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Show offered in a cave; how the foot steps of the dead were seen leading into the Lake; how a vision of harvest was, if the quest were successful, seen from the mountain tops. I asked what caused the drying up of the lake. His answer was that a Mexican had taken up a homestead in this place near the Lake and had drawn off the water into a reservoir. But the man did not prosper-all his children died, and finally he moved away, breaking the reservoir, so that the Lake dried up. Now he said, other Mexicans report that they can hear, if they put their ears to the ground, the sound of Subterranean dancing. This dancing is the dancing that the Zuni ancestors carry on in their home in the depths of the Lake. This region is desecrated by such habitation and this is very serious for the Zunis. It may be noted that the old man has Mrs. Stevenson's report on Zuni, and that Warren tried to ascertain from this the exact location of the Lake. She then met with Lalio, who could speak no English. The interpreter was Norman Napetchka. Speaking of the Anglo engineers then working at Zuni, Lalio made some interesting comments on the Zunis' ability to make straight trails. In the trail making, I am better satisfied. The man who makes the trail from the top of a certain hill took me with him when he started to work. This is correct. To be sure the trail made with his instrument, is not so good as a man can make it by just walking, but it is pretty well mapped just the same. Pretty straight. Next Sergeant visited with Lamy, the fourth cacique, at Ojo Caliente with her interpreter Norman Napetchka. He lived "in a charming country house, directly above the Hot Spring, near the ceremonial spring which figures in the Shalako and other ceremonials. While they talked, she said his attention was focused in the distance. All through the eye of this fine looking old man kept scanning the horizon-he was watching for the party returning from the Sacred Lake who would pass this way in a few hours, and would enter the pueblo about sunset. - 104 - |
