THE GREAT SHELL OF KINTYEL.
556. Kĭntyél,72 Broad House, and Kĭ'ndotlĭz, Blue House,208 are two pueblo houses in the Chaco Canyon. They are ruins now; but in the days when Kinníki lived on earth many people dwelt there. Not far from the ruins is a high cliff called Tse'dezá', or Standing Rock. Near these places the rite of yói hatál,250 or the bead chant,
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Fig. 36. Ruin in the Chaco Canyon, probably Kĭntyél (after Bickford).
was first practised by the Navahoes, and this is the tale of how it first became known to man:—
557. Two young men, one from Kĭntyél and one from Kĭ'ndotlĭz, went out one day to hunt deer. About sunset, as they were returning to Kĭ'ndotlĭz, weary and unsuccessful, they observed a war-eagle soaring overhead, and they stopped to watch his flight. He