[78] The same who in his time had so inhospitably received Cabeza de Vaca and his companions.
[79] It appears that he did not return to Sonora.
[80] The Zuñi call them Mu-qua, whence the word Moqui is derived.
[81] These helmets, or, rather, leather caps, are still in use among the Pueblos. They belong to the aboriginal equipment for war.
[82] It is doubtful whether the Zuñis at that time took part in the periodical buffalo-hunts which the Pueblo Indians farther east still engaged in as late as 1881.
[83] Vol. i. of the “Papers of the Archæological Institute of America,” 1883.
[84] Casteñeda says he was a slave, but that is not correct. He did not belong to the tribe, and had attached himself to a family, but he was not and could not be a slave, according to the custom of the Pueblos. Every Indian has a right to be a permanent guest with them.
[85] Blue turquois is rare.
[86] Available only as a pigment on account of the difficulty of working it.
[87] Santa Fé was not founded till ten years later.