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Show Turning back to the north, Cushing passed through Saint Johns and then obtained a guide and journeyed towards the junction of the Zuni River and the Little Colorado. He described the Kolhu/walatwa area in his first publication for 1 95 the Bureau of Ethnologyt . . . A marsh-bordered lagune situated on the eastern shore of the Colorado Chiquito, about fifteen miles north and west from the pueblo of San Juan (Saint Johns), Arizona, and nearly opposite the mouth of the Rio Concho. This lagune is probably formed in the basin or crater of some extinct geyser or volcanic spring, as the two high and wonderfully similar mountains on either side are identical in formation with those in which occur the cave-craters farther south on the same river. It has, however, been largely filled in by the debris brought down by the Zuni River. " After returning to Zuni, Cushing wrote to his superiors at the Bureau, giving details of the journey, and providing a map of the shrines and a detailed diagram of one of the caves. Cushing's map not only illustrates the region surrounding the six religious sites, but illustrates the trail to Kolhu/walatwa with relative 126 accuracy. He noted that there were two distinct places where sacrificial deposits were made at Kolhu/walatwa, and reported what he had done while 125. Cushing, Frank Hamilton "Zuni Fetishes," Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology; Washington; GPO; 1883; pp. 20-21. 126. Cushing to Baird, January 25, 1881, enclosing map, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Powell, John Wesley "Introductory," Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1880-1881, Washington; Government Printing Office; 1883; ppT xxvi-xxixT also reported on Cushing's visit to Kolhu/walatwa, saying he went with "one soldier and a citizen." He added that Cushing obtained sacrificial deposits from the sites, and that he cached some 2,000 specimens before returning to Zuni. - 83 - |
