Preferred Citation: Bahr, Donald, Juan Smith, William Smith Allison, and Julian Hayden. The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5z09p0dh/


 

Appendix—
Correlation of Conquests in Thin Leather and Smith-Allison

 

LIKELY PLACE-NAME

LIKELY CHIEF NAME

NEAREST PRESENT-DAY LOCATION

THIN LEATHER DATA

SMITH-ALLISON DATA

Unknown

Unknown

Europe

 

Place not named, peopled by Sofch Kah (story 15).

Wa'aki, 'Great-house'; or Kui Wa'aki, 'Mesquite Great-house'

Siwan

Northwest of Glendale, Arizona

 

Vahki in the Mesquites, headed by Sivain (story 16).

Unknown

Unknown

Eastern Arizona

 

Apache Indians (story 17).

Unknown

Unknown

East-central Arizona

 

Jackrabbit Eaters (story 18).

Unknown

Siwañ, 'Chief'; Nu:vi, 'Buzzard'

Central Arizona

 

Place not named, headed by Sivain and Buzzard (story 19).

Unknown

Unknown

Central Arizona

 

Place not named, chief painted himself with mescal juice (story 20).

Wonam Du'ag, 'Hat Mountain'

Uninhabited

Central Arizona

 

Hat Mountain, uninhabited place where Pimas camped prior to battle for Chief Great-house (story 22).

Siwañ Wa'aki, 'Chief Great-house'

A'an Med[*] , '[Long-] feather Running'; Vi:g Med, '[Down-] feather Running'

Casa Grande National Monument

 

Casa Grande Ruin, headed by two brothers, Long-feather Running and Down-feather Running (story 23).


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LIKELY PLACE-NAME

LIKELY, CHIEF NAME

NEAREST PRESENT-DAY LOCATION

THIN LEATHER DATA

SMITH-ALLISON DATA

Siwañ Wa'aki, 'Chief Great-house'

Si'al Ce:hedag Siwañ, 'Morning Green Chief'

Casa Grande National Monument

Casa Grande, headed by Morning-Blue Sivan (Russell, 227); Casa Grande, headed by Stcheuadack Seeven ( = 'Green Chief') (Lloyd, 154)

 

O'odkam Wa'aki, 'Gravel Great-house'

Giadag Siwañ, 'Bowstring Chief'

Santan, Arizona

Sandy Ancient House, headed by Kia-atak, 'Handle' (really 'bowstring'), Russell, 24, 227) Awawtkum Vahahkkee, headed by Geeaduck Seeven (Lloyd, 115, 155)

 

Unknown

Cew Ha'o Siwañ, 'Long Gourd Chief'

4 miles north of Santan, Arizona

Villages, headed by Tcuf Baowo Sivan (Russell, 24, 227) Place, headed by Cheof-hahvo Seeven, 'Long Dipper Chief' (Lloyd, 156)

 

Unknown

Da'a Siwañ, 'Flying Chief,' or Tas Siwañ, 'Sun Chief'

Sweetwater, Arizona

Sweetwater Pueblo, headed by Ta-a Sivan, 'Flying' (Russell, 24, 227) Place, headed by Dthas Seeven (Lloyd, 156)

 

Unknown

Uam Wi:g Siwodagkam, 'Yellow Down [feather] Headfeather'

Just east of Casa Blanca, Arizona

 

Place, headed by Suan Veek Sil da kum, 'Yellow Soft-feather Plume' (story 24).


287
 

LIKELY PLACE-NAME

LIKELY CHIEF NAME

NEAREST PRESENT-DAY LOCATION

THIN LEATHER DATA

SMITH-ALLISON DATA

Cuk Tataikam Siwan Wa'aki, 'Black Sinew Chief Great-house'

Cuk Tataikam Siwañ, 'Black Sinewed Chief'

Casa Blanca, Arizona

Place, headed by Tcotcuk Tatai Sivan, 'Black Sinew Chief' (Russell, 24, 228) Vahahkkees (wa:paki, 'Great-houses') headed by Tcheutchickadahtai Seeven (Lloyd, 156–157)

Vahki, headed by Sivan (story 25).

S-ko:ko'ig, 'Many Rattlesnakes'

Unknown

Snaketown, Arizona

Place, then called Odchee [Bahr cannot interpret], headed by a doctor (Lloyd, 158)

Place, with fugitives from battle at Casa Blanca Siwañ Wa'aki (story 26).

Unknown

Ñu:wi, 'Buzzard'

6 miles west of Casa Blanca, Arizona

Pueblo, headed by Vulture (Russell, 228–229)

 

Kokodki Oidag, 'Seashell Field'

Jenasat Siwañ, 'Lizard Chief'

Near Gila Crossing, Arizona

Place, headed by Tcuunarsat Sivan (Russell, 229); Ko-awt-kee Oyyee-duck, 'Shell Field,' headed by Tcheunasset Seeven (Lloyd, 158–159)

 

Unknown

Unknown

Possibly near Higley, Arizona

 

Place with house with ocotillo cactus foundation, headed by a medicine man (story 27).


288
 

LIKELY PLACE-NAME

LIKELY CHIEF NAME

NEAREST PRESENT-DAY LOCATION

THIN LEATHER DATA

SMITH-ALLISON DATA

Nu:wi Wa'aki, 'Buzzard Great-house,' or We:gaj(

figure
), 'Behind-it(
figure
)'

Ñu:wi, 'Buzzard,' Uam Ñu:wi, 'Yellow Buzzard'

South of South Mountain (south boundary of Phoenix, Ariz.) according to Lloyd's Thin Leather (127); Pueblo Grande Ruin (north of South Mountain) according to Smith-Allison (story 28)

Place, where Noo-ee, 'Buzzard,' lived (Lloyd, 127, 159; Russell, 225)

Place, where Huam a Nui, 'Yellow Buzzard,' lived (stories 19, 28).

Siwañ Wa'aki, or Cuk Tataikam Siwañ Wa'aki

Siwañ or Cuk Tataikam Siwañ

Casa Blanca, Arizona

 

Great-house, headed by Siivan (stories 25, 30).

Unknown

Unknown

North of Salt River, near Camelback Mountain (Cheof See-vick, in this text; better spelled "Cew S-weg," 'Long Red'

Place, where a chief and his brother lived (Lloyd, 159)

 

O'odkam Wa'aki, 'Gravel Great-house'

A-an Hi:tpagi Siwañ, 'Feather Braids Chief'

Mesa, Arizona (Russell, 229); near Fort McDowell, Arizona (therefore on Verde River) (Lloyd, 133, 160); at Wukkakotk, a mountain (Weg Gakodk, 'Red Hill'), therefore near Verde River at north boundary of today's Salt River Indian Reservation (Fewkes, 51)

Pueblo, headed by A-an Hitupaki ('Feather Breathing') Sivan (Russell, 24, 229; Russell's translation notes must have said "braided" instead of "breathing," and he must have misread his writing); a place, Awawtkumvahahkee, headed by a seeven (Lloyd, 160); a place, where Feather-plaited Doctor lived (Fewkes, 51)

 

289
 

LIKELY PLACE-NAME

LIKELY CHIEF NAME

NEAREST PRESENT-DAY LOCATION

THIN LEATHER DATA

SMITH-ALLISON DATA

Unknown

Vi:g Iol Ma:kai Siwañ, 'Down-feather Turned-over Chief'; or S-toa Vi:g Siwañ, 'White Down-feather Chief'

Pueblo Grande Ruin, Phoenix, Arizona (Russell, 24); between Tempe and Phoenix (true of Pueblo Grande) (Fewkes: 51)

Place, headed by Vi-iki-ial Makai Sivan, 'Soft Feathers Rolling' (Russell, 24, 229); place, headed by Turavrik Civana, 'White Feather' (Fewkes: 51)

Two places, headed by chiefs (story 28). The second place was also the residence of Buzzard.

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown, probably west-central Arizona

 

Place, where defeated Hohokam had taken refuge and were spared further violence by the Pimas (story 31).

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown, western Arizona

Pueblos, defeated by the Pimas to complete their conquest of the Gila Valley (Russell, 229)

 

Unknown

Towa Keli, 'Turkey Old-man'

Unknown, probably western Arizona

 

Place, inhabited by To va Kule (story 34).

Unknown

Unknown

West of the Colorado River (Lloyd); west of the Colorado river in very snowy country (Smith-Allison)

Place, where Choo-chawf Aw-aw-tam, 'Foxes,' lived in holes in the ground (probably Ce:co O'odham, 'Caves People') (Lloyd, 161)

Place, where people lived in snow-covered houses (story 35).

Unknown

Unknown

Yellowstone Park (or possibly hot springs in the Imperial Valley, California)

 

Place, inhabited by boiling, erupting water (story 35).


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Preferred Citation: Bahr, Donald, Juan Smith, William Smith Allison, and Julian Hayden. The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5z09p0dh/