The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

~ YMBOLICAL.
To each stake were attached four feathers of the eagle,
four of the turkey, four of the duck, and four of the crow.
Those of the eagle were supposed to be typical of the
gallantry and daring of the braves who had so valiantly
defended the pueblo. The turkey feathers served to
remind them that the Great Spirit always regarded his
children with love, and ever stood ready to exercise over
them his protecting care, in proof of which he had sent
them corn and wheat by the turkey when they were hungry.
The duck, being a water fowl, and under the protecting
care of the Spirit of the Spring, reminded them that he
would guard their characters from the "forked tongues" of
their enemies, even as the Great Spirit most beneficently
exercised his protecting care over their lives. The feathers
of the crow, being black, represented to them the hearts
of their foes, over whom they had so signally and gloriously
triumphed.
At the sound of the tombe,* the warriors, to the number
of thirty, hideously painted and gayly ornamented, entered
the plaza with slow and measured step, marching towards
the north corner. Here they paused for a few moments,
* A section of hollow log, about two feet long, and from sixteen to eighteen
inches in diameter. Over one end of it is stretched a dried hide, from
which the hair has been carefully removed. It is sounded with a stick, simi.
lar to that used in beating a bass drum, and produces a most terrific sound,
which can be heard for miles on a still night.
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