged

against him, and, if nobody else would accuse him of cruelty against the natives,
there was surely some priest ready to drag him to trial for misconduct of that
sort. It was not easy to escape punishment for cruelty to Indians under
Spanish regime.
administrators were wont to follow. After the Conquista-

dores had subdued the Indian, the Spanish Crown promptly
attended to the task of subduing these Conquistadores them
selves to the law of the land to which they owed allegiance.
Thus Antonio de Mendoza followed, in Mexico, upon Nuno
de Guzman, who had been used to check the plans of Cortes
for secession and independence. After the organizers and
administrators were firmly established, special legislation be
gan, and it continued uninterrupted though with declining

vigor in the latter half of the eighteenth century as long
as Spain had a foothold on the American continent. The
declining vigor"
was manifest, not by a decrease in so
licitude, but by the inability to put good intentions into

execution which marked the general decline of the nation.
The Spanish government recognized at an early day, not
merely that the Indian was a human being, but that he was,
after all, the chief resource which the New World presented
to its new owners. The tendency of Spanish legislation is

therefore very marked towards insuring the preservation and
progress of the natives. The first great step in this direc

tion was the promulgation of the celebrated New Laws "
and Ordinances for the Government of the Indies," finally
established in 1543, by which the aborigines were declared

direct vassals of the Crown. -Stipulations in their favor,
as, for instance, enfranchisement from personal servitude and

from compulsory labor, became the subject of subsequent
modifications and local changes, but the disposition first
enounced, that of direct vassalage, remained a fixed dogma
in Spanish American law.
may not be amiss here to glance at the great question
It
of Indian servitude and compulsory labor. The question was

one of utmost vitality, for the obvious reason that upon its
solution depended the future prosperity of the colonies. We

must not forget that, as have already stated, Spain was

I
a small nation, that it had overrun a territory enormous in

extent, extremely varied in resources as well as in natural
obstacles, and that Spanish immigration could in no manner
suffice for the imperative demand for labor which the re
sources of the land presented. In order to improve the Indies,

the Indian must work, and work was as distasteful to him
then as it is to-day. Furthermore, he had to be taught to
perform work with implements the mere material of which
this
was to him a mystery, and therefore a source of mistrust and

superstitious fear. The reluctance on the part of the native
to work was therefore reasons paramount to him, but
for
utterly incomprehensible to the Spaniard, or to any other

European of the time. Hence the Crown decrees in regard
to compulsory labor changed in tone frequently, and finally
measures were adopted which, if properly executed, would
have responded to all the demands of humanity and states
manship combined.
1
As regards the Southwest, we must
1 I cannot go into the details which would be necessary in order fully to
illustrate thedevelopment and progress of Spanish legislation on this point.
They all appear but a gradual fulfilment of the celebrated clause in the last
will and testament of Queen Isabella of Spain. See Vasco de Puga, Cedulario
(1878, 2d ed.), vol. i. p. n: Suplico al Rey mi senor muy efectuosamente,
"
y mando a la dicha Princesa mi hija, y al dicho Principe su marido, que ansi

lo hagan y cumplan ; y que este sea su principal fin y que en ello pongan
:
mucha diligencia, y no consientan ni den lugar a que los yndios vezinos y

moradores de las dichas yndias y tierra firme, ganadas y por ganar, reciban
agrauio alguno en sus personas y bienes mas manden que scan bien y justa-
;
mente tratados y si algun agrauio han recibido, lo remedien y preuean, por

;
manera que no se exceda cosa alguna lo que por las letras apostolicas de la
dicha concesion nos es injungido y mandado." The concession herein referred
to is the famous Bull of Pope Alexander VI. The royal decree of the 9th of No
vember, 1526, (Ibid., p. 29,) provided that no Indians of New Spain should be
enslaved without a preceding information conducted in presence of the Governors
and their officials. The pretext then used for obtaining slaves was Socolor :
"
que dicen que los tienen los naturales entre si por esclauos cautiuados en las
guerras que han tenido y tienen vnos con otros." This decree was repeated
in 1529 (p. 36). Stronger yet is the Cedula of January 10, 1528, reiterated on
bear in mind that only Sonora and a part of Chihuahua con

tained mines actively worked. 1 In New Mexico, there were
August 2, 1530 (pp. 230, 231). Severe punishment was enjoined against such
as might ill treat the natives. Cedula of March 20, 1532 (p. 254). Further
decrees for the protection of the Indians of New Spain are those of January 7,
1549, April 16, 1550, August 28, 1552, etc. A

detailed statement
concerning
legislation on the treatment and personal service of the Indians is foundVn
Juan de Solorzano-Pereyra, Politico, Indiana (ed. of 1703, lib. ii. cap. 1-4).
It would take too long to copy all he says on the subject. The famous decree
of May 26, 1609, bears exclusively on the good treatment of the aborigines. See
Francisco de Montemayor, Sumarios de las Cedillas, Ordenes, y Provision?*
Reales, 1678, (sum. 48, fol. 2 [6,) which contains the complete text. This decree
authorized the employment of Indians in the mines, provided they were spe
cially cared for and remunerated for the work they performed. The principle of
remuneration of mining work was rather a local measure. The Indians attached
to Encomiendas" were compelled to labor in the mines in early days.
"
Mining
was regarded as a public work, and as such the Indians were called upon to
perform it, but every precaution was taken by the law for their welfare. Hospi
tals were required to be established for their special benefit. Still, in a long
decree directed to the Conde del Villar (predecessor in the Viceroyalty of New
Castile, or Peru, to Don PVancisco de Toledo), the King writes as follows
(Solorzano, Politica Indiana, p. 7^6)
:
"
E porque aviendose platicado sobre este,

ha parecido, que embargo de lo proveido por ce"dulas antiguas cerca de que
sin ;
no fuesen compeliclos a .^te trabajo contra su voluntad, se les podria mandar,

que vayan a ellas, lo haren de aqui adelante, no mudando temple de que se les
siga dano en la salud, e teniendo dotrina, e justicia que les ampare, e comida
con que se sustenten, e buena paga de sus jornales, y hospital donde se curen,
y scan bien tratados los que enfermaren." The expense of these arrangements
was at the cost of the miner.
1
Mining began in Chihuahua much earlier than in Sonora. The mines of
Santa Barbara (now Allende) and of the valley of San Bartholome or of Parral
were discovered by Francisco de Ibarra about 1 556. Relation de los Descubrt-
mientos Conquistas y Poblaciones hechas por el Gobernador Francisco de Ybarra
en las Provincias de Copala, Nueva Vizcaya y Chiametla (Documentos de Indias,
vol. xiv. p. 478) Y por su mandado descubrio las dichas minas de Santa
:
"
Barbola y San Juan, y las poblo de las cuales se ha sacado gran cantidad
;
de plata, porque los metales dellas han sido muy ricos." Informe al Rey por
el Cabildo Ecclesidstico de Guadalajara (Docum. para la Historia de Mexico,
Ycazbalceta, vol. ii. p. 494). The date of this document

is January 2Oth, 1570.
Arlegui, Cronica de Zacatecas (p. 64). In Sonora, no mines were worked prior
to the seventeenth century. Most of the Sonora mines, however, date from the
eighteenth. The Indians of Sinaloa and western Durango were not adverse to
mining, says Ribas, Historia de los Trivmphos (lib. viii. cap. iii. p. 476). Speak
ing of the famous mines of Topia, the historian of the Jesuit Missions in Sinaloa
no mines until after I725, 1 and compulsory labor on the part

of Indians even after that date was limited to service in the
Despues de descubiertas las minas de plata, donde trabajauan, auia vez

"
:
says
que llegaua el valor de vestidos, 6 preseas que apostauan, a quinientos pesos 6
reales de a ocho que bien los saben ellos sacar de las que llama Pepenas. Y
:
declarare aqui lo que significa essa palabra porque se entienda la grande :
^ftnancia que tienen en la labor de minas los Indies trabajadores, principalmente

los ladinos en ellas,y que conocen los metales, y son barreteros, que con barretas
rompen la veta. Porque estos, demas de la paga del salario de cada dia, que es
de quatro reales de plata por lo menos, pero fuera de esso, los principales
trabajadores tienen facultad y licencia de escoger, para si vna de las espuertas

que Hainan tenates, llena de metal, que cada dia rompe y saca de la veta ;
metal que siempre es el mas rico y escogido porque como ellos lo conocen, y :
registran primero que sus amos, apartan para si lo mas precioso, y esto no se
les puede estoruar a los Indios ; porque al punto que esso se les estoruasse,
desampararian las minas, y ellas y sus amos quedaran perdidos. La espuerta
de metal que saca, al Indio le suele valer quatro, seis, y tal vez diez y mas reales
de a ocho." These Indians were the Acaxees of Durango, and their work in
the mines was obligatory. Still they were paid for it. The Yaquis even went
to the mines of their own free will, owing to the wages paid to them. (Ibid.,
p. 340) Otros se hazen a la vida con los Espanoles ... 6 en reales de

:
"
minas, donde los jornales son mas crecidos.." Spain did everything in its
power to induce the Indian to mine for his own account.

The current notions of rich Spanish mines in New Mexico, and of great
1
metallic wealth, which the Spaniards derived from that territory, are the pur
est myths and fables. The opinion in which New Mexico was held in Spain
as well as in Mexico is expressed by A. von Humboldt, Essai Politique sur la
Plusieurs geographies paraissent
"
Nouvelle Espagne (ed. of 1827, vol. ii. p. 246) :
confondre le Nouveau Mexique avec les Provincias Internas ils en parlent :
comme d un pays riche en mines, et d une vaste etendue. . . . Ce qu il

appelle
1
empire du Nouveau Mexique n est qu un rivage habite par de pauvres colons.
Cest un terrain fertile, mais depeuple, depourvu, a ce que Ton croit jusqu ici,
de toutes richesses metalliques." The earliest explorers and settlers collected
samples of ore which proved to be rich, but as early as 1602 the chief authori
ties Mexico became rather sceptical concerning the mineral wealth of the
at
territory. The Count of Monterey says, in his Discurso y Proposition qtte se

hace d Vuestra Magestad, etc. (Doc. dc Indias, vol. xvi. p. 45) Y no es aquello :
"
tan esteril como la gente que se vino tan prospero como otros lo
la pintaba, ni
hacen, y lo represento el Gobernador en las relaciones del ano de noventa y

nueve." Y cierto que no tengo perdicla esperanza de que se haya
Ibid., p. 50:
"
de verificar lo que el Gobernador todav/a afirma, de que hay plata en algunos

cerros de aquella comarca en que esta." In 1626, great complaints are made by
Fray Geronimo de Zarate over the apathy of the Spaniards about mining in New
Mexico. Relaciones, art. 34 De todo esto se rien los Espanoles que alia
:
"
Missions, and, by abuse of authority, to personal attendance

upon higher magistrates. The latter was time and again
severely checked, and strong penalties threatened the Gover
nor who ventured to infringe the royal decrees prohibiting
personal service to him and to his assistants. 1 The solicitude
estan como tengan buena cosecha de tabaco para chupar, estan mui contentos,
.
y no quieren mas riquezas, que parece ban echo voto de pobreza, que es mucho
para ser Espaiioles, pues por codicia de plata y oro entraran en el mismo
Ynfierno a sacarlas." So great was tbe apparent indifference of the Spanish
settlers concerning mines, that, according to the same author (art. 35), they burnt
the machinery that had been carried to Santa Fe in the time of Governor Peralta,
rather than allow mining to go on. After the rebellion of 1680, several so-called
mines were entered by prospecters. For instance, one in the Jornada del Muerto
in 1685 (Rexistro de una Mina de Pedro de Abalos, MS.), and several in 1713.
But in 1725 we are officially informed by the Brigadier Don Pedro de Rivera,
who was commissioned to inspect all the military posts or Presidios of the
North and the districts thereto pertaining, that up to that date no mines
had been worked .in New Mexico, owing to the low grade of the ore. I give
the words from his Diario y Derrotero (p. 32) Hanse encontrado en dicho
:
"
Reyno, algunos Minerales, sin dar su metal mas

ley, que la de Alquimia,
y Cobre y como no se ha podido costear el beneficio que necessita, las han

:
dejado abandonadas." These citations ought to be conclusive, and to dispose

of the myths about Spanish treasure taken from New Mexico, as also of the
other not less ridiculous tale, that the uprising of 1680 was produced chiefly
by the hard labor to which the Pueblo Indians were compelled in mines in
New Mexico.
Very stringent are the laws promulgated on that score by King Philip II.
1
in 1571. See Codice de Leyes y Ordcnanzas mietiamente hechas por su Magestad

para laGouernacion de las Yndias, etc., September 24, 1571 (Doc. de fndias,
vol. xvi.). In regard to New Mexico, a very instructive case occurred in 1709.
The Viceroy of New Spain, having been secretly informed that the Governor of
New Mexico (at that time the Marques de la Peiiuela) was making liberal use
of the personal services of the Indians for his own benefit, wrote at once to
that functionary, enjoining him from further abuse of this sort, and threatening
him with a fine of two thousand pesos, and damages to the Indians, in case of
disobedience to the royal edicts on that point. See Fray Juan de la Pena, Carta
Patente,May 18, 1709 (MS.). It gives the order of the Viceroy to the custodian
of the Franciscans, in which the Duke
of Albuquerque states Se despacho :
"
esta en este dia ordenando al GoV

de aquellas partes y Prov as q e pena de dos
mil pesos q e he aplicado mi distribucion, demas de lo q e importaren los danos
a"
q se causaren a los Yndios se contengan, y mando contener alos Maiores

e
a e
p q no executen ni hagan semejantes extorsiones." Another case occurred in
1784. A bitter strife prevailed between the Governor Juan Bautista de Anza
of royal officers went so far as to abolish, in 1784, any and all
personal services for church matters ;

a measure that called
1
forth well grounded and effective protests.
Slavery was considered in the light of a punishment, and
as war against Spain was a crime against the state and its
subjects, prisoners of war made in campaigns against hostile

tribes could be sold as slaves. The immediate result of this
custom was, in New Mexico, frequent intermixture of the
different aboriginal stocks, and hence a gradual modification
of physical type. 2 Previously to the advent of the Spaniards,
intermarriages between distinct tribes were rare afterwards, ;
the distribution of captives among the Pueblos, and the forma

"
tion of villages of so called Genizaros (captives bought from

"
roaming Indians or rescued from them) worked a change

that may have affected anthropological features in course
of time. 3
declaring the Indian to be a crown vassal, the laws

By
placed him on an equal footing with the native of Spain in
one sense, and yet, practically, he enjoyed a much more
favorable position. He became a special ward of the royal
government, and the complaint by Spanish settlers is very
and the Franciscans, and the commander in chief at Arizpe had to intervene.
He sent peremptory orders that all personal services of Indians to the Governor
and his lieutenants should cease. Fray Santiago Fernandez de Sierra, Memorial
presentado al Senor Comandante General en Arizpe (MS., 1784).
Fray Santiago Fernandez de Sierra, Memorial, MS.
1
2 And
yet Philip II. had ordained in 1571 (Codice, art. 26): "Item: Orde-
namos y mandamos que de aqui adelante por ninguna causa de guerra ni otra
alguna aunque sea so titulo de reuelion ni por rescate, ni de otra manera no se
pueda hacer esclauo yndio alguno y queremos que scan tratados como basallos
;
nuestros de la Corona de Castilla, pues lo son." But this did not include the
Indians who, after having been approached peaceably, remained in a state of
persistent hostility against the Spaniards.
8 The "
were an institution rather peculiar. Even

Pueblos de Genizaros "
before 1748 there existed such asettlement of rescued captives at Abi-
quiu. Another was subsequently established at Tome, on the lower Rio

Grande.
well grounded, that everything was done for the Indian, and
but little for them. 1 The Spanish government recognized at
an early day that the Indian was a big child, who should be
elevated very gradually, and nursed very carefully, in order
not to warp his nature, or ruin it. 2 The wide gap between
Indian culture and European civilization could not be filled ;
the aborigines had to be led across it

gradually. It was
impossible to press them at once into the mould of Spanish
organizationtherefore their own original form of govern
;
ment was maintained, and only such modifications made as

became necessary to assure the supremacy of Spain in case
of need. 3 This policy perpetuated among the sedentary In
dians the communal system known as the Pueblo type in
New Mexico. Under this order of things each tribe re-
taintd its jurisdiction, and became responsible for the mis

deeds of the individual. The Pueblos have disappeared, as
such, in the Mexican part of the Southwest, among the
1
This complaint is uttered as late as 1793. See Fernando de la Concha
(Governor of New Mexico), Orden al Alcalde Mayor de Santa Cruz de la Canada,
para que castigue d los Indios Tehuas que hicieron Juntas Secretas, 1793 (MS.):
Emanadas, presisamente de la abundancia, comodidad, y ventajas que logran
"
estos Yndios mui superiores en ellas a los Espanoles que se hallan establesidos
en sus ynmediaciones."
2 This
forcibly expressed by Solorzano-Pereyra, Politica, (lib.
ii.
is cap. 28,
p. In this chapter he maintains: "Que los Indios son, y deben ser

119).
contados entre las personas, que el derecho llama Miserables." On page 109,
the same author copies textually the recommendation made by the Third Council
of Lima (act 5, cap. 4, p. 104): "Que mal pueden ser ensenados a ser Chris-
tianos.si primero no los ensenamos a que sepan ser hombres, y vivir como tales."
Very clear and logical too is the dissertation on the Encomiendas," in Antonio
"
de Leon y Pinelo, Tratado de Confirmaciones Reales, 1629 (part i.

cap. 18, 19).
It is too long to be copied, and I only refer the student to it. He will find there
the real grounds on which the so much condemned system of Encomiendas

was based.
3 This resulted from the form of Encomiendas. Not a certain number of
Indians, but a certain range with its Indian population, was assigned to the
Encomendero. By the Cedula of April, 1546, the King reserved, however, the
civil and criminal jurisdiction. Vasco de Puga, Ccdulario, vol. i.
p. 169.
Opatas and Pimas of Sonora and the christianized Tarahu-

mares of Chihuahua. The old organization still prevails with
the Yaquis, the wild Tarahumares of Chihuahua, and the
Mansos and Piros of El Paso del Norte. The so called "
Re
form Laws
"
of 1857 nominally abolished the ancient system

in Mexico, much to the regret of the Indian, and even of some
of the prominent originators and fosterers of the measure.

That the Pueblo system still rules the New Mexican village
Indians, and the Pimas and Maricopas of Arizona, is well
known.
Under the supposition that monarchical ideas prevailed
among the Indians of Mexico, and that there existed an
hereditary aristocracy, some authors have attributed the
measure adopted by Spain, at an early day, of making the
leading offices of each tribe elective at stated period!, to
1
an intention of breaking a supposed aristocratic power.
This presented, in a very interesting and instructive manner, in the
1
is
document entitled, Real Ejecutoria de S. M. sobre Tierras y Reservas de Pec/ws

y Paga, perfetteciente a los Caciques de Axapusco de la Jurisdiction de Otumha
(Doc. para la Hist, de Mexico, Ycazbalceta, vol. ii.). The grant therein ex
ecuted is probably the oldest one in Mexico, bearing date 1519. As early
as 1540, (p. 23,) an order was issued by the Royal Audiencia to remove
one governor of the pueblo of Axapusco and put another in his place. In
regard to this. measure, Don Jose Fernando Ramirez wrote as follows (Noticia
de la Piezas,etc., p. 12) "La diestra
:
poh tica del gobierno espaiiol comprendio
los riesgos de este sistema, que en su principio fue muy general [referring
to the fact that the descendants of the original chiefs remained in possession
of the landed titles of the village] y lo mino empleando sus propios medios.
Procure dar todo el conveniente desarollo a la institucion municipal, y poniendo
asi en accion el elemento democratico, puso tambien en oposicion a los caciques
con sus antiguos subditos, destruyendo su influjo y su poder. En el caso que
nos ocupa, el Virey autorizo los mencionados pueblos para hacer eleccion de
autoridades municipales." Senor Ramirez had not been among the New Mex
ican Pueblos, and consequently overlooked the fact that the sons of former
governors, etc. frequently hold valuable papers, with the consent of the tribe,
and for the benefit of the entire community. The democratic element was not
imported by Spain, it was only respected and preserved as the most appropriate
form for the conservation of the Indians, and most suitable to their low degree
of culture.
This measure was in fact adopted for the purpose of as
serting the supremacy of the government at regular and

often repeated intervals, through the formality of confirma
tion and investiture. No other idea actuated the King of
Spain in his decree of 1620 to the Custodian of New Mexico,
in which he notified that prelate that he had ordained that
annually, on the first day of January, an election should be
held in every New Mexican Indian village of a governor, "
alcaldes, fiscales, and other ministers of the Republic, with

out that my Governor or any other officer of mine, or you,
or any ecclesiastic, being present at the said elections, in
order that the Indians may enjoy the necessary freedom,
and that after the election they shall be reported to the
1
Governor for his confirmation." This royal order introduced
among sedentary Indians the democratic idea of rotation in
office, this was but imperfectly understood and
and, while
practised (for reasons which will be hereafter explained), it
still contributed towards fostering individualism, in contra
distinction from communistic socialism, which is the lead

ing characteristic of Indian society, and the great exterior
stumbling-block in the path of the Indian towards civili
zation.
To force this idea of individualism upon the Indian tended
toward the ruin of the Indian himself. It happened then,
as it would happen to-day were he free to act, with noth-
Real Cednla dirigida al Padre Custodio Fray Estevan de Perca, 1620 (MS.)
1 :
Embie mandamiento al dho mi Gou r para que de orden como cada vno de
"
los Pues de estas prouincias el primero dia de Henero de cada vn ano sus elec-
ciones de Gou r alcaldes topiles y fiscales y demas ministros de Republica sin
,
que el dho mi Gou r ni otra mi Justicia, bos ni otro relixioso de bra Custodia se
hallen presentes en las dhas elecciones, porque en ellas los dhos Yndios tengan
la libertad que combenga, y que las que en esta forma hicieren las lleben al dho
mi Gou r para que los confirme estando echas." The custom among the New
Mexican Pueblos of electing their officers annually on the first of January is
therefore a Spanish modification, and dates from the year 1620.
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. 2OI
ing but the law of the land between his rights and the
superior faculties and aspirations of his white neighbor.
First the Indian s property, next he himself, was wrecked
for the benefit of the white man. While, therefore, in mat
ters of government, Spain imposed a progressive measure, in
matters of landed property it enforced conservatism. The
communal system of land tenure was legally established
by the granting of community lands to each settled tribe,

lands inalienable except through consent of the whole tribe
and with permission of a set of authorities specially in
trusted with the care of the Indian
This per s interests. 1
petuated communism of land-holding, but did not exclude

individual tenure, within the limits and under the restric
tions of communal rights. It impressed upon the Indian
the notion of land measure, and limited him also to a definite
space for abode as well as subsistence; and, since space

and time are inseparable ideas, it created in his mind the
first feeble rudiments of economy in both, of which he
had until then not the least conception. These rudiments
are, indeed, very feeble at this day.
In the Southwest, the establishment of community grants
1 These were the so called "
Protectores de los Indies." Their chief duty

was to defend legally the rights of the Indians. Itwas considered that the
Indian, although a vassal, was a vassal under age, a minor, and needed some
body to represent him and assist him in law. Compare Solorzano, Polttica,
p. 121 et seg. The Protectors of the Indians were established at an early date.
At first, the prelates of the Indies (archbishops and bishops) were the protectors.
See Cedula of March 26, 1546, in Montemayor, Sumarios, fol. 211. Philip II. re
established special official protectors. Rccopilacion de Leyes de los Reynos de las
Indias, Ley primera. The date of the Cedula is January 10, 1589.
lib. vi. tit. vi.,
The protectors were in a manner similar to our agents of to-day, with the differ
ence that they had less power and were far better controlled, and their duties
were well defined. They had no jurisdiction over the Indian, and no right nor
power to meddle in the interior affairs of the tribes. Each Indian of New Spain
had to pay one half-real towards defraying expenses of defence of the Indians
in case of necessity. Recopilacion, vol. ii. fol. 218, Cedula of June 13, 1623,
Philip IV.
OF THE
tTNTVERSITY
is of comparatively recent date. A peremptory order of the
King, dated 1682, laid the foundation of the so called Pue

blo grants of New Mexico. 1 In papers and
Sonora, the
deeds of the Opatas date back the beginning of the
to
seventeenth century. 2 As long as the Jesuits were almost

the sole white occupants of that State,it was superfluous to
execute the royal dispositions in regard to Indian lands, as
nobody was near or far. who could encroach upon the native s
possessions. In Chihuahua, El Paso del Norte excepted, the
unsettled nature of the aborigines rendered the community
system impracticable except in the shape of

"
reductions,"
that is, aggregations, sometimes of several stocks, around a
mission, as centre and pivot of life. To such reductions

an area of communal land was assigned. 3
At the bottom of these changes rested an idea entirely
novel to the Indians, that of ownership of the country by a
power whose head remained invisible to them. They saw

his representatives, felt the effects of his decrees, but saw
Real Cedilla nombrando d Don Domingo Gironza Petriz de Cruzate por

1
Gobernador del Nueuo Mexico, MS., 1682.

2 For
instance, the grants of the Pueblos of Sinoquipe and Banamichi.
3 The
Reducciones
"
are defined by Solorzano as follows (p. 107):

"
De "
lo qual desciende, que podriamos, no sin causa, equiparar estas reducciones 6
agregaciones de los Indios a los Metoecios de los Romanes, y llamarlas con

este nombre. Pero todavfa entiendo, que les quadra mejor, y mas en comun, el
de los Pueblos que los mesmos Romanos llamaban Municipios, o Metrocomias.
Municipios eran unos lugares pequenos, adonde por razon de la labratâ, 6 por
otras conveniencias, hazian agregar algunas gentes, y que alii assentassen sus
casas y domicilios, y repartiessen entr e si los cargos de ellos, por lo qual se
llamaron Municipes, como lo dizen los textos y dotores que de ellos tratan :
las Metrocomiae eran como villas, 6 pueblos mayores, que tomaron este nombre,
como que fuesen madres 6 cabe9as de los menores. . Y uno y otro -responde . .
al modo
y forma de los de nuestros Tndios, que se ponen los mayores en cabecera
de cada provincia, y a su abrigo otros, que no son tan grandes, para que todos
se ayuden assi comunmente dezimos, los pueblos, y repartimientos de Indios, y
sus cabeceras." The earliest Cedula I can find establishing these Reducciones
bears date 21 March, 1551. Recopiladon, vol. ii. lib. vi. tit. iii. The whole
section treats of them.
him not. More perhaps than anything else, this opened their
eyes to consciousness that the little world of their own, of
which each pueblo appeared to be the centre, formed but a
portion of a grand uncomprehended total. The idea was

crushing to them in one sense. It humbled the childish
pride which isolation and ignorance beget and foster. In

another sense it was comforting, for that unseen power not
merely exacted obedience and tribute, it promised protec

tion, it brought facilities for living, means of improving the
mode of existence.
The latter consideration, for instance, acted strongly upon
the minds of the Pueblo Indians of Mexico, when, in New
1598, they voluntarily submitted to Spanish sway. It cannot
be alleged that the acts of submission of the Pueblos were not
understood by them. Every precaution was taken to make
them realize perfectly what these acts implied, and, having
1
assumed the position of vassals of Spain of their free will
and consent, a withdrawal from it entailed, especially if car

ried on with violence, the same consequences and legal ne
2
cessities as rebellion. It was different in Sonora and in
1
There are seven of these Obediencias y Vasallajes a su Magestad, all of which
are contained in vol. xvi. of the Documentos de hidias. They bear date respectively,
Santo Domingo, July 7, 1598; San Juan, September 9, 1598 Acolocii, October 12, ;
1598; Cneloce, October 17, 1598; Acoma, October 27, 1598; Aguscobi (Zuni),
November 1598; Mohoqui, November 15, 1598. In each case there were
9,
interpreters. The
conditions of submission were read, and afterwards inter
preted, and the question asked, Y que asi viesen si querian dar la obediencia
"
como esta dicho." Invariably follows the reply Los quales dichos
: habi- . . .
endo oydo entendido y conferido entrellos todo lo sobre dicho, con muestras de
contento respondieron de un acuerdo y deliberacion y expontanea voluntad, que
querian ser vasallos del dicho Christiamsimo Rey Nuestro Senor, y como tales,
desde luego le queria dar y daban la obidencia y vasallaje por si y en nombre de
sus Republicas."
2 Ibid. Y el dicho Senor Gobernador les replico, que mirasen y enten-
:
"
diesen que el dar la obidencia y vasallaje al Rey Nuestro Senor, era subjetarse
a su voluntad y a sus mandamientos y leyes, que si no los guardasen, serian
castigados como trangresores a los mandamientos de su Rey y Senor natural ,

2O4 ARCHÔLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
Chihuahua. There, the Indian submitted to the govern

ment locally ;
to the Church, and in particular to the Jesuit
1
order, at large. This produced results not always beneficial
to the native.
That the Indian, once incorporated domain, in the royal
should contribute to the expenses of the governmental ma

chine, was but imperfectly understood by him. He never
saw the head of the institution, and what he contributed
went manifestly, and before his own eyes, to the support of
minor functionaries. Tribute was a well established custom

in Mexico, especially in the central and southern parts in ;
the Southwest it was unknown, and remuneration for gov

ernmental work had but a few very faint analogies among
Indian customs. The tribute exacted from the Pueblos was
a peculiar one. It consisted mainly of cotton cloth and of
maize. 2 Against the amount of tribute no reasonable com-
y que asi viesen lo que querian y respondian a esto a lo qual dixieron los;
dichos capitanes, que querian dar y daban la dicha obidencia y vasallaxe, como
antes habian dicho, por si y en nombre de sus Republicas."
1
The Jesuits actually went in advance of the establishment of civil authority
in Chihuahua and Sonora. They were really pioneers, whereas in New Mexico
the Franciscans, although pioneers too in a certain sense, established their
missions more directly with the aid of the temporal power, and furthermore in
closer proximity and more immediate contact with the resident civil authorities.
general rules laid down for the levy of tribute are contained, as
2 The
far as the Southwest is concerned, in the Codice de Leyes y Ordenanzas of King
Philip II. (Documentos de Indias, vol. xvi. p. 394) Y de mas de lo susodicho,

:
"
mandamos a las dichas personas que por nuestro mandado estan descubriendo,
que en lo descubierto hagan la tasacion de los tributes y seruicios que los

yndios deuen dar como basallos nuestros, y el
tal tributo sea moderado, de
manera que los puedan sufrir, teniendo atencion a la conservacion de los dichos
al comendero donde lo quiere."
yndios, y con el tal tributo se acuda
In art. 49
(p. 200) the King ordains Proueyemos y mandamos que ante todas cosas se
"
hiciese la tasacion de lo que los dichos yndios de ay adelante deuian pagar, ansi
de los que estan en nuestra caue9a y corona Real, como de los que estan enco-
mendados a otras personas particulares. . Por ende encargamos y mandamos
. .
a los nuestros Presidentes y Oydores de las dichas quatro audiencias cada vna en
su distrito y jurisdicion, cada vna, se ynformen de lo que buenamente los dichos
sin fatiga suya ansi a nos como a las
yndios pueden pagar de seruicio 6 tributo
plaint could be made ;

the manner of levy sometimes gave
1
rise to justifiable protests.
Punishment Spanish laws was, to

for crimes according to
the Indian, a source of great astonishment, and often of
displeasure. Atonement for murder by the death of the mur

derer at the hands of justice, without the possibility of re
demption by remuneration, was an entirely new feature. On

this point the Indians had generally to yield, for the law could
not give way to their customs. Still there are evidences

of compromise in the Southwest, as there was great diffi
culty in inculcating in the mind of the aborigines, rapidly,
any other notion but that execution was another murder or

manslaughter calling for equivalent retribution. In regard
to theft, communism of living rendered their notions very
vague. As little as the Indian understood why necessities

of life should not be free to all, so little did the European
comprehend why they should be, and constant conflicts arose.
personas que los tubiere en encomienda, y teniendo atencion a esto les tasen
por manera que scan menos que los que solian
los dichos tributes y seruicios,
pagar en tiempo de los Caciques y Senores que los tenian antes de venir a
nuestra obediencia." The Indians of New Mexico paid no tribute whatever
in primitive times, but in Central Mexico a tribute, and a very severe and
onerous tribute, was exacted of vanquished tribes by their conquerors. This
explains the last portion of the royal ordinance. In New Mexico the tribute was
paid in cotton cloth and in grain, often in buckskin and sometimes in buffalo
robes. Conde de Monterey, Discurso y Proposition (Doc, de Indias, vol. xvi.
p. 48) : De algodon 6 cueros de Cibola, y de maiz, presupongo yo que seran
"
los In 1630, according to Benavides, (Memorial, p. 25,) the tribute

tributes."
consisted en cada casa vna manta, que es vna vara de liengo de algodon, y
"
vna fanega de maiz cada ano, con que se sustentan los pobres Espanoles."
Compare also Fray Pedro Zambrano, Carta al Virrey (MS., November 6, 1636) .
Fray Antonio de Ybargaray, Carta al Virrey (MS., November 20, 1636) Carta ;
al Virrey del P. Custodio y Difinidores del Nueuo Mexico (MS., November 28,
1636).
1
Great complaints are uttered by the Franciscans about the manner of col
New Mexico. I refer, among others, to the letters to the
lecting the tribute in
Viceroy quoted above, and especially to Fray Andres Suarez, Carta d su
Magestad (MS., October 26, 1647).
At however, the Spanish ideas prevailed to a great ex

last,
tent, and by allowing permanent tribes independent jurisdic

tion a compromise was effected, the result of which has been
that, as towards outsiders, the Pueblo recognizes the action

of law, while the law in turn tacitly acknowledges the right
of home rule in his favor. 1
In the main, the effects of Spanish legislation upon the
Indian mind have been to enlarge the scope of its vision, and
to foster the thought of individuality, thus shaking primitive
socialism without abolishing it in a manner detrimental to
the race. has placed an effective barrier to the unsteadi

It
ness of Indian nature, has opened his mind to the concep

tions of metes and bounds of time and space, and has
even striven, though with small effect, to impress him with
a thought of economy of time. Indirectly and through the
medium of language it has also encroached upon the Indian
principle of segregation, by placing at the command of the
native a new medium of utterance that renders intercourse
for an
possible between separate stocks, thus paving the way
idea entirely foreign to all American aborigines, that of
fraternity among mankind.

Anyother nation governing the Indian according to Euro
pean systems might have achieved similar results but the ;
special merit of Spain consists in having achieved them,

whereas other nations occupying American have given
soil
comparatively little attention to the well-being and conser-
arrangement prevails to-day with the Pueblos, and it has been

1
This tacit
legalized in the first statutes of New Mexico, which declare the pueblos to be
bodies corporate, corporations having their own jurisdiction over their members.
When the Indians of Nambe, in March, 1855, butchered three men and one
woman of their village in the most horrible manner for alleged witchcraft, the
courts decided that no interference was possible. The Indians were, it is true,
compelled to pay four hundred dollars, but these were rather costs and fees
than fines. Compare Relation de la Matanza de los Brujos de Nambe, por Juan
Lujan, Testigo Ocular (MS., 1888, original in my possession).
vation of the red man. Certain it is, that the Spanish

laws of the Indies are by far the most beneficent, the most
humane, and the most practical that were ever framed for
the government of the aborigines, and that while they have
done a vast amount of good, if they did not achieve more,
it was not the legislator, but the administrator, who was at
fault.
Although not germane to the points under treatment, I
cannot refrain from noticing here the contrast between the

astounding impetuosity displayed by the Spaniards in their
spread over the American continent, and the slow and
patient wisdom which marks their legislative enactments.
All the very numerous edicts and decrees breathe, in regard
to the Indian, the spirit of utmost solicitude for his wel
fareand gradual introduction into the path of civilization.
The rulers of Spanish affairs were thoroughly convinced
that nothing could be gained by urging the aborigines to
march along a line on which they were as yet unable to
advance. There is nothing wiser, nothing more humane
and more practical, in this respect, than the voluminous
ordinances framed in 1573 by King Philip the Secondhand
under these ordinances the annexation of the Southwest
to the Spanish dominion was effected. These remarks do
not apply to the administration of pacified and permanently
established tribes alone, they refer as well to that of new dis
coveries and settlements, and to the conduct towards hostile
tribes. From this time on, the term of
Conquests was "
"
banished from Spanish legal terminology, and "Pacifications"

adopted in its stead. 2
1
Ordenanzas de su Magestad hechas para los nuevos Descubrimientos Conquis-
fas y Poblacionesy July, 1573 (Doc. de Indias, vol. xvi.). I refer the reader to this
important enactment, which is a model of sound practical sense, of knowledge

of the true nature of the Indian, and of noble and generous sentiments.
-
Ordenanzas p. 152
,
Los descobrimientos no se den con titulos de nombre
:
"
The changes and industry wrought by contact with

in art
the Spaniards, while great and manifold, appear less

striking
in the light of the present state of progress in mechanical ap
pliances. We smile at
the antique plough, at the two-wheeled
cart, at the clumsy iron axe, the imperfect saw, etc., still found
among the New Mexican Pueblos, and deride the Spaniard

who, three centuries ago, could not give the Indian any better
implements than those used at that time all civilized among
nations. We
chide him for not having kept
step in his dis
tant colonies with progress in other climes, under different
circumstances. We are liable to forget, however, that the
adoption of even those imperfect implements was a gigantic

stride for the Indian at whose disposal they were placed
gratuitously.
1
He passed, at one step, from the age of stone
de conquistas, pues habiendose de hacer con tanta paz y caridad como deseamos,
no queremos quel nombre de ocasion ni color para que se pueda hacer fuerza
ni agravio a los indios." This was reiterated by Philip III. in 1621, and by
Carlos II. Recopilacion, vol. ii. fol. 80.
1
An illustration of the gratuitous distribution of agricultural implements is
found case of re-settlement of the pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico. In the

in the
list of things that were necessary in order to settle the Indians recently come
from the Moquis appear, besides a number of carpenter s tools, all kinds of
agricultural implements of the period, and, in addition, abundance of seeds and
grain for planting. Joachin Codallos y Rabal, Testimonio a la Letra del Siiperior
despacho que me present6 el rd Padre Comisario Delegado, etc., en Orden d repo-
blarse los Sitios antigtios con los Yndios Moquinos reducidos (MS., January 23,
1748). I shall not insist upon the industrial education which was furnished to
the Indians of Mexico by the Franciscans at an early date. the fact is too well
known and too thoroughly established to require proof, but I shall merely state
that Philip II. was perfectly justified in saying, in the Ordenanzas already quoted
(p. 182) : Haseles dado el uso de pan y vino y aceite y otros muchos manteni-
"
mientos ; pano, seda, lienzo, caballos, ganados, herramientos y armas, y todo lo

demas que de Espana ha habido, y ensenado los oficios y artificios con que viven
ricamente." It is interesting to learn what use the Indians of New Mexico
made of the implements and domestic animals, the possession of which they
owed to the Spaniards, during the time they succeeded in
"
freeing themselves,"
as current terminology has it. In 1683, several Indians from the pueblo of
Picuries went down to El Paso del Norte to reconnoitre the Spanish arma
ment there. These Indians were surprised by the Mansos and one of them
captured. In his interrogatory he deposes (Declaration de vn Yndio de Nation
into a state of transition, wherein, without the intermediate

use of copper or bronze, he learned to weld iron, as well as
to fuse and to hammer silver and copper ;
and to employ
Pecuri q^ê dijo llamarse Juan, MS.) that Luis Tupatu, one of the most in
Indians of his pueblo (and among the pueblos in general), said

"
fluential Que :
atendiesen a como se hallauan destituidos de todo con la falta de los espanoles.

Porque ya no tenian vacas ni abejas ni cauallos ni cuchillos ni coas ni alesnas
ni ropa ni bestuario ni con que dar a vn enfermo porque todo lo traian los
espanoles y que en aquel Rno no lo abia ni balia nada de lo que podian apro-
bechar para su biuienda." It seems that three years after the uprising the
cattle and sheep had already been eaten up, instead of continuing to be raised
as heretofore. Y que en todo el Reino no ai vna res vacuna ni cabesa de
"
ganado menor ni los atajuelos que tenian los Yndios que todo selo an comidos
los apostatas, y cauallada y yeguas toda sela a llevado los Apaches, que
que la
no ai oy en todo el Reino mas de algunos vueies que an dejado en los pueblos

para el venefizio de sus mielgas y que en algunos Pueblos ai de tres a quatro
bestias, que todo esta clestruido." This shows, in the first instance, that the
Indians had stock and agricultural implements to a fair extent, and, secondly,
that as soon as the Spaniards were gone they squandered these possessions
in the most wanton and most truly Indian style.
In regard to Sonora, whatever progress was made by the Indians was mostly
due to the Jesuits, who, indeed, obtained the material, so far as implements,
cattle, etc. were concerned, from the Spanish government, and served merely as
distributing agents, so to say. Father Ribas, who wrote in 1645, not thirty years
after the final reduction of the powerful tribes on the Yaqui and Mayo Rivers,
and only a few years after the peaceable submission of the Pimas and Opatas,
is very emphatic about the rapid changes in mode of life and arts of husbandry.
Historia de los Trivmphos (p. 251), about the Mayos Y el viuir y auezindarse :
"
los Indies en tales estancias y puestos esta ya inuy introducido en las Indias y ;
les esta muy bien a sus naturales, porque tienen tierras, y comodidades, si quieren
sembrar, y la comida y sustento muy seguro." Of the Yaquis, the fiercest and
most warlike of the Indians of Sonora, he remarks (p. 339) Los Pueblos estan :
"
dispuestos en nmy buena forma, sin quedar ya vno solo, que de assiento viua en
sus sementeras, ni rancherias antiguas. Las casas hazen ya muchas de paredes de
adobes, y terrados, y las de los Gobernadores mas amplias. Muchos de los . . .
Hiaquis vsan ya de cauallos, en que andan y traginan sus carguillas, compran-

dolos con los frutos que cogen, con tanta codicia, que por esse respeto se aplican
a hazer mayores sementeras, de que suele ser ta abundate su valle, que en anos
esteriles entran a rescatar los
Espanoles y otras Naciones, sus frutos, con per-
mutas que hacen de vnas cosas por otras, y a esso llaman rescatar. En lo que
toca al vestido, es grande la mudansa que desean y procuran, y por este respeto
se dan mas a sembrar algodon. Demas de esso ... los Padres han pro- . . .
curado, que entre en Cinaloa alguna cantidad de ouejas, para que con la lana
pudiessen las Indias labrar mantas de que vestirse, como ya lo hazen."
not only these two metals, but also gold, as a medium of

commerce and barter. In place of the wooden stick used
for planting, he obtained the hoe and the plough ;
he got
the saw, the chisel, and the auger, in place of the fire-drill.
He obtained draught animals, cattle, sheep, the cat, the

domestic dog. He was taught to raise wheat, barley, melons,
1
vegetables, apples, pears, peaches, and grapes. In Sonora
the orange and the citron were added to his stock of
native fruit-bearing trees. Wool supplanted cotton and
buckskin for vestments ; the old musket with powder and
lead took the place of bow and arrow. True it is, the In
dian grasped these improvements but slowly.
all Their very
advantages were a source of misgiving to him for a long
time, and even to-day he generally speaking, more dex
is,
terous with the bow than with the rifle, more prone to use a
stone than a hammer, raw-hide and buckskin than rope or
wire. As far as the New Mexican Pueblos are concerned,
it may be said that they are still in that state of transition
from stone to metal which they found -themselves three
in
centuries ago, after the Spaniards had begun to introduce the

arts of life and husbandry of the Eastern world. The asser
tion of decadence in their arts, so often repeated, is devoid of
all basis. Certain arts have been abandoned by the seden
tary Indian, because he found more profitable employment.

1 The
introduction of grapes into New Mexico took place in the first half of
the seventeenth century, and the first vineyard was planted at San Antonio de
Senecu, eighteen miles south of the present town of Socorro. The village of
Piros Indians founded there about 1626 was abandoned about 1675. The
Senecu of to.day, near El Paso del Norte, harbors some descendants of the
former Piros of Senecu in New Mexico. Vetancurt (Cr6nica de la Prov. del Sto
Evangelic de Mexico, p. 309) attributes the introduction of vines to Fray Garcia
de San Francisco. Fray Balthasar de Medina Chrdnica de la Sanfa Provincia
(
de San Diego de Mexico, 1682) attributes the introduction of the grape-vine in

New Mexico to Fray Juan de Arteaga, which would place it before 1630. At
all events, it appears certain that this improvement was due to the Capuchins,
Frayles descalzvs.
Thus the New Mexican Pueblos dropped the manufacture

of blankets almost completely for a time. It was preferable
to buy them from the Navajos (who learned the art from
them) and from the Spanish colonists. Their pottery to
day is no longer as barbarously elaborate as centuries ago,
because other more practically useful arts engross their
attention. Such changes are no evidences of decay, they
are inevitable results of progress. With the introduction of
improved implements and of new products, the Indian ideas
of commerce changed correspondingly, their scope of knowl
edge was enlarged, and in this respect also, while his pride
was constantly humbled by the sight of new and unknown
things, his standard of manhood became unconsciously
raised to a higher level.
These considerations apply not alone to the sedentary
Indian, the vassal Spain, but

of also to the vagrant roam
ing aborigines, the relentless foes of the house-dweller and
of the Spaniard. In many respects the Apache, the Co-
manche, the Navajo above owe more

European culture
all, to
introduced by Spain than the Pueblo Indian. That is, for
their particular ends and aims they have derived greater
profit than their sedentary kindred. They also obtained the
horse, and, as in the first section of this Report I have

spoken of the buffalo as one of the chief agents in bringing
about ethnographical distribution upon the North American
continent, so now I would point out that the horse was
second importance only to the buffalo in this respect.
in
Possession of the horse made rapid circulation over the
plains possible ;
it led in the past century to the astonish
ing spread of a northern Comanches, towards

stock, the
the Mexican Gulf, and even across the Rio Grande it ;
created an indirect intercourse, through Indians of the
plains, between New Mexico and western Canada, which

brought about actual contact with the French.

1
finally Co-
manches traded with the French of Louisiana and Texas ;
Comanches alternately made raids upon and traded with the

village Indians of Pecos. The savage Indian grasped the
utility of the horse and of fire-arms with much greater vigor
than sedentary tribes, and the complaint is often heard that
the Apaches, as well as the Comanches, were better armed
and better equipped than the few Spanish soldiers who pre
tended to defend New Mexico against their incursions. 2 It
1
The earliest advance on the part of the French towards New Mexico, so
far asknown, is reported as having taken place in 1700. The French \\ere said
to have destroyed a village of the Jumanos. This however is not certain. I find
itin the Relation Anonima de la Reconquista del AT Mexico (p. 180). The uez>o
news was brought by an Apache from the plains. Certain it is that in 1702 the
Governor Pedro Rodriguez Cubero made an expedition to the Jumanos. See
Libra de Difuntos de Pecos (MS.), 1695 to T 7 6 - I" ca se this aggression be true,
it must have come from Texas or Louisiana. In 1720, the Spaniards made a
reconnoissance with fifty men as far as the Arkansas, but they were surprised
by the Pawnees and some French, and nearly all perished. In 1748, it is offi
cially stated that the French traded with the Comanches at the place called
Quartelejo, north or northeast of Mora. Joachin Codallos y Rabal, Testimonio
sobre lo Acaesido en el Pueblo de Pecos : Notizia del Theniente de Thaos de hallarse
en el Rio de la GicariUa cien tiendas de Cumanches enemigos y que d ellas llegaron
treinta v tres Franceses que los bendieron estos d aqtiellos bastantes escopetas (MS.),
1748, fol. 5. But the first French immigration into New Mexico (aside from
the three deserters from the the famous
expedition of Lasalle, among them
L Archeveque, who came to New Mexico about 1693) took place in 1739, when
nine French Canadians made their appearance, and two of them remained in
New Mexico. One of these, named Luis Maria Colons (?), attempted to foment
an insurrection among the Pueblos against the Spaniards, for which he was
shot at Santa Fe on October 19, 1743. Causa fulminada criminalmente contra
Luis Maria Colons, moro criollo de las Colonias de Franzia de la farte de la
Frobinzia de Canada en 31 de Mayo del Ano de 1743 (MS. in my possession).
2
Antonio Bonilla, Apuntes Historicos sobre el Nuevo Mexico, 1776 (MS.), p.
Hay abundancia de hombres, asi Espanoles, como Indios, mui a proposito
"
119 :
para la guerra :
pero de armas y caballos los inutiliza." Ibid., p. 124
la carencia :
"
Los Cumanches ... no intimidan las armas de fuego, porque las usan y
les
manejan con mas destreza que sus maestros." Speaking of the inhabitants
of New Mexico, he says (p. 135) Y ensenarles el uso del arma de fuego, que
:
"
verdaderamente por lo general se ignora en estas tierras." It is useless to quote

from other sources they all agree on the point of utter defencelessness of the
;
Spanish inhabitants of New Mexico and of the Southwest in general, and of the
may be said that the hostile tribes took from the Spaniards
only what they could turn to advantage against them, and
that what they took they wielded with terrible effect. The
implements of peace were slow to penetrate among peoples
by whom peaceable work is regarded as degrading to man.
One of the results of the introduction of new arts and ob
jectshas been a change in the conceptions of the Indian

about wealth. If treasure is mentioned to the Pueblo, we
must specify what kind of treasure is meant. His original

treasure is neither gold nor silver. His treasure consisted
of shell-beads, of green stones, and of objects of worship.
His medium of exchange, aside from objects of practical
value, was formerly these shell-beads and these green stones.
1
To-day he still clings to them with tenacity, and many a

good horse purchased from the Navajos by the Pueblos by
is
means of turquoises alone. But the Indian has learned from

the Spaniard the usefulness of coined money, and while he
regards his own treasure as equally valuable, if not more so

owing to the superstitious importance placed upon it, money
ishandled by him and esteemed a desirable convenience.
He knows that with money he can acquire certain things
unattainable through shell-beads alone, but he knows also
that the last can procure him things which no
money perhaps
may buy. There exists consequently, among many sedentary
tribes of the Southwest, a double circulating medium a ;
civilizedcurrency of United States or of Mexican coins, and

an aboriginal currency, which has value in transactions with
their kindred only.
superiority in horses and armament of the hostile tribes. In 1778, the Territory
of New Mexico had, all told,
eight guns (one without carriage) and eighty-four
serviceable muskets Noticia del Armamento, Peltrechos, y Municiones pertene-
!
cienles d este Gobierno del Nueuo Mejico (MS.).

1 I refer, among others, to the exchange of turquoises for parrot s plumes,
already mentioned by Cabeza de Vaca, in 1536.
Such dualism is a feature that underlies the Indian s life
in every direction. It is especially prominent in his religious
conceptions and ideas.

I have included the action of the Church in what I
termed the
"
"
Indian policy of Spain. Through the conces

sion termed the royal
"
patronage," the Crown had obtained

a powerful hold on the Church in the Indies. It insured
control of the investiture of ecclesiastics and the distribution
of parishes and curacies. 1It placed the Regular Orders in a
kind of dependency towards the government, and long and

bitter was the struggle that terminated in the secularization
of the doctrines, and finally in the expulsion of the Jesuits. 2

For the Indians, and for the welfare of the colonies in
general, these two results were great misfortunes. By the
first, a large body of men, hitherto zealous and active, were
forciblyconfined to contemplative retirement, that is, to

mental stagnation coupled with passive accumulation of idle
wealth. The
expulsion of the Jesuits deprived the Indians
of excellent directors, and the Creoles of able and progres
sive teachers. It was a severe blow to the aborigines of
Sonora and Chihuahua. In the Southwest, the loss was

1 The concession of patronage of the Indies dates from 1508. See the Bull
of July 28 of that year, issued by Pope Julius II. Icite it from the work of
Antonio Joachin de Ribadeneira y Barrientos, Manual Compendia de el Regio

Patronato Indiana, 1735 (P- 49)- Bulls confirmatory were, among others, those
of Benedict XIV., of February 20 and June 9, 1753.
2
The decree of expulsion of the Jesuits was communicated to the latter on
Busta-
the 25th of June, 1767. Alegre, Historia de la Campania, Appendix by
mante, vol. iii. p. 301. The great majority of them sailed from Vera
Cruz on
the 24th of October of that year. But the strife between the temporal power and
the Regular Orders (most of the secular clergy being on the side of the govern
the Sumarios
ment) dates from the close of the sixteenth century. Compare (in
of Montemayor, fol. 19, 20, 22, and 23) the stringent Cednlas Reales of April 28,
1603, June 22, 1624, April 6, 1629,
and June 10, 1634, touching the regulars and
the royal patronage. The bitter conflict between the Bishop of Puebla, Don
the middle of the seven
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, and the Jesuits, towards
teenth century, was one of the precursors of their expulsion.
not felt, inasmuch as the Franciscans of New Mexico were

not secularized previous to Mexican independence. 1 De
cay, indeed, set in among the Franciscans, but the causes
of it belong to an order of events to which I refer else
where.
I may as Well state here, that the Inquisition had no
manner of sway or jurisdiction over the American Indians.
References to autos de fe in which Indians are represented
as being the victims are absolutely untrue. Not only the laws
of the Indies, but the official declarations of the Holy Office,
bear witness to this fact. Crimes committed with Indians
were visited by this tribunal upon those who perpetrated
them, but never interfered nor was permitted to interfere
it
in matters of faith or belief of the aborigines. 2 Cases of

witchcraft even were disposed of by the civil or military
3
authorities, as the case might be. It was considered that
the Indian could not be held responsible for his creed in the
same degree as the European or his American offspring, and
1
Most removed in 1832 and 1833. A titular Cus-
of the Franciscans were
"
Fray Mariano de Jesus Lopez, continued to reside at the Pueblo of Isleta

todio,"
and to administer occasionally to the distant Indian villages of Laguna, Acoma,

and Zuni, until 1847, when an accident put an end to his life.
2 The great documentary historian of Mexico, Don Joaquin Garcia Ycaz-
balceta has called attention to Bibliografia Mexicana del Siglo
this in his
XVI., p. 377. He refers to the Cedula of Charles V. of October 15, 1538,

and to Law No. 35, tit. i. lib. vi. of the Recopilacion de Indicts. Here follows the
text of this law (fol. 192, vol. ii.) "For estar prohibido a los
:
Inquisidores
Apostolicos proceder contra Indios, compete su castigo a los ordinaries
el
Eclesiasticos, y deben ser obedecidos y cumplidos sus mandamientos, y contra

los hechiceros, que matan con hechizos y usan de otros maleficios, procederan
nuestras justicias reales." In confirmation see Carta Patente del Padre Custodio
Fray Joseph Lopez Tello, comunicando una Instruction del Santo Tribunal de la
Inquisition, April 22, 1715 (MS.; the instruction is issued by three Inquisitors
and the Secretary) Esto es porque los delitos de Yndios no tocan al Sto
:
"
Oficio, si los que en materia de fe se cometen con ellos 6 Yndios."

quoted. I have in my possession a number of witchcraft
3 See the law above
trials from New Mexico, beginning with 1704. All were conducted by the
civil authorities of the province.
2l6 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
the principle of patience and leniency adopted in legislation

also prevailed in religion. 1
The conversion and spiritual
"
reduction
"
of the Indians
of New
Spain were from the beginning, after the conquest,
intrusted chiefly to the Franciscans. But in proportion as
other orders and secular priests arrived from the mother
country, they were assigned to certain provinces and locali
ties. The friars of St. Francis had discovered New Mexico. 2

Their blood was repeatedly shed on New Mexican soil,
8
They held the first claim to the missions there, and thus
the territory became an annex to the province of the Holy
Evangile of Mexico under the title of the Custody of Saint
Paul of the Conversion of New
Afterwards, in Mexico.
southern and central Chihuahua, the Franciscans of Zacate-
cas established themselves, 4 while the Jesuits took hold of
Sonora, and subsequently of Arizona, where they remained
The prohibition to the Inquisition to meddle in Indian matters is due to

1
Philip II., and the Cedula bears date February 23, 1575. It is in harmony
with the ordinances of 1573. Ordenanzas para Desciibrimientos, etc., p. 182:

predicadores, con la mayor solenidad que podieren y con mucha caridad,
"Los
les comiencen a persuadir, quieran entender las cosas de la Santa Fee catolica,
y se las comiencen a ensenar con mucha prudencia y discrecion por el orden
questa dicho en el libro primero, en el Ti tulo de la Santa Fee catolica, usando
de los medios mas suaves que podieren para los aficionar a que la quieran
aprender ; para lo cual, no comenzaran reprehendiendoles sus vicios ni idola-
quitendoles las mugeres ni sus idolos.
trias, ni Porque no se escandalizen ni
tengan enemistad con la doctrina cristiana, sino ensenensela primero, y despues
que esten instruidos en ella, les persuaden a que de su propia voluntad dexen
aquello ques contrario a nuestra Sancta Fee catolica y doctrina evangelica."
This is so far as the idols are concerned an abrogation of decrees of Charles V.,
June 26, 1523, of the Empress, August 23, 1538, and of the King (then Prince
Regent) himself, August 8, 1551. See Recopilacion, vol. i. fol. 2.
2
Fray Marcos of Nizza in 1539.
Fray Juan Padilla, in 1543 Fray de la Cruz and Fray Luis Descalona, a
3
;
short time after; Fray Agustin Rodriguez, Fray Francisco Lopez, and Fray Juan
de Santa Maria, in 1581.
4 The Custody of San Francisco de Zacatecas was established in December
of 1566. Arlegui, Cronica de Zacatecas, p. 41, and its first mission in Chihuahua
was San Bartholome, or Parral.
till they were supplanted by the Franciscans of the College

of Queretaro in the second half of the eighteenth century.
The system of work pursued by the Franciscans in New
Mexico consisted, first, in the construction of churches with
the aid of Indians. 1
This necessitated giving to these Indians
a certain amount of mechanical training, and thus it was that
the Pueblos became acquainted with tools of iron and steel.
Secondly, in the setting apart and cultivation of plots for the
support of the missionary. This made the Indian acquainted

with improved methods of tilling the soil, as well as with the
use of superior implements and of domestic animals.
The teaching of letters and of the catechism was a hercu
lean considering that the priests had to become ac
task,
quainted with the languages of the neophytes, and had to

encounter a violent opposition against arts which the Indian
2
regarded with superstitious dread.
Painting was easily taught, for the Indian is always very
fond of colors but music was more difficult, for, although
;
the aborigines are much given to rhythmic noise, music

1
This was done everywhere, and was a natural consequence of missions.
The work of building the walls of these churches was performed, at least in
New Mexico, by the women. See Benavides, Memorial, p. 41.
2 Itwould be too long to go into details on this point.
I can only refer the
student or reader to some of the principal sources. Thus, in regard to Sonora

there is Ribas, Hist, de los Trivmphos, the Estado de la Pimeria, and the Descrip
tion Geogrdfica de la Provincia de Sonora. In regard to New Mexico the sources
are too numerous even to indicate here. As to the difficulties of teaching, con
sult especially Benavides, Memorial, pp. 40, 90-130. The greatest stress was
laid upon the acquisition by the missionaries of native Indian tongues. The
interest taken in these American languages lasted late I have a number of cir
;
culars of the last century, in which the learning of Indian idioms is enjoined
on the missionaries in New Mexico. The re-establishment of mission schools
is specially ordered by Fray Miguel Menchero, Carfa Patente, 1731 (MS.) :
"
mandamos que en todas las missiones halla Escuela y Doctrina en

Otrosi
nuestro Ydioma y lengua Castellan a, como esta ordenado probehido y man-
dado por la Magestad de nro Key y Senor en repetidas Cedulas para lo qual
distribuiremos Cartillas, Catecismos, y Cartones a cada Mision segun el numero

de los de doctrina."
2l8 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
proper harshly on their untrained ears.

falls Nevertheless,
as early as 1607 there existed at least one small organ in
one of the Pueblo churches of New Mexico. 1
To depict all the difficulties which the brethren had to
encounter would require a space far exceeding the limits of
this work. I can only notice the changes wrought,
very
gradually too, in the condition of the Indians.
The Pueblo Indians accepted the new faith voluntarily,
and to a certain extent honestly. They adopted it, however,
from their own peculiar standpoint, that is, they expected
material benefits from a creed that pretended to give them
spiritual advantages. In their conception, religion is but a

rule of conduct controlling man while alive, and on strict
compliance with which his success in this world depends. In
short, the Pueblos looked upon Christianity as upon another
kind of magic, superior to the one which they practised them
selves and they expected from the new creed greater pro
;
tection from their enemies, more abundant crops, less wind,

and more rain, than their own magic performances procured.
To disabuse them was extremely difficult, and yet it was done,
done through teaching, and also by the force of circum-
1
There on buffalo hide executed by Indians of the
exist to-day paintings
Pueblos. photographed in 1882 a picture of Nuestra Senora de Begonia,"
"
at Galisteo, which bore the date of 1808. Artistically, these paintings are
worthless, still they indicate progress over the decorations of pottery. In
music, the organ was of importance, fray Cristobal Quinones placed one in
the church at San Felipe (now destroyed, and the pueblo has disappeared
also). Vetancurt, Menologjo, p. 137 Solicito para el culto divino organos y
:
"
mvisica, y por su diligencia aprendieron los naturales y salieron para el oficio

divino diestros cantores." Idem, Cronica, p. 315. Benavides, Memorial, p. 40.
About Sonora says Ribas (ffisforia, p. 336) :
"
Preuenidos estos habiles ninos,

se procuraron Maestros de canto Christianos antiguos, y juntaron, y formaron
capillas muy diestras en cada vno de los partidos de Hiaqui, dode ya oy se

celebran las fiestas a canto de organo, y con otros instrumentos musicos, de
baxones, sacabuches, chirimi as, y flautas, que en todo han salido diestros."
The same about the Mayos (p. 250). Also Estado de la Provincia de Sonora
(MS., 1730). Evidences might be multiplied.
i
S /.& fn A V
Copyr ighted.
PROCESSION, FEAST OF ST. ESTEVAN, ACOMA.
stances. The result was, that the Pueblo Indians, seeing that
the new creed did not produce the effect they had anticipated,
turned against it, and the rebellion of 1680 was greatly due
to a feeling that the new order of things, religious as well
as civil, was not worth the support of the people. 1

Still almost three hundred years of patient toil bore some
fruit. A change crept over the religious beliefs of the native,
that renders very the ethnologist to separate
it difficult for
the primitive doctrine from the Christian. The task is the

more intricate, since much of what is originally Christian
has become distorted in the Indian s mind, and assimilated
by him to his own fetichism and polytheism. Among most
of the Pueblos, however, a few simple Christian notions have
taken root permanently. Among them are :
First. The idea one Supreme Being, for which the

of
name of God in Spanish (Dios) is used. Dies is looked
upon as the original creator, but recognized at the same
time as the Christian God par excellence.
Second. Intercession by the saints.

Third. Baptism, in most of the pueblos. At Zuni it has
almost disappeared. There is a superstitious idea among
2
many, that children baptized are sure to die soon.
1
Among the causes alleged by Pueblo Indians who testified in regard to
the uprising of 1680, is expressed the conviction on the part of the Pueblo
Indians that the Christian creed had no value. Compare Interrogatories y
Declaraciones de varies Indios, hechos de Orden de Don Antonio dc Ofermin
(MS., 1681). One Indian declares (fol. 126) Que el Demonio era muy fuerte,
"
y mucho mejor que Dios. Diciendo que mejor eralo que el Diablo mandaba,
. . .
que lo que les ensenaban de la ley de Dios." Another one says (fol. 130) :
"
Ya murio el Dios de los Espanoles que era su Padre, y Santa Maria que era
su Madre, y los Santos que eran pedazos de lenos podridos, y que solo vivia su
Dios de ellos." Still another one (fol. 136) Porque el Dios de los Espanoles
:
"
no valia nada, y que el los tenian era muy fuerte."

2 This idea was
clearly expressed by the Indians of Zuni to Fray Mariano
de Jesus Lopez in 1847. Libra de Bautismos, MS.
Fourth. The Mass.

Burial in consecrated ground.
Fifth.
Ideas about retribution after death are vague among the
majority of Indians in the Southwest, except in particular

cases, where the teachings of the Church have entered into
the flesh and blood, so to say, of the individual. Confession
isnot often practised there are objections against it from the
;
Indian standpoint still many of them perform their duties

;
in this respect, and the Church shows leniency on account

of their intellectual condition.
The effects of education, or instruction, have, however, now
wellnigh disappeared there are signs of former and bet
;
still
ter times. In general, there are many and very plain tokens
of a relapse into barbarism, after the experience of a lift
towards higher development.

Baptism has remained as an established form, and the
Indian attaches to considerable importance. The death
it
of a child unbaptized regarded in most of the pueblos as

is
a calamity. Interment is performed everywhere among the

Pueblos (Zuni and the Moquis excepted) as close to the
temple as possible, and the New Mexican clergy have ex

perienced great trouble in attempting to wean their Indian
parishioners from this custom, and to induce them to bury
1
their dead in outside cemeteries.
Matrimonial customs have undergone a relative change.
On this score the struggles of the clergy have been severe.
The Indian recognizes the sacrament of marriage, he demands

it, but declines to obey the moral precepts of Christianity.
He clings to the customs of olden times, which make the
1
Witness the great difficulties which my esteemed friend, Rev. Father
Camille Seux, priest of San Juan, has lately experienced from the Indians of
that village, when, in compliance with the territorial laws, he caused the cemetery
to be removed outside the village. It nearly cost his life.
increase of the tribe and clan a duty under all circumstances ;
he considers formal marriage as an essential detail, though

seldom as a binding pledge. Nevertheless, there is a great
difference between matrimonial relations as they exist to-day,
and the condition of the family in primitive times, when
dissolution of the bonds uniting man and wife was the rule.
Now it excites gossip, scandal even, and calls forth the repri
mands of the old men, and the reproaches tribe. of the whole
The strenuous efforts made to bring together a couple who,
for some reason or other, have separated, show that a revolu
tion in ideas has taken place through the agency of the

Church ;
that concubinage, formerly a rule, is now an ex
ception ;
and that, while tolerated, it is still looked upon as
1
reprehensible/
I am speaking here of such Indians as are nominally
christianized, and not of the still roaming tribes. I allude
also more particularly to the village Indians of New Mex
ico, since these are the best known and have been the
most closely studied, and since they have been under the
exclusive guidance of the Franciscans for nearly three cen
turies. The Jesuits were more fortunate with at least two
numerous groups of village Indians, the Opatas and the
southern Pimas, or Nebomes, of Sonora. Among these they
have succeeded in destroying almost completely the foothold
At the time of the great rebellion, in 1680, one of the first measures
1
adopted by the successful insurgents was to dissolve all marriages effected

under the Church, and to set every one free to live and cohabit as he pleased.
See Interrogatorio de varios Indios, 1681 (MS.), fol. 126, 130. As early as
1713, however, there is testimony to the effect that the Indians had
changed
their ideas about concubinage. One of the most interesting witchcraft trials of
New Mexico, the Causa Criminal contra Geronimo Dirncaca, India del Pueblo de
Pictiries, 1713 (MS.). The said Dirucaca openly boasted of living in concubi
nage, and the Indians of his village became scandalized and accused hi:n before
the Governor. At the present day, strenuous efforts are made to reunite couples
that have separated, and an Indian who while married still maintains a so called
"
"Casera is subject to reproof by his kindred.

of primitive institutions. I have no doubt that this result is
due largely to the greater independence enjoyed by the Jes

uits in their missions, and yet what sad complaints have these
missionaries themselves recorded, as late as the second half

l
of the past century ! Certain it is,that no other spiritual
power has understood so well how to reconcile the advance
ment of the Indian with his preservation, but the problem

may be properly formulated in the discouraging theorem, If
it takes twenty-one years in the eyes of the law to make a
man out of a child, how much time will it take for thousands
of men, born and bred in organized childhood for untold cen
turies, to develop into independent manhood ?
The Indian presents the strange anomaly of a human

being by two
ruled distinct systems of laws, using two
classes implements separated from each other in point
of
of development by thousands of years, two kinds of cur
rency, and professing sincerely two distinct creeds as an

tagonistic to each other as fire and water. It is vain to deny
that the southwestern village Indian is not an idolater at
heart, but it is equally preposterous to assume that he is not

a sincere Catholic. Only he assigns to each belief a certain
field of action, and has minutely circumscribed each one.
He literally gives to God
what, in his judgment, belongs to
God, and to the Devil what he thinks the Devil is entitled
to, for the Indian s own benefit. Woe unto him who touches
his ancient idols, but thrice woe to him who derides his
church or desecrates its ornaments.
Considering the time devoted to the Indian of the South

"
west by the Indian policy

"
of Spain in all its various
forms, and the sacrifices of life and means which it has en

tailed, the results may appear surprisingly meagre. Yet it
would be idle to inquire if another nation, another religious
1
Estado de la Provincia de Sonora, 1730, MS.
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direction, might have

"
better." done
Judging from results
obtained in other parts America, we are hardly author
of
ized to believe it. Still I have until now only presented the
favorable side of Spanish influence, and I am the last to
deny the existence of grave defects, the committal of serious

faults. As these dark sides of Spanish administration of the
Indies have contributed greatly to our knowledge of the
Indian, I must allude to them here, as well as for the sake of
impartiality, which duty of the historian.

is the first
Spanish legislation affords but few grounds for complaint,

but the execution of the laws was often far from satisfactory.
American Spaniards invented the famous expedient of obey "
ing without complying," and from Santa Fe to Madrid the

distance was immense, in space as well as in time. Hence
it resulted that the promulgation of decrees, even the recep
tion of .special ones, was often much delayed. The territory
administered from Madrid was so immense and so diversified,
that a good deal of what was excellent in one portion proved
an utter failure in another. But until the Council of the
Indies could be informed and convinced, and other disposi
tions taken, much evil was done by compliance with well
intended laws. In the Southwest, the same failures, through
disobedience of officials, through impracticability of execution,
or through delays, did not equally affect Sonora and New
Mexico, Chihuahua and Arizona, because the natural condi

tions are different. Thus the royal decree of 1620, of which
I spoke preceding pages, worked well in
in the New Mex
ico it remained a dead letter almost else in the
:
everywhere
Southwest. 1
The peremptory order of the King to the Gov-
1
In Sonora, for instance, the Governors of Sinaloa frequently nominated the
chiefs of the Indian villages, during the seventeenth century. The regular
elections, but under the supervision of the Jesuit missionaries, were instituted
by a decree of Gouiernanse ya todos sus pue

"
1716. Ribas, Historia, p. 339 :
blos por Gouernadores, Alcaldes, Fiscales de Iglesia, y otros ministros de

ernor of New Mexico (then residing at El Paso del Norte),

to assign each Indian pueblo four square leagues of land,
to
was issued in 1682, but its execution was inevitably delayed,

1
through force of circumstances, until the century following.
The Governors of New Mexico frequently did very much as
they pleased, for they knew that their term of office was
short,and their salary (two thousand ducats) not in propor
tion with the uncomfortable life
they were called upon to
make as much of their

"
"
lead. Consequently, they tried to

position as could be made," confident
"
that, after their term

of office expired, they would have to disgorge at least a por
tion of whatever ill-gotten gains they had gathered. This

exposed the Indian to a number of local and temporary vexa
tions, the severity of which varied within a very short lapse
of time, and often alternated with periods of great benefit
to the native, according to the character of the magistrate
who represented the Crown.

2
Neither were the clergy free
justicia de su misma
nacion, con orden, sujecion, y obediencia. Los vnos pues-
tos por el Capitan, annque distante mas de cincuenta leguas los otros Fiscales ;
de Iglesia por el Ministro de doctrina." This was in 1645, or twenty-five years

after the promulgation of the royal Cedula mentioned. Description Geografica,
cap. viii. art. ii. El gobierno civil de los pueblos de Indios, consiste en un
:
gobernador, un alcalde, alguacil y topile. El gobernador se elije por los mis-

mos Indios en presencia del padre misionero, quien por las leyes reales insertas
a una Provesion Real de la Audiencia de Guadalajara de veinti cinco de Septiem-
bre de 1716, y un despachodel Exmo Senor Virey D. Juan Francisco de Guemes
y Orcasitas, su fecha en Mexico 25 de Noviembre de 1746 anos, les dirije en la
tal eleccion, para que acierten a dar sus votos a algunos cuya vida y costumbres
no les sirvan de tropiezo, sino de freno respecto de lo malo, y aguijon y espuela
para lo bueno." The change effected in New Mexico in 1620 thus took place
in fully one century later.
Sonora
1
The
four square leagues were tacitly allowed to the pueblos, but they
were surveyed and staked out only in the course of the eighteenth century, and
at very different times for the different pueblos thus, for San Ildefonso in
;
1704 and 1726; for the Sumas of San Lorenzo in 1765, etc.
instance, in Sonora, the change from Hernando de Bazan to Francisco
2 For
de Urdinola, and to the Captain Martin de Hurdaide (died in 1626) in New ;
Mexico, from Francisco de la Mora Ceballos (1634) to Francisco Martinez

INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. 22$
from blame. The regular orders acquired an ascendency

threatening to the rights of the secular priests as well as to
those of the government. Proud of the signal services ren
dered by them to the cause of civilization and religion, and
Baeza, or from Diego de Vargas to Pedro Rodriguez Cubero (1697). Some

times several governors in succession were tyrannical towards the Indians.
Says Fray Andre Suarez, Carta a su Magestad (MS., October 26, 1647) De "
treze gouernadores que ha avido, los diez ya han dado cuenta a Dios nro
Senor, y todos los he conocido en esta tierra, saluo uno que fue el armador
desta tierra, solo trato de los tres, que actualmente estan en estas provincias,
avnque los dos salen en este despacho, el vno aprisionado por aver vendido la
polvora de vuesa Mag d y el otro sin ellas por cohechas que ha hecho," etc.
,
In this Fray Suarez complains bitterly about the Governors Fernando

letter,
de Argnello and Luis de Guzman y Figueroa. Such individual instances of
arbitrariness and actual disregard for the laws may be found frequently, and
how could it be otherwise when the central authorities were so far away ? Still,
itcan be proved that no transgressing official escaped punishment in time, pro
vided that death did not interfere with the slow but sure action of Spanish
justice. The miserable end of Nuno de Guzman is well known. Hernando de
Bazan was severely chastised. Diego de Penalosa s fate is well known too,
although erroneously attributed to persecution by the Inquisition. Bernardo de
Mendizabal was put in prison. Luis de Rozas was in prison when murdered.
Pedro Rodriguez Cubero was only saved from severe punishment by his speedy
death. The P.esidencia," which every official had to give at the close of his
"
term of office, was sure to disclose every fault and crime committed, and when
ever there were accusations made during the term of office, there came the
dangerous Visita," which struck the suspected officer unawares, suspending him
"
at once, throwing him into prison, and sending him to Spain in case of necessity
in irons, there to pine until his case was decided. Accusers never failed, some
times evil-disposed persons, sometimes over-zealous ones, but frequently well
intentioned and thoroughly informed advisers. In connection with the Indians,
the clergy were bound, and by positive royal orders, to watch the civil officers
and to report any abuse committed by them. Such reports, even if made by the
most humble monk, were acted upon by the King himself. This is shown,
for example, by the action taken in regard to the letter above quoted of Fray
Andres Suarez. On the 22d of September, 1650, the King despatched a special
Cedula to the Viceroy of New Spain ordering him as follows He tenido por :
"
bien de dar la presente, por la qual os mando, que luego que la reziuiais, os
entereis muy especialmente, de si es Verdad lo que contiene, y sie ndolo aten-
dereis desde luego a procurar y impedir las Vejaciones que reziben los Yndios,
amparandolos como tengo dispuesto por cedulas mias." Not content with
lo
this, the King reiterated his order on the 2oth of June, 1654, after the Viceroy
had removed the Governor of New Mexico and put Don Juan de Samaniego in
his place. See Cedula al Virrey de la Niteua Espana, remitiendole una copia de
IS
ways of the Indian, they assumed a position

initiated into the
towards the government, which in New Mexico, for instance,

called forth dangerous conflicts at a very early date, and dis
credited both Church and State in the eyes of the aboriginal
vassal and convert. The origin of the terrible rebellion of
1680 can be traced as far back as 1642, when Governor Rozas
was assassinated in Santa Fe. 1 Dissensions between the
Carta sobre las vejaciones que se han entendido hazer los Gcuernadores de Nuebo
Mexico alos Yndios (MS., Sept. 22, 1650). Real Cedilla al Virrey de Nueua
Espana sobre el Aciuio de los naturahs del Nueuo Mexico (MS., June 20, 1654).
The great stumbling-block in the way of making the solicitude of the central
government effective was, first of all, the enormous distance separating the head
from the extremities of the gigantic body. Thus the Real Cedula of October
20, 1665, was received at Mexico on the 28th of May of the following year. It
took often eight and nine months for a royal despatch to reach New Spain,
and from Mexico to Santa Fe quite as long, if not longer. Another difficulty
arose from possible connivance of the highest officials at Mexico with the gov
ernors of distant provinces. This is very plainly hinted at by Fr. Andres
Suarez, Carta\ Pero, muy catolico Rey y Senor, como los que vienen son
"
Criados de los Virreyes, 6 compran los officios como lo [illegible in orig.]. El

governador passado Don Fernando de Arguello que le havia c5prado el officio
nuebe mill pesos, y todo esto, muy catolico Rey y Senor, lo vienen a pagar
estos pobres naturales, y Espanoles." The principle adopted, of selling certain
offices to the highest bidder, was a vicious one, and did a great deal of harm.
This innovation (for at the outset all offices of the Indies were given as favors)
is due to Philip II. Antonio de Leon y Pinelo, Tratado de Confirmaciones Reales,
ii. i.
part cap.
1
This crime, which was committed by one Antonio Baca, came very near
bringing about an uprising on the part of the Spanish colonists of New Mexico.
Dissensions between the clergy and the Governors of New Mexico began at an
early day, and very soon after the instalment of Don Pedro de Peralta as suc
cessor to Juan de Onate, in 1608. The violence of the strife was such, and the
Custodians, Fray Bernardo de Aguirre, and chiefly Fray Cristobal de Quiros,
were so jealous of every prerogative of their order, that the King had to inter
fere. He took the part of his Governors, and one portion of the often quoted
Real Cedula al Padre Custodio Fray Estevan de Perea, 1620, is devoted to the
matter. Philip III. speaks very plainly Ha constado de los grabes inconve-
:
"
nientes que se han seguido y resultado de que los Prelados buestros anteze-
sores ayais usado de la dha Jurisdicion contra Dn Pedro de Peralta y del
almirante Bernardino de Zeballos, con mas esca"ndalo y menos prudencia
. . .
de lo que fuera justo exzediendo contra lo determinado por los Sacros Canones
Bulas de Su Santidad y Zedulas mias," etc. Quiet was restored for a time, but
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. 22 J
temporal and spiritual powers laid the foundations of unbelief

among the Indians. But the greatest cause of the decay of
the good work commenced was the closing of the colonies
to foreign immigration. This measure, adopted by Spain as
a method of defence, killed vitality in the colonies, and
created an intellectual stagnation which struck the clergy
as well as the laymen. After the crisis which the Indian
revolts caused at the close of the seventeenth century, new
life sprang up in the missions. 1 But soon the effects of
the policy of seclusion began to tell, and most forcibly in
remote quarters. In the Southwest it coincided with a new

factor, the increasing spread of hostile tribes freshly arriving
from the North. These enemies formed a circle of blood and
fire around the Spanish outpost of New Mexico they cut it ;
off from the distant South, and produced a spirit of hope

lessness among the inhabitants of all classes. The clergy
under the Governor Martinez Baeza, in 1636, the strife broke out with greater
violence. From the documents in my possession, dating from the years 1635 to
1639, I must, however, conclude that the Governors Don Francisco M. Baeza
and Don Luis de Rozas were in the wrong ;
that the former especially was in
principle opposed to the Church as protector of the Indians, and that while the
Custodian, Fr. Cristobal de Quiros, was a very energetic and even naturally
violent man, he was fundamentally in the right. Many of the colonists were on
the side of the clergy, and the tumult broke out in 1642. When Governor Rozas
was murdered, he was in prison for Residencia, a fact that
speaks strongly
against him. The assassination was charged upon the Franciscans, and
by that
bitter enemy of all regulars, Bishop Palafox, whose difficulties with the Jesuits
were then at their height. appears that the Franciscans were afterwards
Still it
fully exonerated. Real Cedula al Virrey de la Nueua Espana, en Racon dc las

Cosas Tocantes al Lebantamienfo del Nueuo ATexico, July 14, 1643 (MS ) also ;
Ynforme del Yllustrisimo Senor Don Juan de Palafox Obispo de la Pnebla, al

Conde de Salvatierra, 1642 (MS.). That such dissensions contributed greatly
to the uprising of the Pueblos is openly asserted by the Provincial Fr. Pedro
Serrano in his Ynforme al Excmo Senor Virrey Marques de Cruillas sobre la
Custodia de el Nuevo Mexico, 1761 (MS.), and hinted at by Fr. Antonio Camargo,
Carta Patente, 1717 (MS.), by Antonio Bonilla, Apuntes Hist6ricos, 1776 (MS.),
and others.
1
This is very evident through the circulars of Custodians, to some of which
I have already referred.
could not remain exempt. Although nearly all of the priests

who served in New Mexico during the past century were
born and bred in Spain, they went to the Southwest as into
an exile.
1
"Lasciate
ogni speranza." No military protection
anywise adequate could be given, for Spain was exhausted,
and weary of maintaining empires from which it derived
2
only sacrifice to itself. Thus began a decline, from which
the intellectual progress of the Indian suffered correspond
ingly. During the Mexican Republic, matters grew worse,

for the Indian traits of segregation and intertribal strife
displayed themselves as soon as the bond of unity imposed

by Spain was forcibly removed, and with such tendencies
neither church nor school can prosper. Therefore I say that
the intellectual development of the Indian has suffered a
decline, not from its primitive condition, but from the height
Nearly all the New Mexican priests, up to this century and the establish
1
ment of the Mexican Republic, were born Spaniards, and educated in Spain. I
have a copy of the Libra en donde se asientan las Vidas de los Padres Misioneros
que obraron en el Nue-ô Mexico (MS.). Unfortunately it is only a fragment.
Of seventeen priests whose nativity is given, only five were American born.
2 have already alluded to the utter defencelessness of the colonists. The
I
number of actual soldiers maintained in the Southwest was correspondingly
insignificant. The garrison at Santa Fe was usually one hundred men, and of
these a great number had to be campaigning all the time. At El Paso del
Norte there was another of one hundred troops.
"
Presidio "
In Sonora, there
were not over three Presidios. At Parral there was one. The Brigadier Pedro
de Rivera bitterly complains about the insufficiency of means of protection, in
his Inform e del Estado de las Misiones de la Campania en las Prwin das de
Sinaloa y Sonora (MS., 1727). Similar complaints were uttered by Don Jose de
Berrotaran, Informe acerca de los Presidios de la Nun<a
Vizcaya {Doc. para la
Hisiona de Mexico, second series, vol. i., 1748), by Don Pedro Fermin de Mendi-
nueta, Carta sobre Asuntos Militares (MS., 1772), by Antonio Bonilla, Apuntes
f/istoricos, and others. On the other hand, we cannot overlook, in addition to
the general exhaustion of Spain, the fact that New Mexico, for instance, was
nothing but a constant drain on the Spanish resources. The Crown never
received one iota of remuneration for its efforts to hold the province, and main
tained possession of it finally for no other purpose than to erect a barrier against
the northern hostile tribes for the protection of the more valuable southern
regions of Durango, Sinaloa, and southern Sonora and Chihuahua.

which it had reached under the first impulses of Christianity

and of a wise and well regulated governmental discipline.
The present Indian of the Southwest, objectively speaking,
is a result of all those various agencies that played a part
in his education under Spanish rule. After this long intro
duction, the picture which I intend to present of him as he
is now will become more intelligible, and I hope more clear
and concise.
II. CHARACTERISTICS OF EXISTING TRIBES.
I cannot pretend to speak with any assurance of Indian

tribes which I have not personally visited. Therefore I shall
make but briefmention of the Yaquis, Pimas, and Seris of
Sonora ;
of the Tarahumares and Conchos of Chihuahua of ;
the Moquis, the tribes of the Colorado River, and the Mari-
copas of Arizona and of the Yutas, who occasionally wander

;
upon New Mexican soil.Since the beginning of the labors

of the Bureau of Ethnology, many of the southwestern tribes
within the United States have been earnestly investigated,
and a mere reference to the works of Captain John G.
Bourke, U. S. A., on the Moquis and Apaches, and of

Dr. Washington Mathews, U. S. A., on the Navajos, is per
haps of more intrinsic value to the student than additional

confirmation of the results obtained by them through any
assertion of mine. In regard to Linguistics, I hardly need
recall the valuable labors of Albert S. Gatschet. Of the
work of Mr. F. H. dishing I shall have to treat at length
further on. Although from each other, fre

mostly distant
quently out of communication through the force of circum
stances, I may well affirm that our results can hardly be
separated that since I formed his acquaintance I have
;
scarcely discovered anything about the aborigines while re-

siding or travelling among them to which my attention had

not been called by some observation of his at Zuni, or which
did not subsequently find its equivalent in the complete
picture of indigenous life which his material will present
when placed before the public.
The Jovas and Eudeves of Sonora I have not met, and I
am led to believe that they have almost, if not completely,

disappeared as a tribe. The same might be said of the
southern Pimas and of the Opatas. Having, however, spent
a short time among the Opatas, I shall be compelled to treat
of them separately. The Mayos, or southern kindred of the
Yaquis, can be referred to together with them.
It is impossible as yet to give any reliable idea concern
ing the number of Indians in the Mexican States of the
Southwest. The assertion in regard to the Yaquis, for in
stance, that they are nearly thirty thousand strong at this
day, is but an estimate. The Department of Statistics at

Mexico is collecting data with the greatest activity, but the
difficulties in its way are enormous when the work concerns
tribes which, like the Yaquis,have been, not only practically
independent, but openly hostile to the government of Mexico
for many years. It was easier, in fact, for the Jesuit mis
sionaries of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to make

a census of these Indians, than it is now. As to the Opatas
and Pimas, they have become so thoroughly merged into the
Spanish or Creole population, that it is not possible to sepa
rate the pure blood from the Mestizo. The Seris are nearly
inapproachable in their island homes. The same may be said
of the wild half of the Tarahumares of Chihuahua, whereas
the settled portion of the tribe and the Mansos of El Paso
del Norte have intermingled with the whites, although the
former but slightly. The Piros of Senecu remain not intact,
for intermarriage with Mansos, Tiguas, Apaches, Sumas, and
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. 2\\
\J
Janos has modified their blood still they at least dwell by

;
themselves, and an approximate estimate of their numbers

is not impossible.
I have not at my command any recent reports on the
condition of the Mayos and Yaquis of southern Sonora.
Orozco y Berra published in 1864 some notice of these

tribes. But rather than follow that author, who has not
professed to enter into more details than were indispensable
for his specifically linguistic purposes, I shall avail myself
of the statements of Jose Francisco Velasco, a man who was
eminently fitted for the task with which he had been officially
intrusted, that of preparing statistical notices of Sonora, and
who united with knowledge of his State an equally
a thorough
deep acquaintance with Indian nature in general, and the

various causes that have affected it.
Velasco says of the Yaquis :
-
Their industry, such as it
"
is, consists in the fabrication

of woollen blankets or covers, with which they protect them
selves against the cold. These blankets are very densely
woven, and in color black and blue. In general, the Yaqui
appears endowed with good natural faculties of perception.

With very slight efforts he masters any kind of mechanical
trade or profession.
"Their character shows much firmness, or rather obstinacy.
Nobody can induce them to reveal secrets, or any of their

projects. Not even Free Masons are so reticent in respect
to their mysteries. Time and again they have suffered death
rather than disclose what they did not wish and
to divulge,
this is one of the many points of advantage which they have
possessed in their rebellions.
The Yaqui has usually no other ambition than to eat
"
and to obtain for himself a shirt and a pair of white trousers,

for his wife a Rebozo and skirts, while his children go
naked, or with a simple breech-clout called Sapeta, consist
ing of a rag which covers the loins, with its ends tied to a
girdle or string around the waist. He is much given to

festivities, and generally of a merry disposition, often shout
ing while he walks. At night, if they are not tired out, they
dance their dances, the Pascola, the deer dance, the Tes-
guin, or the dance of the Coyote. Naturally suspicious and

rude, it is difficult to dissuade them from any preconceived
notion, especially they believe they have been abused by
if
anybody. This more

especially the case in regard to
is
whites, towards whom they harbor a distrust characteristic

of the antipathy existing between the races. Indeed, their
customs, actions, and manners are so distinct from ours, that
even their gait is different. There are of course exceptions,
since some of the Yaquis, who have been raised among whites
from childhood on, enjoy our mode of living and sympathize
with us.
"
Their complexion is usually bronze; they are well formed,

the women rather buxom and of middle height. In some
of the pueblos females are found who are very white and
handsome they are children of so-called Coyotas, or daugh

;
ters of a Spanish father and an Indian mother. Their lan
guage is easy to learn, free, and susceptible of being reduced

1
to grammar and rules."
Further on the same author proceeds as follows :
44
All the customs of the Yaquis are the very opposite of
ours. From childhood on, they are inclined to theft, addicted

to drunkenness from all kinds of fermented liquors, are
in the highest degree sensual, and gamblers. Social inter

course with whites they shun, although they crave the wages
which the latter are willing to pay. As for rendering any
service, or doing anything out of generosity or gratitude, it
1
Velasco, Noticias E statisticas del Estado de Sonora, pp. 73 et seq.
is out of the question. In their villages, only such whites

are tolerated as foster their vices and passions, and even
these are very few they treat ;
them with the utmost sus
picion, and upon the slightest pretext they are despatched.
Although some of them speak Spanish, they always address

the whites in their own native idiom, well aware that the
latter do not understand it, and when chided for this dis
regard, they laugh or stammer some few broken words. Of

conjugal fidelity they are not careful at all, interchanging
wives, or, if their spouses run off with another man, they pay
no attention to it.
"
Notwithstanding all these defects, we must render justice

to them by saying that they are the laborers or laboring class
of Sonora. They are its miners, its farm hands, its artisans
for the construction of buildings, as well as for all classes
of mechanical work. And so it is in the higher arts also.
They play the flute, the violin, the harp, and the guitar,
although they never have received the least primary instruc
tion. Many of them, after having been for a short time only
in the employ of a mechanic, be it a blacksmith or a car
penter, know these trades as well as their master. Had

this tribe received, under the Spanish government, the educa
tion proper to its aptitudes, and with a view of elevating them
morally and intellectually, they would now be, instead of a
source of incalculable evil, highly useful to themselves, as
well as to us. In what they undertake they display firmness
and consistency, and in war they are very bold."
1
No better picture could be presented of a tribe which, after
having been set on the right track in early times of Spanish

colonization, deflected from it afterwards during the period
of decay. A relapse into ancient customs while in possession
of the material and intellectual advantages brought to them
1
Ibid , p. 78.
OF -
by the first educators, could not fail to produce the strange

admixture, the singular compound, of old and new, of good
and bad, which here is attributed to the Yaquis. Similar
but less marked characteristics are attributed by the same
author to their cousins, the Mayos. The latter always were
more pliable, less hostile and ferocious. But they are de
scribed as equally lazy, and as practising the same simple
arts as the Yaquis.
Velasco gives no estimate of numbers with any pretence

to exactness. He merely says, that at his time (about 1850)
there were probably not over three thousand warriors, if as
many. This would give a total number of ten thousand

souls. He states that their numbers are declining consider
ably, "be it from the vicious and abandoned life they are
leading, or from the ravages which contagious diseases are
making, or from their carelessness in chronic diseases, or
from the prevalence of syphilis, or finally from the number

of those who have perished in the constant rebellions." 1
It not be amiss to compare the remarks above quoted
may
with those of another modern writer, Escudero, on the Yaquis
and Mayos.
"These Indians are both pleasant and tractable. They
have a lively, nay and natural brightness.
fiery imagination,
Although given to music and enjoyment in general, and very

fond of feasts and recreations, they are intrepid, bold, fero
cious even, in warfare. . . .
They are active and industrious,
which the degenerate and sybaritic tribes are not. In Sonora
and in Sinaloa they are the carriers, the field-hands, the cow
herds, divers, sailors, miners, gold-hunters, or explorers for
gold ores and placers. They practise all sorts of mechani
cal and manual work, since they usually show natural aptitude
for every kind of trade, office, and art of that class. They
1
Noticias, p. 78.
work with assiduity and persistence the whole year, in order

to gather some money. With their earnings they return
to the Yaqui villages for the Feast of St. John, when the
fruits are ripe, as we have said above. Among their customs
there is a very reprehensible one, that of the dance called
Tutile gamuchi (exchanging wives). At this dance, every
Yaqui who pretends to display good taste exchanges his

woman for another, just as the Spartans were wont to do,
in order to multiply and perpetuate their warlike stock.
Their favorite diversion is the spectacle of a lively clown,
who, if not ingenious, is at least malicious and satirical, and
who, during the time he is not talking, dances to the sound

of a fife and tambourine, and whose gestures and grimaces
amuse even those who do not understand the language. This
strange dance is called Pascol, it being performed with great
est pomp at the time of Easter. He who plays the part of
buffoon covers his face with a deformed mask. Rattles
hang round his feet, arms, and waist ;

and he holds another
in his hand, shaking it to the rhythm of the music. The
violinand the harp are very common instruments among
the Yaquis they play them with harmony, which proves their
;
taste for music, and also that this taste is not new among
l
them." According to Orozco y Berra, the Yaquis lived, in
1864, in eight villages, and the Mayos also in eight. 2

I have not been among the Seris. I am therefore compelled
to quote in regard to them such modern or comparatively
modern authorities as are at my command, without assuming,
of course, any responsibility in regard to their statements.
I begin again with Velasco :
Their clothing generally consists of pelican skins or of

"
a coarse blanket around the waist, the remainder of the body
1 Orozco y Berra, Geografia de las Lenguas^ p. 355, quoting from Escudero.

2
Ibid., pp. 355, 356. Velasco (Noticias, p. 84) gives the same number.
being left completely nude. They paint or striate their faces

with lines of black, and many of them perforate the bridge
of the nose and suspend from it pieces of green stones like
ordinary glass.
"
The women do more work than the men. They gather

the seeds of grass or other herbs, do the fishing, and sell
coarse pottery and the like. But the women, as well as

the men, spend whatever they realize in this manner in
liquor, the taste of which controls them absolutely.
They are tall, straight, and rather corpulent, with usually

"
black eyes. The women present not an uncomely appear

ance ;
their complexion is of a bronzed hue.
"
The dress of the females is also made of the skin of the
pelican with which they cover themselves from the waist

downwards. The rest of the body, the chest included, is
bare.
"
The Hermosillo, for the sake of charity and

ladies of
public decency, give to these women, whenever they come to

their houses, old garments, dresses, etc. These the Indian
females wear until they are completely rotten, for they do not
know how to wash.
This being very coarse, and the wildest and
tribe, besides
"
rudest one known in these parts, is at the same time the

most inconstant and most treacherous. Since the time when
the attempts were made at
first its reduction, not less than
l
forty uprisings have occurred."
In regard to the number of the Seris, Velasco states that
1
Velasco, Noticias, p. 131. Orozco (Geografia,
p. 354) says Feroces y :
"
salvajes ban preferido morir en guerra contra los blancos, antes que adoptar
la
sus usos y costumbres, perezosos, indolentes, se entregan con tanta pasion a la

embriaguez, que las madres clan con la boca el aguardiente a los ninos mas
pequenos. Son altos, bien formados, y las mugeres no carecen de belleza.
Es proverbial la ponzona con que envenenan sus flechas, por su efecto mortifero ;
componen el jugo venenoso con multitud de ingredientes, y anaden al confec-

tionarlo practicas supersticiosas."
it no time exceeded two thousand, and in his time it

at
reached not five hundred, among which sixty or eighty were
capable of bearing arms. He adds The Ceris are not :

"
polygamous, since they have but one wife still there is ;
much looseness in their matrimonial relations, and a good

deal of tolerance towards each other. The only worship
known to exist is that of the moon, which orb they respect
and revere as a god. At the time of the new moon they
kneel down and cross themselves, kissing the ground, and
l
beating their breasts."
Further on he quotes from a letter of Mr. Thomas Spence,
as follows :
"
The Seris Indians are tall, well formed, not very stout ;
the women are striking for their busts and for the smallness of
the feet, which are drawn in, and for the rather prominent
abdomen. After nightfall their eyesight is defective, which I
attribute to the reflection of the sun on the white sands over
which they more or less constantly roam in order to obtain
their subsistence, which consists of fish and other marine
products. . . . Their language is guttural. They are as filthy

in their appearance as in their habits, eating everything
raw, or at best slightly broiled. Life on the islands exposes
them to a thousand hardships, and yet they cling to it with
incredible attachment. They are always accompanied by
2
many dogs."
It is well known that the Seris now inhabit in part some

of the islands of the Gulf of California. In 1861, Charles P
Stone estimated their numbers at three hundred. He says
of the Seris :
"
They are of large stature, well made, and ath

letic. In war and in the chase they make use of poisoned
3
arrows, the wounds from which are almost always fatal."
1 2
Noticias, p. 133. Ibid., p. 169.
8 Notes on the State of Sonora, p. 19.
I regret not to be able to give more details, but, not having

visited them myself, I am limited to such printed information
as lies within my immediate reach.
The same I must say in regard to the Pimas of Sonora,
the Southern Pimas, or Nebomes. All I know of them is,
that as they have wellnigh disappeared

a tribe that is, ;
they have become Mexicanized." This

"
is the case with

the Opatas also. It would be very difficult to
distinguish
any of the numerous branches of this once powerful tribe
from the others, for they are fast losing their original lan
guage. During my stay in the Sonora River valley the
men who still spoke Opata were mostly old, and were
pointed out as relics, so to say, of times gone by. I was
assured that not more than twenty or thirty could be found

in the whole region, from Arizpe in the west to the fron
tier of Chihuahua in the east, who spoke the idiom with
any pretence to correctness, and I once witnessed a lively

and very amusing discussion between two of these proficient
old men over the meanings of the best known local names
in Sonora in the Opata language.
1
It showed me how far,
even in the approaches to the Sierra Madre, the Opata had

become estranged from his primitive condition and mode
of utterance. Still, there are traces of dialects. Thus the
dialect of Banamichi is positively stated to be very dif
ferent from that of the Upper Yaqui River at Guassavas,

Baserac, and Babispe. I was informed that there was a
difference even between the Opata of Banamichi and that
of Sinoquipe, although the two villages are but twelve miles
apart. I also noticed or was led to notice, a division into
1
This was at Baserac in northeastern Sonora, where the Opata language
is still occasionally spoken. My two informants hardly agreed on any name.
One of them, Gregorio Hernandez, was considered the be^t "Opata linguist"
and his interlocutor, Senor Dolores, as well up in the idiom.
" "
in the district,
original clusters, remnants of former tribal leagues, evidenced
by sympathies and antipathies, and, not long ago, by associa

tions of certain pueblos against others in the game of ball.
Thus Banamichi and Sinoquipe play against Huepaca and
Aconchi. Their former organization on the pueblo system
has been abandoned since 1858 still each village retains a
;
particular chief or functionary of its own, who is in posses
sion of the landed titles and valuable papers of the commu

nity, and who holds office for life or during good behavior.
In addition, there are the regular municipal officers ap
pointed according to Mexican law ;
but the former repre
sents, it seems, the "power behind the throne" which is to
be found in all Indian communities. How far this functionary
is alone, whether he has associates, and to what extent the

old semi-religious government peculiar to Indians is kept
up, I was not able to learn. Still there must be traces of it
left, else the Opatas would not cling with such tenacity to
some of their primitive dances.

In many places the Maso-da-ui, or Batespar, or Deer-dance,
has fallen into disuse. In others, for instance, below Babia-
cora on the Rio de Sonora, it is still
occasionally performed.
There is dance but one performer, who wears a deer-
in this
mask with its antlers he does the jumping and high stepping
;
called forth by the r61e he has to perform, and he does it to
the tune of a peculiar drum, consisting of a "Corita" or
impermeable basket (such as are made by the Papagos) filled

with water, in which an earthen bowl is placed upside down.
The rappings of a stick on this inverted bowl, floating as it
were on the liquid, produces the desired rhythmic noise. In
addition to the deer-dance, the Mariachi, an obscene round
dance, was performed, more particularly among the eastern
Opatas, those of the Upper Yaqui River at Opoto, Huachi-
nera, etc. It was also danced farther towards the heart of the
Sierra Madre, at Bacadehuachi and Nacori. It has been abol

ished owing to indecency. The dance that is still practised
its
almost everywhere among the Opatas is the Da-ui or Daui-na-

maca, which is regularly performed about Easter. Both sexes
wear on this occasion a sort of diadem or head-band of
braided corn leaves, covered with gaudy paper, and bearing
in front a medallion, with a figure of the sun for the men, and
of the moon for the females. A skirt of little canes strung to

a leather girdle, with small plumes depending from each cane,
is the most striking garment of the males. The women wear,
in addition to the diadem, their best suit in the hand they ;
carry a long staff with colored ribbons, and an intricately

tressed ornament made of wheat-straw, common also among
the Zunis and the Apaches of New Mexico. The men carry
a rattle painted white with red dots. Some of the figures of
this dance are very elegant, but it would take too much space
to describe them.
Next to dances, the games are the most common diversions.
The Ua-ki-mari is rather a foot-race than a game of ball, for
the runners toss the ball before them with their toes, and the
party whose Gomi "

"
(or ball of a certain kind of wood)

reaches the goal first is declared the victor. As stated be
fore, village plays against village. The Maynates or captains
of the runners are important personages on such days, and
what is evidently primitive, and shows besides that there is
a religious import placed upon the ceremony, is the fact that
they formerly used to gather the evening before at a drinking

bout, smoking at the same time the fungus of the Mezquite
(called in Opata
"
To-ji ")
in long and big cigar-like rolls.
The game of ball, or foot-race, is not the only one played
in common. Of like sort is the Ua-chi-cori, or
"
Shindy,"
as it is called in this country. The Patol, or Quince, is
rather a social game, played on the street often. In all of

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UNIVERSITY
these games are rudiments of a religious observance, and

the game, as well as the dance, is more than a diversion ;
it is symbolical, often regarded as prophetic even. Dance

and game are, among the Opatas, the last remains of a creed
which is now almost extinct, or at least has disappeared from
the surface. Vestiges of it are still preserved in other direc
tions, as in the belief in witchcraft and in auguries of all
kinds. The wild and sinister cave of Vay-mo-da-chi, in the

mountain fastnesses between Huassavas and Bacadehuachi,
not many decades ago, was still the resort of Indians for the
purpose of performing ancient rites and incantations. The

owl is not more beloved by the Opatas than by other tribes
of the Southwest, and the crow favorite. is
Eagle plumes no
are prized for
bodily decoration, and as well as buzzard
feathers are worn at some of the dances.
In dress and mode of life the Opata has little to distinguish
him from the poorer class of originally Spanish settlers. His
features also are not, as a rule, particularly Indian. He fre
is bearded and wears a moustache. Still
quently he, although
reluctantly in most cases, acknowledges himself as having
been once, at least, an Indian. I heard the
complaint made
by old men who still spoke the language, that the pres
"
ent generation would not be Opatas any more, but regarded

themselves as Mexicans." Under such circumstances it is
very difficult to investigate the traces of primitive faith and
belief, and still more difficult to find original traditions. And
yet have picked up some of the latter, mostly local tales,
I
and even one or two mythological ones. I propose to give

some of the local tales in the archaeological part of this
report proper ;
the others will be mentioned when I come
to treat of Southwestern tribes in comparison with their
more southerly congeners.
That the Opatas, when at war, took (and perhaps would
16
to-day take) the scalps of their enemies can be inferred

still
from what I said about the tribe in the second part of this
Report. scalp-dance was described to me by several of
The
their number, and they assured me that it was still danced
but a comparatively short time ago, the constant wars with
the Apaches furnishing good opportunities for it. The cere
monies of this dance appear to be very similar to those
practised by other Southwestern tribes. The trophy was set
on the top of a high pole, and the women opened the dance
by throwing ashes at the men. The man-killer, that is, the
warrior who has
himself secured a scalp, wore a distinctive
ornament, a red scarf of cotton, and a badge consisting of

a cord or band of buckskin, from which depended a small
wallet of the same material, with tassels and pieces of iron
that rattled while he was dancing. 1 Since the establishment
of peace the scalp-dance has not been practised. It is likely
to fall into oblivion, as has been the case with the cere
monial rabbit hunt, which occurred in May of every year,
and which has been abolished but recently.
The Opatas have but few industrial arts at present. Weav
ing with the primitive loom consisting of four stakes placed
in the ground is almost totally abandoned. The pottery of
the Opatas of to-day is uniformly reddish in color. They
build the vessel in coils as do the Pueblos of Mexico, New
smooth while damp, paint it
it with red ochre and burn it
mostly small kilns, sometimes also in dung-heaps, in the

in
centre of which the vessels are placed. Their system of
1
is the equivalent of one worn to-day among the Pueblos
This ornament
of New
Mexico by the man-killer, Matalote
"
Um-pa among the Queres).

("
It is his badge of honor, and does not belong to him but is intrusted to him
to be worn only at special rites. I saw a similar badge that had been found
in the cave dwellings on the Upper Rio Salado in Arizona. The material was
different from what it is among the Pueblos, being made out of Yucca fibre or
cord.
agriculture and their implements are those common to the
interior of Mexico, except that they use some foreign im

ported tools, which are, though extremely slowly, taking the
place of the old.
To give a census the Opatas proper is very difficult,
of
nay, impossible, for the reason that statistical data are as

yet uncertain, and the still more potent reason that it is
not possible to determine where the pure Opata begins
and the Mestizo ends, and vice versa. That the population
of many localities has diminished within this and the past
century is beyond doubt. Constant revolutions, and espe

cially the relentless warfare made upon the house dweller
by the Apaches, are the chief causes. The devastations by
these fiends have been most terrible in the settlements bor
dering upon the Sierra Madre, and the church books of the
parishes on the Upper Yaqui and beyond, of Huassavas, Ba-
cadehuachi, and Nacori, present ghastly lists, year after year,
of the victims of the roaming and murderous foe. In Sonora
as well as in New Mexico, under Spanish Mexican rule, the
advantages of weapons were all on the side of the Apache.
They have had, since about 1846, the advantage of obtaining
fire-arms from the northern or Anglo-American sections of the
Southwest, just as the Comanches during the eighteenth cen
tury enjoyed the same advantage from the French settlements
in Louisiana and in the Mississippi Valley. The Apache
alternately robbed on Mexican soil and bartered the plunder
in the United States (Arizona and New
Mexico), and vice
versa. As
soon as he crossed the boundary line into either
of the two Republics, he felt safe from pursuit from the
other side. All this has been changed, by treaty, only within
recent years. But the Apache was wily enough to nurse
another source or outlet for his ill-gotten gains. He raided
Sonora in the most merciless manner, and bartered the stolen
horses and cattle at Casas Grandes or Janos in Chihuahua.

Certain parts of the latter State enjoyed relative security from
these savages, but upon Sonora he had no mercy. Since the
uprising of 1829, these savages have displayed a hostility
towards Sonora that has been the greatest calamity to that
State. I cannot treat here of the Apaches as former resi
dents of Sonora. Since 1830, their abodes have always
been temporary, occupied only as long as it was safe to
stay within the State and prey upon its inhabitants. The
deep canons south of Huachinera, the formidable Sierra de
Teras, the heart of the Sierra Madre towards the solitudes
Huaynopa and
"
of the Taraycitos, contained Rancherias "
but the marauders felt safer, on the whole, on the fhihuahua

than on the Sonora side of the extensive mountain chain.
There they could barter the plunder (gathered in western
Sonora sometimes) with impunity for bad liquor and other
necessaries of
"
life."
I must now cast a glance at the aborigines of Chihuahua.

From
personal inspection Iknow nothing of the numerous
tribe of the Tarahumares. To my knowledge, I have never
seen one of them. They occupy Southwestern Chihuahua,
and are said to be of a very swarthy complexion, rather
well formed, and are divided into sedentary Tarahumares,
nominally Christianized, and wild or savage ones, living sepa
rate from the others, though in the same region. When
willing to work they are regarded as faithful laborers, and
they seem to be in that respect for Chihuahua what the
Yaquis and Mayos are for Sonora. A friend of mine liv
ing at Parral has had the kindness to gather some informa

tion concerning this tribe. I trust he will forgive the
liberty
which I take, in the interest of ethnology, of transcribing
here a portion of his letter to me on the subject :
It is a very large tribe, but scattered, and no estimate of

"
numbers can even approximate truth. I have seen quite a

number, small, wicked-looking, sneaking, cowardly, shift
less, and ill-clad (or rather not clad, for a bow and arrow and
a very small piece of a very small shirt seem to constitute
full citizens.
dress), tough-looking They live as they can,
plant a corn and potatoes, raise small herds of cattle
little
and goats, gather wild honey, etc., all in a very small way,
sufficient only to keep body and soul together. The tribe
is divided into two great sections or factions, Gentiles and
Christians, (for want of another name, I
suppose,) who are
distinct in their habits and ways of living, holding no inter
course with each other. The Christians are more advanced,
will mix with white people, and do some trading. Their
habit of living in villages (houses), and of election of officers
to govern the different pueblos, I should imagine, must be
similar to that of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. But
the are a different people, live in caves, scarcely
Gentiles
plant or raise anything, subsist mainly by hunting, and run

away on the approach of a white man. Very little is known
about them, and it will be most difficult to gain their confi
dence, or even to see them, they hide so effectually. But
they are harmless, and no violence need be feared, although
it is necessary to carry provisions as none are to be had in
their country. They only speak their own language, but

some of the head men speak Spanish. To
of the Christians
find out more about the Gentiles will probably be a long job,
as before you can hold intercourse with them you must in
some measure gain their confidence."
I place absolute reliance on the statements of my friend,

in as far as he speaks de visit. He is also very careful in the
choice of his informants, so that I do not hesitate to accept

the picture presented in his letter as substantially true. It
has confirmed an impression which I had conceived long ago,

that the Tarahumares should be made the subject of special
ethnological study. Under the present rule in Mexico, the

support of the Mexican government would not fail to be
given to an earnest and honest investigator.
Of the other tribes which, in the centuries past, occupied
Chihuahua, or at least roamed over a part of its surface, I
have no knowledge in the present epoch. The Conchos, the
Tobosos, and the Julimes seem to have disappeared, and I
have not the slightest doubt but that they have vanished as
tribes. The same is the case with the Jumanos, the Janos,
and the Jocomes. The last two clusters were certainly en
gulfed by the Apaches ;
of the first, I have found (since I
finished the second part of this Report) a trace dating as

late as 1855. They were then living in Texas, not far from
the Comanches, and the characteristic disfiguration of the face
through incisions which they afterwards painted, was noticed

by my informant, who traded with them
thirty-three years
ago. Whether the Julimes are not perhaps Jumanos, I cannot
determine ;
there are (as I have noted in the second part) in
dications to that effect, and it might not be impossible to find

traces of the Julimes yet in Chihuahua, although Orozco y
Berra includes the language among the lost idioms.
I have, however, become personally acquainted with two
small groups of Indians of Chihuahua, of whom hardly the
name is known outside of the district of El Paso del Norte
in which they reside.These are the Mansos and the Piros.
Of the latter, who dwell in the hamlet of San Antonio de
Senecu, six miles east of the town of El Paso del Norte, or
Villa Juarez, I can say that whatever may be stated here
after in regard to the New Mexican Pueblos (to whom they
belong historically and ethnologically) will apply to them in a
limited sense, that is, so far as may be true of a tribe reduced
to about sixty individuals. The social organization was kept
up in 1883, when I visited them. They had their officers,
including the so called Cacique, who was the pivot and main
stay of old customs. They even preserved the "mother," the
emblem of the soul, and they prayed to the mother of man
kind, whom the Pueblo Indians believe to dwell in the moon.
But the sacred emblem was hidden, for ruthless curiosity
had attempted to tamper with it. The Piros have preserved
their language, and some of their historical traditions. They
know that they are descended from the Piros who in the
seventeenth century and untold centuries before dwelt at
Senecu, Pilabo, Abo, and, as far as I can infer, at Tabira or
Gran Ouivira. They are reticent and timid, but in a longer
stay among them one would almost certainly discover fea
tures of considerable interest compared with analogous ones
among the northern Pueblos.
It is much more difficult to separate, among the descend
ants of the Mansos living to-day in the so called Barreal
(one of the outskirts of the newly fledged Villa Juarez), the

original Manso element from its admixture with the Tiguas,
Piros, Sumas, Janos, and other tribes who have married or
crept into the original blood of the settlers of El Paso del

Norte and founders of the Indian mission there. I have
been misled myself by not paying sufficient attention to
the numerous miscegenations (from the standpoint of tribal
integrity and purity of blood) that have occurred here. Still,

the Mansos of El Paso del Norte claim to be direct descend
ants of those whom Fray Garcia de San Francisco settled

"
at the
"
Pass in 1659. They recollect that their ancestors

were from New Mexico, and at a still earlier date came from
the North. They remember through the sayings of the
oldest men (folk-tales), that their people formerly lived in
huts of reeds and of boughs, that they were as wild as the
Apaches, and knew not how to dwell in houses nor how to

irrigate and till the land as they do now. They confess that
their present mode of life, their arts and knowledge of to-day,
are due to Los Padres On the other
"
"
and to the Spaniards.
hand, they recognize the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico as

their relatives, without, however, being able to designate one
particular stock as their ancestry. They have two so called
Caciques, and, as well as in other Indian villages, there has

been strife between them on the score of
"
legitimacy," the
second Cacique claiming to be more legitimate than the first.
This quarrel has lately ended by an elopement Cacique !
No. 2 (over sixty years of age) has fled with the spouse of
Cacique No. I (the lady is over fifty). The claim of legiti
macy rests on grounds which are quite instructive, and which
should be known to the future student of the Mansos. Ca
cique No. i is by descent through his mother a Tigua Indian.
His wife is a Manso. Cacique No. 2, however, is pure Manso.
Therefore the latter has, in his opinion, a just claim to the
principal office. This shows in the first place to what extent
the Mansos are intermarried with other tribes, and next it
proves that the peculiar functions of the Cacique (which I shall
hereafter explain) were so closely similar among the Mansos

and the New Mexican Pueblos that one of the latter could
officiate for the former. The dance on the feast of Nnestra

Senora de Guadalupe at El Paso del Norte, in front of the
church, is an ordinary dance of the Pueblos but the few ;
Indians who participate in it lack the accoutrements that

make of the dance such a weird performance among more
northern tribes.
At least four clans are still in existence among the Mansos.
They are the white, yellow, blue, and red corn people. There
are also traces of the water clan. The four colors of the corn
clan are very prominent among the New Mexican Tiguas,
and there is a possibility that my informant may have indi-
cated gentes of the Tiguas rather than gentes of the Mansos.
Still, there is no doubt about the existence of the clans among
the Mansos also. I did not have sufficient time to make

investigations about creed and rituals. But the formal re
ception to which I had to submit in the house of the first
Cacique showed, that, like the Pueblos, they know the six
sacred regions, as well as the seventh, which is the emblem
of the whole that sacred meal is, among them, in use for the
;
same purposes as among the Pueblos and that tobacco also ;
serves as a means for incantation and as an offering. Other

wise, the Mansos have nothing to distinguish them from the
lower classes of country people in Mexico. They still enjoy a
communal tract, have their governor (Tsham-ue-i-mere), whom
they annually elect, their war-captain (Tshere-hue-pama) and
callthe first Cacique Tsho-re-hue. That the sun is looked
upon by them in the double light of the orb and of a sacred
being residing in that orb, is hinted at in the words by which
they designate it, Hi-ue Tata-i-ue ;
and that the moon stands
towards a female deity is also indicated
in a similar relation
by the Manso term, Hi-mama Pa-o. The Mansos cultivate

the grape and make wine; they also fabricate pottery, some
times rudely painted.
These few details, some which need confirmation, are
of
sufficient, however, to warrant a closer study of the remnants

of the tribe while it is yet time. They are fast disappear
ing so far as they are Mansos, through intermarriage and

dispersion. In 1883 I heard the bitter complaint, on their
part, that they had no medicine-men (Shamans), and that

consequently they were unprotected. But they recognized
also, that, while most of the implements of their ancient cult
were gone, they would only have to apply to the Pueblos of
New Mexico in order to replace them.

That there is still one Suma Indian alive, I have already
stated. In consequence of the rule of descent, this individual

is indeed the last one of his tribe, as there are no females
left.
Turning from the Indians of Chihuahua to those of Arizona,
we meet, in regard the latter, at least with attempts at

to
giving their numbers as exactly as possible. Not that the

figures are absolutely reliable. To obtain their precise num
ber is practically impossible with Indian tribes, owing to their
reluctance to allow themselves to be counted. But repeated
endeavors, made in an official manner and under favorable cir
cumstances, have afforded means of reaching approximately

correct estimates. Thus, the total number of the Indians of
Arizona, excluding the Navajos, who are constantly shifting
over their extensive reservation from New Mexico into Ari
zona and back, is given at 18,000 about. Among these appear
the Papagos with 6,000. But this includes certainly some, if
not all, of the Papagos living across the Mexican border in
Sonora. The Papagos of Arizona are Pimas by language,
although with a dialectical variation. They are less agricul
tural than herding Indians, for the Papagueria is a barren
stretch, where water is scarce, and what there is better serves

to supply cattle and sheep and horses than to irrigate even
the smallest region of arable soil. The Papagos there
fore mostly dwell in so called Ranchos, not in villages, the
settlement at San Xavier del Bac, near Tucson, excepted.

There, as the Rio de Santa Cruz is conveniently near, there
are farming lands on the limited scale peculiar to Indian
agriculture. There also they dwell in adobe houses, which
is seldom the case in other parts of their hot and arid country.
They have their chiefs and spokesmen, their war captains,
and, above all, their medicine-men. The last are all powerful
within their sphere of action. The Papago is a fair Indian
Christian ;
he clings to his church, and also holds on to
according as he considers the one or the

his ancient beliefs,
other more suitable to hi* actual needs. But no outsider

should meddle with either. They are generally tall, strong-
limbed, and of dark complexion. They dress as much as pos
sible in refuse civilized clothing when outside of their homes
and in centres like Tucson, for instance, but at home the
aboriginal undress is common, and indeed the fierce heat

of the Papagueria is a fair excuse for nudity. Dances are
numerous among them, and carried on with barbaric display.
After the massacre of Arivaypa the scalp dance was per
formed with considerable pomp, and the few Apache pris
oners (mostly children) had to take part in the ceremony
where the trophies of their parents were triumphantly flaunted
by the murderers. The Papago is not as much afraid of the
Apache as other sedentar^ Indians. He is more accustomed

to their mode of warfare, and can travel, lie in ambush, or
wait in that unprepossessing country better than other In
dians, who have not been reared amidst burning sands and
shadeless rocks. As to their creed, I have had opportunity
to ascertain hardly anything. would seem that they have a
It
conception of the four cardinal points as mythic regions, and

a folk-tale, in which a great lagune appears that they had to
cross ere reaching the promised land in which they are now
scorching, in company with the people of southern Arizona

in Their burial customs can easily be observed, at
general.
San Xavier, for instance. The dead body is neither burned
nor entombed. It is enclosed, in a sitting
posture, by a rude
hut or bower, built of rubble or stones, and covered with a
primitive roof of branches. Whatever the deceased owned
and used during his lifetime is either placed with him or
heaped on his tomb. If a man, his gun or bow and arrows

are broken over the small house; if a woman, pottery is
fractured, perforated (killed as the Indian saying is) over it.

Ornaments, trinkets, plumes of various kinds, are added to

the other articles that shall accompany the departed one
beyond the limits of this earthly world. Wherever the fast
decaying roof exposes the inside of these funeral monuments,

we see occupant, shrivelled to a black skeleton, either
its
sitting with chest erect and knees drawn upwards, or the

frame of the body has already tumbled to one side and the
hideous face, muscles and skin shrunk to a distorted ghastly
mask, gazes upward eyeless, from amidst a heap of decayed
matter, or through strands of dishevelled hair streaming from
a shrivelled scalp. Although it is often stated that the Pimas
cremate their dead, the Papagos certainly do not.
The Pimas proper occupy the banks of the Gila River.
They live in small villages, extending from east of Riverside
to near Tempe, and also north of the Gila, on the delta be
tween this stream and the Rio Salado. The number of the
Arizonian Pimas is estimated at about 5,000, including the
Maricopas, which latter are of Yuma origin, although settled

near the Pimas, and intermingled and intermarried with
them. I believe this estimate to be above the reality. The
villages of the Pimas make some pretence
permanence. to
These Indians irrigateand they dwell in two

their land,
kinds of houses, one kind of which, at least, are far from
being unsubstantial, although at first sight they seem but

frail huts. A Pima winter house is round, and formed like
a beehive somewhat flattened, not a regular dome. Four
posts, supporting a rough frame of boards
or branches, form
the basis of this structure. Long poles, bent like quad
rants, are so placed as to meet above this rude platform, to

which they are tied. Hoops encircle the bows, and hold them
laterally. Over this skeleton, earth is placed. Sometimes a
layer of grass or brush is first applied to the frame. The whole

nothing else but one of the well known
"
dirt roofs that

"
is
can be seen in any pueblo building of New Mexico, with the

difference, however, that the dirt-roof of the pueblo rests on
a wall of stones or mud (adobes), whereas the Pima roof rests
on the ground, and forms a compact cupola-like shell. Com

paring this contrivance with what is left of the ceilings of the
ruin at Casa Grande, (claimed by the Pimas to have been one
of their former abodes,) one can scarcely help thinking that
the roof of to-day is a reminiscence, in composition, of former
prosperous times, and that only its shape has been modified
to suit a more humble existence.
Beside the winter house the Pima has his sheds for the
summer, equivalent in purpose to the Ranches" of the Pue
"
blos. For this he has used but the central four posts and
scanty roofing of the nucleus around which his more sub
stantial winter abode is reared. The summer dwelling has
therefore scarcely any side walls, and if there are such, they
are most primitive and temporary. Still, the whole family
reside there, in proximity to their crops. Another kind of
structure is the storehouse. This is square or rectangular,

and has a flat roof of similar material to that of the winter
abode.
The Pimas of the Gila River are rather a strong-built stock.
The men are often tall, the women not unprepossessing.
Their dress of predilection scant. is
striped close-fitting A
shirt,the breech-clout, and paint applied to the face in slender
stripes and dashes, or in a few arabesques on the cheeks,
satisfy them in summer, provided the side-locks are carefully
plaited in a long tress hanging down on each side of the head.

If attainable, a little bell, or a string of beads, or some gaudy
ribbon, or bright plumelets, are suspended to these strands
shaggy Helenas of the Rio Grande

that take the place of the
Pueblos, and are the equivalent of the bunches of colored

worsted, or rabbit fur, braided into the side-locks of the
northern Pueblo stocks of the Tehuas and Taos. The women

have the hair cut short over the forehead, like a prototype
of civilized
"
bangs."
A white chemise, a flashy skirt, neck
laces and collars, constitute the usual accoutrement. Chil
dren, as usual, wear no clothing whatever.

The Pimas are essentially an agricultural tribe. Their
wheat is noted for
good quality. They raise corn, beans,
its
and other vegetables, and originally planted cotton but this ;
staple has now fallen into disuse. They irrigate in two ways.
First, from the waters of the Gila through the usual "Ace-
quias,"
or ditches and in those sections where fertile spots
;
lie at some distance from the watercourse, and at the foot
of steep and forbidding mountains, they have dug rills or

channels from the dry gulches (Arroyos) down to their fields,
in order to lead the torrents rushing down these arroyos
after every shower into the cultivated plots. This is particu

larly the case where, as in the vicinity of Casa Blanca and
towards the Sierra Maricopa, rain sometimes fails for a whole
year. Showers flood the surrounding mountains daily dur
ing the months of July and August, but only the surplus
that the denuded and abrupt slopes cannot hoard floods the
bottom below.
The Pimas, so I am informed by my friend, Mr. J. D.
Walker (the best living authority on the subject of this
tribe) have the gentile organization. Thus, there is a buz
zard gens, Ni-ue Uom O-kai. Uom signifies offspring of
two sisters. This is indicative of descent in the female line.
There is gens of the coyote, or prairie-wolf, Pan.
also the
Nearly every village, so Mr. Walker informed me while

at his hospitable home at Casa Grande, has a separate
building, called Tyi-in Ki, or house of speech. They have

public criers called Amok O-tam (people of loud speech),
who publish everything officially in the morning, just as
among the Pueblos. Their officers are elected, but due

deference is given to the descendants of former chiefs,
provided they are capable. Some time ago there was a
central war-chief, which indicates the existence of a league
between the various villages. Now there is still a civil
chieftain called Ko-e, who has military functions besides.

In case he dies, an election is held, and the old leading
men who form the chief council select the successor.
Of arts and industries, the Pimas have not many, except
their admirable basket-work, which
is unsurpassed in
any
part of North America, and in which the Papagos also excel.
Among their baskets, the large Ki-jo, or carrying hod for
women, deserves neatly tressed of indige

attention. It is
nous twine, painted blue, or red, or in various colors, and has

the appearance of a large quadrangular funnel, each of the
sides of which is fastened to a long stick or pole. Only a
drawing could give a fair idea of this singular contrivance,
which is the peculiar utensil and head ornament of the
women. evident that the ki-jo serves as an ornament
It is
only incidentally, and as a matter of aboriginal taste, but it

is -mentioned as such in the tradition of Civano Ki (Casa
Grande), to which I shall hereafter refer.
Pottery manufactured by the Pimas, but although they

is
attempt to decorate it with colors and designs, the attempt
recalls the worst efforts of the New Mexican village In

dians in this direction. In comparison with ancient Pima
pottery there is a marked decline. This decline antedates
the sixteenth century. It must have been coeval with the
abandonment of house life in buildings of mud, and conse

quent impoverishment. Still, some of the decorations recall
well known symbols. The whirlwind or spiral is well de

fined, and some designs resemble strikingly the paintings
of the original symbol of the clouds made on pottery by
the Mansos and Piros of Chihuahua. Basket-work seems

to have supplanted, among the Pimas, elaborate display in
ceramics.
The Pimas have done good service against the Apaches.
They are able to cope with these formidable foes of se
dentary races. It was only ten years ago that a party of
Pimas ventured to visit the Apaches with the view of trad
ing. was a daring experiment, for the savages were in
It
favor of killing them at the outset. Better counsels, how

ever, prevailed, and a limited intercourse has sprung up since.
Formerly, as often as a war-party was organized, one diviner,
or shaman, of the kind called "
Ma-gi,"
went with it, and
in the nightly councils he took his seat at the extremity
of the arc of a circle formed by all present. The leader
of the party sat in front of the fire, facing the direction
whither they intended to move, a master of ceremonies
sat on the extreme left. The latter opened the meeting
with a chant in low measured tones, at the conclusion of
which a prominent brave rose, placed himself between the
men and the fire, facing the latter, and recited an ancient
song archaic language, called the Sava-nyo-kap.
in When
the ritual songs were sung, the chief spoke about the cam
paign, and finally called upon the shaman to foretell its
result. Every one present turned to the diviner, saluting

him according to the degree of relationship, and he answered.
At the close of his talk, he was again saluted in the same
way. This, says Mr. Walker, to whom I owe the infor

mation, is a common custom among the Pimas. They sa
lute each other before and after a speech or conversation
of any kind.
Of the religious beliefs of the Gila Pimas little is definitely
known. They have adopted the idea of one individual maker

of the earth, Tyo-uot A-mak, from Tyo-uot, earth, and Mak,
prophet, or shaman. This idea of a great prophet for the

is a Christian importation most
earth assuredly, and due to
the influence of the Jesuits. Together with these reminis
cences, there strong belief in witchcraft, and at
exists a
least two of the secret orders or societies which Mr. dish
ing discovered at Zuni are found among them also. The

medicine-men proper, called in their
language Say-tyo-kap,
hold secret meetings at night and in the mountains, and are
said to be a fully organized body. The Maki, or diviners
or prophets, appear to correspond to the Ka-ka of the Zunis,
and the Ya-ya of the Queres, or the highest class of wiz
ards, those who include in their knowledge the sum and

substance of all the others. One of the Maki accompanies
war-parties, as above stated, but he may send a substitute,
in which case one of the medicine-men goes along ;
a fur
ther analogy, as we shall hereafter see, with the customs
of the Pueblos. In place of the sacred or medicine bowls
of New Mexican villagers, the Pimas use sacred baskets
adorned with appropriately painted with designs
plumes,
resembling developments or variations of Pueblo symbols.
Of the traditions of the Pimas, so far as communicated to
me by the authority stated, I shall speak in the archaeo
logical section of this Report. There is among them a tale

of a local flood, and they have quite definite recollections
about the Vip-i-set, or great-grandparents, and Ho-hok-om,

the extinct ones.
The Maricopas are usually included among the Pimas,
for they are allied with them, owe their salvation and sur
vival to the assistance which the Pimas in former times
lent them against the Yumas, who were threatening the

Maricopas with destruction, are intermarried with them,
and the children speak both idioms in most cases. The
Maricopas make pottery similar to that of the Pimas, and
17
have very analogous customs. Still they are a Yuma tribe,

and as such belong to another linguistic group. I have not
seen the Yumas, neither have I been able to visit any of the
Colorado River Indians, such as the Mojaves, Cocopas, etc.
The number of all these Indians of Yuma stock on Ari-
zonian soil was estimated at one thousand in 1881, and, as
they live on both banks of the Colorado and shift occa

sionally from one side to the other, I leave them out here,
referring the reader to the publications of the Bureau of

Ethnology and to the works of Mr. Albert S. Gatschet
on the subject.
Neither have I, as yet, visited the Moquis. Here also
I must refer to other sources, such as the publications of
Captain Bourke and of the Bureau of Ethnology. The

Moquis live in six villages, called, respectively, Gualpi, Si-
chomivi, Mishonginivi, Shipauiluvi, Shimopavi, and Oraybi.
These are the villages that may be regarded as specifically
Moqui, or Shinumo, as the Moquis call themselves. There
is a seventh one, Tehua, situated on the most easterly
promontory of the much indented Mesa system, that bears
the habitations of the Moqui tribe but in this village
;
the Tehua language is spoken, and its people are mostly

Tanos, who retired thither at intervals after the reconquest
in and have preserved their language, as well as the
1694,
customs by which Pueblo tribes are locally differentiated.
Even among the other Moquis there is a sprinkling of
New Mexican Pueblo blood Tiguas, Jemez, Zunis, Queres,

:
etc., as well as Navajosand Yutas, have married into their

tribe, or settled among them. I call attention to these
mixtures, since they influence customs as well as creed.

Myths one tribe filter into the folk-lore of another,
peculiar to
becoming in course of time assimilated in distorted forms.
Even idols are adopted from outsiders. In addition to this,

there must be elements of Christian origin in the beliefs

and rites of the Moquis. They were not subject to Chris
tianity for a century without absorbing at least some notions,
however faint these may have become since, and however
misshapen. So
with agriculture and
it is industry. The
flocks of the Moquis, and their orchards of degenerated
peach trees, are due to Spanish importation. In iSSi, the
Moquis were counted at 1,813 souls all told. This includes

of course the Tehuas.
It would appear to be the place here to treat of that
most numerous tribe of the Southwest, the Navajos, or, as

they call themselves, Dinne. But, properly, they should not
be separated from the Apaches, or N De, and as I intend
to devote to these a few pages towards the close of this
section, I prefer to consider the Navajos on the same occa
sion. This naturally applies to the Arizonian Apaches also,

White Mountain Apaches. I may only
called state, that the
numbers of the latter were, in 1881, given at 4,578, whereas
the aggregate of Navajos occupying northeastern Arizona
and northwestern New Mexico was estimated in the same
year at twenty-one thousand. These figures seem to be as
correct as can be obtained.
Leaving aside for the present the aforesaid numerous,

but rather erratic tribes, I turn to the Pueblo Indians of
New Mexico. The transition is natural from the Moquis
to them, since the Moquis are, in habits and customs,
legitimate Pueblos; that is, village Indians, dwelling in
houses of stone and mud. The linguistical position of

the Moquis is better defined than that of the New Mexi
can villagers have been recognized as Numas or
; they
Shoshonees, whereas the Pueblo idioms await yet the sen
tence of philologists in regard to their true position among
the languages of the continent.
The aggregate number of Pueblo Indians on New Mexican

soil, in 1887, was figured at 8,337. These are divided into
five linguistical branches :
Tiguas, Tehuas, Queres, Jemez,
and Zunis. The relative strength of these groups, and the
number of villages occupied by each, are as follows, beginning
with the northern extremity :
Tiguas of the North, villages of Taos and Picuries .... 485

Tehuas, five villages, or rather six, although one (Pojuaque)
is next to extinct San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso,
:
Nambe", Pojuaque, and Tezuque 88 1

Queres, eastern branch, on the Rio Grande and Rio de Jemez,
five villages Cochiti, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, Santa
:
Ana, and Cia 2,030

Queres, western branch : Acoma and Laguna *>734
Tiguas, southern branch : Sandia and Isleta 1,142

Jemez (with the remnants of the Pecos included) .... 518
l
Zuni, one village i>547
This census is not absolutely exact. The population of
San Ildefonso, San Felipe, Nambe, Acoma, and especially of

Santa Ana, is certainly underrated, whereas that of Laguna
appears to be in excess. This is not the fault of the officers
so much as of the Indians. At Santa Ana, for instance,
the people are unusually suspicious about being counted,
and there, as well as at Nambe, it is next to impossible
to obtain correct figures. There is too much superstition
1
It may not be out of place here to give the aboriginal names of these
different villages :
.
Taos, Te-uat-ha. Picuries, Ualana, also Ping-ul-tha.

San Juan, Jyuo-tyu-te Oj-ke. Santa Clara, Ka-po. San Ildefonso, P Ho-
juo-ge. Pojuaque, P Ho-zuang-ge. Tezuque, Te-tzo-ge. Nambe, Na-im-be.
Cochiti, Kot-ji-ti. Santo Domingo, Ki-ua, San Felipe, Kat-isht-ya.
Santa Ana, Ta-ma-ya. Cia, Tzi-a. Laguna, Ka-uay-ko. Acoma, A-ko.
Sandia, Na-fi-ap. Isleta, Tshya-ui-pa.
Jemez, Uala-to-hua ("Village of the Bear," and not a corruption of Valladolid,
as Mr. Loew has imagined).
Zuni, Hal-on-aua.
among the Indians yet. Still enough is positive to show that
the Queres is the most numerous, and the Jemez the least
numerous stock ;
that Zuni the largest, and Pojuaque the
is
smallest village ;
and that the Pueblo Indians have remained
about the same in numbers since the great uprising of
1
I680.
In the whole number of Pueblo Indians above given,
there are 4,068 males and 4,269 females, of all ages. The
number of children between the ages of five and sixteen
is 2,101. The proportion of males over eighteen years of
age to the whole number of souls is as i to S^V This is
a further confirmation of the scale which I always adopted
in estimating the population of a tribe from the number of
warriors given, when no other criterion could be obtained,
i
namely, :
3^.
It is rather difficult to treat of the Pueblo Indian, an
thropologically, as a special stock, basing conclusions upon
the features, etc.,of the Pueblo Indian of to-day. We ought
to consider that, for instance, the Indians of Zuni have
largely intermarried with and plentifully absorbed Navajo,
Tigua, and Jemez blood that the people of Nambe are a
;
compound of original Tehuas, of Navajos, and of Jicarrilla

Apaches and that at Santa Clara the Yutas, at San Juan
;
the Yutas and Apaches, and at Pecos the Comanches, have
According to Rivera (Diario y Derrotero, p. 32), the number of Pueblo

1
Indians in 1725 was 9,747. This included the Indians of El Paso, who are,
of course, not comprised in any census made under the government of the
United States. In 1749, the number is given at 11,942. Relacion del Informe
de las Misiones del Nuevo Mexico (MS.). In 1793, it is stated at 7,455, from a
volume of Misiones in the Archives of Mexico (MS.). The anonymous report
entitled Certificaciones de las Misiones que son al Cargo de la Provincia del Sto
Evangelio de N. &= P. S. Franco de la Ciudad de Mexico, etc., 1794 (MS.), was

9,495. Allowing for inevitable inaccuracies, it results that the Pueblos have
neither increased nor decreased within the past two hundred years to any
noticeable extent.
assiduously contributed to the propagation of the species.

Jemez is more than half Navajo, and one of their leading
men, whom unsophisticated American Indian-worshippers
are wont to admire as a typical and genuine Pueblo, the
famous Nazle, was Navajo by birth, education, and incli
nation. The same was the case with Toya, the popular
Pecos chief. He was a full-blooded Comanche. Such mix
tures should be taken into account by anthropological investi
gators. They have had their influence upon language, and,

in a certain sense, upon customs. In addition there is a
large proportion of quarter, half, and whole Spanish blood

in the Rio Grande villages. To regard the Pueblos of to
day as anything else but a
mongrel breed, physically speak
ing,would be a grave mistake. It is also quite unsafe to
assume that all the words and phrases of Pueblo idioms,
as spoken to-day, are original. Aside from the positively
established fact of the existence of archaic terms, which
the Pueblo Indian uses without knowing any longer their
signification, there are intrusions from various sources.
Thus, the Tehua has filtered into all the other idioms
through various words disseminated by the Spaniards.

Ko-ye for interior room, Ca-china forsymbolical dance,
Gua-je for a gourd or rattle, An-ta for the side-leather
taken from a buffalo-hide, are Tehua words adopted now
in almost all other Pueblo speech. It would not be difficult
to trace other terms to the Apache, Yuta, and Comanche

languages, and still others to the Spanish, as, for instance,
in Queres, Mero-nyi for melon, Motatza and Makatza for

the Spanish Muchacho and Muchacha for boy and girl,
not to speak of Ua-cash for cow, Vuro for donkey, and
the like. Even the Mexican Nahuatl language has left
positivetraces, through the Indians from Central Mexico

and the Spaniards themselves who brought them to New
Mexico as their servants. Thus Chalchihuite is often used

in current speech in place of the Queres word Shyu-a-mo,
and the Tehua Cu-na; Tecolote for Cocope, Pichi-cuate
(sand-viper) for Yai Shru-y. The same has occurred in

dances. Not only have the various pueblos borrowed from
one another, (as, for instance, at Jemez, the dance of the
Chac-ui-na from Laguna,) but also from roaming tribes. The
Sar-it-ye Jia-re, or dance of the French, of the Tehuas, was

imported from the Kiowas. The people of Santa Clara
(Tehuas) to-day dance a variety of the eagle dance, bor-
rojved from the Yutas of Colorado. From time to time
we hear
"
of certain
"
medicines (charms) derived from

such and such a roaming tribe. The Osh-tzit-e (a pow
erful charm) of the Queres is ascribed to the Navajos, and
if we inquire for the origin of some specially striking jug- I
glery trick, we are not unlikely to be referred to the Nava-/

jos as its original performers. To separate the primitive
from the historically imported is already a very difficult
task, but to sift the mass of customs, of beliefs and rites,
methodically, and find out where each belongs in fact, is an

undertaking of herculean proportions. should be very We
cautious in every assertion concerning the Indian s arts,
habits, and creed, and never be sweeping in any of our
deductions, so far as detail is concerned. The facility with
which such details are adopted by widely distinct tribes
(geographically speaking) shows that they are adapted to
the ethnic degree of development of the peoples, and that
there is an underlying harmony in thought, sentiment, and
speculation among tribes within a certain compass. It
will not be through further ethnological studies

difficult
to establish that such is the case in both Americas, North
and South, and that aboriginal culture everywhere bears

the same character to wit, that of long seclusion and
;
isolation, brought about by natural causes, but as rigid and

inflexible as the type of seclusion ascribed to the culture
of China.
Among the Pueblos, those with whom I have more par
ticularly become acquainted are the Queres of the Rio

Grande valley, and the Tehuas. The Western Queres did
not escape my attention. I lived at Acoma for some
weeks, and have been to the much more recent village

of Laguna. In fact, I have visited every Indian village
of New Mexico, and improved my stay there, whether long
or short, for ethnological information. After comparing
notes with Mr. Gushing at Zuili in 1883, and since, I be
came satisfied that certain features would serve as guide-
posts among all these tribes, and furnish a key to the
understanding of their whole system of life, material as

well as intellectual and moral. To describe the variations
in detail from pueblo to pueblo, would become tedious, and
of practical value only in so far as a detailed local history
of each could be attempted. The main features are alike
in every New Mexican group.

Pueblo architecture still bears the type of that honey
combed communal agglomeration of many-storied dwell
ings, with the stones retreating like steps of a staircase
from the bottom to the top, by which it was character
ized in the sixteenth century, and which so many ruins
still display. Yet modifications are noticeable in many

ways. The Spaniard had already changed the small air
hole or vent to a larger opening, and taught the Indian

to close this opening with pieces of -transparent, or at
least translucent, mica or gypsum window-glass being un
;
attainable except with excessive cost and at great risk.

The Spaniard also introduced the door with hinges, gen
erally of wood, in place of the low and narrow doorway

protected by a robe or mat. At the present da.y, a fur

ther step has been taken the iron hinge, the moulded
:
door-panel, the modern window-frame with panes of glass,

begin to make their appearance in the pueblos. As a
consequence of greater security, the houses have more nu
merous entrances on the ground floor, and the antique
ladder has fallen gradually into disuse. For a similar rea
son, the number of the stories is diminished, and con
sequently the height of the houses. Taos and Zuni are

the only pueblos with four and five storied buildings, and
the former may be called the old-fashioned pueblo par ex
cellence, with its two tall houses sheltering the entire tribe
of four hundred souls. Acoma still may be called a regu
lar three-storied village, since almost every one of its long
buildings counts three floors, of which only the upper two
are inhabited. On the other hand, Isleta has lost the pueblo
character completely, and resembles a Mexican settlement
As a general rule, the single houses have become more
numerous and of less extent, while the rooms have grown
in size. As to the plan of the villages, it varies accord
ing to topography and surroundings. Since all of the pue

blos now extant (those of the Moquis excepted) date from
after the reconquest of 1694, the amount of insecurity to
which the people were exposed in the eighteenth cenUiry
guided them largely in their location of the houses.
1
San
Ildefonso forms a hollow quadrilateral Jemez, Santa Clara, ;
and San Felipe are each a double quadrangle with two

squares Santo Domingo, San Juan, Santa Ana, and es
;
pecially Acoma, consist of several parallel rows of houses

forming one to three streets. Zuni is in fact one gigan-
1
This is very clearly stated by Rivera, Diario, p. 33 Y dichos quarteles
:
"
estan los unos al frente de los otros, para que todos esten flanqueados y que los
cnemigos no puedan mantenerse en el intervalo."

tic building, very irregularly disposed, traversed

by alleys
and interspersed with several interior squares.
called streets,
Taos has two tall houses facing each other, one on each
side of the little stream, and communicating across it by
means of wooden foot-bridges. The material of which the
houses are constructed varies with the nature of the sur
roundings. Acoma is of stone and rubble ; Isleta, Santo
Domingo, and very often one
Cochiti, etc., are of adobe,
and the same pueblo, not unfrequently one and the same
long house, displays both kinds of material. The Indian
now mixes his mud with straw, and forms the bricks in
a rectangular mould. There are still occasional traces of
the ancient custom by which the women were required to
rear the walls, while the males attend to the woodwork,
that is, to cutting beams, poles, etc. The
and bringing in
roofs need no description, they have been described often
enough. Hewn, even sawed rafters, become more and more

common, although they still are exceptional, and where they
are used the ceiling is of planks instead of poles or brush.
The floors are invariably of

mud, mud often soaked with
blood and smoothed, which makes a tolerably solid floor.
Porches are not unfrequent, but mostly on the ground floor,
although the second story also has an occasional projection
for purposes of shelter and shade. Stables for the ani
mals are almost unknown. The so called corrales, enclos
ures of palisade-work reared on the outskirts of the villages,
one corner of which is sometimes covered with a provis
ional roof of poles and corn-stalks, are the only contrivance
for sheltering domestic animals indispensable about the
home. The majority of horses and cattle are
left to the
tender mercies of winter in the mountain gorges.

In addition to the dwellings, a pueblo contains two other
classes of buildings, the church and convent, or priest s
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. 26 J
house, and the estufa. The churches are sometimes la/ge,
nearly always of adobe, and the convents nearly always in

ruins since the missions were transferred from the pueblos
to Mexican villages. Not one of the pueblo churches, that of
Cia perhaps excepted, can lay .claim to real antiquity. 1 All
were built either in the last or the present century. There
is
always a low belfry with a rickety bell, cast in Mexico,
and a dingy sacristy appended to one side of the choir.
The ornaments inside are scant, a few of the paintings,
one of which was presented to each church by the King
of Spain after 1694, are still extant many have either
;
been removed by the clergy, in order to prevent them

from falling into the hands of ruthless American curiosity
seekers, or they have fallen a prey to the latter. few A
images, often the product of home industry and art, and
accordingly misshapen, a chancel from the last century dec
orated by native artists in a manner frightful to behold,
sometimes a ceiling daubed over with Indian and Christian
symbols mixed in dismal array, a bare floor, a cumbrous
sculptured wooden door, and windows with coarsely carved
wooden railing in place of frames, and no panes, these
constitute a typical pueblo church in New Mexico. On the
whole, these edifices fare no worse than the homes of the
aborigines themselves, considering the fact that the curates

often dwell long distances from their missions, and in more
central localities of their extensive parishes, and that the
2
Indian has to keep the temple in repair. The great size of
1
The Indians state that the outer walls of this church are those of the old
mission temple, which was reared previously to 1680. The church of Santa
Clara was first used in 1761, that of San Ildefonso is posterior to 1700; the
church at Zuni was completed in 1780, and so on.
2 The
duty of keeping the church in repair is one of the obligations of the
Indian parishioner. How they comply with it is shown by the condition of
the edifices.
the churches and the material of which they are constructed,

,
make it them in good condition.

quite onerous to maintain
There are localfrom pueblo to pueblo
differences some :
Indians are more careless and lazy than others. 1
The estufa is not kept in a better state of repairs than

the church, but it is easier to manage, since the building
is much smaller, and, furthermore, mostly underground,
therefore less exposed to decay. Not all estufas are cir
cular, and not all San Juan

are subterraneous. Those of
and Santa Clara, for instance, are rectangular and above
the surface, whereas in another village, inhabited by people.
of the same (Tehua) stock, the estufa is circular, and partly
underground. At Acoma, where the houses rest on the
naked rock, the estufas do not form isolated structures ;
they are merely chambers within the buildings, mostly on

the first floor, and distinguishable from the outside by the
long ladders from the hatchway, and serving

protruding
as entrances. At Zuni and Jemez the estufas are similar
to those of Acoma. At Taos the estufas are completely
subterraneous, the hatchways being at the level of the
ground. The number of estufas varies also greatly. In the
Queres villages of the Rio Grande there are invariably two,

at San Juan one, at Acoma six, at Taos seven, and so on.
The interior of the estufa, unless there is some ceremony
to take place, or after the performance of some rites, has
nothing peculiar. It is a bare room the usual floor shows ;
only a rude hearth, the hatchway above allows ingress to

the lower half of a tall ladder, whose end rests on the
floor about the centre of the apartment, and light pene-
1
Thus, for instance, the churches San Felipe, Cochiti, and Acoma are
at
comparatively in good repair. At San work done was performed

J*ian, all the
by the priest, Rev. Father Seux, at his own expense, and almost against the
will of the Indians, who, while they would not allow any outsider to touch the
edifice, still refused to make even the most indispensable repairs.

trates into this dingy chamber from above, or from one

or two side vents opened near the level of the ground
outside. The walls are usually whitewashed. Not a seat,
not a single piece of furniture, the hearth excepted, breaks
the dusky bleakness of the chamber.
Furniture, in a pueblo house, in the shape of chairs,
tables, bedsteads, wardrobes, etc., is a quite modern fea
ture. As yet, the majority of dwellings are poorly provided.
Many have still the coarse low stool, hewn out of a block
of wood, no table, or the low rickety toy-table-like con
trivance, fitting, in height, the primitive stool mentioned ;
in place of bedsteads, the floor, on which blankets, hides, or

a wool mattress, are spread every night a cord or rope
;
stretched across one corner of the room, over which gar

ments, ancient and modern, buckskin, and similar material,
are thrown weapons dangling from wooden pegs driven
;
into the white-washed wall, perhaps a dance-ornament or a

leather satchel concealing some fetich ;
this constitutes
the furniture of a pueblo room of to-day, with exception of
the inevitable and essential fire-place. There is no doubt
that the present form of the fire-place with a projection
of adobe or stone on which rests the flue, made either of
perforated jars placed one on top of the other and covered

with a thin coating of white-washed mud, ,or pieces of wood
laid and protected in a similar manner, or of
crosswise
regular courses of adobe bricks is also of Spanish intro
duction. The same is the case with the kitchen hearth

and its big
"
hat," sometimes occupying the entire width

of an apartment. Kitchen utensils are equally modest in
variety and appearance. Iron pots and pans are found in
most households, but the black olla," and the painted bowl, "
or
"
caxete," of aboriginal make, are still in general use, the
one for cooking, the other for serving the food. The
"
is used for
painted urn cr carrying and keeping
"
tinaja
drinking and the huge

water, round-bottomed tinajon
" "
for storing grain and beans. Forks, knives, and metallic

spoons are of recent introduction, as well as China cups,
saucers, and plates. The same is the case with a sporadic
"
looking-glass, and, for decorative purposes,

"
retratos (pic
tures). Representations of saints, on wood or hide or paper,
are looked upon with great veneration they hang on the ;
wall beside the wallet or sheath containing the fetich of

the hunt, or the idol of Ma-se-ua or Ke O-jua.
Some of the older Indians, as well as some of the younger
ones, can read and write. almost melancholy to hear It is
the tales of those who, in the third and fourth decade of

this century, were taught the first letters in the "
Pueblo
"
schools maintained by the Franciscans. Writing paper was

too scarce to be within reach of the teachers, so they covered
a wooden frame with thin sheepskin, suffered the latter to
"
dry, and afterwards "
ruled
this improvised parchment by
means which was sharpened to a point.

of a leaden bullet
Ink was also home-made: pulverized charcoal diluted in water

and fixed with saliva. A
deer prong, or the horn of a cow,
scooped out and fastened to a piece of plank, served as ink
stand. Turkey, or crow, or eagle quills were the pens.

With these contrivances the children were taught to write.
The catechisms, and the Arte de bien morir," were used
"
to teach spelling and reading. It was riot neglect nor in
difference, it was the impossibility of obtaining any better

materials except with enormous expense, and having them
transported to New Mexico through the ring of blood and
death that nature and hostile Indians had built around it,
which reduced the parish teacher of the Pueblo mission to
such indigence in utensils of teaching. At the present day,

schools have sprung up in nearly every pueblo, and there are"
large government schools Santa Fe, as well as

at at Albu
querque. It is yet too early to determine the value of these
institutions for the education of the aborigines.

The separation of the sexes in their dwellings having been
abolished during Spanish times, the Pueblo Indian is to-day
acquainted with home life and the idea of the family. Still
there is a trace left of the former division in the custom (at
least theoretically acknowledged) which makes the wife, or,
in case of a widower, the housekeeper, owner and master of
the house and whatever it contains, the personal effects of
the males excepted. Crops once housed are only to be sold
by the woman, or with her consent. This custom is indeed
not always observed, but it is certainly recognized. The man
who works the field controls the field the woman, who, ;
formerly at least, reared the walls of the house, controls the

house and what it
may contain. Nevertheless, there is a
great change in the customs of inheritance. The children

all inherit equally from the father, the wife can have plots
of ground and buildings of her own, and can will her prop
erty at her pleasure. This is not the primitive custom, by
which the sons took the plot which the father had tilled, and,
whenever that plot did not suffice, might obtain as much land
as they needed in the neighborhood of the village. In locali
ties where the area was naturally limited, each of the clans
held its tract of fields, and the male members had lots as
signed to them out of this tract. Now, the clan, while still
in full vigor, plays no part in the allotment of arable tracts:
whoever wants land applies to the tribal officials for a share

of the communal range, and this share becomes his own as
long as he works it. He can exchange it with or sell it to other

members of the tribe, but he cannot dispose of it in favor of
any outsider. The title to the four square leagues originally

assigned to each pueblo by the Spanish Crown is vested in
the tribe; and while that tribe may, through its officials au
thorized thereto by the male adults in a general meeting,
sell and convey the communal real estate, alienate it, and
give good and valid deeds to it, the individual cannot part
1
with his share except to born or adopted members of his
pueblo. Further, if he fails to cultivate it, or to have it
cultivated for thespace of a year, the tract reverts to the

commonalty, and is at the disposal of the next applicant for
tillable soil.
Marriage is still
strictly exogamous ;
the children belong
to the gens or clan of the mother, consequently the clan is,
in reality, the unit of pueblo

society.
The number of clans in each village varies. It is not
always easy, besides, to obtain fully accurate lists. I cannot

1
This is not in conformity with the accepted view in legal circles. It is
true nevertheless. In the first place, under the government of Spain, the
Pueblos were regarded as vassals, with all the rights and prerogatives of such.
Their position is generally confounded with that of the Indians on the so called
Reducciones," where a body of them was collected, and a tract of land specially
"
assigned to it as inalienable without the consent of the government. Such was

not the case with the Pueblos. They held the lands occupied by them by an
anterior right, recognized by the Crown, and the so-called Pueblo grants,"
"
subsequently made under direction of the King, were only limitations, or reduc
tions of a hitherto undefined expanse to metes and bounds. Under the Mexican
Republic the Pueblos were declared citizens, and as such (although the Indians
never consented to exercise their rights of citizens) the United States took
/them in charge. According to their ancient customs, the lands pertained to
/ the adult males, and what their representatives, the tribal government, decided
\in regard to the soil, was law. Minors and women did not come into play
at all.The plea that Pueblo territory cannot be sold except with the consent
of every member of the tribe, whether of age or not, is therefore of no force
whatever. The Pueblo custom is law for the Pueblo, and even the original
statutes of New Mexico have recognized this fact, by acknowledging the pueblos
to stand in the position of bodies corporate and politic, whose duly constituted
officers have the faculty of representing them in court and elsewhere. If there
fore a pueblo decides upon selling or bartering any portion of its territory, and
the adult males thereof empower certain .officers to do so, any documents signed
by the latter should have due validity. Unanimity of the male adults is, how
ever, indispensable, and such a disposal can in no manner affect the houses.
These, according to the old custom, properly belong to the females.
guarantee, for instance, the catalogue which I give below, of

the clans of those pueblos where I made special investigations
on the subject.
Taos, thirteen gentes. I obtained the translation of the
Indian names of but six of them, which are : the bead, water,
axe, feather, sun, and knife clans.
San Juan de los Caballeros, fourteen gentes sun, moon, :
stone, bead or coral, marten (?), earth, turquoise, eagle, painted
eagle, mountain tree (?), cloud, calabash, grass, corn. The

translation of some of these is doubtful.
Cochiti, at least thirteen :

sun, water, cottonwood, tur
quoise, panther, bear, calabash, Mexican sage, coyote, corn,

scrub-oak, fire, and ivy.
San Felipe, five :
tobacco, eagle, water, coyote, and one
the name of which I am unable to translate ;
and two which
are dying out, sun and ivy.
Laguna, fourteen gentes :

water, bear, sun, snake (rattle
snake), parrot, turquoise, coyote, eagle, pheasant (road-runner),
corn, antelope, badger, and two more, with names which I am
unable to translate.
Acoma, seventeen gentes :
water, eagle, parrot, yellow, red,
blue, and brown corn, bear,
1
sun, rattlesnake, pinon-eater,
calabash, ivy, antelope, pheasant, turkey, and one the name of
which I do not attempt to render in English.
Isleta, fourteen gentes at least : corn (white, yellow, red,
and blue), deer, antelope, bear, elk, sun, moon, water, eagle,
goose, duck. This neither complete nor absolutely

list is
reliable, except in such names as are common to most, if not
all, of the Pueblos.
Zuni, fifteen gentes: parrot, corn, badger, eagle, sun, deer,

bear, coyote, frog (or water), crane, grouse, turkey, yellow-
top plant, yellow-wood, rattlesnake.
1 The Sho-hak-ka, Picicorvus Columbinus.
18
Jemez : I obtained the names of but a few, among them

the eagle, the coyote, the corn, sun, and a bitter plant of the
genus dandelion.
However imperfect these lists are (and as such only I wish
them to be regarded) they reveal to us one quite interesting
fact ; namely, that, among all of the five linguistic stocks or
groups of which the Pueblos are composed, the majority at

least of the clans are the same, and bear the same name in
a distinct idiom. Also, that among villages of the same lan
guage there is more similarity than among others, and that

among the Pueblos who are locally close to each other, al
though the idioms they speak are distinct, there is still a re

semblance in the names of the gentes. Thus the parrot gens
is found at Zuni, Acoma, and Lagtma. The parrot is known
in every pueblo, and its bright plumes are sported in dances
and otherwise, but the parrot gens seems to be a feature of
villages west of the Rio Grande. Certain clans are found
everywhere, like the sun, water, corn, and eagle ;

the corn
divides, in addition, into certain colors ;

the coyote, and the
calabash or gourd or squash (all three names or terms be
ing practically synonymous among the Indians), are also very

frequent. In some pueblos there are distinct recollections
of such and such gentes having immigrated from another
place as, for instance, the clans of the coyote and the parrot
;
having come from Zuni to Laguna, and probably to Acoma.

In short, a close investigation of the gentes, much closer than
that to which I had to limit myself owing to insufficiency of
time and means, would undoubtedly reveal facts of local his
tory preceding the Spanish explorations and settlement.

The
history of the gentes is an equivalent of the genealogy of
families in civilized society. The Indian has, in his native
tongue, only a personal name ;

no family appellative,
there is
except in so far as a Spanish family name may have been

adopted ;
the man or the woman is called so and so, and
belongs to such or such a gens, by which he or she is recog
nized among the tribe.
Of the former authorities of the clans, and of the old men
whose gatherings composed the council of the tribe while
each one of them represented in particular one of the gentes,
there are hardly any traces left. Still, there are evidences of
the clan system in matters of government, and in this respect

the divisions according to estufas, prevalent among the Pue
blos on the Rio Grande, is instructive. The question of the
government of the single clans is, however, less important
than that of the tribal government, which I have now to
consider.
Onthe surface, this government consists of a set of officers,
annually elective, and playing the part of an executive, and

of a permanent council, whose decrees are the law of the
"
land," that is, for the village or tribe. We often hear of

another officer whose functions are represented as being of
a somewhat occult religious nature, and who is said to be
really the ruling in the pueblo.

power This is the Cacique,
whose true position has never been clearly defined. Thus
much is certain the Council (U-uit-yam in Queres) is perma
:
nent and its decrees are the law ;

the Governor (Ta-pop in
Queres, Tu-yo in in southern, Ta-bu-na in

Tehua, Ta-bu-de
northern Tigua, Ta-pu-pu in Zuni), the Captain, or War Cap
tain (Maseua or Tzia-u-yu-kiu in Queres, A-kong-ge Tuyo in
Tehua, Ca-ve-de in southern Tigua, Jum-bla-ua Dun-ana in
Taos), and their assistants, are annually selected (not elected)
and installed about the first of each year, and they are the
executive officers of the pueblo but the relative positions of
;
all these branches of government cannot be understood with
out intimate knowledge of the ancient religious organization

of the Pueblos as it is still kept up. Where that organization
is best known is at Zuni ;

and if I have succeeded in discov
ering some of its details among the Queres, the Tehuas, and
among the Jemez, it is owing to the advice and friendly guid
ance that I received from Mr. Gushing in that field of eth
nologic investigation. I cannot sufficiently insist upon the

fact, that what the work of the late Lewis H. Morgan has
been for the social organization of the Indians and their sys
tem of civil life, the work of Mr. Gushing is for their religious
organization and customs.
To the religious organization of the Zunis I shall refer only
so far as it presents analogies with that of the three tribes
mentioned, or interesting differences. To that of the Taos

and southern Tiguas (Sandia and Isleta), I can refer but in
cidentally, since I have not as yet had opportunity of pene
trating into their secrets.
Among the Queres, the typicalform of their religious
government and religious "Sociology" (if this term is per
missible) consists of four esoteric clusters, whose members
are selected from the standpoint of fitness, and educated by
degrees for the various tasks they are destined to perform.

These clusters or societies are :
The hunters, Shya-yak in Queres. They are fast dying
out, however, and have almost disappeared in several villages.
The warriors, called Uak-anyi, and, when they go on the
war-path, Na-uanyi Ko-sa.

The medicine-men, Tshay-anyi.
The Ya-ya, or mothers.
Each of these clusters divides into a number of branches.
Every one of the first named three esoteric groups cultivates

a certain side of life, and cultivates it with the specifically
Indian idea, that the spiritual and physical worlds are inti
mately linked, that the former rules the latter in its smallest
details, that inanimate objects have souls, or obtain them so
soon as they become subservient to mankind, or connected

with it, and that all these spiritual individualities scattered
throughout the visible world require careful attention on the

part of man in order to become useful to him, or at least to
prevent them from proving hurtful or dangerous. This doc

trine may be illustrated as follows. Every Indian is of course
a hunter by nature, inclination, and for subsistence, but only
those who own the charms and spells, the "medicine" (in
Indian speech) wherewith to subdue and overpower the spirits
of game, those only are Shya-yak. Every Indian must go
to war, but only those who have learned how to cow the soul
of the enemy, to lead him astray, and to make himself invul
nerable, are Uakanyi. Any Indian, male or female, can heal
and cure, but only the Tshayanyi possess the magic remedies
and charms which, while propping up the bqdy, are intended
to work either on the soul of the patient directly, or on the
soul that is attributed to the medicine also.

Such stereotyped in a complicated organization,
beliefs,
cannot be otherwise than exceedingly old, and their origin

must have been a succession of empirical discoveries, around
each of which a group of "
adepts,"
or "
such as had knowl

edge," gradually clustered, to perpetuate the discovery and
secure it to the tribe forever. At the same time, such an
organization cannot be
otherwise than very powerful. It
represents every branch of life in its relations to the super

natural, for whatever the hunters, the warriors, the medicine
men, cannot reach with their arts, the highest Shamans,
mothers, or Yaya, devote their life to secure.
The Yaya are a small group, and as only certain religious
functionaries can belong to them it results that their num
ber has a limit which cannot be exceeded. Thus there can
not be, among the Queres, more than six of them. These
are :
2j8 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
The Ho-Tshanyi, or principal Cacique.

The Uisht-Yakka and the Shay-ka-tze, his two assistants.
The Hishtanyi-Tshayanyi, the Shkui-Tshayanyi, and the
Shikama-Tshayanyi.
The Caciques is that of penitents. Their
office of the three
duty is dotopenance for the people. On every important

occasion they are called upon to pray and to fast, sometimes
many as four days and nights. Com

for a day, again for as
monly they are allowed to partake of a meal once in twenty-
four hours again, their nourishment is limited to a large

;
bivalve shell of corn-meal diluted in water, once a day.

full
On very strong fasts they must remain four days without any
kind of food, and also without sleep. The dignity of Cacique
is therefore one which
nobody expressly covets, for it is
painful and exhausting. The common saying is, and it is
true, that few caciques last long. The underlying thought
of these fasts is, that penance of this sort weakens the body,
and correspondingly frees the soul from physical fetters,
and brings nearer to the highest deities, who are purely
it
spiritual beings, and distinct from the fetiches, although

there are fetiches intended to represent some of them. An
other underlying idea is, that the greater the control which
one is able to exercise over his body, the stronger his mind,
and the more capable of discerning the will of those who
need no material form for displaying their powers. A third,
and perhaps the most common thought, is that penance is the
sacrifice most agreeable to the gods, since no human being
can bring a sacrifice greater than that of his own self.

To become cacique, long education is necessary. He
has to undergo a careful training in physical endurance,
and, above all, in knowledge of the main arts or artifices
peculiar to the higher branches of the three minor esoteric

orders. In addition to it, he must know what constitute
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the real secrets of his office. What these are, I am unable

to say. No cacique, unless he should be very depraved,
will reveal these secrets to any but him whom he looks
upon as his successor, and perhaps to his assistants. It is
to be supposed that these secrets consist of matters essen

tially unimportant, a few tricks and sortileges, and maxims
embodied prayers and traditions of historical value, which
in
often take at the present time .the form of incantations. The

end and object of all these performances are to maintain
peace and harmony among the tribe, so that the caciques
are, properly speaking, the keepers of the peace. It is often
suggested, when any question arises between a pueblo and
outsiders, to apply to the caciques for easy settlement of the
difficulty, under the impression that a word from them is

sufficient to determine the action. of the pueblo. It is true
that the caciques are also augurs or prophets, that they
consult the gods frequently, and communicate the answers
they fancy they have received indirectly to the people. Yet

it is futile to address them in any matter of strife and quarrel.
The peace-keepers are not allowed even to hear anything
calculated to disturb the harmony among their constituents ;
that is, they can hear of it, but without entering into any
discussion thereof. If the announcement is made officially at
a general meeting, the three caciques listen, and then retire
to watch and pray. Their word of warning is communicated
to the tribe afterwards, through channels sometimes outside
of the pale of religion.
Thecaciques therefore are by no means the monarchs "

"
of the pueblos, as which they are sometimes popularly desig

nated. They exert a great influence without any doubt,
but they .themselves are under control, and far from inde
pendent in their official capacity and position. In the first
place, the war captain is their warden ;

he invests them
with the dignity, and has the right to punish them in case
they are derelict or aggressive. Their selection is based

upon fitness, and in this respect the wish of an incumbent
often determines the choice of his successor. But not
only the war captain, the other Yaya also have their voice
it.
"in These three leading shamans are each the head of a
branch of the minor orders. Thus the Hishtanyi is also the
head shaman of war ;
the Shkuy, the chief medicine-man
of the hunt and the Shikama may be considered as the
;
leader of the shamans of medicine. All these offices are

for life, being based upon actual possession of secret arts
and "tricks," or during good behavior. The caciqueship
may be I am not yet positive hereditary in a certain
gens if this is the case, I hold it to be so only among
jjvbut
the Tehuas, and not among the Queres. We hear, in inti
mate intercourse with Pueblo Indians, of caciques ad inte
rim, until a legitimate one shall be old enough to exer

cise the functions of his office. This gives color to the
assumption of heredity; still, legitimacy in this case results

only from a choice expressed by the previous incumbent,
in which choice he is in no manner debarred from desig
nating his son as the one to succeed him. The duties of

a cacique are so arduous, so trying to the body, that only
a strong, or at least a hardy individual, and one trained
for the task, can expect to fulfil them and survive any
length of time. Besides, he must know a good deal, and
a child must therefore be educated for the purpose. This
education is conducted by the substitute, by the assistants,
by the other Yaya, and by the war captain. If, however,
accept the
"
the so called "
legitimate cacique refuses to
position, he is free to do it, and a new choice is made ;
almost always the Hishtanyi-Tshayanyi is selected, because

of his greater knowledge of the essential
"
secrets."
The cacique receives a compensation for his services.

In every pueblo in former times, and often to-day, a tract
of land is set apart which the community tills, attending
to it before all other tracts in spring, and housing its crops
first in The caciques are also exempt from work

autumn.
on the communal enterprises, like the irrigation ditches,
hunts, and the like. Of tribute I Lave not heard, unless
the rabbit skins gathered at the frequent rabbit hunts, a
festival-rite of great rejoicing for the whole village, which
are turned over to the great penitents, should be regarded in
that light, about which, however, I am not certain.
But still the caciques have the faculty of creating for
themselves a sort of income. Their fasting and interces
are not merely applied for in favor of the
"
sion general
public." Single individuals or families can and do ask their
intercession in case of illness or other woes. Such ser
vices are not gratuituously rendered ;
the official faster must
be paid for them, and many are the jars full of grain, the
pieces of buckskin, the shell beads and turquoises, that wan
der into the possession of the penitent for his treasured
"
work. This little outside business

"
allows the cacique

and family to lead a comparatively easy life, although,
his
on the other hand, he has a duty to perform which may

become onerous, although less so now than in former times.
Any stranger arriving at a pueblo may, if he chooses, apply
to the cacique for hospitality. Whether he be a Pueblo In
dian, or a savage, or a white man, the cacique must receive,
feed, and lodge him. This old custom is falling into dis
use but in theory it subsists, and the cacique cannot refuse
;
to receive the applicant, provided he has no relatives in the
village. Another duty of the caciques is, in case of war on

a large scale, to attend to the wounded. They are the sur
geons and nurses.

This is, so far as I have been able to discover, the role
of the caciques among the Queres, at least in theory, as the

Indian understands it. In reality, there are modifications,
often local, or temporary. Thus the three caciques, or
main cacique and assistants, are not found in every village.
To my knowledge, only at San Felipe. At
the set is full
Cochiti, until two years ago, there was but a cacique ad in

terim. Now the legitimate chief penitent has succeeded,
"
"
but there is no trace of the two assistants.

The caciques constitute, together with the three great
shamans, the heart and centre of religious life of the tribe.
The former have no vote in the tribal council, but the
latter occupy in that body a prominent position. The
Hishtanyi opens the council with a speech, and only after
his prayer is the real cause of the meeting revealed to
the assembly ;
the caciques retire.
thereupon Still this
archaic form not always rigorously observed, and I have

is
been present at councils where the cacique remained and

gave his opinion like the other members.
The Hishtanyi Tshayanyi the great medicine-man of is
war. He holds the Yerba del Manso, the pulverized leaves

and stems of which give strength to the brave and strike
the enemy s heart with terror. He paints the warriors with
powder of manganese ore, in order to render their appear
ance frightful and their bodies invulnerable in a measure.
He also has the "
medicine
"
that preserves peace among

the people and makes them "rich." He has a number
of other similar charms, too numerous to mention here,
in which the Indian implicitly is also the believes. He
head of a particular branch of medicine-men, and keeps
the time-honored- idols which, at a certain season of the
year, are taken from their sheaths, and exposed in the inner
private room of his abode, there to work beneficial results
for the
people. The Hishtanyi also must fast and do
penance, but only for certain objects, not as the caciques,
for general interests. He is a powerful doctor, and may de
rive considerable income from his cures.
The Shkuy is more properly the charmer of game, the
magician of the hunt. As such, his importance has rather
decreased since the great communal hunts are no longer
practised on a large scale, the rabbit hunt excepted. The
duties of the Shikama are those of a medicine-man of note.
But in case of extreme need, any of these may take a
prominent position without interfering with the domain of

the others. All of them may appear as oracles, although
the caciques are of course most listened to. The difference
consists in that the caciques are the regular intercessors for
the people at large, whose chief duty it is to sacrifice them
selves for the general good, while the other three have special
fields assigned them in which to promote, through sacrifice,
prayer, and incantation, the common welfare.
The influence of such a powerful organization on the
social and civil, not to say political, life of the people,
is very evident. Through the esoteric societies, creed,
belief, and fear pervade every household, weigh down on
every clan. Through the oracular utterances of the Yayas,
the popular mind is guided, and moves more or less ac
cording to the decisions of those higher powers whom the
Indian reveres and is in dread of. Whatever the council
decides, whatever the executive officers determine, is al
ways subject amendments from the upper world. Not

to
a single important step can be taken without consulting
first the invisible ones. Therefore the election of admin
istrative and executive officers is not really performed by
the delegates of the people. It is the caciques who choose
the governors, and propound their choice to the people for

ratification. And rare are the occasions when the people

do not accept blindly the choice of the chief penitents.
The annual elections are a Spanish innovation, to which
the Pueblos have submitted without yielding an iota of the
original principle of selection.

the higher offices of the religious organization were he
If
reditary, there would long ago have been danger of the forma
tion of castes and a change in the mode of government,
a theocracy first, a military and religious despotism next.
The separation of the family into two halves by exogamous
marriage excluded all thought of heredity and dynasty.
The organization of the esoteric clusters themselves, their
number, and the numbers of those who constituted them,

maintained the democratic principle in their midst, and ren
dered it impossible for one or a few to obtain more than
a temporary and transient power. In fact, individuals have
no power beyond that of the office which they fill, and only
so long as they perform their duties faithfully. There is a
check on every body and every dignity not a barrier arti ;
ficially raised through legislative enactment, but one uncon
sciously formed by the multiplicity of duties and faculties

of the various religious functionaries. All these hang to
gether, and yet they are on their guard against one another.
I have already observed that the cacique can be punished
in case of misdemeanor ;
he can also be removed if the
tribe so directs in general council, or if the war captain
or the leading shamans dispose. A degraded cacique sel
dom, if ever, lives long. There is too much danger in
suffering him who is in possession of the most precious

arts and knowledge to live while under a cloud. Shamans
who dispose of idols or sell secrets are also got rid of
in a similar manner. It is the war captain who, officially
at least, attends to such executions. But nobody except
a few initiated ones ever knows more than that the person
l
has simply "
died."
Among the Queres the war captain occupies a singular
position. He is annually selected by the cacique, yet he

controls the latter to a certain extent. It may be said that
he has him "
in charge."
This arises out of an old belief
which makes of the war captain the direct representative
upon earth of the divinity called Maseua, one of their chief
gods. Therefore the war captain s lieutenant is called Oyo-
Maseua s brother, another divinity of the Queres.
ya-ua, after
Although the Pueblos have been at peace ever since the
Navajos were repressed, war still remains theoretically their
chief duty and occupation, and the war organization is kept
up carefully. By the side of the captain and his assistant
there stands the Hishtanyi Tshayanyi as spiritual adviser
and magic aid. Whenever a campaign is organized, he goes
with the force, or sends one of his own cluster of wizards.
The war captain must take good care of this important per
sonage, and should any harm befall the shaman in an engage
ment, the day would be lost for his people.
The relative positions, rights, and prerogatives of the
governor and war captain are rather clearly defined. The
former is really an administrative officer, the latter a military
leader and "
sheriff." In matters where the council has

pronounced its sentence, the governor
the cap commands
tain ;
but in religious matters and matters of war, the war
captain is superior to the former. That the captain s office
is also a religious one is shown by the fact that, while
1
Early in this .year, 1889, an instance of deposition occurred, in which I
succeeded, however, in averting the final catastrophe. It is the second time
within nine years that I have been called upon to thwart a secret execution. The
number of people who disappear among the Pueblos for alleged offences, or for
misdemeanor, is much greater than would be supposed.
any of the great shamans who pertain to the Yayas can

become governor, the war captain is never, to my knowledge,
chosen from their number.
Among the Queres, the distinction is often made between
"
Principales," and "
Principales Grandes." The former are

always men who have once occupied the post of governor
or of war captain. The latter are the Yaya and two other
religious officers, less in power and rank, but still of con

siderable influence. These officers are the Ko-share Na-ua,
or leader of an esoteric cluster belonging to the medicine
men, intermediate between them and the Hishtanyi Tshay-

anyi, and called the K6-sha-re, and the Cui-ra-na Naua, or
leader of the Cui-ra-na.
The Koshare are well known to all who, in New Mexico,
have witnessed the strange spectacle of Pueblo Indian dances.
They appear in many of these under the form of hideous,
often obscene clowns or jesters, and they endeavor to pro
voke merriment by performances which deserve decided
reprobation. This is, however, but one side of their duties.
Their principal task consists in the furthering of growing
fruit, by urging it on to maturity through prayers and incan
tations. The Cuirana have similar duties, but their work

begins in spring, and the sprouting of plants is in their
charge. The Koshare are summer people, the Cuirana win

ter men. This division a very ancient one,
is so ancient
that its origin is reported as having coincided with the first
appearance of the Pueblo Indians upon this earth. Both

these groups belong to the medicine-men (Tshayanyi) also,
but they are yet in a manner distinct, since, while attending
to the art of healing and curing, they also make themselves
useful in matters of greater moment to the general welfare.
Therefore their leaders, or Naua, are counted among the
great chiefs (principales grandes}. We see that this term,
which we often meet with among other tribes, has nothing

to do with heredity of caste or office. None of the dignities
here mentioned are in the slightest manner hereditary; the
son may succeed to the father through selection on account
of personal fitness, but he has no birthright to the office.
That the Koshare, for instance, through their connection
with erotic features of life, can under given circumstances
exercise a great influence, plain they may momentarily
is ;
even outweigh the preponderance of the other Yaya, not

excluding the caciques, but they also find their check as
soon as their influence threatens to become excessive. The
Cuirana are less prominent, as the sprouting of plants has
not so many analogies in the life of mankind as the ripening
of fruit ; they are not obscene in their displays, and have

less influence on the public life of the tribe.
The religous organization thus sketched in its outlines (for
to enter into systematic detail would require much greater
space) rests on beliefs and creeds as detailed and systematized
as the organization itself. These beliefs have been gradually
evolved, and the bulk of them may be said to have resulted
from the formation of the esoteric groups, who, clustering
around discoveries of apparent practical importance, and mak
ing of such discoveries a profound secret, finally, in the course
of many centuries, lost sight of the physical facts. With
oblivion, mystery set in, the discovery became a miracle, the
miracle a god. Polytheism grew out of esoterism. Succes
knowing ones being through selection and
"
sion with the

"
education, and not by birth, the esoteric clusters recruited

themselves everywhere, and the beliefs grew common to all,
whereas the means to make these beliefs practically useful
remained in possession of an everchanging minority. Hence
the fundamental creed of the Pueblo Indian is the same for
all, but the details and the rituals are known only in sec-
tions, so to say, the Yaya alone holding the resnmt of the
whole.
The foundation of belief is
strongly materialistic. No
origin is thought of without the idea of sexual division being
associated with it. Wherever we find traces of an omnipo
tent God, a reminiscence of Christianity, as, for instance,
it is
the holder of the paths of our lives among the Zunis. The
primitive Pueblo creed is very much like that of the Nava-
which Dr. Washington Mathews excellently says
jos, N of :
"
It
v
Js a difficu.lt task to determine which one of their gods is
the most potent. Religion with them, as with many other
peoples, reflects their own social conditions. Their govern

ment is a strict democracy. Chiefs are but elders, men of
temporary and ill-defined influence, whom the youngest men
in the tribe may contradict and defy. There is no highest
chief of the tribe. Hence their gods, as their men, stand
1
on a level of equality."
This applies equally well to the
Pueblos.
Among the Queres, Pa-yat Ya-ma, the Sun-Father, and

San-at Yaya, the Moon-Mother, are apparently the most
prominent deities. -
It is not the sun which the Indian reveres,
it isthe spiritual being residing on or in it. That being is

thought to be a male. His consort resides in the moon, and
is called therefore the Moon-Mother. But I have not been
able to detect, as yet, any myth touching the creation of the
world. Creation myths begin with the origin of the human
species, and the earth is supposed to have existed already.

It is different with the sun. It seems that this luminary was,
according to the Pueblo Indian, made only after man had risen
out of the bowels of the earth to the earth s surface for when ;
the children of men came out upon the surface, it was dark,
1
Some Deities and Demons of the Navajos, American Naturalist, October,
1886, p. 844.
cold, and moist. Light came to them only when they pro
ceeded southward. With light came heat.
The conception of the Sun-Father at the present time
seems to be that of a deity in rather passive enjoyment of

the fruits of his labors.The Moon-Mother, however, is still
in daily activity. Every household has an emblem of her,
or rather a symbol of the thoughts of man rising to her in
prayer. This is the so called Yaya or mother, a bunch of

snow-white down, elegant in shape and quite tasteful. It
would seem as if the Moon-Mother were like an intercessor,

whom mankind implores to pray for them. But it is to be
noted also, that most of the prayers are addressed, not to
one divinity alone, but to several, another evidence of the
democratic nature of Indian mythology, reflecting the nature
of Indian sociological conceptions.
Almost more prominent than the two deities just named

are two personages whose names in Queres are respectively
Ma-se-ua and Oyo-ya-ua, two brothers, probably children of
the sun and moon gods. have already stated that they are
I
personified in the war captain and his lieutenant. They are

frequently addressed, and one of the chief -public dances of
the Queres, the A-yash Tyu-cotz, is mainly directed to them
now, whereas in former times it was rather in honor of the
Sun-Father himself. The home of these two mythological
parties is variously stated as the Sierra de Sandia, opposite
Albuquerque, and the mountains north of Cochiti. It is
believed that their meeting in the clouds causes the rain to

fall, so that these divinities might pass for the gods of the
winds were it not that the Shi-ua-na, or cloud spirits, dis

tinctly play the part of bringers of rain or fine weather. It
is
very unravel the complicated and contradictory
difficult to
mass of statements and stones concerning these two indi

vidualities. Certain it seems, however, that they are, among
19
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the Queres, the equivalents of Mai-tza La-ima and A-hu-iu-ta,

the divine and powerful twins of Zuni mythology. Of pic
torial representations of the two gods among the Queres I
have seen but one, a small figurine of Ma-se-ua. It repre
sents a man in squatting posture.
I am
unable to give the gradations through which the
higher idols, or gods, merge into the numberless fetiches.

Names like Sen-kuit-ye, and others, have been given to me,
but I cannot vouch how far these are distinct personages,
or synonyms for divinities already named. The Indian often
gives two or three or more titles to his idols, according

to the function he requires them to perform. Thus Pa-yat-
ya-ma merely designated by the name of Osh-atsh,
is also
or the sun. Yaya is not unfrequently called simply
Sa-nat
Ta-Uatsh, the moon. In addition to the obstacles thrown in
the way of the student by the reticence of the Indian on
religious subjects, (which reticence is much

greater among
the Rio Grande Pueblos than among the more isolated tribes
farther west,) the number of names given to one and the
same deity, and the different names varying sometimes be
tween one village of the same language and another, increase
the difficulty of reaching absolutely clear conceptions. Only
long residence with the Indians, and initiation into the high
est of the esoteric clusters, can overcome this difficulty. How
long, painful, and intricate it is to achieve initiation, the labors
of Mr. Gushing will establish.

The worship of the Pueblos cannot be termed element
worship. Mr. Gushing has admirably described that of the

Zunis :
The A-shi-wi, or Zunis, suppose the sun, moon, and stars,

"
the sky, earth, and sea, in all their phenomena and elements,
and inanimate objects, as well as plants, animals, and men,
all
to belong to one great system of all-conscious and inter-

related life, in which the degrees of relationship seem to be

determined largely, if not wholly, by the degrees of resem
blance. In this system of life the starting point is man, the
most finished, yet the lowest organism, actually the lowest,

because most dependent and least mysterious. In just as
far as an organism, actual or imaginary, resembles his, is it
believed to be related to him, and correspondingly mortal.
In just as far as it is mysterious is it considered removed
from him, further advanced, powerful and immortal. It thus
happens that the animals, because alike mortal and endowed
with similar physical functions and organs, are considered
more nearly related to man than are the gods more nearly ;
related to the gods than is man, because more mysterious,

and characterized by specific instincts and powers which man
does not of himself possess. Again, the elements and phe
nomena of nature, because more mysterious, powerful, and
immortal, seem more closely related to the higher gods than
are the animals more closely related to the animals than are
;
the higher gods, because their manifestations often resemble

the operations of the former." l
This is true also with the Queres, and exemplified in the
plainest manner through their symbolism. The symbols of

the Queres are the same as those of the Zuilis. The forked
line not only indicates lightning, but also the serpent with
forked tongue. The water has several symbols according
to the form in which it appears. As cloudy vapor, it assumes
the form of a double staircase, imitating the cumulus clouds
which rise from the earth to the sky, or a group of arches,
emitting rain streaks and lightning darts. streams, or As

water resting or flowing on the surface, it is represented by
the snake again, the snake with horns and without the rattle,
the Tzitz-Shruy, or water-serpent, distinct from Shruy, the
1
Zuiti Fetiches, Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 9.
292 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE,
rattlesnake. The Tzitz-Shruy the spirit of the watery ele

is
ment, the horn is its head-dress or symbol of spiritual power.

The symbolism of the Oueres is derived very plainly
entire
from natural phenomena. The spiral, double or simple, in
curves or angular lines, stands for the whirlwind the cross, ;
for the stars in general, and the white cross and red cross for
the morning and evening stars respectively ;

the tracks of the
pheasant (called road-runner), arranged in a circle, form a

magic ring around the object or person they surround and, ;
as well as at Zuni, certain animals symbolize certain regions

or cardinal points. There are local shades in this symbol
ism that constitute differences: thus, the colors attributed to
the six sacramental regions by the Oueres are not the same
as those attributed by the Tehuas or the Zunis.
It Mr. Gushing that we owe our knowledge of this
is to
division of the world into six quarters, designated by six
regions, which discovery is one of the most important recent

achievements in American ethnology.
north (Titya-me The
in Queres), the south (Ctiame), the west (Pun-ame), the
east (Han-ame), the region above (Ti-nyi), and the region

below (Chi-na), these are gathered together in the concep
tion of the whole. In the country of Zuni, the four quarters
or cardinal points are designated as so many mountains.
This is a purely geographical thought, derived from the na
ture of the country. From the Zuni basin, four prominent
heights indeed attract the gaze of man. Among the Queres,
it would
require special study of each village to determine
how far such striking objects have been used to designate
the four sacramental regions. It is likely to be the case
at Acoma, but the Rio Grande Queres are not surrounded
by isolated peaks to an extent to influence myths. It is well

from the sky,
"
to observe here, that "
above is distinct
"below" from the earth. The latter,

"
Ha-a-tze," is also
counted as a deity among the Queres, as well as among

the Teh aas.
Fettchism formerly reached, among the Queres, a degree
of development analogous to that which the Zunis display in
their creed, but the constant contact with the Spaniards, and
especially with the missionaries, has caused a gradual re
trenchment. Fetiches are not so common as they were, and
not openly displayed but they are the same, in the main, as
;
those of Zufii. I have seen the panther (Mo-katsh), the bear
(Ko-ha-yo), the eagle (Tya-me), and the wolf (Ka-kan). In

addition to these, I have heard of the lynx (Tia-tui), and on
sacrificial bowls have seen the dragon-fly, the frog, the fish,
and the tadpole. Of these four
"
intercessors of rain," I
shall speak more fully when I treat of the Tehuas, from whom
I obtained more definite information in regard to mythology
and symbolism in general. Notwithstanding a residence of
over one year among the Queres, I never succeeded in pene
trating their secrets more than partially. The village which

for this purpose would be the most important of all, Santo
Domingo, has closed its doors to me in consequence of one
of those errors which the novice in ethnology is liable to
commit, and which I committed at the very outset. To

gain the confidence of the Indian, good will, unsophisticated
sympathy, and the desire to learn are often the least effica
cious means. Neither is
money always successful. To buy
information is, on the whole, not a good plan. Only the
naturally corrupt among members of esoteric clusters will
speak for the sake of money. Others may express them

selves, but it is doubtful if what
they say is true. By the
majority, a tender of money is regarded as highly suspicious,
and as a confession of weakness on the part of him who is
so eager to penetrate the sacred interior of the Indian as to
part with his wealth for that purpose. Personal affection

2Q4 ARCH&OLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
and confidence, long residence, and evidences of absolute dis

interestedness, are the only means cf securing a hold on the
Indian, a hold which sometimes even initiation into the
secret societies does not afford. For among these esoteric
clusters the failings inherent to man, be he Indian or Cau
casian or African, cannot be eliminated. No society or kind
of association is able to exclude egotism and suspicion. The
adept in one branch is looked upon with distrust by the adept
in another; each is jealous of the other s knowledge, arts,
and tricks. Only the Yaya are, in a measure, above this ;
and yet what jealousy between the caciques and the shamans,
what rivalry between the Yaya and the war captains The !
same petty intrigues move

the childish circle of Indian society
that disturb civilized society and government, and they are
even more prominent in the former, since it is much more
limited in scope, and since every individual becomes more im
portant in consequence. I
say all this to give a basis upon
which to rest my description of Pueblo At the same
life.
time, I wish to account for the vague manner in which I
have to speak of many details. Subsequent students will do

better, but they should be acquainted with the difficulties
staring them in the face, in order to select a way by which
these difficulties may be avoided.
The cause ofreticence is mostly a natural trait of
this
character, resulting from isolation and from the division
of the family, brought about by the exogamous customs

of marriage. Or, rather, itdue to the imperfect consti
is
tution of the family. Where man and wife are separated

from each other by an insuperable barrier, man and man are
still less inclined to be frank. Absolute frankness is a thing
inconceivable to the Indian. In addition to this, secrecy
is imposed by the rules of the orders. And, lastly, though
its effect has not been so potent as commonly imagined,
the prohibition of a number of rites under the Spanish ad

ministration has contributed to the reticence of the Indian.
Still, it was not fear so much as a desire to separate from

each other what did not properly belong together that caused
the Indian to shroud his rites in the depths of the estufa,
or in the remote corners of the gorge and forest. He
shrinks, as everybody will, from suffering uninitiated ones
to see or hear what is specially sacred to him. This needs
no imaginary previous persecution to bring it about. It
is true that many of his dances have been strongly (and
justly) condemned as shockingly obscene many of his be ;
liefs assailed, and with justice, as being contrary to the

laws of humanity, let alone those of Christianity. But this
has not been so much the cause of his secrecy as the
education he has received for untold centuries, and which
enjoins the husband to conceal from his wife matters of

his own clan, brother from brother the secrets of their
relative esoteric groups. Unconsciously, the result of this

strange division, so multiple, so various, and so strict, has
become the best example of the workings of the dreaded
maxim, Divide et imp era. Only the dividing principle works

equally towards all ;
it subjects the whole to an inflexible
despotism of thought.
The Indian, with all his democratic institutions, in society
as in religion, nevertheless the merest, most abject slave.

is
His life is the best exemplification of what a many-headed
tyranny can achieve. Every step is controlled by religious

fear. He fancies himself surrounded
by numberless super
natural agencies, and the more formulas he has against evil,
the more magic he knows for producing good to himself,
the safer, not the happier, he feels. There is no thought
on his part of retribution in the future, that is, according
to his aboriginal belief. He firmly believes in immortality
of the soul ; but, as Mr. Gushing very judiciously remarks,

only after death does man become a finished being, therefore
a perfect one consequently there is no distinct place for
;
the good and the bad after death, except in as far as Chris
tian teachings have tinged his original creed. He believes
in hell, but as a Christian institution, and his soul after
death, and after having performed a journey of four days
and nights, goes to rest in the wonderful
"
estufa at the
"
bottom of the lagune of Shi-pap-u in the distant northern

regions of Colorado, there enjoy eternal bliss in the
to
The evil ones go to the

"
fold of
"
our mother (Sa Naya).

same place, or rather, according to the degree of importance
attributed to Christian religion, they either go beneath to
a nondescript locality called
"
el Infierno," or they wander

about adrift as witches or sorcerers. His conceptions of
what evil spirits imply, goes not beyond illegitimate witch

craft. As he fancies that the spirits of the good, of his
own dead relatives, for instance, return to his vicinity
floating on the wind, and he holds himself compelled to
feed them by scattering sacred meal or pouring it on the
water; so he is persuaded that evil spirits float about him,

and hold communication with the hearts of living persons
that are given to black magic. As I have already re
marked, his secrets, his incantations, are practices which,
having had once some empirical basis, have become distorted
in the lapse of time to tricks and juggleries. Many of his
"
most powerful medicines are really of no

"
other value
than as specimens of gross superstition. So it is with his
witchcraft. Plumes of the owl, of the crow, of the wood
pecker, tied to bundles and fastened sometimes to splinters
of obsidian, human excrements, black corn, bones, fungi,
wreaths of yucca, are among the most dreaded imple
ments of evil magic. And the Indian believes in their
efficacy for doing harm

provided the necessary incanta
tions accompany their handling as much as he believes
in the power of the panther fetich to favor the chase, or
of the frog fetich to provide timely rain, and in the power
of an animal dance to cast a spell over game, causing it
to fall an easy prey to mankind. But for all this elaborate
system of sorcery the Indian knows of no spiritual head.

Of course, at present, in conversation with our own race, the
Devil Diablo] is made answerable
(el but in his innermost ;
thoughts the Indian has no clear idea of what a demon or a

fiend is. The word Shu-at-yam means fiend, but in the plural,
and no chief incarnation of the evil principle. 1
Frequent sacrifices are offered in the pueblos, although

they are seldom visible. In general, the traveller or tourist
will hardly see any of these practices among the Oueres.
They will, with the strongest emphasis, deny the fundamental
portions of their beliefs to a stranger. Nevertheless, they
perform sacrifice almost every day, but in secret. The usual
form is strewing yellow corn-meal, first to the north, then to
the west, to the south, to the east, throwing a pinch upwards,

then directly downwards, and finally placing a pinch in the
centre as symbolic of the whole.
Prayer-sticks or prayer-plumes are still much in use. The

fundamental idea which underlies the use of these painted
sticks with plumes attached to them seems to be as follows.
The feather, plume, or down floats in the air, even in a
Shu-at-yam means any kind of bad spirit, be it that of a living man, or a de

1
mon, or a spectre that works ill to the human race. I have suspected, with what
degree of probability I cannot surmise, that it is a gradual corruption, in course of
time, of the word Satanas," the Spanish for Satan or Devil. I have not been
"
able to find in the older creed of the Queres any trace of a belief in an evil
power. This, of course, does not prove its non-existence as yet. But as to the
fact that there is no special place assigned to the bad ores after death, beyond
their flitting about in the air as witches or sorcerers, there is no doubt; and even
these have access to the place of bliss at the bottom of the lagune of Shi-pap-u !
still atmosphere, and is therefore to the Indian the em

blem of thought.
prayer A and often a sup
is a thought,
pressed sigh only, consequently the plume is above all the

emblem of the prayer. Were it left to float at will, it
might wander astray ;

therefore it is tied to the spot where
it is uttered by being attached to a stick. These are only
the rudiments of the prayer-plume system. Innumerable
details complicate it, details that have arisen in course of
time. The colors with which the sticks are decorated are
symbolical, and bear distinct relation to the colors of the
cardinal points, etc. The Indian deposits his prayer-plume
in shrines, or before rude painted altars in the estufas, as
an evidence of worship, as an intercession, or as a votive
offering, as the case may be. He still has another, a sim
pler way. Going out of his village or coming into it, he
breaks off a twig, or a blade of grass, or some dry branch,
and places it on the ground, and in order to secure it lays
a stone over it. Where one has placed his offering, others
are sure to add theirs in course of time, and this accounts for
the stone heaps that are often seen around the pueblos.
There another kind of sacrifice and prayer combined,
is
of incantation linked with worship, namely, the dances, the

religious character of which has seldom been recognized. An
Indian dance, a Pueblo dance, is not a diversion, like a
dance among our own race it is a sacrifice, an invocation,
;
an incantation, a religious performance. The number of these

dances very great, but the visitor sees commonly but a
is
the Baile de la Ta^blita," which is most often

"
single one,
1
performed on church festivals, though it is
fundamentally a
1
A good representation of the appearance of the dancers is found in
Captain Bourke s book on the Moquis, wherein he depicts a Santo Do
mingo (Queres) Indian in full costume. I refer to this work, as well as
to the Bureau of Ethnology Reports, for pictorial representations of the
paraphernalia.
practice of idolatry. The head-dress of the females

is espe
cially suggestive. Its triple pyramids, indented so as to pre
sent the appearance of a two-sloped staircase, symbolize the

clouds. The sun, the moon, the rainbow, are painted on the
boards from which the current term of Baile de la Tablita is
derived. The paint on the naked chests of the men is sym

bolical ;
the twigs of Pino Real," which their hands wave
"
during the dance, are sacred ;

in short, it is a remnant of
paganism, tolerated and softened to the extent of making its
appearance not too directly offensive. But many, nay, the

majority, of the other dances of the Pueblos are nothing but
incantations, displays of sorcery. Thus the animal dances,
the Tyame-ka-ash (eagle dance), the Moshatsh-kaash (buffalo
dance), and others, are only so many reminiscences of old

practices, when the spiritual power attributed to the eagle
had to be invoked for the benefit of the tribe, or the spirit
of the buffalo subdued previous to an expedition to the east

ern plains, for the purpose of securing the meat and hides
of the great quadruped. Such dances, like that of the deer,
mountain sheep, and elk, for instance, were also performed
for the sake of obtaining rain, or sunshine, or relief from
woes ;
and for these last objects they are still practised,
though communal hunts are in disuse, for, according as the
animal imitated, and, through its
representatives, subjected
to a charm, stood in a certain
apparent relation to the natural
phenomenon dreaded or desired, he is either subdued through
incantation, or appealed to as intercessor.
Among the more private dances of the Pueblos, there are
several from which the reproach of cannot
gross obscenity
be withheld. These are also
^highly symbolical, and they
furnish a deep insight into the real
conceptions forming the
bulk of what are called the religious ideas of the Indians.
It cannot be otherwise where duality in sex is regarded as
**
Essential to the idea of creation. There are other dances that
are chaste, that is, they afford no room for offensive displays.
But all are practices of magical import, sometimes performed
with but an indistinct recollection of their former significa
tion, frequently however with a definite purpose. Formerly,
the hope of injuring the whites through this sort of out-door
sorcery was indulged in any such hope still lurks,

; to-day, if
it is well concealed, and the dance is performed in secret.
But generally it is done in the belief that the rite will ben
efit the Indian, that it is a sort of medicine adapted to the
Indian alone, and whose blessings the white man is not
entitled to or capable of being benefited by.
Two dances are falling gradually into disuse, the war dance
and the scalp dance. Still I have seen the latter, or Ah-
performed
tzeta-tanyi, at Cochiti. The Umpa, or man-killers,
appeared with their badges, of which I have spoken as resem

bling those formerly worn by the Opatas in Sonora. Since
war no longer a necessity, or, rather, since the Indian is
is
restrained from making war at his pleasure, a restraint ori
imposed by the Spaniards and now resulting naturally

ginally
from the increase of foreign population, the man-killer
is rare. In place of him, the bear or puma slayers appear
in the scalp dance with the same honors. This shows in
1
what degree of estimation these beasts of prey are held by
the Pueblos. Since life is regarded as having its seat in the
blood, meat looked upon as the chief life and strength giv
is
ing aliment for man, and the large carnivorous beasts stand
nearest to him and on a footing of equality with him, on that
score.
Secret dances or frequently performed in the
rites are
/ estufa. Not always in the official estufas for certain occa- ;
\ sions, any larger room may be turned into a sacred place.

For the occasion only the estufa is sacred, and is specially
decorated with symbolical paintings, and so long as the occa

sion lasts the placeis respected. At Jemez, the decorations
have remained permanent, elsewhere they are obliterated very
soon after a festival is over. In this respect the estufa resem
bles the medicine lodge of other tribes. Between festivals
it serves as an occasional meeting place, although the assem
blies or councils are held at random in any conveniently large
room. Among the Queres of the Rio Grande valley, the two
estufas are named two of the most prominent clans
after : the
Turquoise, Shyu-amo, and the Calabash, or Gourd, Tanyi. On

certain dances, theclans assort themselves respectively in
these two meeting places. This appears like a rudiment of
the Phratries, or like survivals of them. Recently, that is,
since the beginning of this century, each of these estufas
seems to represent also a certain tendency, or what might
be called a party. Usually the people of Tanyi represent the

progressive, the Shyu-amo the conservative element. Whether
whether some religious concep
this division is accidental, or
tion underlies it, I am

unable to say.
Even games rest on some basis connected with ancient
creed and belief. The spring is the season when they are
most played. When foot-races are held, the tribe divides
into two parties. Story-telling is indulged in.only during
winter; it is almost impossible to get a Pueblo Indian to
relate folk-tales at any other season. On a journey he
may become talkative, but in the village the instances are

rare when an Indian opens his mouth during summer to
tell a tale of old.
They have a popular saying, that as
soon as the rattlesnake crawls out of his hole in spring it
is dangerous to tell stories, lest he who speaks untruth be
bitten.
In short, the daily life of the Pueblo Indian is a succession x
of performances that may be called religious, inasmuch as

they are intended to keep him on good terms with the

supernatural world. He
craves the good will of that world
for purposes of material welfare, not for his moral good, ex
cept so far as the lat,ter is visibly conducive to prosperity.

Therefore his existence is, in reality, a miserable one, in con
stant dread and fear of things and forces around him, whose
immediate connection with spiritual powers he exaggerates
or misconceives.
What I have said of the Queres applies in the main
to the Tehuas also. Having had special opportunities of
becoming intimate with the latter, I
may here add some
details concerning them.
In customs and manner of living, there is no perceptible
difference between the Tehuas and the Queres. But there
is this difference in costume, that, while the Queres only
tie their back hair in a short queue, most (not all) of the
Tehuas braid the side-locks with worsted or fur of some

kind. Otherwise the two tribes dress and display alike,
the same fondness for blending their original costume with
articles of modern wear.
The religious organization shows some difference. Thus,
in place of the three caciques, the Tehuas have in most
of their villages but two, one of whom is in service every
year from the vernal to the autumnal equinox, the other

from autumn till spring. The first is therefore the summer
cacique, called Pay-oj-ke, the other the winter cacique, called

Oyi-ke. Both are chosen for life or during good behavior ;
the former from the summer people, the latter from the
winter people. While on the whole equal in power, the
summer cacique is also called Po-a-tuyo, or cacique par
excellence, and he enjoys a certain pre-eminence over his col
league. This pre-eminence is explained as follows by the

Tehuas.
Their ancestors, they say, came out upon the surface of the
earth at a place called Ci-bo-be, now a lagune in Southern
Colorado thence they travelled south.
;
On their slow mi
gration they were guided by the two caciques, while the war
captains stayed on the flanks to protect the tribe. The
farther they proceeded, the deeper became the mud in the
valley in which they were travelling, and at last they grew

tired and refused to go farther, notwithstanding the pranks
of the Koshare whom
the gods had sent along to keep the
people in good spirits on the march. So the Pay-oj-ke per

formed an incantation for the benefit of the people but the ;
ground only grew softer, and the mire deeper, for his province
was that of summer warmth and moisture. Again he tried,
and matters became worse. Then
the Oyi-ke set to work
and used a strong charm, and the following morning a slight
frost had thrown a thin crust over the soil. This encouraged
him to increase the force of the "
medicine," and in the

course of a few days the earth was frozen hard, so that the
people could proceed on their journey. But the cold was

such that no vegetable or animal food was obtainable, and
the Tehuas hungered and thirsted, for the water also was
frozen. They therefore again applied to the summer cacique
for relief, who dispelled the charms of his colleague and
caused a thaw. Thereupon strife arose, and the tribe di
vided into two factions, one of which followed the Oyi-ke
to the great eastern plains, and subsisted upon the buffalo,
while the others, guided by the Pay-oj ke, came into the
Rio Grande
valley, where they built pueblos, and, after
numberless vicissitudes, were rejoined by their brethren,
who had become tired of a roaming life and were glad
to enjoy the benefits which agricultural pursuits, favored
by the arts of the summer cacique, offered to them. Since
that time the two have alternated in power annually but ;
the Pay-oj-ke is the superior in some respects, for he un

did once what the winter cacique had done, and further
more it is during his term that all plants that feed man
grow, and the game animals become fat for man to subsist
upon their flesh.

It is in consequence of this old tradition or belief that each
well regulated Tehua village is divided into the summer peo
ple, orPay-oj-ke, and the winter people, or Oyi-ke. If either
of the caciques dies, there is from one to two years mourn
ing for him, then his successor is chosen with the assistance
of the surviving colleague, or rather invested, for the se
lection has made during the
usually been lifetime of the
deceased incumbent. At Santa Clara it is the chief medi
cine-man of the hunt who has control of the election in
the case of the summer cacique and if at ;

the end of the
year of mourning he refuses to confirm the new officer,

the latter is rejected. I have some reasons for believ
ing that the shaman of war has the same privilege in the
case of the winter cacique, but am not yet positive of the
fact.
Whereas among the Queres the three caciques proclaim

the selection of the executive officers of the pueblo, among
theTehuas proceedings are different. The annual appoint
ment of these functionaries occurring in winter since the
royal decree of 1620, it is the Oyi-ke who selects the first
office, which is that of governor, or Tuyo the ; Pay-oj-ke then

names the war his colleague,
captain, or A-Kong-ge Tuyo,
the assistant governor ;
and so on alternately, until twelve
officers are appointed. The choice is then submitted to the
people, who
expected to accept
are it. The tribe
might,
however, reject it but such a case
;
is almost unheard of,
for they see in the decision of the caciques the
hand of
"
those above," and seldom refuse to bow to it.

Still not invulnerable, his person is not sacred

a cacique is
in the
eyes of
people. The judicial functions being
his
vested in other functionaries, the religious heads must bow
to these in turn. Not long since at Santa Clara the summer
cacique was arrested at the order of the governor, and, as he
resisted, severely beaten.Gross violence, however, towards
a cacique, is looked upon unfavorably, and the dissensions
that have disturbed the tribe for some time past are
supposed by many to be a result (or punishment) of this
high-handed action. True it is, again, that the cacique

thus ill-treated was never regarded as "legitimate." he
having been accepted by the people against the will of
the Pay-oj-ke, and against the protest of the shaman of
hunting.
Together with the two caciques, the Pato-abu, or highest
esoteric order, corresponding to the Yaya of the Queres
and the Ka-ka of the Zuriis, includes also the Tze-oj-ke,
or shaman of war; the Sa-ma-yo Oj-ke, or medicine-man
of the hunt, who controls the spirits of wild game; and the
Shikama of the Queres.
Tzi-hui, corresponding to the
have lately discovered among the Tehuas the existence
I
of another member of the cluster of Pato-abu." This

"
member is a woman. Her title is

"
Sa-jiu,"
and she wields
a great, though strict y occult power. The Tehuas are not
the only Pueblo Indians among whom this office of a fe
male chief exists. Mr. Gushing found it with the Zuriis.
It stands in close relation to the now in a measure
theoretical division of each village into six quarters, each
with its own chiefs, while a seventh division, at whose
head is a woman, represents the community as a whole.
This division corresponds with the six sacramental regions
which compose the Pueblo Indian world, and the fact of
a woman being at the head of the last one indicates the
idea of the womb from which the whole creation is thought

to have issued.
The the mother (figuratively or officially) of the
Sa-jiu is
Pato-abu, and therefore one of her titles is also

"
Pa-to-an."
Although personally acquainted with one of the Sa-jiu of

the Tehuas, I am far from being informed of the full at
tributes of her very occult office. One fact, however, has

been stated to me, which is at least curious, if not per
haps very important. The woman in question is the keeper,
in every village where the office exists, of a greenish liquid

(Ahuela Rana, a corruption of the
"
called Frog water,"
Spanish,) which the Indians use as an infallible remedy
against snake bites. That such a liquid exists cannot be

doubted. The Moquis, who yet perform, every two years,
the repulsive snake dance, in which live snakes of the
most venomous kind are handled \vith impunity, and with
out previous extraction of the fangs, keep the same liquid

and wash their bodies with it after, and also very probably
before going through their disgusting performances with
the dangerous reptiles. They are frequently bitten, but
the bite proves harmless. What the liquid is, I am unable
to tell.
The common belief in New Mexico, that the Pueblo Indians

keep, or at least kept until recently, enormous rattlesnakes
in their villages, treating them, if not with veneration, at least
with particular care, is not unfounded. Gigantic rattlesnakes

are killed now and then, animals of enormous size. One
of these, six feet long, was killed on the lower Rio Grande
last year. In 1884, a rattlesnake, the body of which I saw
myself, was killed at San Juan. It measured over seven
feet in length. Tracks of gigantic snakes, or trails rather,

have been met often. I saw a fresh one in the* mountains
west of Santa Fe that indicated a very large serpent. But
the Indians, though generally reticent concerning these facts,

have confessed to me that there exists among the Tehuas
a special office of Keeper of the
"
Snake." This office is
in near relation with that of the Sa-jiu, and under her

quasi control. Until not long ago (and perhaps to-day) eight
large rattlesnakes were kept in a house at San Juan alive,

very secretly, and it was the Po-a-nyu, or keeper, who had
them in charge. When the one that I saw was killed, five
years ago, the Indians of the pueblo showed both displeasure

and alarm.
It will be very difficult to obtain definite information on
this point, unless the snake dance of the Moquis is .thoroughly
studied, and the ideas underlying it become well understood.

The dance, the impunity, nay, familiarity, with
fact of that
which the most poisonous among the reptiles are handled

during its performance, as well as immediately before and
after it, show that the tale of enormous rattlesnakes being
kept secretly in villages is at least not improbable. Many
of the snake stories current in New Mexico are, of course,,
as little true as snake stories may be elsewhere, but the
discovery of the offices of the Sa-jiu and of the snake-keeper,
although the latter may in many localities have dwindled to
a mere title, gives ground for supposing that a belief existed,
and still in part exists, which causes the Pueblo Indian to
look upon the hateful reptile as useful to him from the
standpoint of his primitive creed.
By courtesy rather than by right, the leaders of the Ko-
share and the Cuirana, the Kosa-sendo and the Cuirana-
sendo, are also included among the Pato-abu. Both clusters

possess, among the Tehuas, attributes similar to those held
by them among the Queres. It is reported by tradition,
that the Koshare came out of the cave or at Cibobe
lagune
as a special creation, made to the "
hearts of the
lighten
through their jests and jokes, and thus to render

"
people
them fit for the long and painful journey on which they were
to proceed. The Koshare are for the summer people, and

the Cuirana for the winter people. The ritual dress of both
is nearly the same as among the Queres, and, as with these,
the Koshare are coarse, sometimes very obscene, clowns in
many public dances.

The esoteric group of the hunters, or the Ping-pang, is
fast disappearing among the Tehuas.

The warriors, or Te-tuyo, are still represented in force.
The medicine-men, or Uo-kanyi, flourish in numbers, but
for those among them who more particularly perform jug
glery tricks and sortileges, the rather singular name of

Chu-ge is not always sure that such appella
used. It is
tives are genuine Pueblo

of origin. Many terms have of
late been borrowed by the Tehuas from their roaming neigh
bors, the Yutas, Apaches, and Navajos.

The Tehuas callthe sun Than, and the moon Po ;
and
their principal deities bear the names of T han Sendo, sun-
father, and P ho Quio, or moon-woman. I have never seen
representations of them, although they are said to exist.
A powerful deity is T anyi Sendo, who, so far as I am

able to discern, presides over the movements and distribu
tion of waters in every form. The morning star is the
emblem of a god called Tzi-o-ueno Ojua, and the evening
star that of another deity, brother of the former, bearing
the name of Tzi-tzang Ojua. From my inquiries, and from
what some of their leading shamans told me when I showed
them the pictorial representations
of Maitzalaima and Ahui-
uta, the twin gods of Zuni, I lean to the inference that the
two Tehua deities last named correspond to the youthful
hero-gods of Zuni mythology; and, as such, Tzi-tzang

Ojua
also bears the title of Ojua-Tentu, whereas Tla-na-Ka Tza-ma
is one of the additional names of Tzi-o-ueno Ojua. Under

these titles they correspond, respectively, to A-hiu-uta and
Mai-tza-la-ima of the Zuni mythology. There is another pair

of Tehua gods which is called To-a-yah, and they are active
twice a year, in spring and in fall. Their fetiches are clumsy
human made of
forms, and painted brown and white,
stone,
with black faces. At first glance, one might be tempted to
take them for rude pictures of Franciscan monks.

Another idol that is worshipped mostly in autumn is called
Ke-mang.
All these fetiches are in the special care of the Tzi-hui,
who also possesses one of the fetiches of Tzi-o-ueno Ojua,
or the morning star. It is of white alabaster, and repre
sents a man in a sitting posture. It resembles somewhat
the fetich of Maseua which

I obtained among the Queres,
and this is
perhaps an indication that the Tehua deity may
be identical with the Zuni mythological hero.
These are only a few of the idols which the Tehuas wor
ship in secret. Each of the secret societies and every sub
division of them has its array of divinities, and the leaders
of these groups are keepers of their paraphernalia and fe
tiches. There is no difference in this respect between the

Tehuas, Queres, Zunis, and Jemez, and it is probable that
this is true of the other Pueblo groups. My experience has
proved that the leaders and chief officers in general hold
everything of this kind in trust only, and that they are in no
manner allowed to dispose of them, unless with the consent
of the society, hardly to be obtained.
which consent is
An interesting insight into the beliefs and practices of

"
the Tehuas is obtained by a glimpse of the medicines "
proper, or charms, which the leading shamans have in their

possession. I was fortunate enough to be introduced, through
the kind assistance of my friend Samuel Eldodt, of San
Juan, whose long residence in that village has placed him

on a footing of -intimacy with some of the wizards, into
the arsenal of one of the Pato-abu. Thirteen powerful in
gredients were shown to me in the form of powders of

plants and minerals. There was a medicine for making
the people happy, or rather prosperous,
causing one for
the tribe to increase, another against lightning strokes, still
another against frost, one to make rain, one to avert hail,
and so forth. Crystals, flint pieces, and belemnites were
carefully kept with these powders as charms or fetiches.
The mighty keeper of these magic weapons made good use

of them at stated intervals, but he also employed them at
particular request, accompanied by suitable remuneration,

for cures, or for re-establishing friendships, or harmony in
troubled families. Just as this shaman had his store of idols

and medicines, so every one of his colleagues is
similarly
furnished. But I never was able to penetrate the secrets of
the others, except in one point.

The Samayo, or shaman of the hunt, opened his heart
to me regardin deity which
to a
belongs to his circle
of supernatural protectors, and which at the same time
plays a conspicuous part in Pueblo mythology in general.

This is the god called Pose-yemo, and also, more properly,
Pose-ueve, or the dew of heaven. He is the god around

whose figure the story of Montezuma has latterly been
woven. The Indian positively stated that the name of
Montezuma has been given to Pose-ueve but very lately.
Pose-ueve was, like the Mexican Quetzal-cohuatl, a man, an

Indian shaman or successful wizard, subsequently deified.
He is represented as having dwelt in the now ruined pue
blo of Pose-uing-ge, at the hot springs belonging to the
Hon. Antonio Joseph, the present Delegate to Congress
from New Mexico. The tales of his birth and rise to the
dignity of cacique, the miracles performed by him, and his

disappearance in a mysterious manner, are authentic Tehua
folk-lore. Pose-ueve is said to have disappeared in wrath
at the treatment he received from the inhabitants of the
pueblo of Yuge-uing-ge, or Yunque, on the site of which
the hamlet of Chamita (a station on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad) now stands. That he went south is not
positively stated, and the remainder of the Montezuma story

is a modern addition, which my informant positively rejected.
Ihave had the appearance of Pose-ueve described to me the ;
Samayo even appears (at the remarkable dance called Te-mbi

Jiare) in a dress of buckskin, and with ornaments purporting
to be an imitation of those worn by him. I was asked to
copy, for my wizard friend, the pictorial representations of

Montezuma as contained in Mexican pictographs, and he
declared them to have not the slightest resemblance to the
appearance ascribed to Pose-ueve by tradition.

The symbols of the Tehuas closely resemble those of the
Queres and Zunis in many points. The division into two main
groups summer and winter people is expressed under
the form of winter and summer symbols for several phenom

ena. Thus the winter rainbow is white, the summer rainbow
tricolored the summer sun is green, the winter sun yellow.
;
The altar (Cen-te) used in the estufas is green for the sum
mer months, yellow after the autumnal equinox. The clouds,
the moon, lightning, and the whirlwind maintain the same
hues the year round.
all This brings me to speak of the
symbolical colors of the six sacred regions, and their names
in Tehua.
North (Pim-pi-i) is blue ;
east (Tam-pi-i), white ;
south
(A-com-pi-i), red ;
west (Tzam-pi-i), yellow above (O-pa-;
ma-con), black ;
below (Nan-so-ge-unge) has all colors. Here,
as well as among the Qtieres, we must distinguish between
the heavens and the sky. The latter is a male deity called
O-pat-y Sen. The earth a female deity, called Na-uat-ya
Quio, and totally distinct from the conception of below.

This dualism in the ideas attached to one and the same
object is illustrated also in the matter of the fetiches. A
fetich in Tehua
Ta-ne, but the spirit which inhabits the
is
fetich is Ojua, the equivalent of the Queres term Shi-uana.

The Ojua are everywhere, but appear visibly above all in
the cirro-cumuli scattered over an otherwise clear sky. At
the close of the rainy season of the year 1885, and when the
Tehuas of San Juan were preparing to dance the Te-mbi
Jiare, or dance of the crops, the sky suddenly cleared, only a
few groups of cirro-cumuli remaining in a sky of wonderful
azure. One of their shamans called my attention to the
snow-white cloudlets, smiling, and saying, Look at the "
Ojua they;
are good." Indeed, on the following day, a
magnificent sky shone down on the weird performance.
The Tehuas have the same fetiches as the Queres. Jang-
ojua is the panther, Ke-ojua the bear, Tze-ojua the eagle,
and so forth. They have also figurines of the frog, the
dragon-fly, the tadpole, and the fish. These fetiches they

.
use on the approach of the rainy season, throwing them into

the water-courses and ditches with prayers and
irrigation
incantations ;
for the four animals named are looked upon as
intercessors for rain.
This conception arises from the intimate connection, real
or apparent, which these animals have with the watery
elements. The fish cannot live outside of water, neither
can the tadpole. The
dragon-fly always
over stagnant flits
pools or over water-courses, and on the approach of rain

the frog cries loudly. "The frog,"says the Indian, "prays
for So he attributes
rain." to these animals a spiritual
power, makes them advocates of his in the important matter

of moisture for his crops. The four intercessors are all
"Ojua,"
or spirits, but are active only at the time when
man needs them. This time, of course, coincides with the
season when the animals display their greatest vitality.
Ojua is the generic name, but there are subdivisions.

Thus Ka-tzina (corrupted into Cachina) are more especially
the spirits of game animals and as the animal dances are;
incantations destined to cast a spell over the beast which

the Indian desires to prey upon, the name Cachina for
these dances not only appropriate, but quite significant.
is
The Tehuas dance the same cachinas as the other Pueblos,

but the names are different according to the idiom. They
have also very obscene dances, but it is more difficult to
see them than at Cochiti or other villages. Foot races
seem to be more indulged in by the Tehuas than by the
Rio Grande Pueblos.
A close study of the people of each village would, in addi
tion to the differencesbetween linguistic stocks, of which
the preceding pages present a few examples, reveal
many
local varieties. But, on the whole, there is a fundamental
similarity between all the Pueblos, in manners, customs,
and beliefs, that is
very striking. Their position towards
the whites is same everywhere, and, as far as mode
the
of life is concerned, there is the same tendency to huddle
together in winter for protection and shelter, the same in
clination to a change of abode in summer, in
every pueblo
from Taos to Isleta, from Nambe to Zuni and the
Moquis.
In summer, as is well known, the
pueblos are nearly de
serted. The Zunis move
to Pescado, to Aguas Calientes, to
Nutria, etc., at distances of ten to twenty miles from their

villages the Acomas, to Acomita, fourteen miles away
;
;
all the other tribes emigrate into their fields, leaving but
a few families at home, until the time comes for housing
the crops. Then

the return begins; one after another the
summer ranches are abandoned their inmates move the few
;
household utensils they have taken with them in spring back

to their original quarters and the pueblo, quiet and almost
;
forsaken during the period of life in physical nature, becomes

the seat of animation while nature rests. These annual
changes in the abodes of sedentary tribes are interesting
in two ways. They show the facility with which the village
Indian, for the sake of subsistence, still
changes temporarily
his home they also explain many features in archaeology.
;
We often wonder how the aborigines of old could locate their
dwellings so far from arable and irrigable lands, and mani

fold have been the explanations offered, climatic changes
being usually the last resort of the theorizer unacquainted

with the real life of the Pueblo Indian. He overlooks the
fact that the Indian seeks for a place of safety for all, but
that in matters of subsistence he disregards danger for the
males. This custom afforded the roaming tribes a great ad
vantage over their sedentary neighbors they were always ;
sure, at stated seasons, to find some victim at work at a
convenient distance from the village where he might have

shelter and aid. Many are the instances where the corn
patch or the wheat plot has become the scene of har
rowing tragedies. At present, with peace reigning around

him, the Pueblo seldom takes the bow or the rifle along
to his daily work, but formerly he never went out to his
summer abodes are called, without a full
"rancho," as the
armament. That armament was usually inferior to the one
which the Comanche, the Yuta, or the Apache even, had at
his disposal.
As a reminiscence of olden times, when insecurity was
the rule, the emigration of whole villages to their fields,
so as to be in proximity to each other in case of emergency,

may also be considered.An attack upon pueblo houses,

even if
poorly defended, was hardly ever attempted by sav
ages. It required too long a time to gain success. With
relative impunity, therefore, the Pueblo might abandon his
solid winter dwelling for a time. But the instances are
rare when a single family went to live on its fields. In
most cases a number of them formed a temporary settle
ment, going out together -and returning together also. To
day the plots pertaining to each pueblo are dotted with
what would be called
"
shanties," vacant in winter, alive

with inmates in summer.
I add here a few terms picked up among the Jemez,
showing that, in the main, the religious organization noticed
among the Oueres and Tehuas also prevails with the Jemez,
and presumably existed with the Pecos, as cousins of the
latter, and now harmoniously living with them at their vil
lage Ua-buna Jui, Summer Cacique

:
Tzunta-jui, Winter ;
Cacique O-pe So-ma,

; the Shaman of War Qni-iu To-ta, ;
Shaman of the Hunt ; Kui-co, Tzihui or Shikama ;

Kuen-
sha-re, Koshare Kui-rey-na, Cuirana.
;
They have therefore the division into summer and winter

people, as well as the Tehuas. Of their two estufas, one is
Pa-to-ua, the other is Ua-han-chana (calabash), as at Cochiti.
There was a third one, which now is in ruins.
The Jemez also recognize descent in the female line.
The names of clans, so far as I could obtain them, have
already been given. They are said to have originated at a

lagune called Ua-buna-tota, and the souls of the dead go
to rest there. At Isleta (southern Tiguas) there are two
clusters corresponding to the Koshare and Cuirana, the
Shure and the Ship-hung. I had no opportunity of making
full investigations among these Pueblos.
After what has been said of the religious organization
of the Pueblos, there can be little wonder at the slow pro

gress of Christianity among them. The influence of the
secret clusters, and the hold which their ancient beliefs
have upon them, are so strongly rooted, that the power of
resistance is as mighty as that opposed to Christian mis
sions within the boundaries of China. Arbitrary suppres
sion of their creed would have brought about extermination ;
persuasion and endurance under the most disheartening cir

cumstances were the only means for exerting an influence
upon the Indian. This persuasion, this patience, most poorly
supported by the gradually waning power of Spain, have
still brought some fruit. To these results I have alluded
in the Introduction to this part of my Report, and I need
not return to it again.
One fact seems certain : the Indian, as Indian, must dis
appear. He may keep his language and his traditions. But

it is not so much the manner of speech, nor even his physical
type, that constitutes the American Indian, as his social or
ganization and his creed, which are so intimately interwoven
as to have become inseparable. These are out of place in
the march of civilization, and they must perish. But they
are also rooted so deeply in the mental and moral nature
of the Indian, so closely connected with his material exist
ence, that no violent extirpation can be attempted without

endangering also the purely human part of his being. To
the latter he is entitled, and above all from our national stand-
.
point,by the formal declaration "that all men are created
equal that they are endowed by their Creator with cer
;
tainunalienable rights that among these are life, liberty,

;
and the pursuit of happiness." To enable the Indian to

enjoy these rights with a view to his progressive culture,
patience on the part of those who have this progress in trust
is above all required. We must have patience with him and
his ways. The Indian

frequently becomes a criminal in the
eyes of modern law, but in the great majority of cases his
is unconscious guilt, resulting from natural aberration of
mind. Spain recognized this and had patience. It behooves
me not to enter into a discussion of recent events.
What applies to the Pueblo Indians applies in a still
greater measure to the less permanently located tribes of
New Mexico and Arizona, like the great Tinneh stock of

the Navajos and Apaches. I place the
Navajos before
the Apaches, for the latter are but outlying bands of the
former. To their respective numbers and location I have
already alluded, and little have I to say concerning them
that cannot be derived from other better informed sources,
like the Captain John G. Bourke and of
publications of
Dr. Washington Mathews, both of the army of the United

States. There exists great similarity between the religious
traditions of the Navajos and those of the Pueblos; the
same absence of a supreme head for the religious figures
peopling their Olympus the same folk-lore about two hero-

;
gods, twin brothers the same emerging of the human race

;
upon the surface through a lagune situated in the distant

North. But the Navajos are far more expert than the
Pueblos, as I .have already stated, in those striking tricks
or sleight-of-hand performances that produce such a power
ful effect upon the Indian mind. They have no compact
civil organization, no stable government. At present they
are becoming more and more permanently located, and it
cannot be denied that these tribes show greater aptitude
for progress in a material sense than many of the Pueblos.
This results naturally from the effects of a shifting life.
As the man who has travelled is, among us, generally su
perior to the one who has constantly lived in same
the
small circle of surroundings, so is the shifting Indian more
wide awake than the villager whom custom and fear main
tain spellbound in a single spot. The difference in this
respect is
strikingly marked
one and the same pueblo,
in
between those who formerly took part in the annual expe

ditions to Sonora or to the plains, and the younger people,
who grew up after the time of such journeys and before
the construction of railways. Physically, there is also a dif
ference. The Navajos especially have more of the strong
build of the Northern Indian. They are more raw-boned,
and, while not more enduring, still possess greater physical
strength. Their mode ofenjoying less protection from
life,
inclemencies of the weather, their lower degree ef culture

so far as the position of women concerned, burdening the
is
latter with field-work, which among the Pueblos the men

perform, conspire to make them hardier and warier. The
tendency to become eventually village Indians is-i^ry plain
on the part of the Navajos it develops itself strongly to-day,
;
under circumstances unusually favorable so far as improved

implements, and other elements of progress, are concerned.
As for the Apaches, they are more backward. Marauders
for centuries,turned from sedentary life by their scattering
on the plains with the buffalo as a guide and resource, or
drifting over the mountains with the fascination which the
existence of a robber has for untutored man, they are more
loth to submit to the restrictions of progress. But a gradual
education, to permanent settlement first, to the arts of peace
afterwards, will overcome their reluctance. Both tribes enjoy
over the Pueblos one great advantage. Their creed and cus
toms have not become the sum and substance of their being
so much as among the latter. Their opposition to civiliza
tion may be more violent at the outset, but the apparent

docility and meekness of the Pueblos is but a blind for
greater tenacity of resistance.
With these remarks, I close the first half of my Report

to the Institute. The other half will be purely retrospective,
inasmuch as it will contain the archaeological results of my
investigations, and some considerations of a more general
nature, touching upon the past of Southwestern tribes, and
upon their relations to other aboriginal inhabitants of the

continent.
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OF THE

INVESTIGATIONS AMONG THE INDIANS OF THE

CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, President.

HENRY DRISLER, Vice-President.

submitting this First Part of my Report to the Archae

through which my investigations have led me, for the uni

thanks specially due to personal friends, since, were I to

Preface. I offer my grateful acknowledgments to the civil

west, for having, by their protection, largely furthered my

PROCESSION, FEAST OF ST. ESTEVAN, ACOMA 219

FOOT RACE AT PUEBLO OF TAGS 240

ACOMA : NORTHERN Row OF HOUSES 265

PUEBLO OF TAGS : SOUTH HOUSE 266

INTERIOR OF A HOUSE AT ZUNI 269

MAP OF SONORA AND CHIHUAHUA End Of Volume

INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST.

clude here also whatever observations I may have been able

aboriginal population has been so completely dependent upon

land, its natural history and meteorology, form the basis of

nological development of primitive man through them we

secure the explanation of most of the changes which he has

undergone they show to us, in a measure, how present eth

nography has come to be. To attempt historical studies

as I was sufficiently recovered, I made a flying trip to the

of the small-house type.Returning to the Mimbres, I reached

tary friends was against an attempt to penetrate the Sierra

Madre, I nevertheless left the post on the /th of February

every village and hamlet which the Apaches have failed to

Geronimo and his people were on the point of returning to

pected to infest the mountains converging towards the Sierra

My horse being exhausted, I accompanied the party on foot

the greatest precaution, penetrated to the western slopes of the

Que-hua-ue-ri-chi range, considered in the country to be the

highest and most central portion of the Great Sierra under

amining remnants of church archives from the time of the

garden-beds and dwellings, I continued my journey, taking

presumption was that Apaches might be encountered at any

Teras, until then wholly untrodden, as, indeed, may be said

Janos. Turning south again, I reached Casas Grandes on

mail facilities and railroads. After my return to Santa Fe,

hereafter, they are far from being so marvellous as they have

been thought. On the other hand, they are interesting and

their place further on. So much for my journey.

The portion of the North American Southwest of which we

from Colorado down to the boundaries of Durango. This lat

upon river courses, and especially upon the volume of water

the Sierra Blanca, 1 &quot;

San Mateo. 1 The same may be said of Arizona, where only

Republic, and its small escape the Isthmus of Panama. It is

doubtful whether any of the summits in the Sierra Madre,

in Sonora and Chihuahua, scarcely one half may be called

mountain lands. The general drift of the chains is from north

The landscape in the Southwest is striking at all times.

to connect it with the sky. On the wanderer, they produce

easily a feeling of utter hopelessness.

the Sierra Blanca, 1 "

tions of the country than the modern "prospecter"

damete tratados y vestidos."

las han dejado abandonadas."

"bad weather" in the Eastern States, and called "Quipata"

by the natives of Sonora and Chihuahua. "Quipata" re

thickly over a number of acres, is a Monte" in the midst of

Monte." Real timber regions are scarce. The cold and