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IN the second volume of the Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology I have pointed out, for the first time, that the four cardinal points among the Tusayan villagers are not the same as those of the astronomers, or that their north is approximately north-west. I also gave, in the same article, tables with the amount of the angular variations, showing that the sacred rooms, or kivas, where the mysteries of their ceremonial worship are performed, are oriented, roughly speaking, in accordance with their conception of the positions of north, west, south and east. It was shown that the amount of angular variation was constant, and later, in a description of the ruins of A-na-to-bi, the same orientation was made known.
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FEWKES, J. On the Cardinal Points of the Tusayan Villagers. Nature 49, 388 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049388b0
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