[269] American Antiquarian, Sept. and Nov., 1886.
[270] Ann. Rep. Bu. Eth., 1883-'84.
[271] Snake Dance of the Moquis.
[272] Interview with Pedro Pino.
[273] Kunque has added to the cornmeal the meal of two varieties of corn, blue and yellow, a small quantity of pulverized sea shells, and some sand, and when possible a fragment of the blue stone called "chalchihuitl." In grinding the meal on the metates the squaws are stimulated by the medicine-men who keep up a constant singing and drumming.
[274] Simpson, Expedition to the Navajo Country, in Senate Doc. 64, 31st Cong., 1st sess., 1849-'50, p. 95.
[275] Hakluyt, Voyages, vol. 3, p. 470. "Echavan mucha harina de maiz por el suelo para que la pisassen los caballos."—Padre Fray Juan Gonzales de Mendoza, De las Cosas de Chino, etc., Madrid, 1586, p. 172. See also the Relacion of Padre Fray Alonso Fernandez, Historia Eclesiastica de Nuestros Tiempos, Toledo, 1611, pp. 15, 16.
[276] P. 162.
[277] Diego Duran, vol. 2, cap. 49, pp. 506, 507.
[278] Herrera, dec. 5., lib. 4, cap. 5, p. 92.