The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-19

I the bastions now erected at the corners
I OF prison walls. Within tho walls of
this tower ] picked up q big medicine
| bowl of clay and a fragment of copper,
also other ceremonial objects, including
| spherical stones such as some of the
/ southwestern tribes used to kick about
! Inc aroEas TO cause the rain TO fall.
/ IN the tower were also fragments of
4 plue, green and black paint and white
body.
We next dug eastward along the
| north wall and found several other
rooms there, At the junction of these
ana the row of kivas there had been
erosion IN the walls, and the floors
hau Decn moved about three feet at
various times, In these rooms were sew
eraI ancient planting hoes of ironwood
SNAPPED like broadswords sharpened to
blade at the ends An old Pima
woman who one day watched us dig
told me that she had seen her grand,
parents kneel and, holding these hoes
aSlant, scrape the ground with the point
cd end held downward with the left
hand. The historic tribes of this region
used implements of this shape made
OF the iron introduced by the Spaniards.
Along the eastern wall we opened
up bug building containing eight
rooms, IN which could still be seen the
chlnlS OF plaster on the walls. found
the root which had fallen in, also the
two posts which had supported it. and
the side beams as well. In the entire
compound we opened up forty-thrce
rooms. West of this last building there
was another, twenty.four feet wide.
Skeleton of Sacred Eagle.
Nearby was uncovered an old eag-
le 5 cage containing not only the com.
plete skeleton of the eagle that had once
been its tenant, but the bones of rab.
bits upon which it had been fed. I'm
doubtedly this bird was one of the
sacred eagles kept by these people. The
Hops still keep them for their fcath-
ers, which they pluck out and use in
Their ceremonial paraphcrnaia.
in the southwest corner of the
compound was still another cluster of
rooms lying directly below The old stage
road from Casa Grande to Florence.
which for yenrs has crossed the buried
lnclosurc, without any suspicion of what
lay beneath on the part OF the travellers
who piled IT. In these chambers ]
found what think will prove To he
one of the biggest Indian lars ever
found I'm America II is about as large
as barrel, is of earthenware. and was |
probably used by these people as a
water vessel
/ Nul huIldn ShClelpnS We're i0Nn6 |
in the iloors of this latter group. They |
were in an extended position. and across |
the breast of one Law very murderous-
looking dagger of deer bone
also repaired the old main build
Grandc proper. This con
lalns eleven rooms altogether, the mid
die portion being three and the side
portions two stories high, It is sixty
feet long by fortytwo wide. and the
highest pinnacle is twenty-five feet
above ground. The foundation walls
are four feet thick and extend down
seven feet, the space between them be-.
ing filed in soIidly with adobe. A
frame roof was placed on the structure
some years ago by act of Congress.
This building seems 10 have been
The holy of holies in the entire settle
nent. The chief may have lived there.
It is often spoken of in tradition as the
'hlct s house, IL was once the center
If great winged structure, the kiva
,ow adjoining on the north and the last
described group on the south.
Princess and TorQuoise Necklace.
50 According to a legend which
earned from the PimaS, one of the
great chiefs who lived in Casa Grande
,ore name which ] translated to mean
Morning Green He had two daugh
ers, Van and Natchi. He was n great
orcerer-had great power in making