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Show the Chacoans may have had a kind of string compass to tell true north from magnetic north. Ceramic types along the roads were dominated by decorated jars except at occupied sites where culinary ware increases. 91 n Klara B. Kelley has also written about the Zuni trails to the Zuni Salt Lake and Kolhu/wala:wa. She reports: 211 The Zunis have use(d) at least two trails on their pilgrimages to Zuni Salt Lake. The earlier trail was strictly a foot trail, while the later one was a pack trail along which Zunis drove the burros that carried back the salt. Along the routes are shrines where the pilgrims made plume offerings to the Sun Father and Moon Mother. These shrines are sacred, and thus would make the trails sacred. The Acoma and Laguna trails to the Zuni Salt Lake are marked with cairns in places, as well as horseshoe shaped herreduras (that could also have been used as windbreaks). She also describes a trail from the Zuni Salt Lake toward Kolhu/wala:wa, a < today):' route that was presumably used by Acomas and Lagunas (and may yet be used 212 The site is also important in Acoma mythology and is extremely sacred to both groups. The trail connecting this site with the lake 210. Interview with Michael Marshall, March 20, 1986, Albuquerque, New Mexico, by E. Richard Hart, with assistance from T. J. Ferguson and Ronald L. Stauber. 211. Kelley, Klara B. "Historic Cultural Resources in the San Augustine Coal Area," Preliminary Report for SACA San Augustine Coal Area, June 1, 1984. Stevenson provided the original information regarding the Sun and Moon Shrines along the trail. 212. Ibid. - 139 - |
