The Coolidge examiner., 1930-05-23
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At RUINS
(By IRWIN HAYDEN
Continued from last week.

cles who chose to do so, go out
and catch them a deer or two, or
better, a mountain sheep. Either
will do so long as it has four legs
Clean these bones and note a dis.
tai end, or the end next to the
hoof The condyle or joint surface
is in shape a sort of whorl Next,
take the head of the mountain
sheep, male, with the splendid
horns. for a model, and carve the
end of the bone to represent the
sleeps head
Then, when the task is done,
take the carving down to the mu-
scum exposition park, Los Angeles,
and ask to see the calcined bone
avis and other implements carved
from just such bones as are
described above, with the most
carved on the distal ends, the natu-
raj curves of the whorls being
used for the horns. Compare
your masterpieces with those
carved by the Ho-ho-kam 1000
years ago.
Who has not seen bird light on
the edge Of a rock or roof, cling
ing with all it's toes and fluttering
its wings to maintain its balance
Some day, while at the Los Ange-
les museum look at the stone (or
is it clay) bowl found in a crema-
tion burial. with three birds cling
ing to the rim of the bowl. with
all their toes, their wings flutter-
ing in an effort to get their bal
ance, their heads turned sideways
Real INDIAN Work
II had not seen the very places
from where these objects had just
been taken by members of the Van
Bergen-Los Angeles Museum field
party. l should find it difficult to
believe that they were the work of
American Indians.
Here in the central Gila river
valley we are more and more con-
vinced that the Ho-ho-kam, those
who are gone," who lived in the
ruins we are exploring, had close
contact with middle America.
We drove south, into the edge of
the Papagueria del Norte. or, in
English, into the edge of the coun-
try inhabited by the northern Pa
pagos.
Pimas and Papagos in some way
NOT understood as yet, inherited
the land of the Ho-ho-kam. When
Father Kino visited the Casa Gran
de ruins in 1894 and in 1899. the
Pimas lived in the neighborhood
but knew not the builders of the
ruined villages.
There must have been some right
smart fighting between the Apa-
chCs on the one side and the Pimas
and Papagos on the other. The
father Of Joe, Papago who was
our guide, fought the Apaches, Joe
said. 1t is told that the Apaches
met their match in the Pimas and
Papagos, who fought them to
standstill and took scalp for scalp.
The Pima country is known as
Pimeria, with the accent on the
next to last syllable. The Papago
country is the Papagueria. accent
ed on the next to last syllable. The
Papagos are divided into two Sec
tions, southern, mostly in Mexico,
and northern in Arizona.
Between Pimeria and Papague-
ria dwell the families in which Pi-
mas and Papagos have intermar-
ried. The full-bloods of each ma
tion have a name for these Pima
Papagos or Papago-Pimas, which
/ cannot spell, or even pronounce
with sufficient accuracy to justify
an attempt. 1t is not term of de-
rision.
Pimas can understand Papago
and vice versa. The Maricopa, who
AfC IL Tic 0ll1 DCAO SOuACIy, are
related to the Pimas. l think, and
the three peoples, while their Ian
guages are not identical, can un-
derstand one another
The south end of the east wall
Of our compound ends abruptly
about so feet short of where the
southeast corner of the compound
should be. The east end of the
south wall of the compound ends
about so feet short of the south
east corner of the compound if
there were one. In the projected
southeast corner is a house, its
floor a few inches below ground
level, and beneath this house is
an ancient pit-house. This is
decidedly not as it should be.
Where is the south end of the east
wall, and where is the east end of
the south wall, and where is the
southeast corner of the compound
IL there was one? All of the the
ories for the existence of the outer
walls of these villages demand a
continuous compound wall some
six or eight or ten feet high, for
defense. Certainly these villagers
would not leave themselves open
to attack on the southeast corner