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Show -16- a cave; how the foot steps of the dead were seen leading into the Lake; how a vision of harvest was, if the quest ware 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 had Mrs. Stevenson's report on Zuni, and that Warren tried to ascertain from this the exact location of the Lake. SALE OF CEREMONIAL OBJECTS. Both Warren and his father felt that the government should take UP this question with Wallace, a Zuni trader whom they hold largely responsible for the sales. They say Wallace goes about the village late at night, trying to get entrance to kivas and houses where ceremonial objects are kept. Once he came to old Ondelacy when his sons were out-three times in one day he came, demanding that the old man sell a certain pot associated with a mask which he believed him to possess. The old man denied that he had it and refused in no uncertain terms since when they, the Ondelacys, have had no use for Wallace. Visit to Governor Lalio. Interpreter, Norman. My second visit was made to Lalio, at his request. He lives in a |
