kawaika

Updated: April 30, 2025

Some of these, as the ruins at the sacred spring called Kishuba, are of the utmost traditional importance. I. Middle Mesa ruins Old Shuñopovi; Old Mishoñinovi; Shitaumû; Chukubi; Payüpki. II. East Mesa ruins Kisakobi; Küchaptüvela; Küküchomo; Tukinobi; Kachinba; Sikyatki. III. Ruins in Keam's canyon. IV. Jeditoh valley ruins Bat-house; Jeditoh, Kawaika; Horn-house; Awatobi; Smaller Awatobi.

Jesse Walter Fewkes - Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895: Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American: Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,: 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898,: pages 519-744

Near a sacred spring called Kawaika, not far from Jeditoh, near Awatobi, a large number of beautiful vessels with similar holes in their rims were excavated by Mr T. V. Keam, and later passed into the collections of the Hemenway Expedition, now installed at Cambridge. They are of all kinds of ware, widely different in shape, the number of marginal perforations varying greatly.

Jesse Walter Fewkes - Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895: Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American: Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,: 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898,: pages 519-744

Stephen calls this ruin Mishiptonga, and a plan of the old house is given by Mindeleff. The spring called Kawaika, situated near the former village of the same name, was evidently much used by the ancient accolents of Antelope valley.

Jesse Walter Fewkes - Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895: Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American: Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,: 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898,: pages 519-744