right-hand corner of the illustration. Each man and woman deposited
a piece, that he or she might always have plenty of wood for heat
and light. Some three hundred feet above is another shrine, directly
attached to the "father" rock, and to the white man difficult
of access. Here I found many offerings of plume sticks (Tē
līk-tkī-nā-we).

Before entering upon the purely mythologic phases of Zuñi child life
I will present a brief sketch of some of the Zuñi beliefs. There are
thirteen secret orders in Zuñi, in many of which women and children
are conspicuous, besides the purely mythologic order of the Kōk-kō.
All boys are initiated into this order, while but few girls enter
it. It is optional with a girl; she must never marry if she joins the
Kōk-kō, and she is not requested to enter this order until she has
arrived at such age as to fully understand its grave responsibilities
and requirements.

Let us follow the Zuñi tradition of the ancient time, when these
people first came to this world. In journeying hither they passed
through four worlds, all in the interior of this, the passageway
from darkness into light being through a large reed. From the inner
world they were led by the two little war gods āh-ai-ū-ta and
Mā-ā-sē-we, twin brothers, sons of the Sun, who were sent by the
Sun to bring these people to his presence. They reached this world in
early morning, and seeing the morning star they rejoiced and said to
the war gods: "We see your father, of whom you have told us." "No,"
said the gods, "this is the warrior who comes before our father;"
and when the sun arose the people fell upon the earth and bowed their
heads in fear. All their traditions point to the distant land of their
appearance in this world as being in the far northwest; from, there