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Show 39 LEADING FACTS HISTORY MEXICAN OF NEW — * a + S. og s°t? i+ ee ? 4 ee ag a raat ‘3¢ le *» * rd ‘ a : 7 ae rote tye Teh yete Sergi oe ss e k oft a ." weir ot." digh, This was the emblem of a mythic power. was that of the A-wan-yu. and A-wan-yu was the preserver of water, the guardian of springs food, crops, water, without for itself, life of streams, the preserver life must fail. The history of the last epoch of the occupation of the Pajarito plateau is one of unceasing struggle against failing nature. It was Qubsistence became constantly more and more uncertain. just the condition necessary to the development of ritual and the It was an ever present fear and thought elaboration of symbolism. pottery we find the idea perpetuated. their all on with the people, and In Te-wa tradition there is the belief that the Pajaritans disappeared because they lost favor with A-wan-yu; that he threw himself across the sky, thus accounting to the Indian mind for the origin of the Milky Way. The ancient cycle of Pajaritan mythology is entirely broken down, and the merest fragments can be recovered from a few of the old It has been submerged by the more men of the different villages. The dominant religious vital mythology of a more recent epoch. symbol of the Pueblos of the present day, seen on all their prayer meal bowls and etched upon the rocks, is the plumed serpent called by them A-wan-yu, but never confused with the A-wan-yu of the It is a representative figure in reptilian form, furnished ancients. with plumes upon head and body, pictured as moving through the European civilization could hardly have failed to manifest itself by that time in their utensils and in decorative motive. The excavations at Pu-yé have as yet yielded no vestige of such influence. It is possible that the irrigating ditch along the south side of the Pu-yé arroyo may belong to this late period. It seems likely that searching investigation of the Pueblo claims with reference to ancient sites will usually result as this case does. ‘*Tt is certainly true that some clans in almost every modern Pueblo village trace their origin to the people of the cliffs in a perfectly consistent line, and this would account for the dolicocephalic strain found among all the Pueblos of the Southwest. They are uniformly a composite stock, formed doubtless by the amalgamation of people from the cliffs with incoming bands regions. ’’ from outlying Harrington, John P., Phonetic and Lexic Resemblance Tanoan, Papers of the School of American Archeology, between Kiowan and 1910, g. v. Certain phonetic and lexie affinities between also Kiowan, Tanoan, been pointed out by Buschmann, Gatschet, and others. and Shoshonean have In examining the Kiowa vocabulary obtained by Mr. James Mooney and published in the 17th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, part i, pages 391-440, the writer notes to his surprise how strong these Kiowan-Tanoan similarities are. Should it be finally proved that these two ‘‘stocks’’ are really related either genetically or by mixing, the conclusions would be most interesting, since history traces the im of the Kiowa from their former homeland at the headwaters of the ssourl river, while the Tanoans are in every respect a typical Pueblo people. Courtesy of School of American Roek Trail Archeology, at Santa Tsan-ka-wi Fé, N. M. |