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Title: A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola

Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
Author: Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff
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Mashongnavi, Shupaulovi, Sichumovi (names): sometimes written with accents as MashÃ³ngnavi,
ShupaÃºlovi, SichÃºmovi
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A STUDY
OF
PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE:
TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA.
BY
VICTOR MINDELEFF.
CONTENTS.
Page.
Introduction 13
Chapter I.— Traditionary history of Tusayan 16
Explanatory 16
Summary of traditions 16
List of traditionary gentes 38
Supplementary legend 40
Chapter II.— Ruins and inhabited villages of Tusayan 42
Physical features of the province 42
Methods of survey 44
Plans and description of ruins 45
Walpi ruins 46
Old Mashongnavi 47
Shitaimuvi 48
Awatubi 49
Horn House 50
Small ruin near Horn House 51
Bat House 52
Mishiptonga 52
Moen-kopi 53
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Ruins on the Oraibi wash 54
Kwaituki 56
Tebugkihu, or Fire House 57
Chukubi 59
Payupki 59
Plans and descriptions of inhabited villages 61
Hano 61
Sichumovi 62
Walpi 63
Mashongnavi 66
Shupaulovi 71
Shumopavi 73
Oraibi 76
Moen-kopi 77
Chapter III.— Ruins and inhabited villages of Cibola 80
Physical features of the province 80
Plans and descriptions of ruins 80
Hawikuh 80
Ketchipauan 81
Chalowe 83
Hampassawan 84
Kâ——iakima 85
Matsaki 86
Pinawa 86
6 Halona 88
TÃ¢aaiyalana ruins 89
Kin-tiel and Kinna-Zinde 91
Plans and descriptions of inhabited villages 94
Nutria 94
Pescado 95
Ojo Caliente 96
ZuÃ±i 97
Chapter IV.— Architecture of Tusayan and Cibola compared by constructional details 100
Introduction 100
Housebuilding 100
Rites and methods 100
Localization of gentes 104
Interior arrangement 108
Kivas in Tusayan 111
General use of kivas by pueblo builders 111
Origin of the name 111
Antiquity of the kiva 111
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Excavation of the kiva 112
Access 113
Masonry 114
Orientation 115
The ancient form of kiva 116
Native explanations of position 117
Methods of kiva building and rites 118
Typical plans 118
Work by women 129
Consecration 129
Various uses of kivas 130
Kiva ownership 133
Motives for building a kiva 134
Significance of structural plan 135
Typical measurements 136
List of Tusayan Kivas 136
Details of Tusayan and Cibola construction 137
Walls 137
Roofs and floors 148
Wall copings and roof drains 151
Ladders and steps 156
Cooking pits and ovens 162
Oven-shaped structures 167
Fireplaces and chimneys 167
Gateways and covered passages 180
Doors 182
Windows 194
Roof openings 201
Furniture 208
Corrals and gardens; eagle cages 214
â——Kisiâ—— construction 217
Architectural nomenclature 220
Concluding remarks 223
Footnotes
Index
About the Illustrations
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
Illustrations have been placed as close as practicable to their discussion in the text. The printed page numbers
show the original location. Multi-part Figures are sometimes shown vertically (one drawing above the other)
where the original layout was horizontal.
The Map and most site plans are shown as thumbnails linked to larger versions.
Page.
Plate I. Map of the provinces of Tusayan and Cibola 12
II. Old Mashongnavi, plan 14
III. General view of Awatubi 16
IV. Awatubi (Talla-Hogan), plan 18
V. Standing walls of Awatubi 20
VI. Adobe fragment in Awatubi 22
VII. Horn House ruin, plan 24
VIII. Bat House 26
IX. Mishiptonga (Jeditoh) 28
X. A small ruin near Moen-kopi 30
XI. Masonry on the outer wall of the Fire-House, detail 32
XII. Chukubi, plan 34
XIII. Payupki, plan 36
XIV. General view of Payupki 38
XV. Standing walls of Payupki 40
XVI. Plan of Hano 42
XVII. View of Hano 44
XVIII. Plan of Sichumovi 46
XIX. View of Sichumovi 48
XX. Plan of Walpi 50
XXI. View of Walpi 52
XXII. South passageway of Walpi 54
XXIII. Houses built over irregular sites, Walpi 56
XXIV. Dance rock and kiva, Walpi 58
XXV. Foot trail to Walpi 60
XXVI. Mashongnavi, plan 62
XXVII. Mashongnavi with Shupaulovi in distance 64
XXVIII. Back wall of a Mashongnavi house-row 66
XXIX. West side of a principal row in Mashongnavi 68
XXX. Plan of Shupaulovi 70
XXXI. View of Shupaulovi 72
XXXII. A covered passageway of Shupaulovi 74
XXXIII. The chief kiva of Shupaulovi 76
XXXIV. Plan of Shumopavi 78
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XXXV. View of Shumopavi 80
XXXVI. Oraibi, plan In pocket.
XXXVII. Key to the Oraibi plan, also showing localization of gentes 82
XXXVIII. A court of Oraibi 84
XXXIX. Masonry terraces of Oraibi 86
XL. Oraibi house row, showing court side 88
XLI. Back of Oraibi house row 90
XLII. The site of Moen-kopi 92
XLIII. Plan of Moen-kopi 94
XLIV. Moen-kopi 96
8 XLV. The Mormon mill at Moen-kopi 98
XLVI. Hawikuh, plan 100
XLVII. Hawikuh, view 102
XLVIII. Adobe church at Hawikuh 104
XLIX. Ketchipanan, plan 106
L. Ketchipauan 108
LI. Stone church at Ketchipauan 110
LII. Kâ——iakima, plan 112
LIII. Site of Kâ——iakima, at base of TÃ¢aaiyalana 114
LIV. Recent wall at Kâ——iakima 116
LV. Matsaki, plan 118
LVI. Standing wall at Pinawa 120
LVII. Halona excavations as seen from ZuÃ±i 122
LVIII. Fragments of Halona wall 124
LIX. The mesa of TÃ¢aaiyalana, from ZuÃ±i 126
LX. TÃ¢aaiyalana, plan 128
LXI. Standing walls of TÃ¢aaiyalana ruins 130
LXII. Remains of a reservoir on TÃ¢aaiyalana 132
LXIII. Kin-tiel, plan (also showing excavations) 134
LXIV. North wall of Kin-tiel 136
LXV. Standing walls of Kin-tiel 138
LXVI. Kinna-Zinde 140
LXVII. Nutria, plan 142
LXVIII. Nutria, view 144
LXIX. Pescado, plan 146
LXX. Court view of Pescado, showing corrals 148
LXXI. Pescado houses 150
LXXII. Fragments of ancient masonry in Pescado 152
LXXIII. Ojo Caliente, plan In pocket.
LXXIV. General view of Ojo Caliente 154
LXXV. House at Ojo Caliente 156
LXXVI. ZuÃ±i, plan In pocket.
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LXXVII. Outline plan of ZuÃ±i, showing distribution of oblique openings 158
LXXVIII. General inside view of ZuÃ±i, looking west 160
LXXIX. ZuÃ±i terraces 162
LXXX. Old adobe church of ZuÃ±i 164
LXXXI. Eastern rows of ZuÃ±i 166
LXXXII. A ZuÃ±i court 168
LXXXIII. A ZuÃ±i small house 170
LXXXIV. A house-building at Oraibi 172
LXXXV. A Tusayan interior 174
LXXXVI. A ZuÃ±i interior 176
LXXXVII. A kiva hatchway of Tusayan 178
LXXXVIII. North kivas of Shumopavi, from the northeast 180
LXXXIX. Masonry in the north wing of Kin-tiel 182
XC. Adobe garden walls near ZuÃ±i. 184
XCI. A group of stone corrals near Oraibi 186
XCII. An inclosing wall of upright stones at Ojo Caliente 188
XCIII. Upright blocks of sandstone built into an ancient pueblo wall 190
XCIV. Ancient wall of upright rocks in southwestern Colorado 192
XCV. Ancient floor-beams at Kin-tiel 194
XCVI. Adobe walls in ZuÃ±i 196
XCVII. Wall coping and oven at ZuÃ±i 198
XCVIII. Cross-pieces on ZuÃ±i ladders 200
XCIX. Outside steps at Pescado 202
9 C. An excavated room at Kin-tiel 204
CI. Masonry chimneys of ZuÃ±i 206
CII. Remains of a gateway in Awatubi 208
CIII. Ancient gateway, Kin-tiel 210
CIV. A covered passageway in Mashongnavi 212
CV. Small square openings in Pueblo Bonito 214
CVI. Sealed openings in a detached house of Nutria 216
CVII. Partial filling-in of a large opening in Oraibi, converting it into a doorway 218
CVIII. Large openings reduced to small windows, Oraibi 220
CIX. Stone corrals and kiva of Mashongnavi 222
CX. Portion of a corral in Pescado 224
CXI. ZuÃ±i eagle-cage 226
Fig. 1. View of the First Mesa 43

2. Ruins, Old Walpi mound 47
3. Ruin between Bat House and Horn House 51
4. Ruin near Moen-kopi, plan 53
5. Ruin 7 miles north of Oraibi 55
6. Ruin 14 miles north of Oraibi (Kwaituki) 56
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7. Oval fire-house ruin, plan. (Tebugkihu) 58
8. Topography of the site of Walpi 64
9. Mashongnavi and Shupaulovi from Shumopavi 66
10. Diagram showing growth of Mashongnavi 67
13. Topography of the site of Shupaulovi 71
14. Court kiva of Shumopavi 75
15. Hampassawan, plan 84
16. Pinawa, plan 87
17. Nutria, plan; small diagram, old wall 94
18. Pescado, plan, old wall diagram 95
19. A Tusayan wood-rack 103
20. Interior ground plan of a Tusayan room 108
21. North kivas of Shumopavi from the southwest 114
22. Ground plan of the chief-kiva of Shupaulovi 122
23. Ceiling-plan of the chief-kiva of Shupaulovi 123
24. Interior view of a Tusayan kiva 124
25. Ground-plan of a Shupaulovi kiva 125
26. Ceiling-plan of a Shupaulovi kiva 125
27. Ground-plan of the chief-kiva of Mashongnavi 126
28. Interior view of a kiva hatchway in Tusayan 127
29. Mat used in closing the entrance of Tusayan kivas 128
30. Rectangular sipapuh in a Mashongnavi kiva 131
31. Loom-post in kiva floor at Tusayan 132
32. A ZuÃ±i chimney showing pottery fragments embedded in its adobe base 139
33. A ZuÃ±i oven with pottery scales embedded in its surface 139
34. Stone wedges of ZuÃ±i masonry exposed in a rain-washed wall 141
35. An unplastered house wall in Ojo Caliente 142
36. Wall decorations in Mashongnavi, executed in pink on a white ground 146
37. Diagram of ZuÃ±i roof construction 149
38. Showing abutment of smaller roof-beams over round girders 151
39. Single stone roof-drains 153
40. Trough roof-drains of stone 153
10 41. Wooden roof-drains 154
42. Curved roof-drains of stone in Tusayan 154
43. Tusayan roof-drains; a discarded metate and a gourd 155
44. ZuÃ±i roof-drain, with splash-stones on roof below 156
45. A modern notched ladder in Oraibi 157
46. Tusayan notched ladders from Mashongnavi 157
47. Aboriginal American forms of ladder 158
48. Stone steps at Oraibi with platform at corner 161
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49. Stone steps, with platform at chimney, in Oraibi 161
50. Stone steps in Shumopavi 162
51. A series of cooking pits in Mashongnavi 163
52. Pi-gummi ovens of Mashongnavi 163
53. Cross sections of pi-gummi ovens of Mashongnavi 163
54. Diagrams showing foundation stones of a ZuÃ±i oven 164
55. Dome-shaped oven on a plinth of masonry 165
56. Oven in Pescado exposing stones of masonry 166
57. Oven in Pescado exposing stones of masonry 166
58. Shrines in Mashongnavi 167
59. A poultry house in Sichumovi resembling an oven 167
60. Ground-plan of an excavated room in Kin-tiel 168
61. A corner chimney-hood with two supporting poles, Tusayan 170
62. A curved chimney-hood of Mashongnavi 170
63. A Mashongnavi chimney-hood and walled-up fireplace 171
64. A chimney-hood of Shupaulovi 172
65. A semi-detached square chimney-hood of ZuÃ±i 172
66. Unplastered ZuÃ±i chimney-hoods, illustrating construction 173
67. A fireplace and mantel in Sichumovi 174
68. A second-story fireplace in Mashongnavi 174
69. Piki stone and chimney-hood in Sichumovi 175
70. Piki stone and primitive andiron in Shumopavi 176
71. A terrace fireplace and chimney of Shumopavi 177
72. A terrace cooking-pit and chimney of Walpi 177
73. A ground cooking-pit of Shumopavi covered with a chimney 178
74. Tusayan chimneys 179
75. A barred ZuÃ±i door 183
76. Wooden pivot hinges of a ZuÃ±i door 184
77. Paneled wooden doors in Hano 185
78. Framing of a ZuÃ±i door panel 186
79. Rude transoms over Tusayan openings 188
80. A large Tusayan doorway, with small transom openings 189
81. A doorway and double transom in Walpi 189
82. An ancient doorway in a Canyon de Chelly cliff ruin 190
83. A symmetrical notched doorway in Mashongnavi 190
84. A Tusayan notched doorway 191
85. A large Tusayan doorway with one notched jamb 192
86. An ancient circular doorway, or â——stone-close,â—— in Kin-tiel 193
87. Diagram illustrating symmetrical arrangement of small openings in Pueblo Bonito 195
88. Incised decoration on a rude window-sash in ZuÃ±i 196
89. Sloping selenite window at base of ZuÃ±i wall on upper terrace 197
90. A ZuÃ±i window glazed with selenite 197
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91. Small openings in the back wall of a ZuÃ±i house cluster. 198
92. Sealed openings in Tusayan 199
93. A ZuÃ±i doorway converted into a window 201
94. ZuÃ±i roof-openings 202
11 95. A ZuÃ±i roof-opening with raised coping 203
96. ZuÃ±i roof-openings with one raised end 203
97. A ZuÃ±i roof-hole with cover 204
98. Kiva trap-door in ZuÃ±i 205
99. Halved and pinned trap-door frame of a ZuÃ±i kiva 206
100. Typical sections of ZuÃ±i oblique openings 208
101. Arrangement of mealing stones in a Tusayan house 209
102. A Tusayan grain bin 210
103. A ZuÃ±i plume-box 210
104. A ZuÃ±i plume-box 210
105. A Tusayan mealing trough 211
106. An ancient pueblo form of metate 211
107. ZuÃ±i stools 213
108. A ZuÃ±i chair 213
109. Construction of a ZuÃ±i corral 215
110. Gardens of ZuÃ±i 216
111. â——Kishoni,â—— or uncovered shade, of Tusayan 218
112. A Tusayan field shelter, from southwest 219
113. A Tusayan field shelter, from northeast 219
114. Diagram showing ideal section of terraces, with Tusayan names 223
full size
Plate I.
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General Map of the Pueblo Region

of Arizona and New Mexico,
Showing Relative Position of the Provinces
of Tusayan and Cibola.
by
Victor Mindeleff.
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A STUDY OF PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE

IN TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA.
By Victor Mindeleff.
INTRODUCTION.
The remains of pueblo architecture are found scattered over thousands of square miles of the arid region of the
southwestern plateaus. This vast area includes the drainage of the Rio Pecos on the east and that of the
Colorado on the west, and extends from central Utah on the north beyond the limits of the United States
southward, in which direction its boundaries are still undefined.
The descendants of those who at various times built these stone villages are few in number and inhabit about
thirty pueblos distributed irregularly over parts of the region formerly occupied. Of these the greater number
are scattered along the upper course of the Rio Grande and its tributaries in New Mexico; a few of them,
comprised within the ancient provinces of Cibola and Tusayan, are located within the drainage of the Little
Colorado. From the time of the earliest Spanish expeditions into the country to the present day, a period
covering more than three centuries, the former province has been often visited by whites, but the remoteness
of Tusayan and the arid and forbidding character of its surroundings have caused its more complete isolation.
The architecture of this district exhibits a close adherence to aboriginal practices, still bears the marked
impress of its development under the exacting conditions of an arid environment, and is but slowly yielding to
the influence of foreign ideas.
The present study of the architecture of Tusayan and Cibola embraces all of the inhabited pueblos of those
provinces, and includes a number of the ruins traditionally connected with them. It will be observed by
reference to the map that the area embraced in these provinces comprises but a small portion of the vast region
over which pueblo culture once extended.
This study is designed to be followed by a similar study of two typical groups of ruins, viz, that of Canyon de
Chelly, in northeastern Arizona, and that of the Chaco Canyon, of New Mexico; but it has been necessary for
the writer to make occasional reference to these ruins in the present 14 paper, both in the discussion of
general arrangement and characteristic ground plans, embodied in Chapters II and III and in the comparison
by constructional details treated in Chapter IV, in order to define clearly the relations of the various features
of pueblo architecture. They belong to the same pueblo system illustrated by the villages of Tusayan and
Cibola, and with the Canyon de Chelly group there is even some trace of traditional connection, as is set forth
by Mr. Stephen in Chapter I. The more detailed studies of these ruins, to be published later, together with the
material embodied in the present paper, will, it is thought, furnish a record of the principal characteristics of
an important type of primitive architecture, which, under the influence of the arid environment of the
southwestern plateaus, has developed from the rude lodge into the many-storied house of rectangular rooms.
Indications of some of the steps of this development are traceable even in the architecture of the present day.
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The pueblo of ZuÃ±i was surveyed by the writer in the autumn of 1881 with a view to procuring the
necessary data for the construction of a large-scale model of this pueblo. For this reason the work afforded a
record of external features only.
The modern pueblos of Tusayan were similarly surveyed in the following season (1882-â——83), the plans
being supplemented by photographs, from which many of the illustrations accompanying this paper have been
drawn. The ruin of Awatubi was also included in the work of this season.
In the autumn of 1885 many of the ruined pueblos of Tusayan were surveyed and examined. It was during this
seasonâ——s work that the details of the kiva construction, embodied in the last chapter of this paper, were
studied, together with interior details of the dwellings. It was in the latter part of this season that the farming
pueblos of Cibola were surveyed and photographed.
The Tusayan farming pueblo of Moen-kopi and a number of the ruins in the province were surveyed and
studied in the early part of the season of 1887-â——88, the latter portion of which season was principally
devoted to an examination of the Chaco ruins in New Mexico.
In the prosecution of the field work above outlined the author has been greatly indebted to the efficient
assistance and hearty cooperation of Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff, by whom nearly all the pueblos illustrated, with
the exception of ZuÃ±i, have been surveyed and platted.
The plans obtained have involved much careful work with surveying instruments, and have all been so platted
as faithfully to record the minute variations from geometric forms which are so characteristic of the pueblo
work, but which have usually been ignored in the hastily prepared sketch plans that have at times appeared. In
consequence of the necessary omission of just such information in hastily drawn plans, erroneous impressions
have been given regarding the degree of skill to which the pueblo peoples had attained in the planning and
building of 15 their villages. In the general distribution of the houses, and in the alignment and arrangement
of their walls, as indicated in the plans shown in Chapters II and III, an absence of high architectural
attainment is found, which is entirely in keeping with the lack of skill apparent in many of the constructional
devices shown in Chapter IV.
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Plate II. Old Mashongnavi, plan.
In preparing this paper for publication Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff has rendered much assistance in the revision of
manuscript, and in the preparation of some of the final drawings of ground plans; on him has also fallen the
compilation and arrangement of Mr. A. M. Stephenâ——s traditionary material from Tusayan, embraced in the
first chapter of the paper.
This latter material is of special interest in a study of the pueblos as indicating some of the conditions under
which this architectural type was developed, and it appropriately introduces the more purely architectural
study by the author.
Such traditions must be used as history with the utmost caution, and only for events that are very recent. Time
relations are often hopelessly confused and the narratives are greatly incumbered with mythologic details. But
while so barren in definite information, these traditions are of the greatest value, often through their merely
incidental allusions, in presenting to our minds a picture of the conditions under which the repeated
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migrations of the pueblo builders took place.
The development of architecture among the Pueblo Indians was comparatively rapid and is largely attributable
to frequent changes, migrations, and movements of the people as described in Mr. Stephenâ——s account.
These changes were due to a variety of causes, such as disease, death, the frequent warfare carried on between
different tribes and branches of the builders, and the hostility of outside tribes; but a most potent factor was
certainly the inhospitable character of their environment. The disappearance of some venerated spring during
an unusually dry season would be taken as a sign of the disfavor of the gods, and, in spite of the massive
character of the buildings, would lead to the migration of the people to a more favorable spot. The traditions
of the ZuÃ±is, as well as those of the Tusayan, frequently refer to such migrations. At times tribes split up and
separate, and again phratries or distant groups meet and band together. It is remarkable that the substantial
character of the architecture should persist through such long series of compulsory removals, but while the
builders were held together by the necessity for defense against their wilder neighbors or against each other,
this strong defensive motive would perpetuate the laborious type of construction. Such conditions would
contribute to the rapid development of the building art.
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CHAPTER I.
TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF TUSAYAN.
EXPLANATORY.
In this chapter1 is presented a summary of the traditions of the Tusayan, a number of which were collected
from old men, from Walpi on the east to Moen-kopi on the west. A tradition varies much with the tribe and
the individual; an authoritative statement of the current tradition on any point could be made only with a
complete knowledge of all traditions extant. Such knowledge is not possessed by any one man, and the
material included in this chapter is presented simply as a summary of the traditions secured.
The material was collected by Mr. A. M. Stephen, of Keamâ——s Canyon, Arizona, who has enjoyed unusual
facilities for the work, having lived for a number of years past in Tusayan and possessed the confidence of the
principal priests—a very necessary condition in work of this character. Though far from complete, this
summary is a more comprehensive presentation of the traditionary history of these people than has heretofore
been published.
SUMMARY OF TRADITIONS.
The creation myths of the Tusayan differ widely, but none of them designate the region now occupied as the
place of their genesis. These people are socially divided into family groups called wiÂńgwu, the descendants
of sisters, and groups of wiÂńgwu tracing descent from the same female ancestor, and having a common
totem called myÂúmu. Each of these totemic groups preserves a creation myth, carrying in its details special
reference to themselves; but all of them claim a common origin in the interior of the earth, although the place
of emergence to the surface is set in widely separated localities. They all agree in maintaining this to be the
fourth plane on which mankind has existed. In the beginning all men lived together in the lowest depths, in a
region of darkness and moisture; their bodies were misshaped and horrible, and they suffered great misery,
moaning and bewailing continually. Through the intervention of MyÃºingwa (a vague conception known as
the god of the interior) and of Baholikonga (a crested serpent of enormous size, the genius of water), the
â——old menâ—— obtained a seed from which sprang a magic growth of cane. It penetrated through a crevice 17
in the roof overhead and mankind climbed to a higher plane. A dim light appeared in this stage and vegetation
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was produced. Another magic growth of cane afforded the means of rising to a still higher plane on which the
light was brighter; vegetation was reproduced and the animal kingdom was created. The final ascent to this
present, or fourth plane, was effected by similar magic growths and was led by mythic twins, according to
some of the myths, by climbing a great pine tree, in others by climbing the cane, Phragmites communis, the
alternate leaves of which afforded steps as of a ladder, and in still others it is said to have been a rush, through
the interior of which the people passed up to the surface. The twins sang as they pulled the people out, and
when their song was ended no more were allowed to come; and hence, many more were left below than were
permitted to come above; but the outlet through which mankind came has never been closed, and
MyuÂíngwa sends through it the germs of all living things. It is still symbolized by the peculiar construction
of the hatchway of the kiva and in the designs on the sand altars in these underground chambers, by the
unconnected circle painted on pottery and by devices on basketry and other textile fabrics.
Plate III. General view of Awatubi.
All the people that were permitted to come to the surface were collected and the different families of men
were arranged together. This was done under the direction of twins, who are called PekÃ³nghoya, the younger
one being distinguished by the term BalÃ−ngahoya, the Echo. They were assisted by their grandmother,
KÃ³hkyang wÃºhti, the Spider woman, and these appear in varying guises in many of the myths and legends.
They instructed the people in divers modes of life to dwell on mountain or on plain, to build lodges, or huts,
or windbreaks. They distributed appropriate gifts among them and assigned each a pathway, and so the
various families of mankind were dispersed over the earthâ——s surface.
The Hopituh,2 after being taught to build stone houses, were also divided, and the different divisions took
separate paths. The legends indicate a long period of extensive migrations in separate communities; the groups
came to Tusayan at different times and from different directions, but the people of all the villages concur in
designating the Snake people as the first occupants of the region. The eldest member of that nyumu tells a
curious legend of their migration from which the following is quoted:
At the general dispersal my people lived in snake skins, each family occupying a separate
snake skin bag, and all were hung on the end of a rainbow, which swung around until the end
touched Navajo Mountain, where the bags dropped from it; and wherever a bag dropped,
there was their house. After they arranged their bags they came out from them as men and
women, and they then, built a stone house which had five sides. [The story here relates the
adventures of a mythic Snake Youth, who brought back a strange woman who gave birth to
rattlesnakes; these bit the people and compelled them to migrate.] A brilliant star arose in the
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southeast, 18 which would shine for a while and then disappear. The old men said,
â——Beneath that star there must be people,â—— so they determined to travel toward it. They cut
a staff and set it in the ground and watched till the star reached its top, then they started and
traveled as long as the star shone; when it disappeared they halted. But the star did not shine
every night, for sometimes many years elapsed before it appeared again. When this occurred,
our people built houses during their halt; they built both round and square houses, and all the
ruins between here and Navajo Mountain mark the places where our people lived. They
waited till the star came to the top of the staff again, then they moved on, but many people
were left in those houses and they followed afterward at various times. When our people
reached Wipho (a spring a few miles north from Walpi) the star disappeared and has never
been seen since. They built a house there and after a time MÃ¡sauwu (the god of the face of
the earth) came and compelled them to move farther down the valley, to a point about half
way between the East and Middle Mesa, and there they stayed many plantings. One time the
old men were assembled and MÃ¡sauwu came among them, looking like a horrible skeleton,
and his bones rattling dreadfully. He menaced them with awful gestures, and lifted off his
fleshless head and thrust it into their faces; but he could not frighten them. So he said, â——I
have lost my wager; all that I have is yours; ask for anything you want and I will give it to
you.â—— At that time our peopleâ——s house was beside the water course, and MÃ¡sauwu said,
â——Why are you sitting here in the mud? Go up yonder where it is dry.â—— So they went
across to the low, sandy terrace on the west side of the mesa, near the point, and built a house
and lived there. Again the old men were assembled and two demons came among them and
the old men took the great Baho and the nwelas and chased them away. When they were
returning, and were not far north from, their village, they met the Lenbaki (Cane-Flute, a
religious society still maintained) of the Horn family. The old men would not allow them to
come in until MÃ¡sauwu appeared and declared them to be good Hopituh. So they built
houses adjoining ours and that made a fine, large village. Then other Hopituh came in from
time to time, and our people would say, â——Build here, or build there,â—— and portioned the
land among the new comers.
The site of the first Snake house in the valley, mentioned in the foregoing legend, is now barely to be
discerned, and the people refuse to point out the exact spot. It is held as a place of votive offerings during the
ceremony of the Snake dance, and, as its name, BÃ¡tni, implies, certain rain-fetiches are deposited there in
small jars buried in the ground. The site of the village next occupied can be quite easily distinguished, and is
now called Kwetcap tutwi, ash heap terrace, and this was the village to which the name Walpi was first
applied—a term meaning the place at the notched mesa, in allusion to a broad gap in the stratum of sandstone
on the summit of the mesa, and by which it can be distinguished from a great distance. The ground plan of this
early Walpi can still be partly traced, indicating the former existence of an extensive village of clustering,
little-roomed houses, with thick walls constructed of small stones.
The advent of the Lenbaki is still commemorated by a biennial ceremony, and is celebrated on the year
alternating with their other biennial ceremony, the Snake dance.
The Horn people, to which the Lenbaki belonged, have a legend of coming from a mountain range in the east.
Its peaks were always snow covered, and the trees were always green. From the hillside the
plains were seen, over which roamed the deer, the antelope, and the 19 bison, feeding on
never-failing grasses. Twining through these plains were streams of bright water, beautiful to
look upon. A place where none but those who were of our people ever gained access.
This description suggests some region of the head-waters of the Rio Grande. Like the Snake people, they tell
of a protracted migration, not of continuous travel, for they remained for many seasons in one place, where
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they would plant and build permanent houses. One of these halting places is described as a canyon with high,
steep walls, in which was a flowing stream; this, it is said, was the TsÃ©gi (the Navajo name for Canyon de
Chelly). Here they built a large house in a cavernous recess, high up in the canyon wall. They tell of devoting
two years3 to ladder making and cutting and pecking shallow holes up the steep rocky side by which to mount
to the cavern, and three years more were employed in building the house. While this work was in progress
part of the men were planting gardens, and the women and children were gathering stones. But no adequate
reason is given for thus toiling to fit this impracticable site for occupation; the footprints of MÃ¡sauwu, which
they were following, led them there.
The legend goes on to tell that after they had lived there for a long time a stranger happened to stray in their
vicinity, who proved to be a Hopituh, and said that he lived in the south. After some stay he left and was
accompanied by a party of the â——Horn,â—— who were to visit the land occupied by their kindred Hopituh and
return with an account of them; but they never came back. After waiting a long time another band was sent,
who returned and said that the first emissaries had found wives and had built houses on the brink of a
beautiful canyon, not far from the other Hopituh dwellings. After this many of the Horns grew dissatisfied
with their cavern home, dissensions arose, they left their home, and finally they reached Tusayan. They lived
at first in one of the canyons east of the villages, in the vicinity of Keamâ——s Canyon, and some of the
numerous ruins on its brink mark the sites of their early houses. There seems to be no legend distinctly
attaching any particular ruin to the Horn people, although there is little doubt that the Snake and the Horn
were the two first peoples who came to the neighborhood of the present villages. The Bear people were the
next, but they arrived as separate branches, and from opposite directions, although of the same Hopituh stock.
It has been impossible to obtain directly the legend of the Bears from the west. The story of the Bears from the
east tells of encountering the Fire people, then living about 25 miles east from Walpi; but these are now
extinct, and nearly all that is known of them is told in the Bear legend, the gist of which is as follows:
The Bears originally lived among the mountains of the east, not far distant from the Horns. Continual quarrels
with neighboring villages 20 brought on actual fighting, and the Bears left that region and traveled westward.
As with all the other people, they halted, built houses, and planted, remaining stationary for a long while; this
occurred at different places along their route.
A portion of these people had wings, and they flew in advance to survey the land, and when the main body
were traversing an arid region they found water for them. Another portion had claws with which they dug
edible roots, and they could also use them for scratching hand and foot holes in the face of a steep cliff. Others
had hoofs, and these carried the heaviest burdens; and some had balls of magic spider web, which they could
use on occasion for ropes, and they could also spread the web and use it as a mantle, rendering the wearer
invisible when he apprehended danger.
They too came to the TsÃ©gi (Canyon de Chelly), where they found houses but no people, and they also built
houses there. While living there a rupture occurred, a portion of them separating and going far to the
westward. These seceding bands are probably that branch of the Bears who claim their origin in the west.
Some time after this, but how long after is not known, a plague visited the canyon, and the greater portion of
the people moved away, but leaving numbers who chose to remain. They crossed the Chinli valley and halted
for a short time at a place a short distance northeast from Great Willow water (â——Eighteen Mile Springâ——).
They did not remain there long, however, but moved a few miles farther west, to a place occupied by the Fire
people who lived in a large oval house. The ruin of this house still stands, the walls from 5 to 8 feet high, and
remarkable from the large-sized blocks of stone used in their construction; it is still known to the Hopituh as
TebvwÃºki, the Fire-house. Here some fighting occurred, and the Bears moved westward again to the head of
Antelope (Jeditoh) Canyon, about 4 miles from Keamâ——s Canyon and about 15 miles east from Walpi. They
built there a rambling cluster of small-roomed houses, of which the ground plan has now become almost
obliterated. This ruin is called by the Hopituh â——the ruin at the place of wild gourds.â—— They seem to have
occupied this neighborhood for a considerable period, as mention is made of two or three segregations, when
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groups of families moved a few miles away and built similar house clusters on the brink of that canyon.
The Fire-people, who, some say, were of the Horn people, must have abandoned their dwelling at the Oval
House or must have been driven out at the time of their conflict with the Bears, and seem to have traveled
directly to the neighborhood of Walpi. The Snakes allotted them a place to build in the valley on the east side
of the mesa, and about two miles north from the gap. A ridge of rocky knolls and sand dunes lies at the foot of
the mesa here, and close to the main cliff is a spring. There are two prominent knolls about 400 yards apart
and the summits of these are covered with traces of house walls; also portions of walls can be discerned on all
the intervening hummocks. The place is known as SikyÃ¡tki, 21 the yellow-house, from the color of the
sandstone of which the houses were built. These and other fragmentary bits have walls not over a foot thick,
built of small stones dressed by rubbing, and all laid in mud; the inside of the walls also show a smooth
coating of mud plaster. The dimensions of the rooms are very small, the largest measuring 9Â½ feet long, by
4Â½ feet wide. It is improbable that any of these structures were over two stories high, and many of them
were built in excavated places around the rocky summits of the knolls. In these instances no rear wall was
built; the partition walls, radiating at irregular angles, abut against the rock itself. Still, the great numbers of
these houses, small as they were, must have been far more than the Fire-people could have required, for the
oval house which they abandoned measures not more than a hundred feet by fifty. Probably other incoming
gentes, of whom no story has been preserved, had also the ill fate to build there, for the Walpi people
afterward slew all its inhabitants.
There is little or no detail in the legends of the Bear people as to their life in Antelope Canyon; they can now
distinguish only one ruin with certainty as having been occupied by their ancestors, while to all the other ruins
fanciful names have been applied. Nor is there any special cause mentioned for abandoning their dwellings
there; probably, however, a sufficient reason was the cessation of springs in their vicinity. Traces of former
large springs are seen at all of them, but no water flows from them at the present time. Whatever their motive,
the Bears left Antelope Canyon, and moved over to the village of Walpi, on the terrace below the point of the
mesa. They were received kindly there, and were apparently placed on an equal footing with the Walpi, for it
seems the Snake, Horn, and Bear have always been on terms of friendship. They built houses at that village,
and lived there for some considerable time; then they moved a short distance and built again almost on the
very point of the mesa. This change was not caused by any disagreement with their neighbors; they simply
chose that point as a suitable place on which to build all their houses together. The site of this Bear house is
called KisÃ¡kobi, the obliterated house, and the name is very appropriate, as there is merely the faintest trace
here and there to show where a building stood, the stones having been used in the construction of the modern
Walpi. These two villages were quite close together, and the subsequent construction of a few additional
groups of rooms almost connected them, so that they were always considered and spoken of as one.
It was at this period, while Walpi was still on this lower site, that the Spaniards came into the country. They
met with little or no opposition, and their entrance was marked by no great disturbances. No special tradition
preserves any of the circumstances of this event; these first coming Spaniards being only spoken of as the
â——KastÂílumuh who wore iron garments, and came from the south,â—— and this brief mention may be
accounted for by the fleeting nature of these early visits.
The zeal of the Spanish priests carried them everywhere throughout 22 their newly acquired territory, and
some time in the seventeenth century a band of missionary monks found their way to Tusayan. They were
accompanied by a few troops to impress the people with a due regard for Spanish authority, but to display the
milder side of their mission, they also brought herds of sheep and cattle for distribution. At first these were
herded at various springs within a wide radius around the villages, and the names still attaching to these places
memorize the introduction of sheep and cattle to this region. The Navajo are first definitely mentioned in
tradition as occupants of this vicinity in connection with these flocks and herds, in the distribution of which
they gave much undesirable assistance by driving off the larger portion to their own haunts.
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The missionaries selected Awatubi, Walpi, and Shumopavi as the sites for their mission buildings, and at
once, it is said, began to introduce a system of enforced labor. The memory of the mission period is held in
great detestation, and the onerous toil the priests imposed is still adverted to as the principal grievance. Heavy
pine timbers, many of which are now pointed out in the kiva roofs, of from 15 to 20 feet in length and a foot
or more in diameter, were cut at the San Francisco Mountain, and gangs of men were compelled to carry and
drag them to the building sites, where they were used as house beams. This necessitated prodigious toil, for
the distance by trail is a hundred miles, most of the way over a rough and difficult country. The Spaniards are
said to have employed a few ox teams in this labor, but the heaviest share was performed by the impressed
Hopituh, who were driven in gangs by the Spanish soldiers, and any who refused to work were confined in a
prison house and starved into submission.
The â——men with the long robes,â—— as the missionaries were called, are said to have lived among these
people for a long time, but no trace of their individuality survives in tradition.
Possibly the Spanish missionaries may have striven to effect some social improvement among these people,
and by the adoption of some harsh measures incurred the jealous anger of the chiefs. But the system of labor
they enforced was regarded, perhaps justly, as the introduction of serfdom, such as then prevailed in the larger
communities in the Rio Grande valleys. Perhaps tradition belies them; but there are many stories of their evil,
sensual lives—assertions that they violated women, and held many of the young girls at their mission houses,
not as pupils, but as concubines.
In any case, these hapless monks were engaged in a perilous mission in seeking to supplant the primitive faith
of the Tusayan, for among the native priests they encountered prejudices even as violent as their own. With
too great zeal they prohibited the sacred dances, the votive offerings to the nature-deities, and similar public
observances, and strove to suppress the secret rites and abolish the religious orders and societies. But these
were too closely incorporated with the system of gentes and 23 other family kinships to admit of their
extinction. Traditionally, it is said that, following the discontinuance of the prescribed ceremonies, the favor
of the gods was withdrawn, the clouds brought no rain, and the fields yielded no corn. Such a coincidence in
this arid region is by no means improbable, and according to the legends, a succession of dry seasons resulting
in famine has been of not infrequent occurrence. The superstitious fears of the people were thus aroused, and
they cherished a mortal hatred of the monks.
In such mood were they in the summer of 1680, when the village Indians rose in revolt, drove out the
Spaniards, and compelled them to retreat to Mexico. There are some dim traditions of that event still existing
among the Tusayan, and they tell of one of their own race coming from the river region by the way of ZuÃ±i
to obtain their cooperation in the proposed revolt. To this they consented.
Only a few Spaniards being present at that time, the Tusayan found courage to vent their enmity in massacre,
and every one of the hated invaders perished on the appointed day. The traditions of the massacre center on
the doom of the monks, for they were regarded as the embodiment of all that was evil in Spanish rule, and
their pursuit, as they tried to escape among the sand dunes, and the mode of their slaughter, is told with grim
precision; they were all overtaken and hacked to pieces with stone tomahawks.
It is told that while the monks were still in authority some of the Snake women urged a withdrawal from
Walpi, and, to incite the men to action, carried their mealing-stones and cooking vessels to the summit of the
mesa, where they desired the men to build new houses, less accessible to the domineering priests. The men
followed them, and two or three small house groups were built near the southwest end of the present village,
one of them being still occupied by a Snake family, but the others have been demolished or remodeled. A
little farther north, also on the west edge, the small house clusters there were next built by the families of two
women called Tji-vwÃ³-wati and Si-kya-tcÃ−-wati. Shortly after the massacre the lower village was entirely
abandoned, and the building material carried above to the point which the Snakes had chosen, and on which
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the modern Walpi was constructed. Several beams of the old mission houses are now pointed out in the roofs
of the kivas.
There was a general apprehension that the Spaniards would send a force to punish them, and the Shumopavi
also reconstructed their village in a stronger position, on a high mesa overlooking its former site. The other
villages were already in secure positions, and all the smaller agricultural settlements were abandoned at this
period, and excepting at one or two places on the Moen-kopi, the Tusayan have ever since confined
themselves to the close vicinity of their main villages.
The house masses do not appear to bear any relation to division by phratries. It is surprising that even the
social division of the phratries 24 is preserved. The Hopituh certainly marry within phratries, and
occasionally with the same gens. There is no doubt, however, that in the earlier villages each gens, and where
practicable, the whole of the phratry, built their houses together. To a certain extent the house of the priestess
of a gens is still regarded as the home of the gens. She has to be consulted concerning proposed marriages,
and has much to say in other social arrangements.
While the village of the Walpi was still upon the west side of the mesa point, some of them moved around and
built houses beside a spring close to the east side of the mesa. Soon after this a dispute over planting ground
arose between them and the SikyÃ¡tki, whose village was also on that side of the mesa and but a short
distance above them. From this time forward bad blood lay between the SikyÃ¡tki and the Walpi, who took
up the quarrel of their suburb. It also happened about that time, so tradition says, more of the Coyote people
came from the north, and the PikyÃ¡s nyu-mu, the young cornstalk, who were the latest of the Water people,
came in from the south. The SikyÃ¡tki, having acquired their friendship, induced them to build on two
mounds, on the summit of the mesa overlooking their village. They had been greatly harrassed by the young
slingers and archers of Walpi, who would come across to the edge of the high cliff and assail them with
impunity, but the occupation of these two mounds by friends afforded effectual protection to their village.
These knolls are about 40 yards apart, and about 40 feet above the level of the mesa which is something over
400 feet above SikyÃ¡tki. Their roughly leveled summits measure 20 by 10 feet and are covered with traces of
house walls; and it is evident that groups of small-roomed houses were clustered also around the sloping
sides. About a hundred yards south from their dwellings the people of the mounds built for their own
protection a strong wall entirely across the mesa, which at that point is contracted to about 200 feet in width,
with deep vertical cliffs on either side. The base of the wall is still quite distinct, and is about 3 feet thick.
But no reconciliation was ever effected between the Walpi and the SikyÃ¡tki and their allies, and in spite of
their defensive wall frequent assaults were made upon the latter until they were forced to retreat. The greater
number of them retired to Oraibi and the remainder to SikyÃ¡tki, and the feud was still maintained between
them and the Walpi.
Some of the incidents as well as the disastrous termination of this feud are still narrated. A party of the
SikyÃ¡tki went prowling through Walpi one day while the men were afield, and among other outrages, one of
them shot an arrow through a window and killed a chiefâ——s daughter while she was grinding corn. The
chiefâ——s son resolved to avenge the death of his sister, and some time after this went to SikyÃ¡tki,
professedly to take part in a religious dance, in which he joined until just before the close of the ceremony.
Having previously observed where the handsomest girl was seated among the spectators on the house terraces,
25 he ran up the ladder as if to offer her a prayer emblem, but instead he drew out a sharp flint knife from his
girdle and cut her throat. He threw the body down where all could see it, and ran along the adjoining terraces
till he cleared the village. A little way up the mesa was a large flat rock, upon which he sprang and took off
his dancerâ——s mask so that all might recognize him; then turning again to the mesa he sped swiftly up the
trail and escaped.
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And so foray and slaughter continued to alternate between them until the planting season of some indefinite
year came around. All the SikyÃ¡tki men were to begin the season by planting the fields of their chief on a
certain day, which was announced from the housetop by the Second Chief as he made his customary evening
proclamations, and the Walpi, becoming aware of this, planned a fatal onslaught. Every man and woman able
to draw a bow or wield a weapon were got in readiness and at night they crossed the mesa and concealed
themselves along its edge, overlooking the doomed village. When the day came they waited until the men had
gone to the field and then rushed down upon the houses. The chief, who was too old to go afield, was the first
one killed, and then followed the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children, and the destruction of the
houses. The wild tumult in the village alarmed the SikyÃ¡tki and they came rushing back, but too late to
defend their homes. Their struggles were hopeless, for they had only their planting sticks to use as weapons,
which availed but little against the Walpi with their bows and arrows, spears, slings, and war clubs. Nearly all
of the SikyÃ¡tki men were killed, but some of them escaped to Oraibi and some to Awatubi. A number of the
girls and younger women were spared, and distributed among the different villages, where they became wives
of their despoilers.
It is said to have been shortly after the destruction of SikyÃ¡tki that the first serious inroad of a hostile tribe
occurred within this region, and all the stories aver that these early hostiles were from the north, the Ute being
the first who are mentioned, and after them the Apache, who made an occasional foray.
While these families of Hopituh stock had been building their straggling dwellings along the canyon brinks,
and grouping in villages around the base of the East Mesa, other migratory bands of Hopituh had begun to
arrive on the Middle Mesa. As already said, it is admitted that the Snake were the first occupants of this
region, but beyond that fact the traditions are contradictory and confused. It is probable, however, that not
long after the arrival of the Horn, the Squash people came from the south and built a village on the Middle
Mesa, the ruin of which is called Chukubi. It is on the edge of the cliff on the east side of the neck of that
mesa, and a short distance south of the direct trail leading from Walpi to Oraibi. The Squash people say that
they came from PalÃ¡t Kwabi, the Red Land in the far South, and this vague term expresses nearly all their
knowledge of that traditional land. They say they lived 26 for a long time in the valley of the Colorado
Chiquito, on the south side of that stream and not far from the point where the railway crosses it. They still
distinguish the ruin of their early village there, which was built as usual on the brink of a canyon, and call it
EtÃ−psÃ−kya, after a shrub that grows there profusely. They crossed the river opposite that place, but built
no permanent houses until they reached the vicinity of Chukubi, near which two smaller clusters of ruins, on
knolls, mark the sites of dwellings which they claim to have been theirs. Three groups (nyumu) traveling
together were the next to follow them; these were the Bear, the Bear-skin-rope, and the Blue Jay. They are
said to have been very numerous, and to have come from the vicinity of San Francisco Mountain. They did
not move up to Chukubi, but built a large village on the summit, at the south end of the mesa, close to the site
of the present Mashongnavi. Soon afterward came the Burrowing Owl, and the Coyote, from the vicinity of
Navajo Mountains in the north, but they were not very numerous. They also built upon the Mashongnavi
summit.
After this the Squash people found that the water from their springs was decreasing, and began moving toward
the end of the mesa, where the other people were. But as there was then no suitable place left on the summit,
they built a village on the sandy terrace close below it, on the west side; and as the springs at Chukubi
ultimately ceased entirely, the rest of the Squash people came to the terrace and were again united in one
village. Straggling bands of several other groups, both wingwu and nyumu, are mentioned as coming from
various directions. Some built on the terrace and some found house room in Mashongnavi. This name is
derived as follows: On the south side of the terrace on which the Squash village was built is a high column of
sandstone which is vertically split in two, and formerly there was a third pillar in line, which has long since
fallen. These three columns were called TÃºtuwalha, the guardians, and both the Squash village and the one
on the summit were so named. On the north side of the terrace, close to the present village, is another irregular
massy pillar of sandstone called MashÃ³niniptu, meaning â——the other which remains erect,â—— having
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reference to the one on the south side, which had fallen. When the Squash withdrew to the summit the village
was then called MashÃ³niniptuovi, â——at the place of the other which remains erect;â—— now that term is
never used, but always its syncopated form, Mashongnavi.
The Squash village, on the south end of the Middle Mesa, was attacked by a fierce band that came from the
north, some say the Ute, others say the Apache; but whoever the invaders were, they completely overpowered
the people, and carried off great stores of food and other plunder. The village was then evacuated, the houses
dismantled, and the material removed to the high summit, where they reconstructed their dwellings around the
village which thenceforth bore its present name of Mashongnavi. Some of the Squash people moved over to
Oraibi, and portions of the Katchina and Paroquet people came from 27 there to Mashongnavi about the same
time, and a few of these two groups occupied some vacant houses also in Shupaulovi; for this village even at
that early date had greatly diminished in population, having sustained a disastrous loss of men in the canyon
affrays east of Walpi.
Shumopavi seems to have been built by portions of the same groups who went to the adjacent Mashongnavi,
but the traditions of the two villages are conflicting. The old traditionists at Shumopavi hold that the first to
come there were the Paroquet, the Bear, the Bear-skin-rope, and the Blue Jay. They came from the
west—probably from San Francisco Mountain. They claim that ruins on a mesa bluff about 10 miles south
from the present village are the remains of a village built by these groups before reaching Shumopavi, and the
Paroquets arrived first, it is said, because they were perched on the heads of the Bears, and, when nearing the
water, they flew in ahead of the others. These groups built a village on a broken terrace, on the east side of the
cliff, and just below the present village. There is a spring close by called after the ShunÃ³hu, a tall red grass,
which grew abundantly there, and from which the town took its name. This spring was formerly very large,
but two years ago a landslide completely buried it; lately, however, a small outflow is again apparent.
The ruins of the early village cover a hillocky area of about 800 by 250 feet, but it is impossible to trace much
of the ground plan with accuracy. The corner of an old house still stands, some 6 or 8 feet high, extending
about 15 feet on one face and about 10 feet on the other. The wall is over 3 feet in thickness, but of very
clumsy masonry, no care having been exercised in dressing the stones, which are of varying sizes and laid in
mud plaster. Interest attaches to this fragment, as it is one of the few tangible evidences left of the Spanish
priests who engaged in the fatal mission to the Hopituh in the sixteenth century. This bit of wall, which now
forms part of a sheep-fold, is pointed out as the remains of one of the mission buildings.
Other groups followed—the Mole, the Spider, and the â——WÃ−ksrun.â—— These latter took their name from a
curious ornament worn by the men. A piece of the leg-bone of a bear, from which the marrow had been
extracted and a stopper fixed in one end, was attached to the fillet binding the hair, and hung down in front of
the forehead. This gens and the Mole are now extinct.
Shumopavi received no further accession of population, but lost to some extent by a portion of the Bear
people moving across to Walpi. No important event seems to have occurred among them for a long period
after the destruction of SikyÃ¡tki, in which they bore some part, and only cursory mention is made of the
ingress of â——enemies from the north;â—— but their village, apparently, was not assailed.
The Oraibi traditions tend to confirm those of Shumopavi, and tell that the first houses there were built by
Bears, who came from the latter place. The following is from a curious legend of the early settlement:
28 The Bear people had two chiefs, who were brothers; the elder was called Vwen-ti-sÃ³-mo, and the
younger Ma-tcÃ−-to. They had a desperate quarrel at Shumopavi, and their people divided into two factions,
according as they inclined to one or other of the contestants. After a long period of contention Ma-tcÃ−-to and
his followers withdrew to the mesa where Oraibi now stands, about 8 miles northwest from Shumopavi, and
built houses a little to the southwest of the limits of the present town. These houses were afterwards destroyed
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by â——enemies from the north,â—— and the older portion of the existing town, the southwest ends of the house
rows, were built with stones from the demolished houses. Fragments of these early walls are still occasionally
unearthed.
After Ma-tcÃ−-to and his people were established there, whenever any of the Shumopavi people became
dissatisfied with that place they built at Oraibi, Ma-tcÃ−-to placed a little stone monument about halfway
between these two villages to mark the boundary of the land. Vwenti-soÂ´-mo objected to this, but it was
ultimately accepted with the proviso that the village growing the fastest should have the privilege of moving it
toward the other village. The monument still stands, and is on the direct Oraibi trail from Shumopavi, 3 miles
from the latter. It is a well dressed, rectangular block of sandstone, projecting two feet above the ground, and
measures 8Â½ by 7 inches. On the end is carved the rude semblance of a human head, or mask, the eyes and
mouth being merely round shallow holes, with a black line painted around them. The stone is pecked on the
side, but the head and front are rubbed quite smooth, and the block, tapering slightly to the base, suggests the
ancient Roman Termini.
There are Eagle people living at Oraibi, Mashongnavi, and Walpi, and it would seem as if they had journeyed
for some time with the later Snake people and others from the northwest. Vague traditions attach them to
several of the ruins north of the Moen-kopi, although most of these are regarded as the remains of Snake
dwellings.
The legend of the Eagle people introduces them from the west, coming in by way of the Moen-kopi water
course. They found many people living in Tusayan, at Oraibi, the Middle Mesa, and near the East Mesa, but
the Snake village was yet in the valley. Some of the Eagles remained at Oraibi, but the main body moved to a
large mound just east of Mashongnavi, on the summit of which they built a village and called it Shi-tÃ¡i-mu.
Numerous traces of small-roomed houses can be seen on this mound and on some of the lower surroundings.
The uneven summit is about 300 by 200 feet, and the village seems to have been built in the form of an
irregular ellipse, but the ground plan is very obscure.
While the Eagles were living at Shi-tÃ¡i-mu, they sent â——Yellow Footâ—— to the mountain in the east (at the
headwaters of the Rio Grande) to obtain a dog. After many perilous adventures in caverns guarded by bear,
mountain lion, and rattlesnake, he got two dogs and returned. 29 They were wanted to keep the coyotes out of
the corn and the gardens. The dogs grew numerous, and would go to Mashongnavi in search of food, and also
to some of the people of that village, which led to serious quarrels between them and the Eagle people.
Ultimately the Shi-tÃ¡i-mu chief proclaimed a feast, and told the people to prepare to leave the village
forever. On the feast day the women arranged the food basins on the ground in a long line leading out of the
village. The people passed along this line, tasting a mouthful here or there, but without stopping, and when
they reached the last basin they were beyond the limits of the village. Without turning around they continued
on down into the valley until they were halted by the Snake people. An arrangement was effected with the
latter, and the Eagles built their houses in the Snake village. A few of the Eagle families who had become
attached to Mashongnavi chose to go to that village, where their descendants still reside, and are yet held as
close relatives by the Eagles of Walpi. The land around the East Mesa was then portioned out, the Snakes,
Horns, Bears, and Eagles each receiving separate lands, and these old allotments are still approximately
maintained.
According to the Eagle traditions the early occupants of Tusayan came in the following succession: Snake,
Horn, Bear, Middle Mesa, Oraibi, and Eagle, and finally from the south came the Water families. This
sequence is also recognized in the general tenor of the legends of the other groups.
Shupaulovi, a small village quite close to Mashongnavi, would seem to have been established just before the
coming of the Water people. Nor does there seem to have been any very long interval between the arrival of
the earliest occupants of the Middle Mesa and this latest colony. These were the Sun people, and like the
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Squash folk, claim to have come from PalÃ¡tkwabi, the Red Land, in the south. On their northward migration,
when they came to the valley of the Colorado Chiquito, they found the Water people there, with whom they
lived for some time. This combined village was built upon HomÃ³lobi, a round terraced mound near Sunset
Crossing, where fragmentary ruins covering a wide area can yet be traced.
Incoming people from the east had built the large village of Awatubi, high rock, upon a steep mesa about nine
miles southeast from Walpi. When the Sun people came into Tusayan they halted at that village and a few of
them remained there permanently, but the others continued west to the Middle Mesa. At that time also they
say Chukubi, Shitaimu, Mashongnavi, and the Squash village on the terrace were all occupied, and they built
on the terrace close to the Squash village also. The Sun people were then very numerous and soon spread their
dwellings over the summit where the ruin now stands, and many indistinct lines of house walls around this
dilapidated village attest its former size. Like the neighboring village, it takes its name from a rock near by, 30
which is used as a place for the deposit of votive offerings, but the etymology of the term can not be traced.
Some of the Bear people also took up their abode at Shupaulovi, and later a nyumu of the Water family called
Batni, moisture, built with them; and the diminished families of the existing village are still composed entirely
of these three nyumu.
The next arrivals seem to have been the Asanyumu, who in early days lived in the region of the Chama, in
New Mexico, at a village called KaÃ©kibi, near the place now known as Abiquiu. When they left that region
they moved slowly westward to a place called TÃºwii (Santo Domingo), where some of them are said to still
reside. The next halt was at KaiwÃ¡ika (Laguna) where it is said some families still remain, and they staid
also a short time at AÂíkoka (Acoma); but none of them remained at that place. From the latter place they
went to SiÃ³ki (ZuÃ±i), where they remained a long time and left a number of their people there, who are
now called AiyÃ¡hokwi by the ZuÃ±i. They finally reached Tusayan by way of Awatubi. They had been
preceded from the same part of New Mexico by the Honan nyumu (the Badger people), whom they found
living at the last-named village. The Magpie, the Pute KÃ³hu (Boomerang-shaped hunting stick), and the
Field-mouse families of the Asa remained and built beside the Badger, but the rest of its groups continued
across to the Walpi Mesa. They were not at first permitted to come up to Walpi, which then occupied its
present site, but were allotted a place to build at Coyote Water, a small spring on the east side of the mesa, just
under the gap. They had not lived there very long, however, when for some valuable services in defeating at
one time a raid of the Ute (who used to be called the TcingawÃºptuh) and of the Navajo at another, they were
given for planting grounds all the space on the mesa summit from the gap to where Sichumovi now stands,
and the same width, extending across the valley to the east. On the mesa summit they built the early portion of
the house mass on the north side of the village, now known as Hano. But soon after this came a succession of
dry seasons, which caused a great scarcity of food almost amounting to a famine, and many moved away to
distant streams. The Asa people went to TÃºpkabi (Deep Canyon, the de Chelly), about 70 miles northeast
from Walpi, where the Navajo received them kindly and supplied them with food. The Asa had preserved
some seeds of the peach, which they planted in the canyon nooks, and numerous little orchards still flourish
there. They also brought the Navajo new varieties of food plants, and their relations grew very cordial. They
built houses along the base of the canyon walls, and dwelt there for two or three generations, during which
time many of the Asa women were given to the Navajo, and the descendants of these now constitute a
numerous clan among the Navajo, known as the KiÃ¡ini, the High-house people.
The Navajo and the Asa eventually quarreled and the latter returned to Walpi, but this was after the arrival of
the Hano, by whom they 31 found their old houses occupied. The Asa were taken into the village of Walpi,
being given a vacant strip on the east edge of the mesa, just where the main trail comes up to the village. The
Navajo, Ute, and Apache had frequently gained entrance to the village by this trail, and to guard it the Asa
built a house group along the edge of the cliff at that point, immediately overlooking the trail, where some of
the people still live; and the kiva there, now used by the Snake order, belongs to them. There was a crevice in
the rock, with a smooth bottom extending to the edge of the cliff and deep enough for a kiÂ´koli. A wall was
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built to close the outer edge and it was at first intended to build a dwelling house there, but it was afterward
excavated to its present size and made into a kiva, still called the wikwÃ¡lhobi, the kiva of the Watchers of the
High Place. The Walpi site becoming crowded, some of the Bear and Lizard people moved out and built
houses on the site of the present Sichumovi; several Asa families followed them, and after them came some of
the Badger people. The village grew to an extent considerably beyond its present size, when it was abandoned
on account of a malignant plague. After the plague, and within the present generation, the village was
rebuilt—the old houses being torn down to make the new ones.
After the Asa came the nest group to arrive was the Water family. Their chief begins the story of their
migration in this way:
In the long ago the Snake, Horn, and Eagle people lived here (in Tusayan), but their corn
grew only a span high, and when they sang for rain the cloud god sent only a thin mist. My
people then lived in the distant Pa-lÃ¡t KwÃ¡-bi in the South. There was a very bad old man
there, who, when he met any one, would spit in his face, blow his nose upon him, and rub
ordure upon him. He ravished the girls and did all manner of evil. Baholikonga got angry at
this and turned the world upside down, and water spouted up through the kivas and through
the fireplaces in the houses. The earth was rent in great chasms, and water covered everything
except one narrow ridge of mud; and across this the serpent deity told all the people to travel.
As they journeyed across, the feet of the bad slipped and they fell into the dark water, but the
good, after many days, reached dry land. While the water was rising around the village the
old people got on the tops of the houses, for they thought they could not struggle across with
the younger people; but Baholikonga clothed them with the skins of turkeys, and they spread
their wings out and floated in the air just above the surface of the water, and in this way they
got across. There were saved of our people Water, Corn, Lizard, Horned Toad, Sand, two
families of Rabbit, and Tobacco. The turkey tail dragged in the water—hence the white on the
turkey tail now. Wearing these turkey-skins is the reason why old people have dewlaps under
the chin like a turkey; it is also the reason why old people use turkey-feathers at the religious
ceremonies.
In the story of the wandering of the Water people, many vague references are made to various villages in the
South, which they constructed or dwelt in, and to rocks where they carved their totems at temporary halting
places. They dwelt for a long time at HomÃ³lobi, where the Sun people joined them; and probably not long
after the latter left the Water people followed on after them. The largest number of this family seem 32 to
have made their dwellings first at Mashongnavi and Shupaulovi; but like the Sun people they soon spread to
all the villages.
The narrative of part of this journey is thus given by the chief before quoted:
It occupied 4 years to cross the disrupted country. The kwakwanti (a warrior order) went
ahead of the people and carried seed of corn, beans, melons, squashes, and cotton. They
would plant corn in the mud at early morning and by noon it was ripe and thus the people
were fed. When they reached solid ground they rested, and then they built houses. The
kwakwanti were always out exploring—sometimes they were gone as long as four years.
Again we would follow them on long journeys, and halt and build houses and plant. While we
were traveling if a woman became heavy with child we would build her a house and put
plenty of food in it and leave her there, and from these women sprang the Pima, Maricopa,
and other Indians in the South.
Away in the South, before we crossed the mountains (south of the Apache country) we built
large houses and lived there a long while. Near these houses is a large rock on which was
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painted the rain-clouds of the Water phratry, also a man carrying corn in his arms; and the
other phratries also painted the Lizard and the Rabbit upon it. While they were living there
the kwakwanti made an expedition far to the north and came in conflict with a hostile people.
They fought day after day, for days and days—they fought by day only and when night came
they separated, each party retiring to its own ground to rest. One night the cranes came and
each crane took a kwakwanti on his back and brought them back to their people in the South.
Again all the people traveled north until they came to the Little Colorado, near San Francisco
Mountains, and there they built houses up and down the river. They also made long ditches to
carry the water from the river to their gardens. After living there a long while they began to
be plagued with swarms of a kind of gnat called the sand-fly, which bit the children, causing
them to swell up and die. The place becoming unendurable, they were forced again to resume
their travels. Before starting, one of the Rain-women, who was big with child, was made
comfortable in one of the houses on the mountain. She told her people to leave her, because
she knew this was the place where she was to remain forever. She also told them, that
hereafter whenever they should return to the mountain to hunt she would provide them with
plenty of game. Under her house is a spring and any sterile woman who drinks of its water
will bear children. The people then began a long journey to reach the summit of the table land
on the north. They camped for rest on one of the terraces, where there was no water, and they
were very tired and thirsty. Here the women celebrated the rain-feast—they danced for three
days, and on the fourth day the clouds brought heavy rain and refreshed the people. This
event is still commemorated by a circle of stones at that place. They reached a spring
southeast from KÃ¡ibitho (KumÃ¡s Spring) and there they built a house and lived for some
time. Our people had plenty of rain and cultivated much corn and some of the Walpi people
came to visit us. They told ns that their rain only came here and there in fine misty sprays,
and a basketful of corn was regarded as a large crop. So they asked us to come to their land
and live with them and finally we consented. When we got there we found some Eagle people
living near the Second Mesa; our people divided, and part went with the Eagle and have ever
since remained there; but we camped near the First Mesa. It was planting time and the Walpi
celebrated their rain-feast but they brought only a mere misty drizzle. Then we celebrated our
rain-feast and planted. Great rains and thunder and lightning immediately followed and on the
first day after planting our corn was half an armâ——s length high; on the fourth day it was its
full height, and in one moon it was ripe. When we were going up to the village (Walpi was
then north of the gap, probably), we were met by a 33 Bear man who said that our thunder
frightened the women and we must not go near the village. Then the kwakwanti said, â——Let
us leave these people and seek a land somewhere else,â—— but our women said they were tired
of travel and insisted upon our remaining. Then â——Fire-pickerâ—— came down from the
village and told us to come up there and stay, but after we had got into the village the Walpi
women screamed out against us—they feared our thunder—and so the Walpi turned us away.
Then our people, except those who went to the Second Mesa, traveled to the northeast as far
as the Tsegi (Canyon de Chelly), but I can not tell whether our people built the louses there.
Then they came hack to this region again and built houses and had much trouble with the
Walpi, but we have lived here ever since.
Groups of the Water people, as already stated, were distributed among all the villages, although the bulk of
them remained at the Middle Mesa; but it seems that most of the remaining groups subsequently chose to
build their permanent houses at Oraibi. There is no special tradition of this movement; it is only indicated by
this circumstance, that in addition to the Water families common to every village, there are still in Oraibi
several families of that people which have no representatives in any of the other villages. At a quite early day
Oraibi became a place of importance, and they tell of being sufficiently populous to establish many outlying
settlements. They still identify these with ruins on the detached mesas in the valley to the south and along the
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Moen-kopi (â——place of flowing waterâ——) and other intermittent streams in the west. These sites were
occupied for the purpose of utilizing cultivable tracts of land in their vicinity, and the remotest settlement,
about 45 miles west, was especially devoted to the cultivation of cotton, the place being still called by the
Navajo and other neighboring tribes, the â——cotton planting ground.â—— It is also said that several of the larger
ruins along the course of the Moen-kopi were occupied by groups of the Snake, the Coyote, and the Eagle
who dwelt in that region for a long period before they joined the people in Tusayan. The incursions of foreign
bands from the north may have hastened that movement, and the Oraibi say they were compelled to withdraw
all their outlying colonies. An episode is related of an attack upon the main village when a number of young
girls were carried off, and 2 or 3 years afterward the same marauders returned and treated with the Oraibi,
who paid a ransom in corn and received all their girls back again. After a quiet interval the pillaging bands
renewed their attacks and the settlements on the Moen-kopi were vacated. They were again occupied after
another peace was established, and this condition of alternate occupancy and abandonment seems to have
existed until within quite recent time.
While the Asa were still sojourning in Canyon de Chelly, and before the arrival of the Hano, another bloody
scene had been enacted in Tusayan. Since the time of the Antelope Canyon feuds there had been enmity
between Awatubi and some of the other villages, especially Walpi, and some of the Sikyatki refugees had
transmitted their feudal wrongs to their descendants who dwelt in Awatubi. They had long been perpetrating
all manner of offenses; they had intercepted hunting 34 parties from the other villages, seized their game, and
sometimes killed the hunters; they had fallen upon men in outlying corn fields, maltreating and sometimes
slaying them, and threatened still more serious outrage. Awatubi was too strong for Walpi to attack
single-handed, so the assistance of the other villages was sought, and it was determined to destroy Awatubi at
the close of a feast soon to occur. This was the annual â——feast of the kwakwanti,â—— which is still maintained
and is held during the month of November by each village, when the youths who have been qualified by
certain ordeals are admitted to the councils. The ceremonies last several days, and on the concluding night
special rites are held in the kivas. At these ceremonies every man must be in the kiva to which he belongs, and
after the close of the rites they all sleep there, no one being permitted to leave the kiva until after sunrise on
the following day.
There was still some little intercourse between Awatubi and Walpi, and it was easily ascertained when this
feast was to be held. On the day of its close, the Walpi sent word to their allies â——to prepare the war arrow
and come,â—— and in the evening the fighting bands from the other villages assembled at Walpi, as the foray
was to be led by the chief of that village. By the time night had fallen something like 150 marauders had met,
all armed, of course; and of still more ominous import than their weapons were the firebrands they
carried—shredded cedar bark loosely bound in rolls, resinous splinters of piÃ±on, dry greasewood (a furze
very easily ignited), and pouches full of pulverized red peppers.
Secure in the darkness from observation, the bands followed the Walpi chief across the valley, every man with
his weapons in hand and a bundle of inflammables on his back. Beaching the Awatubi mesa they cautiously
crept up the steep, winding trail to the summit, and then stole round the village to the passages leading to the
different courts holding the kivas, near which they hid themselves. They waited till just before the gray
daylight came, then the Walpi chief shouted his war cry and the yelling bands rushed to the kivas. Selecting
their positions, they were at them in a moment, and quickly snatching up the ladders through the hatchways,
the only means of exit, the doomed occupants were left as helpless as rats in a trap. Fire was at hand in the
numerous little cooking pits, containing the jars of food prepared for the celebrants, the inflammable bundles
were lit and tossed into the kivas, and the piles of firewood on the terraced roofs were thrown down upon the
blaze, and soon each kiva became a furnace. The red pepper was then cast upon the fire to add its choking
tortures, while round the hatchways the assailants stood showering their arrows into the mass of struggling
wretches. The fires were maintained until the roofs fell in and buried and charred the bones of the victims. It is
said that every male of Awatubi who had passed infancy perished in the slaughter, not one escaping. Such of
the women and children as were spared were taken out, and all the houses were destroyed, after which the
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captives were divided among the different villages.
35 The date of this last feudal atrocity can be made out with some degree of exactness, because in 1692, Don
Diego Vargas with a military force visited Tusayan and mentions Awatubi as a populous village at which he
made some halt. The Hano (Tewa) claim that they have lived in Tusayan for five or six generations, and that
when they arrived there was no Awatubi in existence; hence it must have been destroyed not long after the
close of the seventeenth century.
Since the destruction of Awatubi only one other serious affray has occurred between the villages; that was
between Oraibi and Walpi. It appears that after the Oraibi withdrew their colonies from the south and west
they took possession of all the unoccupied planting grounds to the east of the village, and kept reaching
eastward till they encroached upon some land claimed by the Walpi. This gave rise to intermittent warfare in
the outlying fields, and whenever the contending villagers met a broil ensued, until the strife culminated in an
attack upon Walpi. The Oraibi chose a day when the Walpi men were all in the field on the east side of the
mesa, but the Walpi say that their women and dogs held the Oraibi at bay until the men came to the rescue. A
severe battle was fought at the foot of the mesa, in which the Oraibi were routed and pursued across the
Middle Mesa, where an Oraibi chief turned and implored the Walpi to desist. A conciliation was effected
there, and harmonious relations have ever since existed between them. Until within a few years ago the spot
where they stayed pursuit was marked by a stone, on which a shield and a dog were depicted, but it was a
source of irritation to the Oraibi and it was removed by some of the Walpi.
In the early part of the eighteenth century the Ute from the north, and the Apache from the south made most
disastrous inroads upon the villages, in which Walpi especially suffered. The Navajo, who then lived upon
their eastern border, also suffered severely from the same bands, but the Navajo and the Tusayan were not on
the best terms and never made any alliance for a common defense against these invaders.
Hano was peopled by a different linguistic stock from that of the other villages—a stock which belongs to the
Rio Grande group. According to Polaka, the son of the principal chief, and himself an enterprising trader who
has made many journeys to distant localities—and to others, the Hano once lived in seven villages on the Rio
Grande, and the village in which his forefathers lived was called TceewÃ¡ge. This, it is said, is the same as the
present Mexican village of PeÃ±a Blanca.
The Hano claim that they came to Tusayan only after repeated solicitation by the Walpi, at a time when the
latter were much harassed by the Ute and Apache. The story, as told by KwÃ¡lakwai, who lives in Hano, but
is not himself a Hano, begins as follows:
Long ago the HopiÂ´tuh were few and were continually harassed by the YÃºtamo (Ute),
YuÃ−ttcemo (Apache), and DacÃ¡bimo (Navajo). The chiefs of the Tcuin nyumu (Snake
people) and the HÃ¡nin nyumu (Bear people) met together and made the baÂ´ho (sacred
plume stick) and sent it with a man from each of these people to the house of the Tewa, called
TceewÃ¡digi, which was far off on the MÃºina (river) near Alavia (Santa FÃ©).
36 The messengers did not succeed in persuading the Tewa to come and the embassy was sent three times
more. On the fourth visit the Tewa consented to come, as the Walpi had offered to divide their land and their
waters with them, and set out for Tusayan, led by their own chief, the village being left in the care of his son.
This first band is said to have consisted of 146 women, and it was afterwards followed by another and perhaps
others.
Before the Hano arrived there had been a cessation of hostile inroads, and the Walpi received them churlishly
and revoked their promises regarding the division of land and waters with them. They were shown where they
could build houses for themselves on a yellow sand mound on the east side of the mesa just below the gap.
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They built there, but they were compelled to go for their food up to Walpi. They could get no vessels to carry
their food in, and when they held out their hands for some the Walpi women mockingly poured out hot
porridge and scalded the fingers of the Hano.
After a time the Ute came down the valley on the west side of the mesa, doing great harm again, and drove off
the Walpi flocks andiron Then the Hano got ready for war; they tied buckskins around their loins, whitened
their legs with clay, and stained their body and arms with dark red earth (ocher). They overtook the Ute near
WÃ−pho (about 3 miles north from Hano), but the Ute had driven the flocks up the steep mesa side, and when
they saw the Tewa coming they killed all the sheep and piled the carcasses up for a defense, behind which
they lay down. They had a few firearms also, while the Hano had only clubs and bows and arrows; but after
some fighting the Ute were driven out and the Tewa followed after them. The first Ute was killed a short
distance beyond, and a stone heap still (?) marks the spot. Similar heaps marked the places where other Ute
were killed as they fled before the Hano, but not far from the San Juan the last one was killed.
Upon the return of the Hano from this successful expedition they were received gratefully and allowed to
come up on the mesa to live—the old houses built by the Asa, in the present village of Hano, being assigned
to them. The land was then divided, an imaginary line between Hano and Sichumovi, extending eastward
entirely across the valley, marked the southern boundary, and from this line as far north as the spot where the
last Utah was killed was assigned to the Hano as their possession.
When the Hano first came the Walpi said to them, â——let us spit in your mouths, and you will
learn our tongue,â—— and to this the Hano consented. When the Hano came up and built on the
mesa they said to the Walpi, â——let us spit in your mouths and you will learn our tongue,â——
but the Walpi would not listen to this, saying it would make them vomit. This is the reason
why all the Hano can talk HopÃ−, and none of the HopÃ−tuh can talk Hano.
The Asa and the Hano were close friends while they dwelt in New Mexico, and when they came to this region
both of them were called HÃ¡nomuh by the other people of Tusayan. This term signifies the mode in which
the women of these people wear their hair, cut off in front on a line with 37 the mouth and carelessly parted
or hanging over the face, the back hair rolled up in a compact queue at the nape of the neck. This uncomely
fashion prevails with both matron, and maid, while among the other Tusayan the matron parts her hair evenly
down the head and wears it hanging in a straight queue on either side, the maidens wearing theirs in a curious
discoid arrangement over each temple.
Although the Asa and the Hano women have the same peculiar fashion of wearing the hair, still there is no
affinity of blood claimed between them. The Asa speak the same language as the other Tusayan, but the Tewa
(Hano) have a quite distinct language which belongs to the TaÃ±oan stock. They claim that the occupants of
the following pueblos, in the same region of the Rio Grande, are of their people and speak the same tongue.
KÃ³tite CochitÃ− (?). KÃ¡pung Santa Clara (?)

NÃºmi NambÃ©. PokwÃ¡di Pojoaque.
Ohke San Juan. TetsÃ³gi Tesuque.
PosÃ³we (Doubtless extinct.) Also half of Taos.
Pleasant relations existed for some time, but the Walpi again grew ill-tempered; they encroached upon the
Hano planting grounds and stole their property. These troubles increased, and the Hano moved away from the
mesa; they crossed the west valley and built temporary shelters. They sent some men to explore the land on
the westward to find a suitable place for a new dwelling. These scouts went to the Moen-kopi, and on
returning, the favorable story they told of the land they had seen determined the Tewa to go there.
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Meanwhile some knowledge of these troubles had reached TceewÃ¡digi, and a party of the Tewa came to
Tusayan to take their friends back. This led the Hopituh to make reparation, which restored the confidence of
the Hano, and they returned to the mesa, and the recently arrived party were also induced to remain. Yet even
now, when the Hano (Tewa) go to visit their people on the river, the latter beseech them to come back, but the
old Tewa say, â——we shall stay here till our breath leaves us, then surely we shall go back to our first home to
live forever.â——
The Walpi for a long time frowned down all attempts on the part of the Hano to fraternize; they prohibited
intermarriages, and in general tabued the Hano. Something of this spirit was maintained until quite recent
years, and for this reason the Hano still speak their own language, and have preserved several distinctive
customs, although now the most friendly relations exist among all the villages. After the Hano were quietly
established in their present position the Asa returned, and the Walpi allotted them a place to build in their own
village. As before mentioned, the house mass on the southeast side of Walpi, at the head of the trail leading up
to the village at that point, is still occupied by Asa families, and their tenure of possession was on the
condition that they should always defend that point of access and guard the south end 38 of the village. Their
kiva is named after this circumstance as that of â——the Watchers of the High Place.â——
Some of the Bear and Lizard families being crowded for building space, moved from Walpi and built the first
houses on the site of the present village of Sichumovi, which is named from the Sivwapsi, a shrub which
formerly grew there on some mounds (chumo).
This was after the Asa had been in Walpi for some time; probably about 125 years ago. Some of the Asa, and
the Badger, the latter descendants of women saved from the Awatubi catastrophe, also moved to Sichumovi,
but a plague of smallpox caused the village to be abandoned shortly afterward. This pestilence is said to have
greatly reduced the number of the Tusayan, and after it disappeared there were many vacant houses in every
village. Sichumovi was again occupied by a few Asa families, but the first houses were torn down and new
ones constructed from them.
LIST OF TRADITIONARY GENTES.
In the following table the early phratries (nyu-mu) are arranged in the order of their arrival, and the direction
from which each came is given, except in the case of the Bear people. There are very few representatives of
this phratry existing now, and very little tradition extant concerning its early history. The table does not show
the condition of these, organizations in the present community but as they appear in the traditional accounts of
their coming to Tusayan, although representatives of most of them can still be found in the various villages.
There are, moreover, in addition to these, many other gentes and sub-gentes of more recent origin. The
subdivision, or rather the multiplication of gentes may be said to be a continuous process; as, for example, in
â——cornâ—— can be found families claiming to be of the root, stem, leaf, ear, blossom, etc., all belonging to
corn; but there may be several families of each of these components constituting district sub-gentes. At
present there are really but four phratries recognized among the Hopituh, the Snake, Horn, Eagle, and Rain,
which is indifferently designated as Water or Corn:
1. HoÂ´-nan—Bear.
HoÂ´-nan Bear.
KoÂ´-kyaÃ±-a Spider.
TcoÂ´-zir Jay.
HeÂ´k-pa Fir.
2. TcuÂ´-a—Rattlesnake—from the west and north.
TcuÂ´-a Rattlesnake.
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YuÂ´Ã±-ya Cactus—opuntia.
PÃ¼Âń-e Cactus, the species that grows in dome-like masses.
Ã—Â´-se Cactus, candelabra, or branching stemmed species.
HeÂ´-wi Dove.
Pi-vwaÂńi Marmot.
PiÂ´h-tca Skunk.
Ka-laÂ´-ci-au-u Raccoon.
3. AÂ´-la—Horn—from the east.
SoÂ´-wiÃ±-wa Deer.
TcÂíb-io Antelope.
PaÂ´Ã±-wa Mountain sheep.
39 4. KwaÂ´-hÃ¼—Eagle—from the west and south.
KwaÂ´-hÃ¼ Eagle.
KwaÂ´-yo Hawk.
Mas-siÂ´ kwaÂ´-yo Chicken hawk.
TdaÂ´-wa Sun.
Ka-haÂ´-bi Willow.
TeÂ´-bi Greasewood.
5. Ka-tciÂ´-na—Sacred, dancer—from the east.
Ka-tciÂ´-na Sacred dancer.
GyaÂ´-zro Parroquet.
UÃ±-wuÂ´-si Raven.
Si-kyaÂ´-tci Yellow bird.
Si-heÂ´-bi Cottonwood.
Sa-laÂ´-bi Spruce.
6. AÂ´sa—a plant (unknown)—from the Chama.
AÂ´sa
TcaÂ´-kwai-na Black earth Katcina.
PuÂ´tc-ko-hu Boomerang hunting stick.
PiÂ´-ca Field mouse.
HocÂ´-bo-a Road runner, or chaparral cock.
Po-siÂ´-o Magpie.
KwiÂ´Ã±obi Oak.
7. Ho-naÂ´-ni—Badger—from the east.
Ho-naÂ´-ni Badger.
MÃ¼Ã±-yaÂú-wu Porcupine.
Wu-soÂ´-ko Vulture.
BuÂ´-li Butterfly.
Bu-liÂ´-so Evening primrose.
NaÂ´-hÃ¼ Medicine of all kinds; generic.
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OÂ´-mau Cloud.
KaÂí-e Corn.
MuÂ´r-zi-bu-si Bean.
Ka-waÂí-ba-tuÃ±-a Watermelon.
Si-vwaÂ´-pi Bigelovia graveolens.
The foregoing is the Water or Rain phratry proper, but allied to them are the two following phratries, who also
came to this region with the Water phratry.
LIZARD.
KaÂ´-kÃ¼-tci Species of lizards.
Ba-tciÂ´p-kwa-si
NaÂ´-nan-a-wi
MoÂ´-mo-bi
PiÂ´-sa White sand.
TduÂ´-wa Red sand.
TenÂ´-kai Mud.
RABBIT.
SoÂ´-wi Jackass rabbit.
TdaÂ´-bo Cottontail rabbit.
PiÂ´-ba Tobacco.
TcoÃ±-o Pipe.
Polaka gives the following data:
TeÂ´-wa gentes and phratries.

Tewa HopiÂ´tuh Navajo.
n
KoÂ´ -lo KaÂ´-ai NataÂń Corn.
CÃ¤ PiÂ´-ba NaÂ´-to Tobacco.
Ke HoÂ´-nau Cac Bear.

TceÂ´-li CaÂ´-la-bi TsÂ´-co Spruce.
KeÂ´gi KiÂ´-hu Ki-aÂ´-ni House.

TuÃ± TdaÂ´-wu Tjon-a-aiÂ´ Sun.
OÂ´-ku-wuÃ± OÂ´-mau Kus Cloud.

NuÃ± TcuÂ´-kai Huc-klic Mud.
The gentes bracketed are said to â——belong together,â—— but do not seem to have distinctive
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SUPPLEMENTARY LEGEND.
An interesting ruin which occurs on a mesa point a short distance north of Mashongnavi is known to the
Tusayan under the name of Payupki. There are traditions and legends concerning it among the Tusayan, but
the only version that could be obtained is not regarded by the writer as being up to the standard of those
incorporated in the â——Summaryâ—— and it is therefore given separately, as it has some suggestive value.
It was obtained through Dr. Jeremiah Sullivan, then resident in Tusayan.
The people of Payupki spoke the same language as those on the first mesa (Walpi). Long ago they lived in the
north, on the San Juan, but they were compelled to abandon that region and came to a place about 20 miles
northwest from Oraibi. Being compelled to leave there, they went to Canyon de Chelly, where a band of
Indians from the southeast joined them, with whom they formed an alliance. Together the two tribes moved
eastward toward the Jemez Mountains, whence they drifted into the valley of the Rio Grande. There they
became converts to the fire-worship then prevailing, but retained their old customs and language. At the time
of the great insurrection (of 1680) they sheltered the native priests that were driven from some of the Rio
Grande villages, and this action created such distrust and hatred among the people that the Payupki were
forced to leave their settlement. Their first stop was at Old Laguna (12 miles east of the modern village) and
they had with them then some 35 or 40 of the priests. After leaving Laguna they came to Bear Spring (Fort
Wingate) and had a fight there with the Apache, whom they defeated. They remained at Bear Spring for
several years, until the ZuÃ±i compelled them to move. They then attempted to reach the San Juan, but were
deceived in the trail, turned to the west and came to where Pueblo Colorado is now (the present post-office of
Ganado, between Fort Defiance and Keamâ——s Canyon). They remained there a long time, and through
their success in farming became so favorably known that they were urged to come farther west. They refused,
in consequence of which some Tusayan attacked them. They were captured and brought to Walpi (then on the
point) and afterwards they were distributed among the villages. Previous to this capture the priests had been
guiding them by feathers, smoke, and signs seen in the fire. When the priestâ——s omens and oracles had
proved false the people were disposed to kill them, but the priests persuaded them to let it depend on a test
case—offering to kill themselves in the event of failure. So they had a great feast at Awatubi. The
priests had long, hollow reeds inclosing various substances—feathers, flour, corn-pollen, sacred water,
native tobacco (piba), corn, beans, melon seeds, etc., and they formed in a circle at sunrise on the plaza and
had their incantations and prayers. As the sun rose a priest stepped forth before the people and blew through
his reed, desirous of blowing 41 that which was therein away from him, to scatter it abroad. But the wind
would not blow and the contents of the reed fell to the ground. The priests were divided into groups,
according to what they carried. In the evening all but two groups had blown. Then the elder of the twain
turned his back eastward, and the reed toward the setting sun, and he blew, and the wind caught the feather
and carried it to the west. This was accepted as a sign and the next day the Tusayan freed the slaves, giving
each a blanket with corn in it. They went to the mesa where the ruin now stands and built the houses there.
They asked for planting grounds, and fields were given them; but their crops did not thrive, and they stole
corn from the Mashongnavi. Then, fearful lest they should be surprised at night, they built a wall as high as a
manâ——s head about the top of their mesa, and they had big doorways, which they closed and fastened at
night. When they were compelled to plant corn for themselves they planted it on the ledges of the mesa, but it
grew only as high as a manâ——s knees; the leaves were very small and the grains grew only on one side of
it. After a time they became friendly with the Mashongnavi again, and a boy from that village conceived a
passion for a Payupki girl. The latter tribe objected to a marriage but the Mashongnavi were very desirous for
it and some warriors of that village proposed if the boy could persuade the girl to fly with him, to aid and
protect him. On an appointed day, about sundown, the girl came down from the mesa into the valley, but she
was discovered by some old women who were baking pottery, who gave the alarm. Hearing the noise a party
of the Mashongnavi, who were lying in wait, came up, but they encountered a party of the Payupki who had
come out and a fight ensued. During the fight the young man was killed; and this caused so much bitterness of
feeling that the Payupki were frightened, and remained quietly in their pueblo for several days. One morning,
however, an old woman came over to Mashongnavi to borrow some tobacco, saying that they were going to
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have a dance in her village in five days. The next day the Payupki quietly departed. Seeing no smoke from the
village the Mashongnavi at first thought that the Payupki were preparing for their dance, but on the third day a
band of warriors was sent over to inquire and they found the village abandoned. The estufas and the houses of
the priests were pulled down.
The narrator adds that the Payupki returned to San Felipe whence they came.
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CHAPTER II.
RUINS AND INHABITED VILLAGES OF TUSAYAN.
PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE PROVINCE.
That portion of the southwestern plateau country comprised in the Province of Tusayan has usually been
approached from the east, so that the easternmost of the series of mesas upon which the villages are situated is
called the â——First Mesa.â—— The road for 30 or 40 miles before reaching this point traverses the eastern
portion of the great plateau whose broken margin, farther west, furnishes the abrupt mesa-tongues upon which
the villages are built. The sandstone measures of this plateau are distinguished from many others of the
southwest by their neutral colors. The vegetation consisting of a scattered growth of stunted piÃ±on and
cedar, interspersed with occasional stretches of dull-gray sage, imparts an effect of extreme monotony to the
landscape. The effect is in marked contrast to the warmth and play of color frequently seen elsewhere in the
plateau country.
The plateaus of Tusayan are generally diversified by canyons and buttes, whose precipitous sides break down
into long ranges of rocky talus and sandy foothills. The arid character of this district is especially pronounced
about the margin of the plateau. In the immediate vicinity of the villages there are large areas that do not
support a blade of grass, where barren rocks outcrop through drifts of sand or lie piled in confusion at the
bases of the cliffs. The canyons that break through the margins of these mesas often have a remarkable
similarity of appearance, and the consequent monotony is extremely embarrassing to the traveler, the absence
of running water and clearly defined drainage confusing his sense of direction.
The occasional springs which furnish scanty water supply to the inhabitants of this region are found generally
at great distances apart, and there are usually but few natural indications of their location. They often occur in
obscure nooks in the canyons, reached by tortuous trails winding through the talus and foothills, or as small
seeps at the foot of some mesa. The convergence of numerous Navajo trails, however, furnishes some guide to
these rare water sources.
The series of promontories upon which the Tusayan villages are built are exceptionally rich in these seeps and
springs. About the base of 43 the â——First Mesaâ—— (Fig. 1), within a distance of 4 or 5 miles from the
villages located upon it, there are at least five places where water can be obtained. One of these is a mere
surface reservoir, but the others appear to be permanent springs. The quantity of water, however, is so small
that it produces no impression on the arid and sterile effect of the surroundings, except in its immediate
vicinity. Here small patches of green, standing out in strong relief against their sandy back-grounds, mark the
position of clusters of low, stunted peach trees that have obtained a foothold on the steep sand dunes.
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Fig. 1. View of the First Mesa.
In the open plains surrounding the mesa rim (6,000 feet above the sea), are seen broad stretches of dusty sage
brush and prickly greasewood. Where the plain rises toward the base of the mesa a scattered growth of scrub
cedar and piÃ±on begins to appear. But little of this latter growth is seen in the immediate vicinity of the
villages; it is, however, the characteristic vegetation of the mesas, while, in still higher altitudes, toward the
San Juan, open forests of timber are met with. This latter country seems scarcely to have come within the
ancient builderâ——s province; possibly on account of its coldness in winter and for the reason that it is open
to the incursions of warlike hunting tribes. Sage brush and greasewood grow abundantly near the villages, and
these curious gnarled and twisted shrubs furnish the principal fuel of the Tusayan.
Occasionally grassy levels are seen that for a few weeks in early summer are richly carpeted with multitudes
of delicate wild flowers. The beauty of these patches of gleaming color is enhanced by contrast with the
forbidding and rugged character of the surroundings; but in a very short time these blossoms disappear from
the arid and parched desert 44 that they have temporarily beautified. These beds of bloom are not seen in the
immediate vicinity of the present villages, but are unexpectedly met with in portions of the neighboring mesas
and canyons.
After crossing the 6 or 7 miles of comparatively level country that intervenes between the mouth of
Keamâ——s Canyon and the first of the occupied mesas, the toilsome ascent begins; at first through slopes
and dunes and then over masses of broken talus, as the summit of the mesa is gradually approached. Near the
top the road is flanked on one side by a very abrupt descent of broken slopes, and on the other by a precipitous
rocky wall that rises 30 or 40 feet above. The road reaches the brink of the promontory by a sharp rise at a
point close to the village of Hano.
METHODS OF SURVEY.
Before entering upon a description of the villages and ruins, a few words as to the preparation of the plans
accompanying this paper will not be amiss. The methods pursued in making the surveys of the inhabited
pueblos were essentially the same throughout. The outer wall of each separate cluster was run with a compass
and a tape measure, the lines being closed and checked upon the corner from which the beginning was made,
so that the plan of each group stands alone, and no accumulation of error is possible. The stretched tapeline
afforded a basis for estimating any deviations from a straight line which the wall presented, and as each sight
was plotted on the spot these deviations are all recorded on the plan, and afford an indication of the degree of
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accuracy with which the building was carried out. Upon the basis thus obtained, the outlines of the second
stories were drawn by the aid of measurements from the numerous jogs and angles; the same process being
repeated for each of the succeeding stories. The plan at this stage recorded all the stories in outline. The
various houses and clusters were connected by compass sights and by measurements. A tracing of the outline
plan was then made, on which the stories were distinguished by lines of different colors, and upon this tracing
were recorded all the vertical measurements. These were generally taken at every corner, although in a long
wall it was customary to make additional measurements at intervening points.
Upon the original outline were then drawn all such details as coping stones, chimneys, trapdoors, etc., the
tapeline being used where necessary to establish positions. The forms of the chimneys as well as their position
and size were also indicated on this drawing, which was finally tinted to distinguish the different terraces.
Upon this colored sheet were located all openings. These were numbered, and at the same time described in a
notebook, in which were also recorded the necessary vertical measurements, such as their height and elevation
above the ground. In the same notebook the openings were also fully described. The ladders were located
upon the same sheet, and were consecutively 45 lettered and described in the notebook. This description
furnishes a record of the ladder, its projection above the coping, if any, the difference in the length of its poles,
the character of the tiepiece, etc. Altogether these notebooks furnish a mass of statistical data which has been
of great service in the elaboration of this report and in the preparation of models. Finally, a level was carried
over the whole village, and the height of each corner and jog above an assumed base was determined. A
reduced tracing was then made of the plan as a basis for sketching in such details of topography, etc., as it was
thought advisable to preserve.
These plans were primarily intended to be used in the construction of large scale models, and consequently
recorded an amount of information that could not be reproduced upon the published drawings without causing
great confusion.
The methods followed in surveying the ruins underwent some changes from time to time as the work
progressed. In the earlier work the lines of the walls, so far as they could be determined, were run with a
compass and tapeline and gone over with a level. Later it was found more convenient to select a number of
stations and connect them by cross-sights and measurements. These points were then platted, and the walls
and lines of dÃ©bris were carefully drawn in over the framework of lines thus obtained, additional
measurements being taken when necessary. The heights of standing walls were measured from both sides, and
openings were located on the plan and described in a notebook, as was done in the survey of the inhabited
villages. The entire site was then leveled, and from the data obtained contour lines were drawn with a 5-foot
interval. Irregularities in the directions of walls were noted. In the later plans of ruins a scale of symbols,
seven in number, were employed to indicate the amount and distribution of the dÃ©bris. The plans, as
published, indicate the relative amounts of dÃ©bris as seen upon the ground. Probable lines of wall are shown
on the plan by dotted lines drawn through the dots which indicate dÃ©bris. With this exception, the plans
show the ruins as they actually are. Standing walls, as a rule, are drawn in solid black; their heights appear on
the field sheets, but could not be shown upon the published plans without confusing the drawing. The contour
lines represent an interval of 5 feet; the few cases in which the secondary or negative contours are used will
not produce confusion, as their altitude is always given in figures.
PLANS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF RUINS.
The ruins described in this chapter comprise but a few of those found within the province of Tusayan. These
were surveyed and recorded on account of their close traditional connection with the present villages, and for
the sake of the light that they might throw upon the relation of the modern pueblos to the innumerable stone
buildings of unknown date so widely distributed over the southwestern plateau country. Such 46 traditional
connection with the present peoples could probably be established for many more of the ruins of this country
by investigations similar to those conducted by Mr. Stephen in the Tusayan group; but this phase of the
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subject was not included in our work. In the search for purely architectural evidence among these ruins it must
be confessed that the data have proved disappointingly meager. No trace of the numerous constructive details
that interest the student of pueblo architecture in the modern villages can be seen in the low mounds of broken
down masonry that remain in most of the ancient villages of Tusayan. But little masonry remains standing in
even the best preserved of these ruins, and villages known to have been occupied within two centuries are not
distinguishable from the remains to which distinct tradition (save that they were in the same condition when
the first people of the narratorsâ—— gens came to this region) no longer clings. Though but little architectural
information is to be derived from these ruins beyond such as is conveyed by the condition and character of the
masonry and the general distribution of the plan, the plans and relation to the topography are recorded as
forming, in connection with the traditions, a more complete account than can perhaps be obtained later.
In our study of architectural details, when a comparison is suggested between the practice at Tusayan and that
of the ancient builders, our illustrations for the latter must often be drawn from other portions of the
buildersâ—— territory where better preserved remains furnish the necessary data.
WALPI RUINS.
In the case of the pueblo of Walpi, a portion of whose people seem to have been the first comers in this
region, a number of changes of sites have taken place, at least one of which has occurred within the historic
period. Of the various sites occupied one is pointed out north of the gap on the first mesa. At the present time
this site is only a low mound of sand-covered dÃ©bris with no standing fragment of wall visible. The present
condition of this early Walpi is illustrated in Fig. 2. In the absence of foundation walls or other definite lines,
the character of the site is expressed by the contour lines that define its relief. Another of the sites occupied by
the Walpi is said to have been in the open valley separating the first from the second mesa, but here no trace
of the remains of a stone village has been discovered. This traditional location is referred to by Mr. Stephen in
his account of Walpi. The last site occupied previous to the present one on the mesa summit was on a lower
bench of the first mesa promontory at its southern extremity. Here the houses are said to have been distributed
over quite a large area, and occasional fragments of masonry are still seen at widely separated points; but the
ground plan can not now be traced. This was the site of a Spanish mission, and some of the Tusayan point out
the position formerly occupied by mission buildings, but no architectural evidence of such structures is
visible. It seems to be fairly certain, however, that 47 this was the site of Walpi at a date well within the
historic period, although now literally there is not one stone upon another. The destruction in this instance has
probably been more than usually complete on account of the close proximity of the succeeding pueblo,
making the older remains a very convenient stone quarry for the construction of the houses on the mesa
summit. Of the three abandoned sites of Walpi referred to, not one furnishes sufficient data for a suggestion of
a ground plan or of the area covered.
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Fig. 2. Ruins, Old Walpi mound.
OLD MASHONGNAVI.
In the case of Mashongnavi we have somewhat more abundant material. It will be desirable to quote a few
lines of narrative from the account of a Mashongnavi Indian of the name of Nuvayauma, as indicating the
causes that led to the occupation of the site illustrated.
We turned and came to the north, meeting the Apache and â——Beaver Indians,â—— with
whom we had many battles, and being few we were defeated, after which we came 48 up to
Mashongnavi [the ruin at the â——Giantâ——s Chairâ——] and gave that rock its name
[name not known], and built our houses there. The Apache came upon us again, with the
Comanche, and then we came to [Old MashÃ³ngnavi]. We lived there in peace many years,
having great success with crops, and our people increased in numbers, and the Apache came
in great numbers and set fire to the houses and burned our corn, which you will find to-day
there burnt and charred. After they had destroyed our dwellings we came upon the mesa, and
have lived here since.
The ruins referred to as having been the first occupied by the Mashongnavi at a large isolated rock known as
the â——Giantâ——s Chair,â—— have not been examined. The later village from which they were driven by
the attacks of the Apache to their present site has been surveyed. The plan of the fallen walls and lines of
dÃ©bris by which the form of much of the old pueblo can still be traced is given in Pl. II. The plan of the best
preserved portion of the pueblo towards the north end of the sheet clearly indicates a general adherence to the
inclosed court arrangement with about the same degree of irregularity that characterizes the modern village.
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Besides the clearly traceable portions of the ruin that bear such resemblance to the present village in
arrangement, several small groups and clusters appear to have been scattered along the slope of the foothills,
but in their present state of destruction it is not clear whether these clusters were directly connected with the
principal group, or formed part of another village. Occasional traces of foundation walls strongly suggest such
connection, although from the character of the site this intervening space could hardly have been closely built
over. With the exception of the main cluster above described the houses occupy very broken and irregular
sites. As indicated on the plan, the slope is broken by huge irregular masses of sandstone protruding from the
soil, while much of the surface is covered by scattered fragments that have fallen from neighboring pinnacles
and ledges. The contours indicate the general character of the slopes over which these irregular features are
disposed. The fragment of ledge shown on the north end of the plate, against which a part of the main cluster
has been built, is a portion of a broad massive ledge of sandstone that supports the low buttes upon which the
present villages of Mashongnavi and ShupaÃºlovi are built, and continues as a broad, level shelf of solid rock
for several miles along the mesa promontory. Its continuation on the side opposite that shown in the plate may
be seen in the general view of Shupaulovi (Pl. XXXI).
SHITAIMUVI.
The vestiges of another ruined village, known as Shitaimuvi, are found in the vicinity of Mashongnavi,
occupying and covering the crown of a rounded foothill on the southeast side of the mesa. No plan of this ruin
could be obtained on account of the complete destruction of the walls. No line of foundation stones even
could be found, although the whole area is more or less covered with the scattered stones of former masonry.
An exceptional quantity of pottery fragments is also strewn 49 over the surface. These bear a close
resemblance to the fine class of ware characteristic of â——Talla Hoganâ—— or â——Awatubi,â—— and
would suggest that this pueblo was contemporaneous with the latter. Some reference to this ruin win be found
in the traditionary material in Chapter I.
AWATUBI.
The ruin of Awatubi is known to the Navajo as Talla Hogan, a term interpreted as meaning â——singing
houseâ—— and thought to refer to the chapel and mission that at one time nourished here, as described by
Mr. Stephen in Chapter I. Tradition ascribes great importance to this village. At the time of the Spanish
conquest it was one of the most prosperous of the seven â——citiesâ—— of Tusayan, and was selected as the
site of a mission, a distinction shared by Walpi, which was then on a lower spur of the first mesa, and by
Shumopavi, which also was built on a lower site than the present village of that name. Traditions referring to
this pueblo have been collected from several sources and, while varying somewhat in less important details,
they all concur in bringing the destruction of the village well within the period of Spanish occupation.
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Plate IV. Awatubi (Talla-Hogan), plan.
On the historical site, too, we know that Cruzate on the occasion of the attempted reconquest of the country
visited this village in 1692, and the ruin must therefore be less than two centuries old, yet the completeness of
destruction is such that over most of its area no standing wall is seen, and the outlines of the houses and
groups are indicated mainly by low ridges and masses of broken-down masonry, partly covered by the drifting
sands. The group of rooms that forms the south east side of the pueblo is an exception to the general rule.
Here fragmentary walls of rough masonry stand to a height, in some cases, of 8 feet above the dÃ©bris. The
character of the stonework, as may be seen from Pl. V, is but little better than that of the modern villages. This
better preserved portion of the village seems to have formed part of a cluster of mission buildings. At the
points designated A on the ground plan may be seen the remnants of walls that have been built of straw adobe
in the typical Spanish manner. These rest upon foundations of stone masonry. See Pl. VI. The adobe
fragments are probably part of the church or associated buildings. At two other points on the ground plan,
both on the northeast side, low fragments of wall are still standing, as may be seen from the plate. At one of
these points the remains indicate that the village was provided with a gateway near the middle of the northeast
side.
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Plate V. Standing walls of Awatubi.
The general plan of this pueblo is quite different from that of the present villages, and approaches the older
types in symmetry and compactness. There is a notable absence of the arrangement of rooms into long parallel
rows. This typical Tusayan feature is only slightly approximated in some subordinate rows within the court.
The plan suggests that the original pueblo was built about three sides of a rectangular 50 court, the fourth or
southeast side—later occupied by the mission buildings—being left open, or protected only by a
low wall. Outside the rectangle of the main pueblo, on the northeast side, are two fragments of rude masonry,
built by Navajo sheep herders. Near the west corner of the pueblo are the vestiges of two rooms, outside the
pueblo proper, which seem to belong to the original construction.
Plate VI. Adobe fragment in Awatubi.
Awatubi is said to have had excavated rectangular kivas, situated in the open court, similar to those used in
the modern village. The people of Walpi had partly cleared out one of these chambers and used it as a
depository for ceremonial plume-sticks, etc., but the Navajo came and carried off their sacred deposits,
tempted probably by their market value as ethnologic specimens. No trace of these kivas was visible at the
time the ruins were surveyed.
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The Awatubi are said to have had sheep at the time the village was destroyed. Some of the Tusayan point out
the remains of a large sheep corral near the spring, which they say was used at that time, but it is quite as
likely to have been constructed for that purpose at a much later date.
HORN HOUSE.
The Horn House is so called because tradition connects this village with some of the people of the Horn
phratry of the Hopituh or Tusayan. The ruin is situated on a projecting point of the mesa that forms the
western flank of Jeditoh Valley, not far from where the Holbrook road to Keamâ——s Canyon ascends the
brink of the mesa. The village is almost completely demolished, no fragment of standing wall remaining in
place. Its general plan and distribution are quite clearly indicated by the usual low ridges of fallen masonry
partly covered by drifted sand. There is but little loose stone scattered about, the sand having filled in all the
smaller irregularities.
It will be seen from the plan, Pl. VII, that the village has been built close to the edge of the mesa, following to
some extent the irregularities of its outline. The mesa ruin at this point, however, is not very high, the more
abrupt portion having a height of 20 or 30 feet. Near the north end of the village the ground slopes very
sharply toward the east and is rather thickly covered with the small stones of fallen masonry, though but faint
vestiges of rooms remain. In plan the ruin is quite elongated, following the direction of the mesa. The houses
were quite irregularly disposed, particularly in the northern portion of the ruin. But here the indications are too
vague to determine whether the houses were originally built about one long court or about two or more
smaller ones. The south end of the pueblo, however, still shows a well defined court bounded on all sides by
clearly traceable rooms. At the extreme south end of the ruin the houses have very irregular outlines, a result
of their adaptation to the topography, as may be seen in the illustration.
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Plate VII. Horn House ruin, plan.
The plan shows the position of a small group of cottonwood trees, just below the edge of the mesa and nearly
opposite the center of the 51 village. These trees indicate the proximity of water, and mark the probable site
of the spring that furnished this village with at least part of its water supply.
There are many fragments of pottery on this spot, but they are not so abundant as at Awatubi.
Two partly excavated rooms were seen at this ruin, the work of some earlier visitors who hoped to discover
ethnologic or other treasure.
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These afforded no special information, as the character of the masonry exposed differed in no respect from
that seen at other of the Tusayan ruins. No traces of adobe construction or suggestions of foreign influence
were seen at this ruin.
SMALL RUIN BETWEEN HORN HOUSE AND BAT HOUSE.
On a prolongation of the mesa occupied by the Horn House, midway between it and another ruined pueblo
known as the Bat House, occur the remains of a small and compact cluster of houses (Fig. 3). It is situated on
the very mesa edge, here about 40 feet high, at the head of a small canyon which opens into the Jeditoh
Valley, a quarter of a mile below.
Fig. 3. Ruin between Bat House and Horn House.
The site affords an extended outlook to the south over a large part of Jeditoh Valley. The topography about
this point, which receives the drainage of a considerable area of the mesa top, would fit it especially for the
establishment of a reservoir. This fact probably had much 52 to do with its selection as a dwelling site. The
masonry is in about the same state of preservation as that of the Horn House, and some of the stones of the
fallen walls seem to have been washed down from the mesa edge to the talus below.
BAT HOUSE.
The Bat House is a ruin of nearly the same size as the Horn House, although in its distribution it does not
follow the mesa edge so closely as the latter, and is not so elongated in its general form. The northern portion
is quite irregular, and the rooms seem to have been somewhat crowded. The southern half, with only an
occasional room traceable, as indicated on the plan, Pl. VIII, still shows that the rooms were distributed about
a large open court.
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Plate VIII. Bat House.
The Bat House is situated on the northwest side of the Jeditoh Valley, on part of the same mesa occupied by
the two ruins described above. It occupies the summit of a projecting spur, overlooking the main valley for an
extent of more than 5 miles. The ruin lies on the extreme edge of the cliff, here about 200 feet high, and lying
beneath it on the east and south are large areas of arable land. Altogether it forms an excellent defensive site,
combined with a fair degree of convenience to fields and water from the Tusayan point of view.
This ruin, near its northeastern extremity, contains a feature that is quite foreign to the architecture of
Tusayan, viz, a defensive wall. It is the only instance of the use by the Hopituh of an inclosing wall, though it
is met with again at Payupki (Pl. XIII), which, however, was built by people from the Rio Grande country.
MISHIPTONGA.
Mishiptonga is the Tusayan name for the southernmost, and by far the largest, of the Jeditoh series of ruins
(Pl. IX). It occurs quite close to the Jeditoh spring which gives its name to the valley along whose northern
and western border are distributed the ruins above described, beginning with the Horn house.
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Plate IX. Mishiptonga (Jeditoh).
This village is rather more irregular in its arrangement than any other of the series. There are indications of a
number of courts inclosed by large and small clusters of rooms, very irregularly disposed, but with a general
trend towards the northeast, being roughly parallel with the mesa edge. In plan this village approaches
somewhat that of the inhabited Tusayan villages. At the extreme southern extremity of the mesa promontory
is a small secondary bench, 20 feet lower than the site of the main village. This bench has also been occupied
by a number of houses. On the east side the pueblo was built to the very edge of the bluff, where small
fragments of masonry are still standing. The whole village seems so irregular and crowded in its arrangement
that it suggests a long period of occupancy and growth, much more than do the other villages of this (Jeditoh)
group.
53 The pueblo may have been abandoned or destroyed prior to the advent of the Spaniards in this country, as
claimed by the Indians, for no traditional mention of it is made in connection with the later feuds and wars
that figure so prominently in the Tusayan oral history of the last three centuries. The pueblo was undoubtedly
built by some of the ancient gentes of the Tusayan stock, as its plan, the character of the site chosen, and,
where traceable, the quality of workmanship link it with the other villages of the Jeditoh group.
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Plate X. A small ruin near Moen-kopi.
MOEN-KOPI RUINS.
A very small group of rooms, even smaller than the neighboring farming pueblo of Moen-kopi, is situated on
the western edge of the mesa summit about a quarter of a mile north of the modern village of Moen-kopi. As
the plan shows (Fig. 4), the rooms were distributed in three rows around a small court. This ruin also follows
the general northeastern trend which has been noticed both in the ruined and in the occupied pueblos of
Tusayan. The rows here were only one room deep and not more than a single story high at any point, as
indicated by the very small amount of dÃ©bris. As the plate shows, nearly the entire plan is clearly defined
by fragments of standing walls. The walls are built of thin tablets of the dark-colored sandstone which caps
the mesa. Where the walls have fallen the dÃ©bris is comparatively free 54 from earth, indicating that adobe
has been sparingly used. The walls, in places standing to a height of 2 or 3 feet, as may be seen in the
illustration, Pl. X, show unusual precision of workmanship and finish, resembling in this respect some of the
ancient pueblos farther north. This is to some extent due to the exceptional suitability of the tabular stones of
the mesa summit. The almost entire absence of pottery fragments and other objects of art which are such a
constant accompaniment of the ruins throughout this region strongly suggest that it was occupied for a very
short time. In Chapter III it will be shown that a similar order of occupation took place at Ojo Caliente, one of
the ZuÃ±i farming villages. This ruin is probably of quite recent origin, as is the present village of
Moen-kopi, although it may possibly have belonged to an earlier colony of which we have no distinct trace.
This fertile and well watered valley, a veritable garden spot in the Tusayan deserts, must have been one of the
first points occupied. Some small cliff-dwellings, single rooms in niches of a neighboring canyon wall, attest
the earlier use of the valley for agricultural purposes, although it is doubtful whether these rude shelters date
back of the Spanish invasion of the province.
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Fig. 4. Ruin near Moen-kopi, plan.
A close scrutiny of the many favorable sites in this vicinity would probably reveal the sand-encumbered
remains of some more important settlement than any of those now known.
RUINS ON THE ORAIBI WASH.
The wagon road from Keamâ——s Canyon to Tuba City crosses the Oraibi wash at a point about 7 miles
above the village of Oraibi. As it enters a branch canyon on the west side of the wash it is flanked on each side
by rocky mesas and broken ledges. On the left or west side a bold promontory, extending southward, is quite a
conspicuous feature of the landscape. The entire flat mesa summit, and much of the slope of a rocky butte that
rises from it, are covered with the remains of a small pueblo, as shown on the plan, Fig. 5. All of this knoll
except its eastern side is lightly covered with scattered dÃ©bris. On the west and north sides there are many
large masses of broken rock distributed over the slope. There is no standing wall visible from below, but on
closer approach several interesting specimens of masonry are seen. On the north side, near the west end, there
is a fragment of curved wall which follows the margin of the rock on which it is built. It is about 8 or 10 feet
long and 3 feet high on the outer side. The curve is carefully executed and the workmanship of the masonry
good. Farther east, and still on the north side, there is a fragment of masonry exhibiting a reversed curve. This
piece of wall spans the space between two adjoining rocks, and the top of the wall is more than 10 feet above
the rock on which it stands. The shape of this wall and its relation to the surroundings are indicated on the
plan, Fig. 5. On the south side of the ruin on the mesa surface, and near an outcropping rock, are the remains
55 of what appears to have been a circular room, perhaps 8 or 10 feet in diameter, though it is too much
broken down to determine this accurately. Only a small portion of the south wall can be definitely traced. On
the south slope of the mesa are indications of walls, too vaguely defined to admit of the determination of their
direction. Similar vestiges of masonry are found on the north and west, but not extending to as great a distance
from the knoll as those on the south.
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Fig. 5. Ruin 7 miles north of Oraibi.
In that portion of the ruin which lies on top of the knoll, the walls so far as traced conform to the shape of the
site. The ground plan of the buildings that once occupied the slopes can not be traced, and it is impossible to
determine whether its walls were carried through continuously.
The masonry exhibited in the few surviving fragments of wall is of unusually good quality, resembling
somewhat that of the Fire House, Fig. 7, and other ruins of that class. The stones are of medium size, not
dressed, and are rather rougher and less flat than is usual, but the wall has a good finish. The stone, however,
is of poor quality. Most of the dÃ©bris about the ruin consists of small stone fragments and sand,
comparatively few stones of the size used in the walls being seen. The material evidently came from the
immediate vicinity of the ruin.
Pottery fragments were quite abundant about this ruin, most of the ware represented being of exceptional
quality and belonging to the older types; red ware with black lines and black and white ware were especially
abundant.
56 There is quite an extensive view from the ruin, the top of the butte commanding an outlook down the
valley past Oraibi, and about 5 miles north. There is also an extended outlook up the valley followed by the
wagon road above referred to, and over two branch valleys, one on the east and another of much less extent on
the west. The site was well adapted for defense, which must have been one of the principal motives for its
selection.
KWAITUKI.
The ruin known to the Tusayan as Kwaituki (Fig. 6) is also on the west side of the Oraibi wash, 14 miles
above Oraibi, and about 7 miles above the ruin last described. Its general resemblance to the latter is very
striking. The builders have apparently been actuated by the same motives in their choice of a site, and their
manner of utilizing it corresponds very closely. The crowning feature of the rocky knoll in this case is a
picturesque group of rectangular masses of sandstone, somewhat irregularly distributed. The bare summit of a
large block-like mass still retains the vestiges of rooms, and probably most of the groups were at one time
covered with buildings, forming a prominent citadel-like group in the midst of the village. To the north of this
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rocky butte a large area seems to have been at one time inclosed by buildings, forming a court of unusual
dimensions. Along the outer margin of the pueblo 57 occasional fragments of walls define former rooms, but
the amount and character of the dÃ©bris indicate that the inner area was almost completely inclosed with
buildings. The remains of masonry extend on the south a little beyond the base of the central group of rocks,
but here the vestiges of stonework are rather faint and scattered.
Fig. 6. Ruin 14 miles north of Oraibi (Kwaituki).
In the nearly level tops of some of the rocks forming the central pile are many smoothly worn depressions or
cavities, which have evidently been used for the grinding and shaping of stone implements.
A remarkable feature occurring within this village is a cave or underground fissure in the rocks, which
evidently had been used by the inhabitants. The mouth or entrance to this cavern, partly obstructed and
concealed at the time of our visit, occurs at the point A on the plan. On clearing away the rubbish at the mouth
and entering it was found so obstructed with broken rock and fine dust that but little progress could be made
in its exploration; but the main crevice in the rock could be seen by artificial light to extend some 10 feet back
from the mouth, where it became very shallow. It could be seen that the original cavern had been improved by
the pueblo-builders, as some of the timbers that had been placed inside were still in position, and a low wall of
masonry on the south side remained intact. Some Navajos stated that they had discovered this small cave a
couple of years before and had taken from it a large unbroken water jar of ancient pottery and some other
specimens. The place was probably used by the ancient occupants simply for storage.
Fragments of pottery of excellent quality were very abundant about this ruin and at the foot of the central
rocks the ground was thickly strewn with fragments, often of large size.
The defensive character of this site parallels that of the ruin 7 miles farther south in quite a remarkable
manner, and the villages were apparently built and occupied at the same time.
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TEBUGKIHU, OR FIRE HOUSE.
Fig. 7. Oval (Fire House) ruin,

plan (Tebugkihu).
About 15 miles northeast of Keamâ——s Canyon, and about 25 miles from Walpi, is a small ruin called by
the Tusayan â——Tebugkihu,â—— built by people of the Fire gens (now extinct). As the plan (Fig. 7) clearly
shows, this pueblo is very different from the typical Tusayan villages that have been previously described.
The apparent unity of the plan, and the skillful workmanship somewhat resembling the pueblos of the Chaco
are in marked contrast to the irregularity and careless construction of most of the Tusayan ruins. Its distance
from the center of the province, too, suggests outside relationship; but still the Tusayan traditions undoubtedly
connect the place with some of the ancestral gentes, as seen in Chapter I.
The small and compact cluster of rooms is in a remarkable state of preservation, especially the outside wall.
This wall was carefully and massively constructed, and stands to the height of several feet around 58 the
entire circumference of the ruin, except along the brink of the cliff, as the plan shows.
This outer wall contains by far the largest stones yet found incorporated in pueblo masonry. A fragment of
this masonry is illustrated in Pl. XI. The largest stone shown measures about 5 feet in length, and the one
adjoining on the right measures about 4 feet. These dimensions are quite remarkable in pueblo masonry,
which is distinguished by the use of very small stones.
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Plate XI. Masonry on the outer wall of the Fire-House, detail.
The well defined outer wall of this cluster to the unaided eye appears to be elliptical, but it will be seen from
the plan that the ellipse is somewhat pointed on the side farthest from the cliff. As in other cases of ancient
pueblos with curved outlines, the outer wall seems to have been built first, and the inner rooms, while kept as
rectangular as possible, were adjusted to this curve. This arrangement often led to a cumulating divergence
from radial lines in some of the partitions, which irregularity was taken up in one room, as in this instance, in
the space near the gate. The outer wall is uniform in construction so far as preserved. Many irregularities
appear, however, in the construction of the inner or partition walls, and some of the rooms show awkward
attempts at adjustment to the curve of the outer wall.
The ruin is situated on the very brink of a small canyon, which probably contained a spring at the foot of the
cliff close under the ruin site, as the vegetation there has an unusual appearance of freshness, suggesting the
close proximity of water to the surface. A steep trail evidently connected the village with the bottom of the
canyon. Some of the rocks of the mesa rim were marked by numerous cup-like cavities similar to those seen at
Kwaituki, and used in the polishing and forming of stone implements. The type of pueblo here illustrated
belonged to a people who relied largely on the architecture for defense, differing in this respect from the spirit
of Tusayan architecture generally, where the inaccessible character of the site was the chief dependence.
CHUKUBI.
The ruin called Chukubi by the Tusayan (Pl. XII) is situated on the Middle Mesa, about 3 miles northeast of
Mashongnavi. It occupies a promontory above the same broad sandstone ledge that forms such a 59
conspicuous feature in the vicinity of Mashongnavi and Shupaulovi, and which supports the buttes upon
which these villages are built.
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Plate XII. Chukubi, plan.
Little masonry now remains on this site, but here and there a fragment aids in defining the general plan of the
pueblo. In general form the village was a large rectangle with a line of buildings across its center, dividing it
into two unequal courts, and a projecting wing on the west side. As may be seen from the illustration, one end
of the ruin forms a clearly defined rectangular court, composed of buildings mostly two rooms deep. Here, as
in other ruins of Tusayan, the arrangement about inclosed courts is in contrast with the parallelism of rows, so
noticeable a feature in the occupied villages. At the east end of the ruin are several curious excavations. The
soft sandstone has been hollowed out to a depth of about 10 inches, in prolongation of the outlines of
adjoining rooms. Such excavation to obtain level floors is quite unusual among the pueblo builders; it was
practiced to a very small extent, and only where it could be done with little trouble. Any serious inequality of
surface was usually incorporated in the construction, as will be noticed at Walpi (Pl. XXIII). Vestiges of
masonry indicating detached rooms were seen in each of the courts of the main rectangle.
On the slope of the hill, just above the broad ledge previously described, there is a fine spring, but no trace of
a trail connecting it with the pueblo could be found.
This village was advantageously placed for defense, but not to the same degree as Payupki, illustrated in Pl.
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Plate XIV. General view of Payupki.
PAYUPKI.
The ruin called Payupki (Pl. XIII) occupies the summit of a bold promontory south of the trail, from Walpi to
Oraibi, and about 6 miles northwest from Mashongnavi. The outer extremity of this promontory is separated
from the mesa by a deep notch. The summit is reached from the mesa by way of the neck, as the outer point
itself is very abrupt, much of the sandstone ledge being vertical. A bench, 12 or 15 feet below the summit and
in places quite broad, encircles the promontory. This bench also breaks off very abruptly.
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Plate XIII. Payupki, plan.
As may be seen from the plan, the village is quite symmetrically laid out and well arranged for defense. It is
placed at the mesa end of the promontory cap, and for greater security the second ledge has also been
fortified. All along the outer margin of this ledge are the remains of a stone wall, in some places still standing
to a height of 1 or 2 feet. This wall appears to have extended originally all along the ledge around three sides
of the village. The steepness of the cliff on the remaining side rendered a wall superfluous. On the plain below
this promontory, and immediately under the overhanging cliff, are two corrals, and also 60 the remains of a
structure that resembles a kiva, but which appears to be of recent construction.
In the village proper (Pl. XIV) are two distinctly traceable kivas. One of these, situated in the court, is
detached and appears to have been partly underground. The other, located in the southeast end of the village,
has also, like the first, apparently been sunk slightly below the surface. There is a jog in the standing wall of
this kiva which corresponds to that usually found in the typical Tusayan kivas (see Figs. 22 and 25). On the
promontory and east of the village is a single room of more than average length, with a well formed door in
the center of one side. This room has every appearance of being contemporary with the rest of the village, but
its occurrence in this entirely isolated position is very unusual. Still farther east there is a mass of debris that
may have belonged to a cluster of six or eight rooms, or it may possibly be the remains of temporary stone
shelters for outlooks over crops, built at a later date than the pueblo. As may be seen from the illustration (Pl.
XV), the walls are roughly built of large slabs of sandstone of various sizes. The work is rather better than that
of modern Tusayan, but much inferior to that seen in the skillfully laid masonry of the ruins farther north. In
many of these walls an occasional sandstone slab of great length is introduced. This peculiarity is probably
due to the character of the local material, which is more varied than usual. All of the stone here used is taken
from ledges in the immediate vicinity. It is usually light in color and of loose texture, crumbling readily, and
subject to rapid decay, particularly when used in walls that are roughly constructed.
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Plate XV. Standing walls of Payupki.
Much of the pottery scattered about this ruin has a very modern appearance, some of it having the
characteristic surface finish and color of the Rio Grande ware. A small amount of ancient pottery also occurs
here, some of the fragments of black and white ware displaying intricate fret patterns. The quantity of these
potsherds is quite small, and they occur mainly in the refuse heaps on the mesa edge.
This ruin combines a clearly defined defensive plan with utilization of one of the most inaccessible sites in the
vicinity, producing altogether a combination that would seem to have been impregnable by any of the
ordinary methods of Indian warfare.
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Plate XVII. View of Hano.
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HANO.
The village of Hano, or Tewa, is intrusive and does not properly belong to the Tusayan stock, as appears from
their own traditions. It is somewhat loosely planned (Pl. XVI) and extends nearly across the mesa tongue,
which is here quite narrow, and in general there is no appreciable difference between the arrangement here
followed and that of the other villages. One portion of the village, however, designated as House No. 5 on the
plan, differs somewhat from the typical arrangement in long irregular rows, and approaches the pyramidal
form found among the more eastern pueblos, notably at Taos and in portions of ZuÃ±i. As has been seen,
tradition tells us that this site was taken up by the Tewa at a late date and subsequent to the Spanish conquest;
but some houses, formerly belonging to the Asa people, formed a nucleus about which the Tewa village of
Hano was constructed. The pyramidal house occupied by the old governor, is said to have been built over such
remains of earlier houses.
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Plate XVI. Plan of Hano (rotated).
The largest building in the village appears to have been added to from time to time as necessity for additional
space arose, resulting in much the same arrangement as that characterizing most of the Tusayan houses, viz, a
long, irregular row, not more than three stories high at any point. The small range marked No. 4 on the plan
contains a section three stories high, as does the long row and also the pyramidal cluster above referred to. (Pl.
XVII.)
The kivas are two in number, one situated within the village and the other occupying a position in the margin
of the mesa. These ceremonial chambers, so far as observed, appear to be much like those in the other
villages, both in external and internal arrangement.
Within the last few years the horse trail that afforded access to Hano and Sichumovi has been converted into a
wagon road, and during the progress of this work, under the supervision of an American, considerable blasting
was done. Among other changes the marginal kiva, which was nearly in line with the proposed improvements,
was removed. This was done despite the protest of the older men, and their predictions of dire calamity sure to
follow such sacrilege. A new site was selected close by and the newly acquired knowledge of the use of
powder was utilized in blasting out the excavation for this subterranean chamber. It is altogether probable that
the sites of all former kivas were largely determined by accident, these rooms being built at points where
natural fissures or open spaces in the broken mesa edge furnished a suitable depression or cavity. The builders
were not capable of working the stone to any great extent, and their operations were probably limited to
trimming out such natural excavations and in part lining them with masonry.
There is a very noticeable scarcity of roof-holes, aside from those of the first terrace. As a rule the first terrace
has no external openings 62 on the ground and is entered from its roof through large trap-doors, as shown on
the plans. The lower rooms within this first terrace are not inhabited, but are used as storerooms.
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At several points ruined walls are seen, remains of abandoned rooms that have fallen into decay. Occasionally
a rough, buttress-like projection from a wall is the only vestige of a room or a cluster of rooms, all traces on
the ground having been obliterated.
The mesa summit, that forms the site of this village, is nearly level, with very little earth on its surface. A thin
accumulation of soil and rubbish lightly covers the inner court, but outside, along the face of the long row, the
bare rock is exposed continuously. Where the rooms have been abandoned and the walls have fallen, the
stones have all been utilized in later constructions, leaving no vestige of the former wall on the rocky site, as
the stones of the masonry have always been set upon the surface of the rock, with no excavation or
preparation of footings of any kind.
Plate XIX. View of Sichumovi.
SICHUMOVI.
According to traditional accounts this village was founded at a more recent date than Walpi. It has, however,
undergone many changes since its first establishment.
The principal building is a long irregular row, similar to that of Hano (Pl. XVIII). A portion of an L-shaped
cluster west of this row, and a small row near it parallel to the main building, form a rude approximation to
the inclosed court arrangement. The terracing here, however, is not always on the court side, whereas in
ancient examples such arrangement was an essential defensive feature, as the court furnished the only
approach to upper terraces. In all of these villages there is a noticeable tendency to face the rows eastward
instead of toward the court. The motive of such uniformity of direction in the houses must have been strong,
to counteract the tendency to adhere to the ancient arrangement. The two kivas of the village are built side by
side, in contact, probably on account of the presence at this point of a favorable fissure or depression in the
mesa surface.
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Plate XVIII. Plan of Sichumovi.
On the south side of the village are the remains of two small clusters of rooms that apparently have been
abandoned a long time. A portion of a room still bounded by standing walls has been utilized as a corral for
burros (Pl. XIX).
At this village are three small detached houses, each composed of but a single room, a feature not at all in
keeping with the spirit of pueblo construction. In this instance it is probably due to the selection of the village
as the residence of whites connected with the agency or school. Of these single-room houses, one, near the
south end of the long row, was being built by an American, who was living in another such house near the
middle of this row. The third house, although fairly well preserved at the time of the survey, was abandoned
and falling into ruin. Adjoining the middle one of these three buildings on 63 the south side are the outlines
of two small compartments, which were evidently built as corrals for burros and are still used for that purpose.
This village, though limited to two stories in height, has, like the others of the first mesa, a number of roof
holes or trapdoors in the upper story, an approach to the ZuÃ±i practice. This feature among the Tusayan
villages is probably due to intercourse with the more eastern pueblos, for it seems to occur chiefly among
those having such communication most frequently. Its presence is probably the result simply of borrowing a
convenient feature from those who invented it to meet a necessity. The conditions under which the houses
were built have hardly been such as to stimulate the Tusayan to the invention of such a device. The uniform
height of the second-story roofs seen in this village, constituting an almost unbroken level, is a rather
exceptional feature in pueblo architecture. Only one depression occurs in the whole length of the main row.
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Plate XXI. View of Walpi.
WALPI.
Of all the pueblos, occupied or in ruins, within the provinces of Tusayan and Cibola, Walpi exhibits the
widest departure from the typical pueblo arrangement (Pl. XX).
The carelessness characteristic of Tusayan architecture seems to have reached its culmination here. The
confused arrangement of the rooms, mainly due to the irregularities of the site, contrasts with the work at
some of the other villages, and bears no comparison with much of the ancient work. The rooms seem to have
been clustered together with very little regard to symmetry, and right angles are very unusual. (See Fig. 8.)
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of the site of Walpi.
Plate XX. Plan of Walpi.
The general plan of the village of to-day confirms the traditional accounts of its foundation. According to
these its growth was gradual, beginning with a few small clusters, which were added to from time to time as
the inhabitants of the lower site upon the spur of the mesa, where the mission was established, moved up and
joined the pioneers on the summit. It is probable that some small rooms or clusters were built on this
conspicuous promontory soon after the first occupation of this region, on account of its exceptionally
favorable position as an outlook over the fields (Pl. XXI).
Though the peculiar conformation of the site on which the village has been built has produced an unusual
irregularity of arrangement, yet even here an imperfect example of the typical inclosed court may be found, at
one point containing the principal kiva or ceremonial chamber of the village. It is probable that the accidental
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occurrence of a suitable break or depression in the mesa top determined the position of this kiva at an early
date and that the first buildings clustered about this point.
A unique feature in this kiva is its connection with a second subterranean chamber, reached from the kiva
through an ordinary doorway. The depression used for the kiva site must have been either larger than was
needed or of such form that it could not be thrown into one rectangular 64 chamber. It was impossible to
ascertain the form of this second room, as the writer was not permitted to approach the connecting doorway,
which was closed with a slab of cottonwood. This chamber, used as a receptacle for religious paraphernalia,
was said to connect with an upper room within the cluster of dwellings close by, but this could not be verified
at the time of our visit. The plan indicates that such an adjoining chamber, if of average size, could easily
extend partly under the dwellings on either the west or south side of the court. The rocky mesa summit is quite
irregular in this vicinity, with rather an abrupt ascent to the passageway on the south as shown in Pl. XXII.
Southeast from the kiva there is a large mass of rocks projecting above the general level, which has been
incorporated into a cluster of dwelling rooms. Its character and relation to the architecture may be seen in Pl.
XXIII. So irregular a site was not likely to be built upon until most of the available level surface had been
taken up, for even in masonry of much higher development than can be found in Tusayan the builders, unable
to overcome such obstacles as a large mass of protruding rock, have accommodated their buildings to such
irregularities. This is very noticeable in the center cluster of Mummy Cave (in Canyon del Muerto, Arizona),
where a large mass of sandstone, fallen from the roof of the rocky niche in which the houses were built, has
been incorporated into the house cluster. Between this and another kiva to the north the mesa top is nearly
level. The latter kiva is 65 also subterranean and was built in an accidental break in sandstone. On the very
margin of this fissure stands a curious isolated rock that has survived the general erosion of the mesa. It is
near this rock that the celebrated Snake-dance takes place, although the kiva from which the dancers emerge
to perform the open air ceremony is not adjacent to this monument (Pl. XXIV).
Plate XXII. South passageway of Walpi.
A short distance farther toward the north occur a group of three more kivas. These are on the very brink of the
mesa, and have been built in recesses in the crowning ledge of sandstone of such size that they could
conveniently be walled up on the outside, the outer surface of rude walls being continuous with the
precipitous rock face of the mesa.
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Plate XXIII. Houses built over irregular sites, Walpi.
The positions of all these ceremonial chambers seem to correspond with exceptionally rough and broken
portions of the mesa top, showing that their location in relation to the dwelling clusters was due largely to
accident and does not possess the significance that position does in many ancient pueblos built on level and
unencumbered sites, where the adjustment was not controlled by the character of the surface.
Plate XXIV. Dance rock and kiva, Walpi.
The Walpi promontory is so abrupt and difficult of access that there is no trail by which horses can be brought
to the village without passing through Hano and Sichumovi, traversing the whole length of the mesa tongue,
and crossing a rough break or depression in the mesa summit close to the village. Several foot trails give
access to the village, partly over the nearly perpendicular faces of rock. All of these have required to be
artificially improved in order to render them practicable. Plate XXV, from a photograph, illustrates one of
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these trails, which, a portion of the way, leads up between a huge detached slab of sandstone and the face of
the mesa. It will be seen that the trail at this point consists to a large extent of stone steps that have been built
in. At the top of the flight of steps where the trail to the mesa summit turns to the right the solid sandstone has
been pecked out so as to furnish a series of footholes, or steps, with no projection or hold of any kind
alongside. There are several trails on the west side of the mesa leading down both from Walpi and
SichÃºmovi to a spring below, which are quite as abrupt as the example illustrated. All the water used in these
villages, except such as is caught during showers in the basin-like water pockets of the mesa top, is
laboriously brought up these trails in large earthenware canteens slung over the backs of the women.
Plate XXV. Foot trail to Walpi.

Supplies of every kind, provisions, harvested crops, fuel, etc., are brought up these steep trails, and often from
a distance of several miles, yet these conservative people tenaciously cling to the inconvenient situation
selected by their fathers long after the necessity for so doing has passed away. At present no argument of
convenience or comfort seems sufficient to induce them to abandon their homes on the rocky heights and
build near the water supply and the fields on which they depend for subsistence.
66 One of the trails referred to in the description of Hano has been converted into a wagon road, as has been
already described. The Indians preferred to expend the enormous amount of labor necessary to convert this
bridle path into a wagon road in order slightly to overcome the inconvenience of transporting every necessary
to the mesa upon their own backs or by the assistance of burros. This concession to modern ideas is at best but
a poor substitute for the convenience of homes built in the lower valleys.
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Plate XXVII. Mashongnavi with Shupaulovi in distance.
MASHONGNAVI.
Mashongnavi, situated on the summit of a rocky knoll, is a compact though irregular village, and the manner
in which it conforms to the general outline of the available ground is shown on the plan. Convenience of
access to the fields on the east and to the other villages probably prompted the first occupation of the east end
of this rocky butte (Pl. XXVI).
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Plate XXVI. Mashongnavi, plan.
In Mashongnavi of to-day the eastern portion of the village forms a more decided court than do the other
portions. The completeness in itself of this eastern end of the pueblo, in connection with the form of the
adjoining rows, strongly suggests that this was the first portion of the pueblo built, although examination of
the masonry and construction furnish but imperfect data as to the relative age of different portions of the
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village. One uniform gray tint, with only slight local variations in character and finish of masonry, imparts a
monotonous effect of antiquity to the whole mass of dwellings. Here and there, at rare intervals, is seen a wall
that has been newly plastered; but, ordinarily, masonry of 10 yearsâ—— age looks nearly as old as that built
200 years earlier. Another feature that suggests the greater antiquity of the eastern court of the pueblo is the
presence and manner of occurrence here of the kiva. The old builders may have been influenced to some
extent in their choice of site by the presence of a favorable depression for the construction of a kiva, though
this particular example of the ceremonial room is only partly subterranean. The other kivas are almost or quite
below the ground level. Although a favorable depression might readily occur on the summit of the knoll, a
deep cavity, suitable for the construction of the subterranean kiva, would not be likely to occur at such a
distance from the margin of the sandstone ledge. The builders evidently preferred to adopt such half-way
measures with their first kiva in order to 67 secure its inclosure within the court, thus conforming to the
typical pueblo arrangement. The numerous exceptions to this arrangement seen in Tusayan are due to local
causes.
Fig. 9. Mashongnavi and Shupaulovi from Shumopavi. The general view of Mashongnavi given in Pl. XXVII
shows that the site of this pueblo, as well as that of its neighbor, Shupaulovi, was not particularly defensible,
and that this fact would have weight in securing adherence in the first portion 68 of the pueblo built to the
defensive inclosed court containing the ceremonial chamber. The plan strongly indicates that the other courts
of the pueblo were added as the village grew, each added row facing toward the back of an older row,
producing a series of courts, which, to the present time, show more terracing on their western sides. The
eastern side of each court is formed, apparently, by a few additions 69 of low rooms to what was originally an
unbroken exterior wall, and which is still clearly traceable through these added rooms. Such an exterior wall is
illustrated in Pl. XVIII. This process continued until the last cluster nearly filled the available site and a wing
was thrown out corresponding to a tongue or spur of the knoll upon which it was built. Naturally the
westernmost or newer portions show more clearly 70 the evidence of additions and changes, but such
evidence is not wholly wanting in the older portions. The large row that bounds the original eastern court on
the west side may be seen on the plan to be of unusual width, having the largest number of rooms that form a
terrace with western aspect; yet the nearly straight line once defining the original back wall of the court
inclosing cluster on this side has not been obscured to any great extent by the later additions (Pl. XXVIII).
This village furnishes the most striking example in the whole group of the manner in which a pueblo was
gradually enlarged as increasing population demanded more space. Such additions were often carried out on a
definite plan, although the results in Tusayan fall far short of the symmetry that characterizes many ruined
pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona.
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Plate XXVIII. Back wall of a Mashongnavi house-row.
A few of these ancient examples, especially some of the smaller ruins of the Chaco group, are so symmetrical
in their arrangement that they seem to be the result of a single effort to carry out a clearly fixed plan. By far
the largest number of pueblos, however, built among the southwest tablelands, if occupied for any length of
time, must have been subject to irregular enlargement. In some ancient examples, such additions to the first
plan undoubtedly took place without marring the general symmetry. This was the case at Pueblo Bonito, on
the Chaco, where the symmetrical and even curve of the exterior defensive wall, which was at least four
stories high, remained unbroken, while the large inclosed court was encroached upon by wings added to the
inner terraces. These additions comfortably provided for a very large increase of population after the first
building of the pueblo, without changing its exterior appearance.
In order to make clearer this order of growth in Mashongnavi, a series of skeleton diagrams is added in Figs.
10, 11, and 12, giving the outlines of the pueblo at various supposed periods in the course of its enlargement.
The larger plan of the village (Pl. XXVI) serves as a key to these terrace outlines.
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Figs. 10, 11, 12. Diagrams showing growth of Mashongnavi.
The first diagram illustrates the supposed original cluster of the east court (Fig. 10), the lines of which can be
traced on the larger plan, and it includes the long, nearly straight line that marks the western edge of the third
story. This diagram shows also, in dotted lines, the general plan that may have guided the first additions to the
west. The second diagram (Fig. 11) renders all the above material in full tint, again indicating further
additions by dotted lines, and so on. (Fig. 12.) The portions of a terrace, which face westward in the newer
courts of the pueblo, illustrated in Pl. XXIX, were probably built after the western row, completing the
inclosure, and were far enough advanced to indicate definitely an inclosed court, upon which the dwelling
rooms faced.
Plate XXIX. West side of a principal row in Mashongnavi.
Plate XXXI. View of Shupaulovi.
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SHUPAULOVI.
This village, by far the smallest pueblo of the Tusayan group, illustrates a simple and direct use of the
principle of the inclosed court. The plan (Pl. XXX) shows that the outer walls are scarcely broken by terraces,
and nearly all the dwelling apartments open inwards upon the inclosure, in this respect closely following the
previously described ancient type, although widely differing from it in the irregular disposition of the rooms.
(Pl. XXXI) A comparison with the first of the series of diagrams illustrating the growth of MashÃ³ngnavi,
will show how similar the villages may have been at one stage, and how suitable a nucleus for a large pueblo
this village would prove did space and character of the site permit. Most of the available summit of the rocky
knoll has already been covered, as will be seen from the topographic sketch of the site (Fig. 13). The plan
shows also that some efforts at extension of the pueblo have been made, but the houses outside of the main
cluster have been abandoned, and are rapidly going to ruin. Several small rooms occur on the outer faces of
the rows, but it can be readily seen that they do not form a part of the original plan but were added to an
already complete structure.
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Plate XXX. Plan of Shupaulovi.
Fig. 13. Topography of the site of Shupaulovi.
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In the inclosed court of this pueblo occurs a small box-like stone inclosure, covered with a large slab, which is
used as a sort of shrine or depository for the sacred plume sticks and other ceremonial offerings. 72 This
feature is found at some of the other villages, notably at Mashongnavi, in the central court, and at Hano,
where it is located at some distance outside of the village, near the main trail to the mesa.
The plan of this small village shows three covered passageways similar to those noted in Walpi on the first
mesa, though their presence here can not be ascribed to the same motives that impelled the Walpi to build in
this way; for the densely crowded site occupied by the latter compelled them to resort to this expedient. One
of these is illustrated in Pl. XXXII. Its presence may be due in this instance to a determination to adhere to the
protected court while seeking to secure convenient means of access to the inclosed area. It is remarkable that
this, the smallest of the group, should contain this feature.
Plate XXXII. A covered passageway of Shupaulovi.
This village has but two kivas, one of which is on the rocky summit near the houses and the other on the lower
ground near the foot of the trail that leads to the village. The upper kiva is nearly subterranean, the roof being
but a little above the ground on the side toward the village, but as the rocky site slopes away a portion of side
wall is exposed. This was roughly built, with no attempt to impart finish to its outer face, either by careful
laying of the masonry or by plastering. Pl. XXXIII illustrates this kiva in connection with the southeastern
portion of the village. The plan shows how the prolongation of the side rows of the village forms a suggestion
of a second court. Its development into any such feature as the secondary or additional courts of
MashÃ³ngnavi was prohibited by the restricted site.
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Plate XXXIII. The chief kiva of Shupaulovi.
As in other villages of this group, the desire to adhere to the subterranean form of ceremonial chamber
outweighed the inducement to place it within the village, or, in the case of the second kiva, even of placing it
on the same level as the houses, which are 30 feet above it with an abrupt trail between them. It is curious and
instructive to see a room, the use of which is so intimately connected with the inner life of the village, placed
in such a comparatively remote and inaccessible position through an intensely conservative adherence to
ancient practice requiring this chamber to be depressed.
The general view of the village given in Pl. XXXI strikingly illustrates the blending of the rectangular forms
of the architecture with the angular and sharply defined fractures of the surrounding rock. This close
correspondence in form between the architecture and its immediate surroundings is greatly heightened by the
similarity in color. Mr. Stephen has called attention to a similar effect on the western side of Walpi and its
adjacent mesa edge, which he thought indicates a distinct effort at concealment on the part of the builders, by
blending the architecture with the surroundings. This similarity of effect is often accidental, and due to the
fact that the materials of the houses and of the mesas on which they are built are identical. Even in the case of
Walpi, cited by Mr. Stephen, where the buildings come to the very mesa edge, and in their vertical lines
appear to carry out the effect of 73 the vertical fissures in the upper benches of sandstone, there was no
intentional concealment. It is more likely that, through the necessity of building close to the limits of the
crowded sites, a certain degree of correspondence was unintentionally produced between the jogs and angles
of the houses and those of the mesa edge.
Such correspondence with the surroundings, which forms a striking feature of many primitive types of
construction where intention of concealment had no part, is doubtless mainly due to the use of the most
available material, although the expression of a type of construction that has prevailed for ages in one locality
would perhaps be somewhat influenced by constantly recurring forms in its environment. In the system of
building under consideration, such influence would, however, be a very minute fraction in the sum of factors
producing the type and could never account for such examples of special and detailed correspondence as the
cases cited, nor could it have any weight in developing a rectangular type of architecture.
In the development of primitive arts the advances are slow and laborious, and are produced by adding small
increments to current knowledge. So vague and undefined an influence as that exerted by the larger forms of
surrounding nature are seldom recognized and acknowledged by the artisan; on the contrary, experiments,
resulting in improvement, are largely prompted by practical requirements. Particularly is this the case in the
art of house-building.
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Plate XXXV. View of Shumopavi.
SHUMOPAVI.
This village, although not so isolated as Oraibi, has no near neighbors and is little visited by whites or Indians.
The inhabitants are rarely seen at the trading post to which the others resort, and they seem to be pretty well
off and independent as compared with their neighbors of the other villages (Pl. XXXIV). The houses and
courts are in keeping with the general character of the people and exhibit a degree of neatness and thrift that
contrasts sharply with the tumble-down appearance of some of the other villages, especially those of the
Middle Mesa and Oraibi. There is a general air of newness about the place, though it is questionable whether
the architecture is more recent than that of the other villages of Tusayan. This effect is partly due to the
custom of frequently renewing the coating of mud plaster. In most of the villages little care is taken to repair
the houses until the owner feels that to postpone such action longer would endanger its stability. Many of the
illustrations in this chapter indicate the proportion of rough masonry usually exposed in the walls. At
Shumopavi (Pl. XXXV), however, most of the walls are smoothly plastered. In this respect they resemble
ZuÃ±i and the eastern pueblos, where but little naked masonry can be seen. Another feature that adds to the
effect of neatness and finish in this village is the frequent use of a whitewash of 74 gypsum on the outer face
of the walls. This wash is used partly as an ornament and partly as protection against the rain. The material,
called by the Mexicans â——yeso,â—— is very commonly used in the interior of their houses throughout this
region, both by Mexicans and Indians. More rarely it is used among the pueblos as an external wash. Here,
however, its external use forms quite a distinctive feature of the village. The same custom in several of the
cliff houses of Canyon de Chelly attests the comparative antiquity of the practice, though not necessarily its
pre-Columbian origin.
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Plate XXXIV. Plan of Shumopavi.
Shumopavi, compared with the other villages, shows less evidence of having been built on the open court
idea, as the partial inclosures assume such elongated forms in the direction of the long, straight rows of the
rooms; yet examination shows that the idea was present to a slight extent.
At the southeast corner of the pueblo there is a very marked approach to the open court, though it is quite
evident that the easternmost row has its back to the court, and that the few rooms that face the other way are
later additions. In fact, the plan of the village and the distribution of the terraces seem to indicate that the first
construction consisted only of a single row facing nearly east, and was not an inclosed court, and that a further
addition to the pueblo assumed nearly the same form, with its face or terraced side toward the back of the first
row only partly adapting itself by the addition of a few small rooms later, to the court arrangement, the same
operation being continued, but in a form not so clearly defined, still farther toward the west.
The second court is not defined on the west by such a distinct row as the others, and the smaller clusters that
to some extent break the long, straight arrangement bring about an approximation to a court, though here
again the terraces only partly face it, the eastern side being bounded by the long exterior wall of the middle
row, two and three stories high, and almost unbroken throughout its entire length of 400 feet. The broken
character of the small western row, in conjunction with the clusters near it, imparts a distinct effect to the plan
of this portion, differentiating it in character from the masses of houses formed by the other two rows. The
latter are connected at their southern end by a short cross row which converts this portion of the village
practically into a single large house. Two covered passageways, however, which are designated on the plan,
give access to the southeast portion of the court. This portion is partly separated from the north half of the
inclosure by encroaching groups of rooms. This partial division of the original narrow and long court appears
to be of later date.
The kivas are four in number, of which but one is within the village. The latter occupies a partly inclosed
position in the southwest portion, and probably owes its place to some local facility for building a kiva on this
spot in the nature of a depression in the mesa summit; but even 75 with such aid the ceremonial chamber was
built only partly under ground, as may be seen in Fig. 14. The remaining three kivas are more distinctly
subterranean, and in order to obtain a suitable site one of these was located at a distance of more than 200 feet
from the village, toward the mesa edge on the east. The other two are built very close together, apparently in
contact, just beyond the northern extremity of the village. One of these is about 3 feet above the surface at one
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corner, but nearly on a level with the ground at its western side where it adjoins its neighbor. These two kivas
are illustrated in Pl. LXXXVIII and Fig. 21.
Fig. 14. Court kiva of Shumopavi.
Here again we find that the ceremonial chamber that forms so important a feature among these people,
occupies no fixed relation to the dwellings, and its location is largely a matter of accident, a site that would
admit of the partial excavation or sinking of the chamber below the surface being the main requisite. The
northwest court contains another of the small inclosed shrines already described as occurring at Shupaulovi
and elsewhere.
The stonework of this village also possesses a somewhat distinctive character. Exposed masonry, though
comparatively rare in this well-plastered pueblo, shows that stones of suitable fracture were selected and that
they were more carefully laid than in the other villages. In places the masonry bears a close resemblance to
some of the ancient work, where the spaces between the longer tablets of stone were carefully chinked with
small bits of stone, bringing the whole wall to a uniform face, and is much in advance of the ordinary slovenly
methods of construction followed in Tusayan.
Shumopavi is the successor of an older village of that name, one of the cities of the ancient Tusayan visited by
a detachment of Coronadoâ——s expedition in 1540. The ruins of that village still exist, and they formerly
contained vestiges of the old church and mission buildings established 76 by the monks. The squared beams
from, these buildings were considered valuable enough to be incorporated in the construction of ceremonial
kivas in some of the Tusayan villages. This old site was not visited by the party.
ORAIBI.
This is one of the largest modern pueblos, and contains nearly half the population of Tusayan; yet its great
size has not materially affected the arrangement of the dwellings. The general plan (see Pl. XXXVI), simply
shows an unusually large collection of typical Tusayan house-rows, with the general tendency to face
eastward displayed in the other villages of the group. There is a remarkable uniformity in the direction of the
rows, but there are no indications of the order in which the successive additions to the village were made, such
as were found at MashÃ³ngnavi.
The white strip along the middle of this plan represents the area near a tight fold in the printed original. The
width of the unreadable area is conjectural.
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Plate XXXVI. Oraibi, plan.
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Plate XXXVII. Key to the Oraibi plan, also showing localization of gentes.
The clusters of rooms do not surpass the average dimensions of those in the smaller villages. In five of the
clusters in Oraibi a height of four stories is reached by a few rooms; a height seen also in Walpi.
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Plate XXXVIII. A court of Oraibi.
At several points in Oraibi, notably on the west side of cluster No. 7, may be seen what appears to be low
terraces faced with rough masonry. The same thing is also seen at Walpi, on the west side of the northernmost
cluster. This effect is produced by the gradual filling in of abandoned and broken-down marginal houses, with
fallen masonry and drifted sand. The appearance is that of intentional construction, as may be seen in Pl.
XXXIX.
Plate XXXIX. Masonry terraces of Oraibi.
The rarity of covered passageways in this village is noteworthy, and emphasizes the marked difference in the
character of the Tusayan and ZuÃ±i ground plans. The close crowding of rooms in the latter has made a
feature of the covered way, which in the scattered plan of Oraibi is rarely called for. When found it does not
seem an outgrowth of the same conditions that led to its adoption in ZuÃ±i. A glance at the plans will show
how different has been the effect of the immediate environment in the two cases. In ZuÃ±i, built on a very
slight knoll in the open plain, the absence of a defensive site has produced unusual development of the
defensive features of the architecture, and the result is a remarkably dense clustering of the dwellings. At
Tusayan, on the other hand, the largest village of the group does not differ in character from the smallest.
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Occupation of a defensive site has there, in a measure taken the place of a special defensive arrangement, or
close clustering of rooms. Oraibi is laid out quite as openly as any other of the group, and as additions to its
size have from time to time been made the builders have, in the absence of the defensive motive for crowding
the rows or groups into large clusters, simply followed the usual arrangement. The crowding that brought
about the use of the covered way was due in Walpi to restricted site, as nearly all the available summit of its
rocky promontory has been covered with buildings. In ZuÃ±i, on 77 the other hand, it was the necessity for
defense that led to the close clustering of the dwellings and the consequent employment of the covered way.
Plate XL. Oraibi house row, showing court side.
A further contrast between the general plans of Oraibi and ZuÃ±i is afforded in the different manner in which
the roof openings have been employed in the two cases. The plan of ZuÃ±i, Pl. LXXVI, shows great numbers
of small openings, nearly all of which are intended exclusively for the admission of light, a few only being
provided with ladders. In Oraibi, on the other hand, there are only seventeen roof openings above the first
terrace, and of these not more than half are intended for the admission of light. The device is correspondingly
rare in other villages of the group, particularly in those west of the first mesa. In MashÃ³ngnavi the restricted
use of the roof openings is particularly noticeable; they all are of the same type as those used for access to first
terrace rooms. There is but one roof opening in a second story. An examination of the plan, Pl. XXX, will
show that in ShupaÃºlovi but two such openings occur above the first terrace, and in the large village of
Shumopavi, Pl. XXXIV, only about eight. None of the smaller villages can be fairly compared with ZuÃ±i in
the employment of this feature, but in Oraibi we should expect to find its use much more general, were it not
for the fact that the defensive site has taken the place of the close clustering of rooms seen in the exposed
village of ZuÃ±i, and, in consequence, the devices for the admission of light still adhere to the more primitive
arrangement (Pls. XL and XLI).
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Plate XLI. Back of Oraibi house row.
The highest type of pueblo construction, embodied in the large communal fortress houses of the valleys, could
have developed only as the builders learned to rely for protection more upon their architecture and less upon
the sites occupied. So long as the sites furnished a large proportion of the defensive efficiency of a village, the
invention of the builders was not stimulated to substitute artificial for natural advantages. Change of location
and consequent development must frequently have taken place owing to the extreme inconvenience of
defensive sites to the sources of subsistence.
The builders of large valley pueblos must frequently have been forced to resort hastily to defensive sites on
finding that the valley towns were unfitted to withstand attack. This seems to have been the case with the
Tusayan; but that the ZuÃ±i have adhered to their valley pueblo through great difficulties is clearly attested
by the internal evidence of the architecture itself, even were other testimony altogether wanting.
Plate XLIV. Moen-kopi.
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MOEN-KOPI.
About 50 miles west from Oraibi is a small settlement used by a few families from Oraibi during the farming
season, known as Moen-kopi. (Pl. XLIII). The present village is comparatively recent, but, as is the case with
many others, it has been built over the remains of an older settlement. It is said to have been founded within
the memory of 78 some of the Mormon pioneers at the neighboring town of Tuba City, named after an old
Oraibi chief, recently deceased.
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Plate XLIII. Plan of Moen-kopi (rotated).
The site would probably have attracted a much larger number of settlers, had it not been so remote from the
main pueblos of the province, as in many respects it far surpasses any of the present village sites. A large area
of fertile soil can be conveniently irrigated from copious springs in the side of a small branch of the
Moen-kopi wash. The village occupies a low, rounded knoll at the junction of this branch with the main wash,
which on the opposite or southern side is quite precipitous. The gradual encroachments of the Mormons for
the last twenty years have had some effect in keeping the Tusayan from more fully utilizing the advantages of
this site (Pl. XLII).
Plate XLII. The site of Moen-kopi.
Moen-kopi is built in two irregular rows of one-story houses. There are also two detached single rooms in the
village—one of them built for a kiva, though apparently not in use at the time of our survey, and the
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other a small room with its principal door facing an adjoining row. The arrangement is about the same that
prevails in the other villages, the rows having distinct back walls of rude masonry.
Rough stone work predominates also in the fronts of the houses, though it is occasionally brought to a fair
degree of finish. Some adobe work is incorporated in the masonry, and at one point a new and still unroofed
room was seen built of adobe bricks on a stone foundation about a foot high. There is but little adobe
masonry, however, in Tusayan. Its use in this case is probably due to Mormon influence.
Moen-kopi was the headquarters of a large business enterprise of the Mormons a number of years ago. They
attempted to concentrate the product of the Navajo wool trade at this point and to establish here a completely
appointed woolen mill. Water was brought from a series of reservoirs built in a small valley several miles
away, and was conducted to a point on the Moen-kopi knoll, near the end of the south row of houses, where
the ditch terminated in a solidly constructed box of masonry. From this in turn the water was delivered
through a large pipe to a turbine wheel, which furnished the motive power for the works. The ditch and
masonry are shown on the ground plan of the village (Pl. XLIII). This mill was a large stone building, and no
expense was spared in fitting it up with the most complete machinery. At the time of our visit the whole
establishment had been abandoned for some years and was rapidly going to decay. The frames had been torn
from the windows, and both the floor of the building and the ground in its vicinity were strewn with fragments
of expensive machinery, broken cog-wheels, shafts, etc. This building is shown in Pl. XLV, and may serve as
an illustration of the contrast between Tusayan masonry and modern stonemasonâ——s work carried out with
the same material. The comparison, however, is not entirely fair, as applied to the pueblo builders in general,
as the Tusayan mason is unusually careless in his work. Many old examples are seen in which the finish of the
walls compares very 79 favorably with the American masonâ——s work, though the result is attained in a
wholly different manner, viz, by close and careful chinking with numberless small tablets of stone. This
process brings the wall to a remarkably smooth and even surface, the joints almost disappearing in the
mosaic-like effect of the wall mass. The masonry of Moen-kopi is more than ordinarily rough, as the small
village was probably built hastily and used for temporary occupation as a farming center. In the winter the
place is usually abandoned, the few families occupying it during the farming months returning to Oraibi for
the season of festivities and ceremonials.
Plate XLV. The Mormon mill at Moen-kopi.
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CHAPTER III.
RUINS AND INHABITED VILLAGES OF CIBOLA.
PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE PROVINCE.
Though the surroundings of the Cibolan pueblos and ruins exhibit the ordinary characteristics of plateau
scenery, they have not the monotonous and forbidding aspect that characterizes the mesas and valleys of
Tusayan. The dusty sage brush and the stunted cedar and piÃ±on, as in Tusayan, form a conspicuous feature
of the landscape, but the cliffs are often diversified in color, being in cases composed of alternating bands of
light gray and dark red sandstone, which impart a considerable variety of tints to the landscape. The contrast is
heightened by the proximity of the ZuÃ±i Mountains, an extensive timber-bearing range that approaches
within 12 miles of ZuÃ±i, narrowing down the extent of the surrounding arid region.
Cibola has also been more generously treated by nature in the matter of water supply, as the province contains
a perennial stream which has its sources near the village of Nutria, and, flowing past the pueblo of ZuÃ±i,
disappears a few miles below. During the rainy season the river empties into the Colorado Chiquito. The
Cibolan pueblos are built on the foothills of mesas or in open valley sites, surrounded by broad fields, while
the Tusayan villages are perched upon mesa promontories that overlook the valley lands used for cultivation.
PLANS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF RUINS.
Plate XLVII. Hawikuh, view.
HAWIKUH.
The village of Hawikuh, situated about 15 miles to the south of ZuÃ±i, consisted of irregular groups of
densely clustered cells, occupying the point of a spur projecting from a low rounded hill. The houses are in
such a ruined condition that few separate rooms can be traced, and these are much obscured by dÃ©bris. This
dÃ©bris covers the entire area extending down the east slope of the hill to the site of the church. The large
amount of dÃ©bris and the comparative thinness of such walls as are found suggest that the dwellings had
been densely clustered, and carried to the height of several stories. Much of the space between the village on
the hill and the site of the Spanish church on the plain at its foot is covered with masonry dÃ©bris, part of
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which has slid down from above (Pl. XLVI).
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Plate XLVI. Hawikuh, plan.
81 The arrangement suggests a large principal court of irregular form. The surrounding clusters are very
irregularly disposed, the directions of the prevailing lines of walls greatly varying in different groups. There is
a suggestion also of several smaller courts, as well as of alleyways leading to the principal one.
The church, built on the plain below at a distance of about 200 feet from the main village, seems to have been
surrounded by several groups of rooms and inclosures of various sizes, differing somewhat in character from
those within the village. These groups are scattered and open, and the small amount of debris leads to the
conclusion that this portion of the village was not more than a single story in height. (Pl. XLVII.)
The destruction of the village has been so complete that no vestige of constructional details remains, with the
exception of a row of posts in a building near the church. The governor of ZuÃ±i stated that these posts were
part of a projecting porch similar to those seen in connection with modern houses. (See Pls. LXXI, LXXV.)
Suggestions of this feature are met with at other points on the plain, but they all occur within the newer
portion of the village around the church. Some of the larger inclosures in this portion of the village were very
lightly constructed, and cover large areas. They were probably used as corrals. Inclosures for this purpose
occur at other pueblos traditionally ascribed to the same age.
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Plate XLVIII. Adobe church at Hawikuh.
The church in this village was constructed of adobe bricks, without the introduction of any stonework. The
bricks appear to have been molded with an unusual degree of care. The massive angles of the northwest, or
altar end of the structure, have survived the stonework of the adjoining village and stand to-day 13 feet high.
(Pl. XLVIII.)
Plate L. Ketchipauan.
KETCHIPAUAN.
The small village of Ketchipauan appears to have been arranged about two courts of unequal dimensions. It is
difficult to determine, however, how much of the larger court, containing the stone church, is of later
construction. (Pl. XLIX.)
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Plate XLIX. Ketchipanan, plan.
All the northwest portion of the village is now one large inclosure or corral, whose walls have apparently been
built of the fallen masonry from the surrounding houses, leaving the central space clear. This wall on the
northeast side of the large inclosure apparently follows the jogs and angles of the original houses. This may
have been the outer line of rooms, as traces of buildings occur for some distance within it. On the opposite
side the wall is nearly continuous, the jogs being of slight projection. Here some traces of dwellings occur
outside of the wall in places to a depth of three rooms. The same thing occurs also at the north corner. The
continuation of these lines suggests a rectangular court of considerable size, bounded symmetrically by groups
of compartments averaging three rooms deep. (Pl. L.)
Several much smaller inclosures made in the same way occur in the village, but they apparently do not
conform to the original courts.
82 At the present time dwelling rooms are traceable over a portion of the area south and west of the church.
As shown on the plan, upright posts occasionally occur. These appear to have been incorporated into the
original walls, but the latter are so ruined that this can not be stated positively, as such posts have sometimes
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been incorporated in modern corral walls. In places they suggest the balcony-like feature seen in modern
houses, as in Hawikuh, but in the east portion of the pueblo they are irregularly scattered about the rooms. A
considerable area on the west side of the ruin is covered with loosely scattered stones, affording no
suggestions of a ground plan. They do not seem sufficient in amount to be the remains of dwelling rooms.
Plate LI. Stone church at Ketchipauan.
The Spanish church in this pueblo was built of stone, but the walls were much more massive than those of the
dwellings. The building is well preserved, most of the walls standing 8 or 10 feet high, and in places 14 feet.
This church was apparently built by Indian labor, as the walls everywhere show the chinking with small
stones characteristic of the native work. In this village also, the massive Spanish construction has survived the
dwelling houses.
The ground plan of the church shows that the openings were splayed in the thickness of the walls, at an angle
of about 45Â°. In the doorway, in the east end of the building, the greater width of the opening is on the
inside, a rather unusual arrangement; in the window, on the north side, this arrangement is reversed, the splay
being outward. On the south side are indications of a similar opening, but at the present time the wall is so
broken out that no well defined jamb can be traced, and it is impossible to determine whether the splayed
opening was used or not. The stones of the masonry are laid with extreme care at the angles and in the faces of
these splays, producing a highly finished effect.
The position of the beam-holes on the inner face of the wall suggests that the floor of the church had been
raised somewhat above the ground, and that there may have been a cellar-like space under it. No beams are
now found, however, and no remains of wood are seen in the â——altarâ—— end of the church. At the
present time there are low partitions dividing the inclosed area into six rooms or cells. The Indians state that
these were built at a late date to convert the church into a defense against the hostile Apache from the south.
These partitions apparently formed no part of the original design, yet it is difficult to see how they could have
served as a defense, unless they were intended to be roofed over and thus converted into completely inclosed
rooms. A stone of somewhat larger size than usual has been built into the south wall of the church. Upon its
surface some native artist has engraved a rudely drawn mask.
About 150 yards southeast from the church, and on the edge of the low mesa upon which the ruin stands, has
been constructed a reservoir of large size which furnished the pueblo with a reserve water supply. The
ordinary supply was probably derived from the valley below, where 83 water is found at no great distance
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from the pueblo. Springs may also have formerly existed near the village, but this reservoir, located where the
drainage of a large area discharges, must have materially increased the water supply. The basin or depression
is about 110 feet in diameter and its present depth in the center is about 4 feet; but it has undoubtedly been
filled in by sediment since its abandonment. More than half of its circumference was originally walled in, but
at the present time the old masonry is indicated only by an interrupted row of large foundation stones and
fallen masonry. Some large stones, apparently undisturbed portions of the mesa edge, have been incorporated
into the inclosing masonry. The Indians stated that originally the bottom of this basin was lined with stones,
but these statements could not be verified. Without excavation on the upper side, the basin faded
imperceptibly into the rising ground of the surrounding drainage. Other examples of these basin reservoirs are
met with in this region.
CHALOWE.
About 15Â° north of west from Hawikuh, and distant 1Â½ miles from it, begins the series of ruins called
Chalowe. They are located on two low elevations or foothills extending in a southwestern direction from the
group of hills, upon whose eastern extremity Hawikuh is built. The southernmost of the series covers a
roughly circular area about 40 feet in diameter. Another cluster, measuring about 30 feet by 20, lies
immediately north of it, with an intervening depression of a foot or so. About 475 feet northwest occurs a
group of three rooms situated on a slight rise, A little east of north and a half a mile distant from the latter is a
small hill, upon which is located a cluster of about the same form and dimensions as the one first described.
Several more vaguely defined clusters are traceable near this last one, but they are all of small dimensions.
This widely scattered series of dwelling clusters, according to the traditional accounts, belonged to one tribe,
which was known by the general name of Chalowe. It is said to have been inhabited at the time of the first
arrival of the Spaniards. The general character and arrangement however, are so different from the prevailing
type in this region that it seems hardly probable that it belonged to the same people and the same age as the
other ruins.
No standing walls are found in any portion of the group, and the small amount of scattered masonry suggests
that the rooms were only one story high. Yet the dÃ©bris of masonry may have been largely covered up by
drifting sand. Now it is hardly possible to trace the rooms, and over most of the area only scattered stones
mark the positions of the groups of dwellings.
HAMPASSAWAN.
Of the village of Hampassawan, which is said traditionally to have been one of the seven cities of Cibola
visited by Coronado, nothing now 84 remains but two detached rooms, both showing vestiges of an upper
story. With this exception, the destruction of the village is complete and only a low rise in the plain marks its
site. Owing to its exposed position, the fallen walls have been completely covered with drifting sand and
earth, no vestige of the buildings showing through the dense growth of sagebrush that now covers it.
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Fig. 15. Hampassawan, plan.

The two surviving rooms referred to appear to have been used from time to time, as outlooks over corn fields
close by, and as a defense against the Navajo. Their final abandonment, and that of the cultivation of the
adjoining fields, is said to have been due to the killing of a 85 ZuÃ±i there, by the Navajo, within very recent
times. These rooms have been several times repaired, the one on the west particularly. In the latter an
additional wall has been built upon the northern side, as shown on the plan, Fig. 15. The old roof seems to
have survived until recently, for, although at the present time the room is covered with a roof of rudely split
cedar beams, the remains of the old, carefully built roof lie scattered about in the corners of the room, under
the dirt and dÃ©bris. The openings are very small and seem to have been modified since the original
construction, but it is difficult to distinguish between the older original structure and the more recent
additions.
Plate LIII. Site of Kâ——iakima, at base of TÃ¢aaiyalana.
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Kâ——IAKIMA.
On the south side of the isolated mesa of TÃ¢aaiyalana and occupying a high rounded spur of foothills, is the
ruined village of Kâ——iakima (Pl. LII). A long gulch on the west side of the spur contains, for 300 or 400
yards, a small stream which is fed from springs near the ruined village.
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Plate LII. Kâ——iakima, plan.
The entire surface of the hill is covered with scattered dÃ©bris of fallen walls, which must at one time have
formed a village of considerable size. Over most of this area the walls can not be traced; the few rooms which
can be distinctly outlined, occurring in a group on the highest part of the hill. Standing walls are here seen, but
they are apparently recent, one room showing traces of a chimney (Pl. LIV). Some of the more distinct
inclosures, built from fallen masonry of the old village, seem to have been intended for corrals. This is the
case also with the remains found on the cliffs to the north of the village, whose position is shown on the plan
(Pl. LIII). Here nearly all the scattered stones of the original one-story buildings, have been utilized for these
large inclosures. It is quite possible that these smaller structures on the ledge of the mesa were built and
occupied at a much later date than the principal village. Pl. LIII illustrates a portion of the base of
TÃ¢aaiyalana where these inclosures appear.
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Plate LIV. Recent wall at Kâ——iakima.
A striking feature of this ruin is the occurrence in the northeast corner of the village of large upright slabs of
stone. The largest of these is about 3 feet wide and stands 5Â½ feet out of the ground. One of the slabs is of
such symmetrical form that it suggests skillful artificial treatment, but the stone was used just as it came from
a seam in the cliff above. From the same seam many slabs of nearly equal size and symmetrical form have
fallen out and now lie scattered about on the talus below. Some are remarkable for their perfectly rectangular
form, while all are distinguished by a notable uniformity in thickness. Close by, and apparently forming part
of the same group, are a number of stones imbedded in the ground with their upper edges exposed and placed
at right angles to the faces of the vertical monuments. The taller slabs are said by the Indians to have been
erected as a defense against the attacks of the Apache upon this pueblo, but only a portion of the group could,
from their position, have been of any use for this 86 purpose. The stones probably mark graves. Although
thorough excavation of the hard soil could not be undertaken, digging to the depth of 18 inches revealed the
same character of pottery fragments, ashes, etc., found in many of the pueblo graves. Mr. E. W. Nelson found
identical remains in graves in the Rio San Francisco region which he excavated in collecting pottery.
Comparatively little is known, however, of the burial practices of this region, so it would be difficult to decide
whether this was an ordinary method of burial or not.
This pueblo has been identified by Mr. Cushing, through ZuÃ±i tradition, as the scene of the death of
Estevanico, the negro who accompanied the first Spanish expedition to Cibola.
MATSAKI.
Matsaki is situated on a foothill at the base of TÃ¢aaiyalana, near its northwestern extremity. This pueblo is in
about the same state of preservation as Kâ——iakima, no complete rooms being traceable over most of the
area. Traces of walls, where seen, are not uniform in direction, suggesting irregular grouping of the village. At
two points on the plan rooms partially bounded by standing walls are found. These appear to owe their
preservation to their occupation as outlooks over fields in the vicinity long after the destruction of the pueblo.
One of the two rooms shows only a few feet of rather rude masonry. The walls of the other room, in one
corner, stand the height of a full story above the surrounding dÃ©bris, a low room under it having been
partially filled up with fallen masonry and earth. The well preserved inner corner of the exposed room shows
lumps of clay adhering here and there to the walls, the remnants of an interior corner chimney. No trace of the
supports for a chimney hood, such as occur in the modern fireplaces, could be found. The form outlined
against the wall by these slight remains indicates a rather rudely constructed feature which was added at a late
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date to the room and formed no part of its original construction. It was probably built while the room was used
as a farming outlook. As shown on the ground plan (Pl. LV), a small cluster of houses once stood at some
little distance to the southwest of the main pueblo and was connected with the latter by a series of rooms. The
intervening space may have been a court. At the northern edge of the village a primitive shrine has been
erected in recent times and is still in use. It is rudely constructed by simply piling up stones to a height of
2Â½ or 3 feet, in a rudely rectangular arrangement, with an opening on the east. This shrine, facing east,
contains an upright slab of thin sandstone on which a rude sun-symbol has been engraved. The governor of
ZuÃ±i, in explaining the purpose of this shrine, compared its use to that of our own astronomical
observatories, which he had seen.
Plate LV. Matsaki, plan.
PINAWA.
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Fig. 16. Pinawa, plan.
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The ruins of the small pueblo of Pinawa occupy a slight rise on the south side of the ZuÃ±i River, a short
distance west of ZuÃ±i. The road 87 from ZuÃ±i to Ojo Caliente traverses the ruin. Over most of the area
rooms can not be traced. One complete room, however, has been preserved and appears to be still occupied
during the cultivation of the neighboring â——milpas.â—— It is roofed over and in good condition, though
the general character of the masonry resembles the older work. On the plan (Fig. 16) it will be seen that the
stones of the original masonry have been collected and built into a number of large inclosures, which have in
turn been partly destroyed. The positions of the entrances to these inclosures can be traced by the absence of
stones on the surface. The general outline of the corral-like inclosures appears to have followed comparatively
well preserved portions of the original wall, as was the case at Ketchipauan. (Pl. LVI.)
Plate LVI. Standing wall at Pinawa.
On the southwest side of the pueblo, portions of the outer wall are distinctly traceable, some of the stones
being still in position. This 88 portion of the outline is distinguished by a curious series of curves, resembling
portions of Nutria and Pescado, but intersecting in an unusual manner.
The Ojo Caliente road passes between the main ruin and the standing room above described. The remnants of
the fallen masonry are so few and so promiscuously scattered over this area that the continuity of remains can
not be fully traced.
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Plate LVII. Halona excavations as seen from ZuÃ±i.
HALONA.
An ancient pueblo called Halona is said to have belonged to the Cibolan group, and to have been inhabited at
the time of the conquest. It occupied a portion of the site upon which the present pueblo of ZuÃ±i stands. A
part of this pueblo was built on the opposite side of the river, where the remains of walls were encountered at
a slight depth below the surface of the ground in excavating for the foundations of Mr. Cushingâ——s house.
At that time only scattered remains of masonry were met with, and they furnished but little indication of
details of plan or arrangement. Later—during the summer of 1888—Mr. Cushing made
extensive additions to his house on the south side of the river, and in excavating for the foundations laid bare a
number of small rooms. Excavation was continued until December of that year, when a large part of the
ancient village had been exposed. Pl. LVII, from a photograph, illustrates a portion of these remains as seen
from the southwest corner of ZuÃ±i. The view was taken in the morning during a light fall of snow which,
lightly covering the tops of the walls left standing in the excavations, sharply defined their outlines against the
shadows of the rooms.
It seems impossible to restore the entire outline of the portion of Halona that has served as a nucleus for
modern ZuÃ±i from such data as can be procured. At several points of the present village, however, vestiges
of the old pueblo can be identified. Doubtless if access could be obtained to all the innermost rooms of the
pueblo some of them would show traces of ancient methods of construction sufficient, at least, to admit of a
restoration of the general form of the ancient pueblo. At the time the village was surveyed such examination
was not practicable. The portion of the old pueblo serving as a nucleus for later construction would probably
be found under houses Nos. 1 and 4, forming practically one mass of rooms. Strangers and outsiders are not
admitted to these innermost rooms. Outcrops in the small cluster No. 2 indicate by their position a continuous
wall of the old pueblo, probably the external one. Portions of the ancient outer wall are probably incorporated
into the west side of cluster No. 1. On the north side of cluster No. 2 (see Pl. LXXVI) may be seen a
buttress-like projection whose construction of small tabular stones strongly contrasts with the character of the
surrounding walls, and indicates that it is a fragment of the ancient pueblo. This projecting buttress answers
no purpose whatever in its present position.
89 The above suggestions are confirmed by another feature in the same house-cluster. On continuing the line
of this buttress through the governorâ——s house we find a projecting fragment of second story wall, the
character and finish of which is clearly shown in Pl. LVIII. Its general similarity to ancient masonry and
contrast with the present careless methods of construction are very noticeable. The height of this fragment
above the ground suggests that the original pueblo was in a very good state of preservation when it was first
utilized as a nucleus for later additions. That portion under house No. 1 is probably equally well preserved.
The frequent renovation of rooms by the application of a mud coating renders the task of determining the
ancient portions of the cluster by the character of the masonry a very difficult one. Ceilings would probably
longest retain the original appearance of the ancient rooms as they are not subjected to such renovation.
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Plate LVIII. Fragments of Halona wall.
Mr. Cushing thought that the outer western wall of the ancient pueblo was curved in outline. It is more
probable, however, that it regulated the lines of the present outer rooms, and is reflected in them, as the usual
practice of these builders was to put one partition directly over another in adding to the height of a building.
This would suggest a nearly rectangular form, perhaps with jogs and offsets, for the old builders could not
incorporate a curved outer wall into a mass of rectangular cells, such as that seen in the present pueblo. On the
other hand, the outer wall of the original pueblo may have been outside of rooms now occupied, for the
village had been abandoned for some time before the colony returned to the site.
Plate LIX. The mesa of TÃ¢aaiyalana, from ZuÃ±i.
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TÃ—AAIYALANA.
On the abandonment of the pueblos known as the Seven Cities of Cibola, supposed to have occurred at the
time of the general uprising of the pueblos in 1680, the inhabitants of all the Cibolan villages sought refuge on
the summit of TÃ¢aaiyalana, an isolated mesa, 3 miles southeast from ZuÃ±i, and there built a number of
pueblo clusters.
This mesa, otherwise known as â——Thunder Mountain,â—— rises to the height of 1,000 feet above the
plain, and is almost inaccessible. There are two foot trails leading to the summit, each of which in places
traverses abrupt slopes of sandstone where holes have been pecked into the rock to furnish foot and hand
holds. From the northeast side the summit of the mesa can be reached by a rough and tortuous burro trail. All
the rest of the mesa rim is too precipitous to be scaled. Its appearance as seen from ZuÃ±i is shown in Pl.
LIX.
On the southern portion of this impregnable site and grouped about a point where nearly the whole drainage of
the mesa top collects, are found the village remains. The ZuÃ±is stated that the houses were distributed in six
groups or clusters, each taking the place of one of the abandoned towns. Mr. Frank H. Cushing 4 was also
under the impression 90 that these houses had been built as six distinct clusters of one village, and he has
found that at the time of the Pueblo rebellion, but six of the Cibolan villages were occupied. An examination
of the plan, however, will at once show that no such definite scheme of arrangement governed the builders.
There are but three, or at most four groups that could be defined as distinct clusters, and even in the case of
these the disposition is so irregular and their boundaries so ill defined, through the great number of outlying
small groups scattered about, that they can hardly be considered distinct. There are really thirty-eight separate
buildings (Pl. LX) ranging in size from one of two rooms, near the southern extremity to one of one hundred
and three rooms, situated at the southwestern corner of the whole group and close to the western edge of the
mesa where the foot trails reach the summit. There is also great diversity in the arrangement of rooms. In
some cases the clusters are quite compact, and in others the rooms are distributed in narrow rows. In the large
cluster at the northwestern extremity the houses are arranged around a court; with this exception the clusters
of rooms are scattered about in an irregular manner, regardless of any defensive arrangement of the buildings.
The builders evidently placed the greatest reliance on their impregnable site, and freely adopted such
arrangement as convenience dictated.
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Plate LX. TÃ¢aaiyalana, plan.
The outlined area in the lower right was printed as an inset directly below the scale of distance.
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The masonry of these villages was roughly constructed, the walls being often less than a foot thick. Very little
adobe mortar seems to have been used; some of the thickest and best preserved walls have apparently been
laid nearly dry (Pl. LXI). The few openings still preserved also show evidence of hasty and careless
construction. Over most of the area the debris of the fallen walls is very clearly marked, and is but little
encumbered with earth or drifted sand. This imparts an odd effect of newness to these ruins, as though the
walls had recently fallen. The small amount of debris suggests that the majority of these buildings never were
more than one story high, though in four of the broadest clusters (see plan, Pl. LX) a height of two, and
possibly three, stories may have been attained. All the ruins are thickly covered by a very luxurious growth of
braided cactus, but little of which is found elsewhere in the neighborhood. The extreme southeastern cluster,
consisting of four large rooms, differs greatly in character from the rest of the ruins. Here the rooms or
inclosures are defined only by a few stones on the surface of the ground and partly embedded in the soil.
There is no trace of the debris of fallen walls. These outlined inclosures appear never to have been walled to
any considerable height. Within one of the rooms is a slab of stone, about which a few ceremonial plume
sticks have been set on end within recent times.
Plate LXI. Standing walls of TÃ¢aaiyalana ruins.
The motive that led to the occupation of this mesa was defense; the cause that led to the selection of the
particular site was facility for procuring a water supply. The trail on the west side passes a spring half way
down the mesa. There was another spring close to the foot 91 trail on the south side; this, however, was
lower, being almost at the foot of the talus.
In addition to these water sources, the builders collected and stored the drainage of the mesa summit near the
southern gap or recess. At this point are still seen the remains of two reservoirs or dams built of heavy
masonry. Only a few stones are now in place, but these indicate unusually massive construction. Another
reservoir occurs farther along the mesa rim to the southeast, beyond the limits of the plan as given. As may be
seen from the plan (Pl. LX) the two reservoirs at the gap are quite close together. These receptacles have been
much filled up with sediment. Pl. LXII gives a view of the principal or westernmost reservoir as seen from the
northeast. On the left are the large stones once incorporated in the masonry of the dam. This masonry appears
to have originally extended around three-fourths of the circumference of the reservoir. As at Ketchipauan,
previously described, the upper portion of the basins merged insensibly into the general drainage and had no
definite limit.
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Plate LXII. Remains of a reservoir on TÃ¢aaiyalana.
The ZuÃ±i claim to have here practiced a curious method of water storage. They say that whenever there was
snow on the ground the villagers would turn out in force and roll up huge snowballs, which were finally
collected into these basins, the gradually melting snow furnishing a considerable quantity of water. The desert
environment has taught these people to avail themselves of every expedient that could increase their supply of
water.
It is proper to state that in the illustrated plan of the TÃ¢aaiyalana ruins the mesa margin was sketched in
without the aid of instrumental sights, and hence is not so accurately recorded as the plans and relative
positions of the houses. It was all that could be done at the time, and will sufficiently illustrate the general
relation of the buildings to the surrounding topography.
Plate LXV. Standing walls of Kin-tiel.
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KIN-TIEL.
All the ruins above described bear close traditional and historic relationship to ZuÃ±i. This is not the case
with the splendidly preserved ancient pueblo of Kin-tiel, but the absence of such close historic connection is
compensated for by its architectural interest. Differing radically in its general plan from the ruins already
examined, it still suggests that some resemblance to the more ancient portions of Nutria and Pescado, as will
be seen by comparing the ground plans (Pls. LXVII and LXIX). Its state of preservation is such that it throws
light on details which have not survived the general destruction in the other pueblos. These features will be
referred to in the discussion and comparison of these architectural groups by constructional details in Chapter
IV.
This pueblo, located nearly midway between Cibola and Tusayan, is given on some of the maps as Pueblo
Grande. It is situated on a small 92 arm of the Pueblo Colorado wash, 22 or 23 miles north of Navajo Springs,
and about the same distance south from Pueblo Colorado (Ganado post-office). Geographically the ruins
might belong to either Tusayan or Cibola, but Mr. Cushing has collected traditional references among the
ZuÃ±i as to the occupation of this pueblo by related peoples at a time not far removed from the first Spanish
visit to this region.
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Plate LXIII. Kin-tiel, plan (also showing excavations).
The plan (Pl. LXIII) shows a marked contrast to the irregularity seen in the ruins previously described. The
pueblo was clearly defined by a continuous and unbroken outer wall, which probably extended to the full
height of the highest stories (Pl. LXIV). This symmetrical form is all the more remarkable in a pueblo of such
large dimensions, as, with the exception of Pueblo Bonito of the Chaco group, it is the largest ancient pueblo
examined by this Bureau. This village seems to belong to the same type as the Chaco examples, representing
the highest development attained in building a large defensive pueblo practically as a single house. All the
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terraces faced upon one or more inclosed courts, through which access was gained to the rooms. The openings
in this outer wall, especially near the ground, were few in number and very small in size, as shown in Pl. CIV.
The pueblo was built in two wings of nearly equal size on the opposite slopes of a large sandy wash,
traversing its center from east to west. This wash doubtless at one time furnished peculiar facilities for storage
of water within or near the village, and this must have been one of the inducements for the selection of the
site. At the time of our survey, however, not a drop of water was to be found about the ruin, nor could vestiges
of any construction for gathering or storing water be traced. Such vestiges would not be likely to remain, as
they must have been washed away by the violent summer torrents or buried under the accumulating sands.
Two seasons subsequent to our work at this point it was learned that an American, digging in some rooms on
the arroyo margin, discovered the remains of a well or reservoir, which he cleared of sand and debris and
found to be in good condition, furnishing so steady a water supply that the discoverer settled on the spot. This
was not seen by the writer. There is a small spring, perhaps a mile from the pueblo in a northeasterly
direction, but this source would have been wholly insufficient for the needs of so large a village. It may have
furnished a much more abundant supply, however, when it was in constant use, for at the time of our visit it
seemed to be choked up. About a mile and a half west quite a lagoon forms from the collected drainage of
several broad valleys, and contains water for a long time after the cessation of the rains. About 6 miles to the
north, in a depression of a broad valley, an extensive lake is situated, and its supply seems to be constant
throughout the year, except, perhaps, during an unusually dry season. These various bodies of water were
undoubtedly utilized in the horticulture of the occupants of Kin-tiel; in fact, near the borders of the larger lake
referred to is a small house of two rooms; much similar in workmanship to the main 93 pueblo, evidently
designed as an outlook over fields. This building is illustrated in Pl. LXVI.
Plate LXIV. North wall of Kin-tiel.
The arrangement of the inner houses differs in the two halves of the ruin. It will be seen that in the north half
the general arrangement is roughly parallel with the outer walls, with the exception of a small group near the
east end of the arroyo. In the south half, on the other hand, the inner rows are nearly at right angles to the
outer room clusters. An examination of the contours of the site will reveal the cause of this difference in the
different configuration of the slopes in the two cases. In the south half the rows of rooms have been built on
two long projecting ridges, and the diverging small cluster in the north half owes its direction to a similar
cause. The line of outer wall being once fixed as a defensive bulwark, there seems to have been but little
restriction in the adjustment of the inner buildings to conform to the irregularities of the site. (Pl. LXIII.)
Only three clearly defined means of access to the interior of the pueblo could be found in the outer walls, and
of these only two were suitable for general use. One was at a reentering angle of the outer wall, just south of
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the east end of the arroyo, where the north wall, continued across the arroyo, overlaps the outer wall of the
south half, and the other one was near the rounded northeastern corner of the pueblo. The third opening was a
doorway of ordinary size in the thick north wall. It seems probable that other gateways once existed,
especially in the south half. From its larger size and more compact arrangement this south half would seem to
have greatly needed such facilities, but the preserved walls show no trace of them.
The ground plan furnishes indications, mostly in the north half, of several large rooms of circular form, but
broken down remains of square rooms are so much like those of round ones in appearance, owing to the
greater amount of dÃ©bris that collects at the corners, that it could not be definitely determined that the
ceremonial rooms here were of the circular form so common in the ancient pueblos. While only circular kivas
have been found associated with ancient pueblos of this type, the kivas of all the Cibola ruins above described
are said by the ZuÃ±is to have been rectangular. The question can be decided for this pueblo only by
excavation on a larger scale than the party was prepared to undertake. Slight excavation at a point where a
round room was indicated on the surface, revealed portions of straight walls only.
Plate LXVI. Kinna-Zinde.
The large size of the refuse heap on the south side of the village indicates that the site had been occupied for
many generations. Notwithstanding this long period of occupation, no important structure of the village seems
to have extended beyond the plan. On the north side, outside the main wall, are seen several rectangles faintly
outlined by stones, but these do not appear to have been rooms. They resemble similar inclosures seen in
connection with ruined pueblos farther south, which proved on excavation to contain graves.
94 The positions of the few excavations made are indicated on the plan (Pl. LXIII). Our facilities for such
work were most meager, and whatever results were secured were reached at no great distance from the
surface. One of these excavations, illustrated in Pl. C, will be described at greater length in Chapter IV.
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Plate LXVIII. Nutria, view.
NUTRIA.
Nutria is the smallest of the three farming pueblos of ZuÃ±i, and is located about 23 miles by trail northeast
from ZuÃ±i at the head of Nutria valley. The water supply at this point is abundant, and furnishes a running
stream largely utilized in irrigating fields in the vicinity. Most of the village is compactly arranged, as may be
seen from the plan (Pl. LXVII and Fig. 17), but a few small clusters, of late construction, containing two or
three rooms each, are situated toward the east at quite a distance from the principal group. It is now occupied
solely as a farming pueblo during the planting and harvesting season.
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Plate LXVII. Nutria, plan.
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Fig. 17. Nutria, plan; small diagram, old wall.
The outline of this small pueblo differs greatly from those of most of the Cibolan villages. The village (Pl.
LXVIII), particularly in its northernmost cluster, somewhat approximates the form of the ancient pueblo of
Kin-tiel (Pl. LXIII), and has apparently been built on the remains of an older village of somewhat
corresponding form, as indicated by its curved outer wall. Fragments of carefully constructed masonry of the
ancient type, contrasting noticeably with the surrounding modern construction, afford additional evidence of
this. The ancient village must have been provided originally with ceremonial rooms or kivas, but no traces of
such rooms are now to be found.
At the close of the harvest, when the season of feasts and ceremonials begins, lasting through most of the
winter, the occupants of these farming 95 villages close up their houses and move back to the main pueblo
leaving them untenanted until the succeeding spring.
The great number of abandoned and ruined rooms is very noticeable in the farming pueblos illustrated in this
and two of the succeeding plans (Pls. LXIX and LXXIII). The families that farm in their vicinity seem to
occupy scarcely more than half of the available rooms.
PESCADO.
This village, also a ZuÃ±i farming pueblo, is situated in a large valley about 12 miles northeast from ZuÃ±i.
Although it is much larger than Nutria it is wholly comprised within the compact group illustrated. The
tendency to build small detached houses noticed at Nutria and at Ojo Caliente has not manifested itself here.
The prevalence of abandoned and roofless houses is also noticeable.
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Plate LXIX. Pescado, plan.
Fig. 18. Pescado, plan, old wall diagram.
The outlines of the original court inclosing pueblo (Pl. LXX) are very clearly marked, as the farming ZuÃ±is
in their use of this site have scarcely gone outside of the original limits of the ancient pueblo. The plan, Pl.
LXIX and Fig. 18, shows a small irregular row built in the large inclosed court; this row, with the inclosures
and corrals that surround it, probably formed no part of the original plan. The full curved outline is broken
only at the west end of the village by small additions to the outer wall, and the north and east walls also
closely follow the boundary of the original pueblo. In fact, at two points along the north wall fragments of
carefully executed masonry, probably forming part of the external wall of the ancient pueblo, are still
preserved (Pl. LXXII). This outer wall was probably once continuous to the full height of the 96 pueblo, but
the partial restorations of the buildings by the ZuÃ±i farmers resemble more closely the modern arrangement.
Small rooms have been added to the outside of the cluster and in some cases the terraces are reached by
external stone steps, in contrast with the defensive arrangement prevailing generally in pueblos of this form. A
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number of dome-shaped ovens have been built outside the walls.
Plate LXX. Court view of Pescado, showing corrals.
Plate LXXI. Pescado houses.
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Plate LXXII. Fragments of ancient masonry in Pescado.
The principle of pueblo plan embodied in Kin-tiel, before referred to, is traceable in this village with
particular clearness, distinguishing it from most of the Cibolan pueblos. No traces of kivas were met with in
this village.
Plate LXXIV. General view of Ojo Caliente.
OJO CALIENTE.
The farming village of Ojo Caliente is located near the dry wash of the ZuÃ±i River, and is about 15 miles
distant from ZuÃ±i, in a southerly direction. It is about midway between Hawikuh and Ketchipauan, two of
the seven cities of Cibola above described. Though situated in fertile and well watered country and close to
the remains of the ancient villages, it bears indications of having been built in comparatively recent times.
There are no such evidences of connection with an older village as were found at Nutria and Pescado. The
irregular and small clusters that form this village are widely scattered over a rather rough and broken site, as
shown on the plan (Pl. LXXIII). Here again a large portion of the village is untenanted. The large cluster
toward the eastern extremity of the group, and the adjoining houses situated on the low, level ground,
compose the present inhabited village. The houses occupying the elevated rocky sites to the west (Pl. LXXIV)
are in an advanced stage of decay, and have been for a long time abandoned.
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Plate LXXIII. Ojo Caliente, plan.
This southern portion of the Cibola district seems to have been much exposed to the inroads of the Apache.
One of the effects of this has already been noticed in the defensive arrangement in the Ketchipauan church.
On account of such danger, the ZuÃ±i were likely to have built the first house-clusters here on the highest
points of the rocky promontory, notwithstanding the comparative inconvenience of such sites. Later, as the
farmers gained confidence or as times became safer, they built houses down on the flat now occupied; but this
apparently was not done all at once. The distribution of the houses over sites of varying degrees of
inaccessibility, suggests a succession of approaches to the occupation of the open and unprotected valley.
Some of the masonry of this village is carelessly constructed, and, as in the other farming pueblos, there is
much less adobe plastering and smoothing of outer walls than in the home pueblo.
Plate LXXV. House at Ojo Caliente.
At the time of the survey the occupation of this village throughout the year was proposed by several families,
who wished to resort to the parent village only at stated ceremonials and important festivals. The comparative
security of recent times is thus tending to the disintegration of the huge central pueblo. This result must be
inevitable, as the 97 dying out of the defensive motive brings about a realization of the great inconvenience of
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Plate LXXVIII. General inside view of ZuÃ±i, looking west.
ZUÃ—I.
The pueblo of ZuÃ±i is built upon a small knoll on the north bank of the ZuÃ±i River, about three miles west
of the conspicuous mesa of TÃ¢aaiyalana. It is the successor of all the original â——Seven Cities of
Cibolaâ—— of the Spaniards, and is the largest of the modern pueblos. As before stated, the remains of
Halona, one of the â——seven cities,â—— as identified by Mr. Cushing, have served as a nucleus for the
construction of the modern pueblo, and have been incorporated into the most densely clustered portions,
represented on the plan (Pl. LXXVI) by numbers 1 and 4.
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Plate LXXVI. ZuÃ±i, plan.
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Key to ZuÃ±i plan (Plate LXXVI).
Some of the Cibolan villages were valley pueblos, built at a distance from the rocky mesas and canyons that
must have served as quarries for the stone used in building. The Halona site was of this type, the nearest
supply of stone being 3 miles distant. At this point (Halona) the ZuÃ±i River is perennial, and furnishes a
plentiful supply of water at all seasons of the year. It disappears, however, a few miles west in a broad, sandy
wash, to appear again 20 miles below the village, probably through the accession of small streams from
springs farther down. The so-called river furnishes the sole water supply at ZuÃ±i, with the exception of a
single well or reservoir on the north side of the village.
ZuÃ±i has been built at a point having no special advantages for defense; convenience to large areas of
tillable soil has apparently led to the selection of the site. This has subjected it in part to the same influences
that had at an earlier date produced the carefully walled fortress pueblos of the valleys, where the defensive
efficiency was due to well planned and constructed buildings. The result is that ZuÃ±i, while not comparable
in symmetry to many of the ancient examples, displays a remarkably compact arrangement of dwellings in the
portions of the pueblos first occupied, designated on the plan (Pl. LXXVI) as houses 1 and 4. Owing to this
restriction of lateral expansion this portion of the pueblo has been carried to a great height.
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Plate LXXVII. Outline plan of ZuÃ±i, showing distribution of oblique openings.
Pl. LXXVIII gives a general view of these higher terraces of the village from the southeast. A height of five
distinct terraces from the ground is attained on the south side of this cluster. The same point, however, owing
to the irregularity of the site, is only three terraces above the ground on the north side. The summit of the
knoll upon which the older portion of ZuÃ±i has been built is so uneven, and the houses themselves vary so
much in dimensions, that the greatest disparity prevails in the height of terraces. A three-terrace portion of a
cluster may have but two terraces immediately alongside, and throughout the more closely built portions of
the village the exposed height of terraces varies from 1 foot to 8 or 10 feet. Pl. LXXIX illustrates this feature.
Plate LXXIX. ZuÃ±i terraces.
The growth of the village has apparently been far beyond the original expectation of the builders, and the
crowded additions seem to have 98 been joined to the clusters wherever the demand for more space was most
urgent, without following any definite plan in their arrangement. In such of the ancient pueblo ruins as afford
evidence of having passed through a similar experience, the crowding of additional cells seems to have been
made to conform to some extent to a predetermined plan. At Kin-tiel we have seen how such additions to the
number of habitable rooms could readily be made within the open court without affecting the symmetry and
defensive efficiency of the pueblo; but here the nucleus of the large clusters was small and compact, so that
enlargement has taken place only by the addition of rooms on the outside, both on the ground and on upper
terraces.
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Plate LXXX. Old adobe church of ZuÃ±i.
The highest point of ZuÃ±i, now showing five terraces, is said to have had a height of seven terraces as late as
the middle of the present century, but at the time of the survey of the village no traces were seen of such
additional stories. The top of the present fifth terrace, however, is more than 50 feet long, and affords
sufficient space for the addition of a sixth and seventh story.
The court or plaza in which the church (Pl. LXXX) stands is so much larger than such inclosures usually are
when incorporated in a pueblo plan that it seems unlikely to have formed part of the original village. It
probably resulted from locating the church prior to the construction of the eastern rows of the village. Certain
features in the houses themselves indicate the later date of these rows.
Plate LXXXI. Eastern rows of ZuÃ±i.
The arrangement of dwellings about a court (Pl. LXXXII), characteristic of the ancient pueblos, is likely to
have prevailed in the small pueblo of Halona, about which clustered the many irregular houses that constitute
modern ZuÃ±i. Occasional traces of such an arrangement are still met with in portions of ZuÃ±i, although
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nearly all of the ancient pueblo has been covered with rooms of later date. In the arrangement of ZuÃ±i
houses a noticeable difference in the manner of clustering is found in different parts of the pueblo. That
portion designated as house No. 1 on the plan, built over the remains of the original small pueblo, is
unquestionably the oldest portion of the village. The clustering seems to have gone on around this center to an
extraordinary and exceptional extent before any houses were built in other portions. House No. 4 is a portion
of the same structure, for although a street or passageway intervenes it is covered with two or three terraces,
indicating that such connection was established at an early date. The rows on the lower ground to the east (Pl.
LXXXI), where the rooms are not so densely clustered, were built after the removal of the defensive motive
that influenced the construction of the central pile. These portions, arranged approximately in rows, show a
marked resemblance to pueblos of known recent date. That they were built subsequently to the main clusters
is also indicated by the abundant use of oblique openings and roof holes, where there is very little necessity
for such contrivances. This feature was originally devised to meet the exceptional conditions of lighting 99
imposed by dense crowding of the living rooms. It will be referred to again in examining the details of
openings, and its wide departure from the arrangement found to prevail generally in pueblo constructions will
there be noted. The habit of making such provisions for lighting inner rooms became fixed and was applied
generally to many clusters much smaller in size than those of other pueblos where this feature was not
developed and where the necessity for it was not felt. These less crowded rooms of more recent construction
form the eastern portion of the pueblo, and also include the governorâ——s house on the south side.
Plate LXXXII. A ZuÃ±i court.
The old ceremonial rooms or kivas, and the rooms for the meeting of the various orders or secret societies
were, during the Spanish occupancy, crowded into the innermost recesses of this ancient portion of ZuÃ±i
under house No. 1. But the kivas, in all likelihood, occupied a more marginal position before such foreign
influence was brought to bear on them, as do some of the kivas at the present time, and as is the general
practice in other modern pueblos.
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Plate LXXXIII. A ZuÃ±i small house.
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ARCHITECTURE OF TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA COMPARED BY CONSTRUCTIONAL

DETAILS.
INTRODUCTION.
In the two preceding chapters the more general features of form and distribution in the ruined and inhabited
pueblos of Tusayan and Cibola have been described. In order to gain a full and definite idea of the
architectural acquirements of the pueblo builders it will be necessary to examine closely the constructional
details of their present houses, endeavoring, when practicable, to compare these details with the rather meager
vestiges of similar features that have survived the destruction of the older villages, noting the extent to which
these have departed from early types, and, where practicable, tracing the causes of such deviation. For
convenience of comparison the various details of housebuilding for the two groups will be treated together.
The writer is indebted to Mr. A. M. Stephen, the collector of the traditionary data already given, for
information concerning the rites connected with house building at Tusayan incorporated in the following
pages, and also for the carefully collected and valuable nomenclature of architectural details appended hereto.
Material of this class pertaining to the Cibola group of pueblos unfortunately could not be procured.
HOUSE BUILDING.
RITES AND METHODS.
The ceremonials connected with house building in Tusayan are quite meager, but the various steps in the
ritual, described in their proper connection in the following paragraphs, are well defined and definitely
assigned to those who participate in the construction of the buildings.
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So far as could be ascertained there is no prearranged plan for an entire house of several stories, or for the
arrangement of contiguous houses. Most of the ruins examined emphasize this absence of a clearly defined
general plan governing the location of rooms added to the original cluster. Two notable exceptions to this
want of definite plan occur among the ruins described. In Tusayan the Fire House (Fig. 7) is evidently the
result of a clearly defined purpose to give a definite form to the entire cluster, just as, on a very much larger
scale, does the ruin of Kin-tiel, belonging to the Cibola group (Pl. LXIII). In both these cases the fixing of the
outer wall on a definite line seems to have 101 been regarded as of more importance than the specific
locations of individual rooms or dwellings within this outline. Throughout that part of Tusayan which has
been examined, however, the single room seems now to be regarded as the pueblo unit, and is spoken of as a
complete house. It is the construction of such a house unit that is here to be described.
A suitable site having been selected, the builder considers what the dimensions of the house should be, and
these he measures by paces, placing a stone or other mark at each corner. He then goes to the woods and cuts
a sufficient number of timbers for the roof of a length corresponding to the width of his house. Stones are also
gathered and roughly dressed, and in all these operations he is assisted by his friends, usually of his own gens.
These assistants receive no compensation except their food, but that of itself entails considerable expense on
the builder, and causes him to build his house with as few helpers as possible.
The material having been accumulated, the builder goes to the village chief, who prepares for him four small
eagle feathers. The chief ties a short cotton string to the stem of each, sprinkles them with votive meal, and
breathes upon them his prayers for the welfare of the proposed house and its occupants. These feathers are
called Nakwa kwoci, a term meaning a breathed prayer, and the prayers are addressed to MÃ¡sauwu, the Sun,
and to other deities concerned in house-life. These feathers are placed at the four corners of the house and a
large stone is laid over each of them. The builder then decides where the door is to be located, and marks the
place by setting some food on each side of it; he then passes around the site from right to left, sprinkling piki
crumbs and other particles of food, mixed with native tobacco, along the lines to be occupied by the walls. As
he sprinkles this offering he sings to the Sun his Kitdauwi, house song: â——Si-ai, a-hai, si-ai, a-hai.â——
The meaning of these words the people have now forgotten.
Mr. Stephen has been informed by the Indians that the man is a mason and the woman the plasterer, the house
belonging to the woman when finished; but according to my own observation this is not the universal practice
in modern Tusayan. In the case of the house in Oraibi, illustrated in Pl. XL from a photograph, much, if not
all, of the masonry was laid, as well as finished and plastered, by the woman of the house and her female
relatives. There was but one man present at this house-building, whose grudgingly performed duty consisted
of lifting the larger roof beams and lintels into place and of giving occasional assistance in the heavier work.
The ground about this house was strewn with quantities of broken stone for masonry, which seemed to be all
prepared and brought to the spot before building began; but often the various divisions of the work are carried
on by both men and women simultaneously. While the men were dressing the stones, the women brought
earth and water and mixed a mud plaster. Then the walls were laid in irregular courses, using the mortar very
sparingly.
102 The house is always built in the form of a parallelogram, the walls being from 7 to 8 feet high, and of
irregular thickness, sometimes varying from 15 to 22 inches in different parts of the same wall.
Pine, piÃ±on, juniper, cottonwood, willow, and indeed all the available trees of the region are used in house
construction. The main beams for the roof are usually of pine or cottonwood, from which the bark has been
stripped. The roof is always made nearly level, and the ends of the beams are placed across the side walls at
intervals of about 2 feet. Above these are laid smaller poles parallel with the side walls, and not more than a
foot apart. Across these again are laid reeds or small willows, as close together as they can be placed, and
above this series is crossed a layer of grass or small twigs and weeds. Over this framework a layer of mud is
spread, which, after drying, is covered with earth and firmly trodden down. The making of the roof is the
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work of the women. When it is finished the women proceed to spread a thick coating of mud for a floor. After
this follows the application of plaster to the walls. Formerly a custom prevailed of leaving a small space on
the wall unplastered, a belief then existing that a certain Katchina came and finished it, and although the space
remained bare it was considered to be covered with an invisible plaster.
The house being thus far completed, the builder prepares four feathers similar to those prepared by the chief,
and ties them to a short piece of willow, the end of which is inserted over one of the central roof beams. These
feathers are renewed every year at the feast of Soyalyina, celebrated in December, when the sun begins to
return north ward. The builder also makes an offering to MÃ¡sauwu (called â——feeding the houseâ——) by
placing fragments of food among the rafters, beseeching him not to hasten the departure of any of the family
to the under world.
A hole is left in one corner of the roof, and under this the woman builds a fireplace and chimney. The former
is usually but a small cavity about a foot square in the corner of the floor. Over this a chimney hood is
constructed, its lower rim being about 3 feet above the floor.
As a rule the house has no eaves, the roof being finished with a stone coping laid flush with the wall and
standing a few inches higher than the roof to preserve the earth covering from being blown or washed away.
Roof-drains of various materials are also commonly inserted in the copings, as will be described later.
All the natives, as far as could be ascertained, regard this single-roomed house as being complete in itself, but
they also consider it the nucleus of the larger structure. When more space is desired, as when the daughters of
the house marry and require room for themselves, another house is built in front of and adjoining the first one,
and a second story is often added to the original house. The same ceremony is observed in building the ground
story in front, but there is no ceremony for the second and additional stories.
103 Anawita (war-chief of Sichumovi) describes the house in Walpi in which he was born as having had five
rooms on the ground floor, and as being four stories high, but it was terraced both in front and rear, his sisters
and their families occupying the rear portion. The fourth story consisted of a single room and had terraces on
two opposite sides. This old house is now very dilapidated, and the greater portion of the walls have been
carried away. There is no prescribed position for communicating doorways, but the outer doors are usually
placed in the lee walls to avoid the prevailing southwest winds.
Fig. 19. A Tusayan wood rack.

Formerly on the approach of cold weather, and to some extent the custom still exists, people withdrew from
the upper stories to the kikoli rooms, where they huddled together to keep warm. Economy in the
consumption of fuel also prompted this expedient; but these ground-floor rooms forming the first terrace, as a
rule having no external doorways, and entered from without by means of a roof hatchway provided with a
ladder, are ordinarily used only for purposes of storage. Even their roofs are largely utilized for the temporary
storage of many household articles, and in the autumn, after the harvests have been gathered, the terraces and
copings are often covered with drying peaches, and the peculiar long strips into which pumpkins and squashes
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have been cut to facilitate their desiccation for winter use. Among other things the household supply of wood
is sometimes piled up at one end of this terrace, but more commonly the natives have so many other uses for
this space that the sticks of fuel are piled up on a rude projecting skeleton of poles, supported on one side by
two upright forked sticks set into the ground, and on the other resting upon the stone coping of the wall, as
illustrated in Fig. 19. At other times poles are laid across a re-entering angle of a house and used as a wood
rack, without any support from the ground. At the autumn season not only is the available space of the first
terrace fully utilized, but every projecting beam or stick is covered with strings of drying meat or squashes,
and many long poles are extended between convenient points to do temporary 104 duty as additional drying
racks. There was in all cases at least one fireplace on the inside in the upper stories, but the cooking was done
on the terraces, usually at the end of the first or kikoli roof. This is still a general custom, and the end of the
first terrace is usually walled up and roofed, and is called tupubi. Tuma is the name of the flat baking-stone
used in the houses, but the flat stone used for baking at the kisi in the field is called tupubi.
Kikoli is the name of the ground story of the house, which has no opening in the outer wall.
The term for the terraced roofs is ihpobi, and is applied to all of them; but the tupatca ihpobi, or third terrace,
is the place of general resort, and is regarded as a common loitering place, no one claiming distinct ownership.
This is suggestive of an early communal dwelling, but nothing definite can now be ascertained on this point.
In this connection it may also be noted that the eldest sisterâ——s house is regarded as their home by her
younger brothers and her nieces and nephews.
Aside from the tupubi, there are numerous small rooms especially constructed for baking the thin, paper-like
bread called piki. These are usually not more than from 5 to 7 feet high, with interior dimensions not larger
than 7 feet by 10, and they are called tumcokobi, the place of the flat stone, tuma being the name of the stone
itself, and tcok describing its flat position. Many of the ground-floor rooms in the dwelling houses are also
devoted to this use.
The terms above are those more commonly used in referring to the houses and their leading features. A more
exhaustive vocabulary of architectural terms, comprising those especially applied to the various constructional
features of the kivas or ceremonial rooms, and to the â——kisis,â—— or temporary brush shelters for field
use, will be found near the end of this paper.
The only trace of a traditional village plan, or arrangement of contiguous houses, is found in a meager
mention in some of the traditions, that rows of houses were built to inclose the kiva, and to form an
appropriate place for the public dances and processions of masked dancers. No definite ground plan, however,
is ascribed to these traditional court-inclosing houses, although at one period in the evolution of this defensive
type of architecture they must have partaken somewhat of the symmetrical grouping found on the Rio Chaco
and elsewhere.
LOCALIZATION OF GENTES.
In the older and more symmetrical examples there was doubtless some effort to distribute the various gentes,
or at least the phratries, in definite quarters of the village, as stated traditionally. At the present day, however,
there is but little trace of such localization. In the case of Oraibi, the largest of the Tusayan villages, Mr.
Stephen has with great care and patience ascertained the distribution of the various gentes in the village, as
recorded on the accompanying skeleton plan 105 (Pl. XXXVII). An examination of the diagram in
connection with the appended list of the families occupying Oraibi will at once show that, however clearly
defined may have been the quarters of various gentes in the traditional village, the greatest confusion prevails
at the present time. The families numerically most important, such as the Reed, Coyote, Lizard, and Badger,
are represented in all of the larger house clusters.
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Families occupying Oraibi.
[See house plan—house numbers in blue.]

1. Kokop winwuh Burrowing owl.
2. Pikyas nyumuh Young corn plant.
3. Bakab winwuh Reed (Phragmites communis).
4. Tuwa winwuh Sand.
5. Tdap nyumuh Jack rabbit.
6. Honan winwuh Badger.
7. Isn winwuh Coyote.
8. See 3 Reed.
9. Kukuto winwuh Lizard.
10. Honan nyumuh Bear.
11. Honau Bear.
12. See 3 Reed.
13. See 7 Coyote.
14. Tcuin Rattlesnake.
15. Awat Bow.
16. Kokuan Spider.
17. See 9 Lizard.
18. See 3 Reed.
19. See 1 Burrowing owl.
21. See 5 Rabbit.
22. See 9 Lizard.
23. See 9 Lizard.
23Â½. See 9 Lizard.
24. See 2 Young corn.
25. Gyazro nyumuh Paroquet.
27. Kwah nyumuh Eagle.
28. See 7 Coyote.
29. See 27 Eagle.
30. See 9 Lizard.
31. See 9 Lizard.
32. See 7 Coyote.
33. See 7 Coyote.
35. See 6 Badger.
36. See 16 Spider.
37. Batun winwuh Squash.
38. See 15 Bow.
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39. See 15 Bow.
42. See 6 Badger.
43. Tdawuh winwuh Sun.
106 44. See 1 Burrowing owl.
45. See 25 Paroquet.
47. See 1 Burrowing-owl.
48. See 3 Reed.
49. See 3 Reed.
50. See 3 Reed.
51. See 3 Reed.
52. See 27 Eagle.
55. See 5 Rabbit.
56. See 9 Lizard.
57. Pobol winwuh Moth.
58. See 6 Badger.
59. See 5 Rabbit.
60. See 5 Rabbit.
61. See 7 Coyote.
62. See 7 Coyote.
63. Atoko winwuh Crane.
64. See 3 Reed.
65. See 9 Lizard.
66. Keli nyumuh Hawk.
67. See 7 Coyote.
68. See 43 Sun.
69. Kwan nyumuh Mescal cake.
70. See 27 Eagle.
71. See 27 Eagle.
72. See 2 Corn.
73. See 6 Badger.
74. See 7 Coyote.
75. See 7 Coyote.
76. See 27 Eagle.
77. See 3 Reed.
78. See 3 Reed.
79. See 3 Reed.
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81. See 43 Sun.
83. See 9 Lizard.
84. See 9 Lizard.
85. See 43 Sun.
86. See 3 Reed.
87. See 3 Reed.
88. See 7 Coyote.
89. See 3 Reed.
90. Vacant.
91. See 2 Corn.
94. See 10 Bear.
95. See 19 Bear.
96. See 4 Sand.
97. See 4 Sand.
98. See 4 Sand.
99. See 3 Reed.
107 100. See 2 Corn.
101. See 2 Corn.
102. See 7 Coyote.
103. See 7 Coyote.
104. See 3 Reed.
105. See 3 Reed.
106. See 3 Reed.
107. See 5 Rabbit.
108. See 7 Coyote.
109. See 5 Rabbit.
110. See 5 Rabbit.
111. See 3 Reed.
112. See 5 Rabbit.
113. Vacant.
114. Vacant.
115. See 3 Reed.
116. See 6 Badger.
117. See 43 Sun.
118. See 7 Coyote.
119. See 43 Sun.
120. See 5 Rabbit.
121. See 43 Sun.
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123. See 4 Sand.
124. See 4 Sand.
125. See 3 Reed.
126. See 3 Reed.
127. See 43 Sun.
128. See 2 Corn.
129. See 9 Lizard.
130. See 4 Sand.
131. See 4 Sand.
132. See 7 Coyote.
133. See 9 Lizard.
136. See 6 Badger.
137. See 6 Badger.
138. Vacant.
139. See 10 Bear.
140. See 3 Reed.
143. See 43 Sun.
144. See 5 Rabbit.
145. See 15 Bow.
146. Vacant.
147. See 6 Badger.
148. Katcin nyumuh Katcina.
149. See 7 Coyote.
150. See 6 Badger.
151. See 6 Badger.
152. See 6 Badger.
153. See 6 Badger.
108 Counting No. 23Â½, this makes 154 houses; 149 occupied, 5 vacant.
Reed 25 Corn 9
families families
Coyote 17 Sun 9
families families
Lizard 14 Sand 8
families families
Badger 13 Eagle 6
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Paroquet 10 Bow 4
families families
Owl 9 Spider 2
families families
Snake, Squash, Moth, Crane, Hawk, Mescal
cake, Katcina, one each.
No tradition of gentile localization was discovered in Cibola. Notwithstanding the decided difference in the
general arrangements of rooms in the eastern and western portions of the village, the architectural evidence
does not indicate the construction of the various portions of the present ZuÃ±i by distinct groups of people.
INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT.
On account of the purpose for which much of the architectural data here given were originally obtained, viz,
for the construction of large scale models of the pueblos, the material is much more abundant for the treatment
of exterior than of interior details. Still, when the walls and roof, with all their attendant features, have been
fully recorded, little remains to be described about a pueblo house; for such of its interior details as do not
connect with the external features are of the simplest character. At the time of the survey of these pueblos no
exhaustive study of the interior of the houses was practicable, but the illustrations present typical dwelling
rooms from both Tusayan and ZuÃ±i. As a rule the rooms are smaller in Tusayan than at ZuÃ±i.
Fig. 20. Interior ground plan

of a Tusayan room.
The illustration, Fig. 20, shows the ground plan of a second-story room of Mashongnavi. This room measures
13 by 12Â½ feet, and is considerably 109 below the average size of the rooms in these villages. A projecting
buttress or pier in the middle of the east wall divides that end of the room into two portions. One side is
provided with facilities for storage in the construction of a bench or ledge, used as a shelf, 3 feet high from the
floor; and a small inclosed triangular bin, built directly on the floor, by fixing a thin slab of stone into the
masonry. The whole construction has been treated with the usual coating of mud, which has afterwards been
whitewashed, with the exception of a 10-inch band that encircles the whole room at the floor line, occupying
the position of a baseboard. The other side of the dividing pier forms a recess, that is wholly given up to a
series of metates or mealing stones; an indispensable feature of every pueblo household. It is quite common to
find a series of metates, as in the present instance, filling the entire available width of a recess or bay, and
leaving only so much of its depth behind the stones as will afford floor space for the kneeling women who
grind the corn. In larger open apartments undivided by buttress or pier, the metates are usually built in or near
one corner. They are always so arranged that those who operate them face the middle of the room. The floor is
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simply a smoothly plastered dressing of clay of the same character as the usual external roof covering. It is, in
fact, simply the roof of the room below smoothed and finished with special care. Such apartments, even in
upper stories, are sometimes carefully paved over the entire surface with large flat slabs of stone. It is often
difficult to procure rectangular slabs of sufficient size for this purpose, but the irregularities of outline of the
large flat stones are very skillfully interfitted, furnishing, when finished, a smoothly paved floor easily swept
and kept clean.
On the right of the doorway as one enters this house are the fireplace and chimney, built in the corner of the
room. In this case the chimney hood is of semicircular form, as indicated on the plan. The entire chimney is
illustrated in Fig. 62, which represents the typical curved form of hood. In the corner of the left as one enters
are two ollas, or water jars, which are always kept filled. On the floor near the water jars is indicated a jug or
canteen, a form of vessel used for bringing in water from the springs and wells at the foot of the mesa. At
ZuÃ±i water seems to be all brought directly in the ollas, or water jars, in which it is kept, this canteen form
not being in use for the purpose.
The entrance doorway to this house, as indicated on the plan, is set back or stepped on one side, a type of
opening which is quite common in Tusayan. This form is illustrated in Fig. 84.
Plate LXXXIV. A house-building at Oraibi.
This room has three windows, all of very small size, but it has no interior communication with any other
room. In this respect it is exceptional. Ordinarily rooms communicate with others of the cluster.
Pl. LXXXV shows another typical Tusayan interior in perspective. It illustrates essentially the same
arrangement as does the preceding example. The room is much larger than the one above described, and it 110
is divided midway of its length by a similar buttress. This buttress supports a heavy girder, thus admitting of
the use of two tiers of floor beams to span the whole length of the room. The fireplace and chimney are
similar to those described, as is also the single compartment for mealing stones. In this case, however, this
portion of the room is quite large, and the row of mealing stones is built at right angles to its back wall and not
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Plate LXXXV. A Tusayan interior.
The right-hand portion of the room is provided with a long, straight pole suspended from the roof beams. This
is a common feature in both Tusayan and ZuÃ±i. The pole is used for the suspension of the household stock
of blankets and other garments. The windows of this house are small, and two of them, in the right-hand
division of the room, have been roughly sealed up with masonry.
Pl. LXXXVI illustrates a typical ZuÃ±i interior. In this instance the example happens to be rather larger than
the average room. It will be noticed that this apartment has many features in common with that at Tusayan last
described. The pole upon which blankets are suspended is here incorporated into the original construction of
the house, its two ends being deeply embedded in the masonry of the wall. The entire floor is paved with slabs
of much more regular form than any used at Tusayan. The ZuÃ±i have access to building stone which is of a
much better grade than is available in Tusayan.
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This room is furnished with long, raised benches of masonry along the sides, a feature much more common at
ZuÃ±i than at Tusayan. Usually such benches extend along the whole length of a wall, but here the projection
is interrupted on one side by the fireplace and chimney, and on the left it terminates abruptly near the
beginning of a tier of mealing stones, in order to afford floor space for the women who grind. The metates are
arranged in the usual manner, three in a row, but there is an additional detached section placed at right angles
to the main series. The sill of the doorway by which this room communicates with an adjoining one is raised
about 18 inches above the floor, and is provided with a rudely mortised door in a single panel. Alongside is a
small hole through which the occupant can prop the door on the inside of the communicating room. The
subsequent sealing of the small hand-hole with mud effectually closes the house against intrusion. The
unusual height of this door sill from the floor has necessitated the construction of a small step, which is built
of masonry and covered with a single slab of stone. All the doors of ZuÃ±i are more or less raised above the
ground or floor, though seldom to the extent shown in the present example. This room has no external door
and can be directly entered only by means of the hatchway and ladder shown in the drawing. At one time this
room was probably bounded by outer walls and was provided with both door and windows, though now no
evidence of the door remains, and the windows have become niches in the wall utilized for the reception of
the small odds and ends of a ZuÃ±i household. The 111 chimney of this house will be noticed as differing
materially, both in form and in its position in the room, from the Tusayan examples. This form is, however,
the most common type of chimney used in ZuÃ±i at the present time, although many examples of the curved
type also occur. It is built about midway of the long wall of the room. The Tusayan chimneys seldom occupy
such a position, but are nearly always built in corners. The use of a pier or buttress-projection for the support
of a roof girder that is characteristic of Tusayan is not practiced at ZuÃ±i to any extent. Deer horns have been
built into the wall of the room to answer the purpose of pegs, upon which various household articles are
suspended.
The various features, whose positions in the pueblo dwelling house have been briefly described above, will
each be made the subject of more exhaustive study in tracing the various modifications of form through which
they have passed. The above outline will furnish a general idea of the place that these details occupy in the
house itself.
KIVAS IN TUSAYAN.
General use of kivas.—Wherever the remains of pueblo architecture occur among the plateaus of the
southwest there appears in every important village throughout all changes of form, due to variations of
environment and other causes, the evidence of chambers of exceptional character. The chambers are
distinguishable from the typical dwelling rooms by their size and position, and, generally, in ancient
examples, by their circular form. This feature of pueblo architecture has survived to the present time, and is
prominent in all modern pueblos that have come under the writerâ——s notice, including the villages of
Acoma and Jemez, belonging to the Rio Grande group, as well as in the pueblos under discussion. In all the
pueblos that have been examined, both ancient and modern, with the exception of those of Tusayan, these
special rooms, used for ceremonial purposes, occupy marginal or semidetached positions in the house clusters.
The latter are wholly detached from the houses, as may be seen from the ground plans.
Origin of the name.—Such ceremonial rooms are known usually by the Spanish term
â——estufa,â—— meaning literally a stove, and here used in the sense of â——sweat house,â—— but the
term is misleading, as it more properly describes the small sweat houses that are used ceremonially by
lodge-building Indians, such as the Navajo. At the suggestion of Major Powell the Tusayan word for this
everpresent feature of pueblo architecture has been adopted, as being much more appropriate. The word
â——kiva,â—— then, will be understood to designate the ceremonial chamber of the pueblo building
peoples, ancient and modern.
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Antiquity of the kiva.—The widespread occurrence of this feature and its evident antiquity distinguish it
as being especially worthy of exhaustive study, especially as embodied in its construction maybe found
survivals of early methods of arrangement that have long ago become 112 extinct in the constantly improving
art of housebuilding, but which are preserved through the well known tendency of the survival of ancient
practice in matters pertaining to the religious observances of a primitive people. Unfortunately, in the past the
ZuÃ±i have been exposed to the repressive policy of the Spanish authorities, and this has probably seriously
affected the purity of the kiva type. At one time, when the ceremonial observances of the ZuÃ±i took place in
secret for fear of incurring the wrath of the Spanish priests, the original kivas must have been wholly
abandoned, and though at the present time some of the kivas of ZuÃ±i occupy marginal positions in the cell
clusters, just as in many ancient examples, it is doubtful whether these rooms faithfully represent the original
type of kiva. There seems to be but little structural evidence to distinguish the present kivas from ordinary
large ZuÃ±i rooms beyond the special character of the fireplace and of the entrance trap door, features which
will be fully described later. At Tusayan, on the other hand, we find a distinct and characteristic structural
plan of the kiva, as well as many special constructive devices. Although the position of the ceremonial room is
here exceptional in its entire separation from the dwelling, this is due to clearly traceable influences in the
immediate orograpic environment, and the wholly subterranean arrangement of most of the kivas in this group
is also due to the same local causes.
Plate LXXXVII. A kiva hatchway of Tusayan.
Excavation of the kiva.—The tendency to depress or partly excavate the ceremonial chamber existed in
ZuÃ±i, as in all the ancient pueblo buildings which have been examined; but the solid rock of the mesa tops in
Tusayan did not admit of the necessary excavation, and the persistence of this requirement, which, as I shall
elsewhere show, has an important connection with the early types of pueblo building, compelled the
occupants of these rocky sites to locate their kivas at points where depressions already existed. Such facilities
were most abundant near the margins of the mesas, where in many places large blocks of sandstone have
fallen out from the edge of the surface stratum, leaving nearly rectangular spaces at the summit of the cliff
wall. The construction of their villages on these rocky promontories forced the Tusayan builders to sacrifice,
to a large extent, the traditional and customary arrangement of the kivas within the house-inclosed courts of
the pueblo, in order to obtain properly depressed sites. This accidental effect of the immediate environment
resulted in giving unusual prominence to the sinking of the ceremonial room below the ground surface, but a
certain amount of excavation is found as a constant accompaniment of this feature throughout the pueblo
region in both ancient and modern villages. Even at ZuÃ±i, where the kivas appear to retain but few of the
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ground. But at Tusayan the development of this single requirement has been carried to such an extent that
many of the kivas are 113 wholly subterranean. This is particularly the case with those that occupy marginal
sites on the mesas, such as have been referred to above. In such instances the broken-out recesses in the upper
rocks have been walled up on the outside, roughly lined with masonry within, and roofed over in the usual
manner. In many cases the depth of these rock niches is such that the kiva roof when finished does not project
above the general level of the mesa summit, and its earth covering is indistinguishable from the adjoining
surface, except for the presence of the box-like projection of masonry that surrounds the entrance trap door
and its ladder (see Pl. LXXXVII). Frequently in such cases the surface of the ground shows no evidence of the
outlines or dimensions of the underlying room. Examples of such subterranean kivas may be seen in the
foreground of the general view of a court in Oraibi (Pl. XXXVIII), and in the view of the dance rock at Walpi
(Pl. XXIV). But such wholly subterranean arrangement of the ceremonial chamber is by no means universal
even at Tusayan. Even when the kiva was placed within the village courts or close to the houses, in
conformity to the traditional plan and ancient practice as evidenced in the ruins, naturally depressed sites were
still sought; but such sites as the mesa margin affords were rarely available at any distance from the rocky rim.
The result is that most of the court kivas are only partly depressed. This is particularly noticeable in a court
kiva in Shumopavi, an illustration of which is given in Fig. 14.
Plate LXXXVIII. North kivas of Shumopavi, from the northeast.
The mungkiva or principal kiva of Shupaulovi, illustrated in Pl. XXXIII, is scarcely a foot above the ground
level on the side towards the houses, but its rough walls are exposed to a height of several feet down on the
declivity of the knoll. The view of the stone corrals of Mashongnavi, shown in Pl. CIX, also illustrates a kiva
of the type described. This chamber is constructed on a sharp slope of the declivity where a natural depression
favored the builders. On the upper side the roof is even with the ground, but on its outer or southern side the
masonry is exposed to nearly the whole depth of the chamber. At the north end of Shumopavi, just outside the
houses, are two kivas, one of which is of the semi-subterranean type. The other shows scarcely any masonry
above the ground outside of the box-like entrance way. Pl. LXXXVIII illustrates these two kivas as seen from
the northeast, and shows their relation to the adjacent houses. The following (Fig. 21) illustrates the same
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Fig. 21. North kivas of Shumopavi, seen from the southwest.
Access.—The last described semi-subterranean kiva and the similar one in the court of the village,
show a short flight of stone steps on their eastern side. Entrance to the ceremonial chamber is prevented when
necessary by the removal of the ladder from the outside, or in some instances by the withdrawal of the rungs,
which are loosely inserted into holes in the side pieces. There is no means of preventing access to the exposed
trap doors, which are nearly on a level with the ground. As a matter of convenience and to facilitate the
entrance into 114 the kiva of costumed and masked dancers, often encumbered with clumsy paraphernalia,
steps are permanently built into the outside wall of the kiva in direct contradiction to the ancient principles of
construction; that is, in having no permanent or fixed means of access from the ground to the first roof. These
are the only cases in which stone steps spring directly from the ground, although they are a very important
feature in Tusayan house architecture above the first story, as may be seen in any of the general views of the
villages. The justification of such an arrangement in connection with the indefensible kiva roof lies obviously
in the different conditions here found as compared with the dwellings.
The subterranean kiva of the Shumopavi group, above illustrated, is exceptional as occurring at some distance
from the mesa rim. Probably all such exceptions to the rule are located in natural fissures or crevices of the
sandstone, or where there was some unusual facility for the excavation of the site to the required depth. The
most noteworthy example of such inner kiva being located with reference to favorable rock fissures has been
already described in discussing the ground plan of Walpi and its southern court-inclosed kiva (p. 65).
Masonry.—The exterior masonry of these chambers seems in all cases to be of ruder construction than
that of the dwelling houses. This is particularly noticeable in the kivas of Walpi on the mesa edge, but is
apparent even in some of the ZuÃ±i examples. One of the kivas of house No. 1 in ZuÃ±i, near the
churchyard, has small openings in its wall that are rudely framed with stone slabs set in a stone wall of
exceptional roughness. Apparently there has never been any attempt to smooth or reduce this wall to a
finished surface with the usual coating of adobe mud.
115 In Tusayan also some of the kiva walls look as though they had been built of the first material that came
to hand, piled up nearly dry, and with no attempt at the chinking of joints, that imparts some degree of finish
to the dwelling-house masonry. The inside of these kivas, however, is usually plastered smoothly, but the
interior plastering is applied on a base of masonry even in the case of the kivas that are wholly subterranean. It
seems to be the Tusayan practice to line all sides of the kivas with stone masonry, regardless of the
completeness and fitness of the natural cavity. It is impossible, therefore, to ascertain from the interior of a
kiva how much of the work of excavation is artificial and how much has been done by nature. The lining of
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Tusayan builders would hardly resort to so laborious a device to gain this small advantage. The explanation of
this apparent waste of labor lies in the fact that kivas had been built of masonry from time immemorial, and
that the changed conditions of the present Tusayan environment have not exerted their influence for a
sufficient length of time to overcome the traditional practice. As will be seen later, the building of a kiva is
accompanied by certain rites and ceremonies based on the use of masonry walls, additional testimony of the
comparatively recent date of the present subterranean types.
Orientation.—In questioning the Tusayan on this subject Mr. Stephen was told that no attention to the
cardinal points was observed in the plan, although the walls are spoken of according to the direction to which
they most closely approximate. An examination of the village plans of the preceding chapters, however, will
show a remarkable degree of uniformity in the directions of kivas which can scarcely be due to accident in
rooms built on such widely differing sites. The intention seems to have been to arrange these ceremonial
chambers approximately on the north and south line, though none of the examples approach the meridian very
closely. Most of them face southeast, though some, particularly in Walpi, face west of south. In Walpi four of
the five kivas are planned on a southwest and northeast line, following the general direction of the mesa edge,
while the remaining one faces southeast. The difference in this last case may have been brought about by
exigencies of the site on the mesa edge and the form of the cavity in which the kiva was built. Again at Hano
and Sichumovi (Pls. XVI and XVIII) on the first mesa this uniformity of direction prevails, but, as the plans
show, the kivas in these two villages are few in number. The two kivas of Shupaulovi will be seen (Pl. XXX)
to have the same direction, viz, facing southeast. In Shumopavi (Pl. XXXIV) there are four kivas all facing
southeast. In Mashongnavi, however (Pl. XXVI), the same uniformity does not prevail. Three of the kivas
face south of east, and two others built in the edge of the rocky bench on the south side of the village face
west of south. In the large village 116 of Oraibi there is remarkable uniformity in the direction of the many
kivas, there being a variation of only a few degrees in direction in the whole number of thirteen shown on the
plan (Pl. XXXVI). But in the case of the large kiva partly above ground designated as the Coyote kiva, the
direction from which it is entered is the reverse of that of the other kivas. No explanation is offered that will
account for this curious single exception to the rule. The intention of the builders has evidently been to make
the altar and its attendant structural features conform to a definite direction, fixed, perhaps, by certain
requirements of the ceremonial, but the irregularity of the general village plan in many cases resulting from its
adaptation to restricted sites, has given rise to the variations that are seen.
In ZuÃ±i there was an evident purpose to preserve a certain uniformity of direction in the kiva entrances. In
house No. 1 (Pls. LXXVI and LXXVII) there are two kivas, distinguishable on the plan by the large divided
trap door. The entrance of these both face southeast, and it can readily be seen that this conformity has been
provided intentionally, since the rooms themselves do not correspond in arrangement. The roof opening is in
one case across the room and in the other it is placed longitudinally. As has been pointed out above, the
general plan of arranging the kivas is not so readily distinguished in ZuÃ±i as in Tusayan. Uniformity, so far
as it is traceable, is all the more striking as occurring where there is so much more variation in the directions
of the walls of the houses. Still another confirmation is furnished by the pueblo of Acoma, situated about 60
miles eastward from ZuÃ±i. Here the kivas are six in number and the directions of all the examples are found
to vary but a few degrees. These also face east of south.
There are reasons for believing that the use of rectangular kivas is of later origin in the pueblo system of
building than the use of the circular form of ceremonial chamber that is of such frequent occurrence among
the older ruins. Had strict orientation of the rectangular kiva prevailed for long periods of time it would
undoubtedly have exerted a strong influence towards the orientation of the entire pueblo clusters in which the
kivas were incorporated; but in the earlier circular form, the constructional ceremonial devices could occupy
definite positions in relation to the cardinal points at any part of the inner curve of the wall without necessarily
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The ancient form of kiva.—In none of the ruins examined in the province of Tusayan have distinct
traces of ancient kivas been found, nor do any of them afford evidence as to the character of the ceremonial
rooms. It is not likely, however, that the present custom of building these chambers wholly under ground
prevailed generally among the earlier Tusayan villages, as some of the remains do not occupy sites that would
suggest such arrangement. The typical circular kiva characteristic 117 of most of the ancient pueblos has not
been seen within the limits of Tusayan, although it occurs constantly in the ruins of Canyon de Chelly which
are occasionally referred to in Tusayan tradition as having been occupied by related peoples. Mr. Stephen,
however, found vestiges of such ancient forms among the debris of fallen walls occupying two small knolls on
the edge of the first mesa, at a point that overlooks the broken-down ruin of Sikyatki. On the southeast
shoulder of one of the knolls is a fragment of a circular wall which was originally 12 feet in diameter. It is
built of flat stones, from 2 to 4 inches thick, 6 to 8 inches wide, and a foot or more in length, nearly all of
which have been pecked and dressed. Mud mortar has been sparingly used, and the masonry shows
considerable care and skill in execution; the curve of the wall is fairly true, and the interstices of the masonry
are neatly filled in with smaller fragments, in the manner of some of the best work of the Canyon de Chelly
ruins.
The knoll farther south shows similar traces, and on the southeast slope is the complete ground plan of a round
structure 16Â½ feet in diameter. At one point of the curved wall, which is about 22 inches thick, occurs the
characteristic recessed katchinkihu (described later in discussing the interior of kivas) indicating the use of
this chamber for ceremonial purposes.
Although these remains probably antedate any of the Tusayan ruins discussed above (Chapter II), they suggest
a connection and relationship between the typical kiva of the older ruins and the radically different form in use
at the present time.
Native explanations of position.—Notwithstanding the present practice in the location of kivas,

illustrated in the plans, the ideal village plan is still acknowledged to have had its house-clusters so distributed
as to form inclosed and protected courts, the kivas being located within these courts or occupying marginal
positions in the house-clusters on the edge of the inclosed areas. But the native explanations of the traditional
plan are vague and contradictory.
In the floor of the typical kiva is a sacred cavity called the sipapuh, through which comes the beneficent
influence of the deities or powers invoked. According to the accounts of some of the old men the kiva was
constructed to inclose this sacred object, and houses were built on every side to surround the kiva and form its
outer wall. In earlier times, too, so the priests relate, people were more devout, and the houses were planned
with their terraces fronting upon the court, so that the women and children and all the people, could be close
to the masked dancers (katchinas) as they issued from the kiva. The spectators filled the terraces, and sitting
there they watched the katchinas dance in the court, and the women sprinkled meal upon them, while they
listened to their songs. Other old men say the kiva was excavated in imitation of the original house in the
interior of the earth, where the human family were created, and from which they climbed to the surface of the
ground 118 by means of a ladder, and through just such an opening as the hatchway of the kiva. Another
explanation commonly offered is that they are made underground because they are thus cooler in summer, and
more easily warmed in winter.
All these factors may have had some influence in the design, but we have already seen that excavation to the
extent here practiced is wholly exceptional in pueblo building and the unusual development of this
requirement of kiva construction has been due to purely local causes. In the habitual practice of such an
ancient and traditional device, the Indians have lost all record of the real causes of the perpetuation of this
requirement. At ZuÃ±i, too, a curious explanation is offered for the partial depression of the kiva floor below
the general surrounding level. Here it is naively explained that the floor is excavated in order to attain a liberal
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the ZuÃ±i architect that the result could be achieved in a more direct and much less laborious manner by
making the walls a foot or so higher at the time of building the kiva, after the manner in which the same
problem is solved when it is encountered in their ordinary dwelling house construction. Such explanations, of
course, originated long after the practice became established.
METHODS OF KIVA BUILDING AND RITES.
The external appearance of the kivas of Tusayan has been described and illustrated; it now remains to
examine the general form and method of construction of these subterranean rooms, and to notice the attendant
rites and ceremonies.
Typical plans.—All the Tusayan kivas are in the form of a parallelogram, usually about 25 feet long
and half as wide, the ceiling, which is from 5Â½ to 8 feet high, being slightly higher in the middle than at
either end. There is no prescribed rule for kiva dimensions, and seemingly the size of the chamber is
determined according to the number who are to use it, and who assume the labor of its construction. A list of
typical measurements obtained by Mr. Stephen is appended (p. 136).
An excavation of the desired dimensions having been made, or an existing one having been discovered, the
person who is to be chief of the kiva performs the same ceremony as that prescribed for the male head of a
family when the building of a dwelling house is undertaken. He takes a handful of meal, mixed with piki
crumbs, and a little of the crumbled herb they use as tobacco, and these he sprinkles upon the ground,
beginning on the west side, passing southward, and so around, the sprinkled line he describes marking the
position to be occupied by the walls. As he thus marks the compass of the kiva, he sings in a droning tone
â——Si-ai, a-hai, a-hai, si-ai, a-haiâ———no other words but these. The meaning of these words
seems to be unknown, but all the priests agree in saying that the archaic chant is addressed to the sun, and it
119 is called Kitdauwi—the House Song. The chief then selects four good-sized stones of hard texture
for corner stones, and at each corner he lays a baho, previously prepared, sprinkles it with the mixture with
which he has described the line of the walls, and then lays the corner stone upon it. As he does this, he
expresses his hope that the walls â——will take good root hold,â—— and stand firm and secure.
The men have already quarried or collected a sufficient quantity of stone, and a wall is built in tolerably
regular courses along each side of the excavation. The stones used are roughly dressed by fracture; they are
irregular in shape, and of a size convenient for one man to handle. They are laid with only a very little mud
mortar, and carried up, if the ground be level, to within 18 inches of the surface. If the kiva is built on the edge
of the cliff, as at Walpi, the outside wall connects the sides of the gap, conforming to the line of the cliff. If
the surface is sloping, the level of the roof is obtained by building up one side of the kiva above the ground to
the requisite height as illustrated in Fig. 21. One end of the â——Goatâ—— kiva at Walpi is 5 feet above
ground, the other end being level with the sloping surface. When the ledge on the precipitous face of the mesa
is uneven it is filled in with rough masonry to obtain a level for the floor, and thus the outside wall of some of
the Walpi kivas is more than 12 feet high, although in the interior the measurement from floor to ceiling is
much less.
Both cottonwood and pine are used for the roof timbers; they are roughly dressed, and some of them show that
an attempt has been made to hew them with four sides, but none are square. In the roof of the
â——Goatâ—— kiva, at Walpi, are four well hewn pine timbers, measuring exactly 6 by 10 inches, which are
said to have been taken from the mission house built near Walpi by the Spanish priests some three centuries
ago. The ceiling plan of the mungkiva of Shupaulovi (Fig. 23) shows that four of these old Spanish squared
beams have been utilized in its construction. One of these is covered with a rude decoration of gouged
grooves and bored holes, forming a curious line-and-dot ornament. The other kiva of this village contains a
single undecorated square Spanish roof beam. This beam contrasts very noticeably with the rude round poles
of the native work, one of which, in the case of the kiva last mentioned, is a forked trunk of a small tree. Some
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of the Indians say that the timbers were brought by them from the Shumopavi spring, where the early Spanish
priests had established a mission. According to these accounts, the home mission was established at Walpi,
with another chapel at Shumopavi, and a third and important one at Awatubi.
One man, Sikapiki by name, stated that the squared and carved beams were brought from the San Francisco
Mountains, more than a hundred miles away, under the direction of the priests, and that they were carved and
finished prior to transportation. They were intended for the chapel and cloister, but the latter building was
never finished. 120 The roof timbers were finally distributed among the people of Shumopavi and
Shupaulovi. At Shumopavi one of the kivas, known, as the Nuvwatikyuobi
(The-high-place-of-snow—San Francisco Mountains) kiva, was built only 8 years ago. The main roof
timbers are seven in number. Four of them are hewn with flat sides, 8 by 12 inches to 9 by 13 inches; the other
three are round, the under sides slightly hewn, and they are 12 inches in diameter. These timbers were brought
from the San Francisco Mountains while the Spaniards were here. The Shumopavi account states that the
people were compelled to drag most of the timbers with ropes, although oxen were also used in some cases,
and that the Spaniards used them to roof their mission buildings. After the destruction of the mission these
timbers were used in the construction of a dwelling house, which, falling into ruin, was abandoned and pulled
down. Subsequently they were utilized as described above. In the Teosobi, Jay, the main timbers were taken
out of it many years ago and used in another kiva. The timbers now in the roof are quite small and are laid in
pairs, but they are old and much decayed. In the Gyarzobi, Paroquet, are six squared timbers from the Spanish
mission buildings, measuring 9 by 13 inches, 8 by 12 inches, etc. These have the same curious grooved and
dotted ornamentation that occurs on the square beam of Shupaulovi, above described. At the other end of the
kiva are also two unusually perfect round timbers that may have come from the mission ruin. All of these
show marks of fire, and are in places deeply charred.
In continuation of the kiva building process, the tops of the walls are brought to an approximate level. The
main roof timbers are then laid parallel with the end walls, at irregular distances, but less than 3 feet apart,
except near the middle, where a space of about 7 feet is left between two beams, as there the hatchway is to be
built. The ends of the timbers rest upon the side walls, and as they are placed in position a small feather, to
which a bit of cotton string is tied (nakwakwoci) is also placed under each. Stout poles, from which the bark
has been stripped, are laid at right angles upon the timbers, with slight spaces between them. Near the center
of the kiva two short timbers are laid across the two main beams about 5 feet apart; this is done to preserve a
space of 5 by 7 feet for the hatchway, which is made with walls of stone laid in mud plaster, resting upon the
two central beams and upon the two side pieces. This wall or combing is carried up so as to be at least 18
inches above the level of the finished roof. Across the poles, covering the rest of the roof, willows and straight
twigs of any kind are laid close together, and over these is placed a layer of dry grass arranged in regular
rows. Mud is then carefully spread over the grass to a depth of about 3 inches, and after it has nearly dried it is
again gone over so as to fill up all the cracks. A layer of dry earth is then spread over all and firmly trodden
down, to render the roof water-tight and bring its surface level with the surrounding ground, following the
same method and order of construction that prevails in dwelling-house buildings.
121 Short timbers are placed across the top of the hatchway wall, one end of which is raised higher than the
other, so as to form a slope, and upon these timbers stone slabs are closely laid for a cover. (See Pl.
LXXXVII.) An open space, usually about 2 by 4Â½ feet, is preserved, and this is the only outlet in the
structure, serving at once as doorway, window, and chimney.
The roof being finished, a floor of stone flags is laid; but this is never in a continuous level, for at one end it is
raised as a platform some 10 or 12 inches high, extending for about a third of the length of the kiva and
terminating in an abrupt step just before coming under the hatchway, as illustrated in the ground plan of the
mungkiva of Shupaulovi (Fig. 22, and also in Figs. 25 and 27). On the edge of the platform rests the foot of a
long ladder, which leans against the higher side of the hatchway, and its tapering ends project 10 or 12 feet in
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observed in the kiva. The main floor in a few of the kivas is composed of roughly hewn planks, but this is a
comparatively recent innovation, and is not generally deemed desirable, as the movement of the dancers on
the wooden floor shakes the fetiches out of position.
Fig. 22. Ground plan of the chief kiva of Shupaulovi.
On the lower or main floor a shallow pit of varying dimensions, but usually about a foot square, is made for a
fireplace, and is located immediately under the opening in the hatchway. The intention in raising the hatchway
above the level of the roof and in elevating the ceiling in the middle is to prevent the fire from igniting them.
The ordinary fuel used in the kiva is greasewood, and there are always several bundles of the shrub in its
green state suspended on pegs driven in the wall of the hatchway directly over the fire. This shrub, when
green, smolders and emits a dense, pungent smoke, but when perfectly dry, burns with a bright, sparkling
flame.
Across the end of the kiva on the main floor a ledge of masonry is built, usually about 2 feet high and 1 foot
wide, which serves as a shelf for the display of fetiches and other paraphernalia during stated observances (see
Fig. 22). A small, niche-like aperture is made in the middle of this ledge, and is called the katchin kihu
(katchina house). During a festival certain masks are placed in it when not in use by the dancers. Some of the
kivas have low ledges built along one or both sides for use as seats, and some have none, but all except two or
three have the ledge at the end containing the katchina house.
In the main floor of the kiva there is a cavity about a foot deep and 8 or 10 inches across, which is usually
covered with a short, thick slab of cottonwood, whose upper surface is level with the floor. Through the
middle of this short plank and immediately over the cavity a hole of 2 or 2Â½ inches in diameter is bored.
This hole is tapered, and is accurately fitted with a movable wooden plug, the top of which is flush with the
surface of the plank. The plank and cavity usually occupy a position 122 in the main floor near the end of the
kiva. This feature is the sipapuh, the place of the gods, and the most sacred portion of the ceremonial
chamber. Around this spot the fetiches are set during a festival; it typifies also the first world of the Tusayan
genesis and the opening through which the people first emerged. It is frequently so spoken of at the present
time.
Other little apertures or niches are constructed in the side walls; they usually open over the main floor of the
kiva near the edge of the dais that forms the second level, that upon which the foot of the ladder rests. These
are now dedicated to any special purpose, but are used as receptacles for small tools and other ordinary
articles. In early days, however, these niches were used exclusively as receptacles for the sacred pipes and
tobacco and other smaller paraphernalia.
Fig. 23. Ceiling plan of the chief kiva of Shupaulovi.
In order to make clearer the relative positions of the various features of kiva construction that have been
described several typical examples are here illustrated. The three ground plans given are drawn to scale and
represent kivas of average dimensions. Mr. Stephen has made a series of typical kiva measurements, which is
appended to this section, and comparison of these with the plans will show the relation of the examples
selected to the usual dimensions of these rooms. Fig. 22 is the ground plan of the mungkiva, or chief kiva, of
Shupaulovi. It will be observed that the second level of the kiva floor, forming the dais before referred to, is
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not universal and does not seem to be regulated by any rule. Sometimes the narrowing is carried out on one
side only, as in the mungkiva of Mashongnavi (Fig. 27), sometimes on both, as in the present example, 123
and in other cases it is absent. In the second kiva of Shupaulovi, illustrated in Fig. 25, there is only one small
jog that has been built midway along the wall of the upper level and it bears no relation to the point at which
the change of floor level occurs. The ledge, or dais, is free for the use of spectators, the Indians say, just as the
women stand on the house terraces to witness a dance, and do not step into the court. The ledge in this case is
about a foot above the main floor. Benches of masonry are built along each side, though, as the plan shows,
they are not of the same length. The bench on the eastern side is about 4 feet shorter than the other, which is
cut off by a continuation of the high bench that contains the katchinkihu beyond the corner of the room. These
side benches are for the use of participants in the ceremonies. When young men are initiated into the various
societies during the feasts in the fall of the year they occupy the floor of the sacred division of the kiva, while
the old members of the order occupy the benches along the wall. The higher bench at the end of the room is
used as a shelf for paraphernalia. The hole, or recess, in this bench, whose position is indicated by the dotted
lines on the plan, is the sacred orifice from which the katchina is said to come, and is called the katchinkihu.
In the floor of the kiva, near the katchinkihu, is the sipapuh, the cottonwood plug set into a cottonwood slab
over a cavity in the floor. The plan shows how this plank, about 18 inches wide and 6Â½ feet long, has been
incorporated into the paving of the main floor. The paving is composed of some quite large slabs of sandstone
whose irregular edges have been skillfully fitted to form a smooth and well finished pavement. The position of
the niches that form pipe receptacles is shown on the plan opposite the fireplace in each side wall. The
position of the foot of the ladder is indicated, the side poles resting upon the paved surface of the second level
about 15 inches from the edge of the step. Fig. 23 gives a ceiling plan of the same kiva, illustrating the
arrangement 124 of such of the roof beams and sticks as are visible from inside. The plan shows the position
of the four Spanish beams before referred to, the northernmost being the one that has the line and dot
decoration. The next two beams, laid in contact, are also square and of Spanish make. The fourth Spanish
beam is on the northern edge of the hatchway dome and supports its wall. The adjoining beam is round and of
native workmanship. The position and dimensions of the large hatchway projection are here indicated in plan,
but the general appearance of this curious feature of the Tusayan kiva can be better seen from the interior
view (Fig. 24). Various uses are attributed to this domelike structure, aside from the explanation that it is built
at a greater height in order to lessen the danger of ignition of the roof beams. The old men say that formerly
they smoked and preserved meat in it. Others say it was used for drying bundles of wood by suspension over
the fire preparatory to use in the fireplace. It is also said to constitute an upper chamber to facilitate the egress
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Fig. 24. Interior view of a Tusayan kiva.
The mud plaster that has been applied directly to the stone work of the interior of this kiva is very much
blackened by smoke. From about half of the wall space the plaster has fallen or scaled off, and the exposed
125 stonework is much blackened as though the kiva had long been used with the wall in this uncovered
condition.
The fireplace is simply a shallow pit about 18 inches square that is placed directly under the opening of the
combined hatchway and smoke hole. It is usually situated from 2 to 3 feet from the edge of the second level of
the kiva floor. The paving stones are usually finished quite neatly and smoothly where their edges enframe the
firepit.
Fig. 25. Ground plan of a Shupaulovi kiva.
Figs. 25 and 26 illustrate the ground and ceiling plans of the second kiva of the same village. In all essential
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in several of the features. The bench at the katchina, or â——altarâ—— end of the kiva, has not the height
that was seen in the mungkiva, but is on the same level as the benches of the sides. Here the 126 sipapuh is at
much greater distance than usual from the katchina recess. It is also quite exceptional in that the plug is let
into an orifice in one of the paving stones, as shown on the plan, instead of into a cottonwood plank. Some of
the paving stones forming the floor of this kiva are quite regular in shape and of unusual dimensions, one of
them being nearly 5 feet long and 2 feet wide. The gray polish of long continued use imparts to these stones
an appearance of great hardness. The ceiling plan of this kiva (Fig. 26) shows a single specimen of Spanish
beam at the extreme north end of the roof. It also shows a forked â——vigaâ—— or ceiling beam, which is
quite unusual.
Fig. 26. Ceiling plan of a Shupaulovi kiva.
This kiva is better plastered than the mungkiva and shows in places evidences of many successive coats. The
general rule of applying the interior plastering of the kiva on a base of masonry has been violated in this
example. The north end and part of the adjoining sides have been brought to an even face by filling in the
inequalities of the excavation with reeds which are applied in a vertical position and are held in place by long,
slender, horizontal rods, forming a rude matting or wattling. The rods are fastened to the rocky wall at
favorable points by means of small prongs of some hard wood, and the whole of the primitive lathing is then
thickly plastered with adobe mud. Mr. Stephen found the Ponobi kiva of Oraibi treated in the same manner.
The walls are lined with a reed lathing over which mud is plastered. The reed used is the Bakabi (Phragmites
communis) whose stalks vary from a quarter of an inch to three-quarters of an inch in diameter. In this
instance the reeds are also laid vertically, but they are applied to the ordinary mud-laid kiva wall and not
directly to the sides of the natural excavation. The vertical laths are bound in place by horizontal reeds laid
upon them 1 or 2 feet apart. The horizontal reeds 127 are held in place by pegs of greasewood driven into the
wall at intervals of 1 or 2 feet and are tied to the pegs with split yucca. These specimens are very interesting
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Fig. 27. Ground plan of the chief kiva of Mashongnavi.
The ground plan of the mungkiva of Mashongnavi is illustrated in Fig. 27. In this example the narrowing of
the room at the second level of the floor is on one side. The step by which the upper level is reached from the
main floor is 8 inches high at the east end, rising to 10 inches at the west end. The south end of the kiva is
provided with a small opening like a loop-hole, furnishing an outlook to the south. The east side of the main
portion of the kiva is not provided with the usual bench. The portion of the bench at the katchina end of the
kiva is on a level with the west bench and continuous for a couple of feet beyond the northeast corner along
the east wall. The small wall niches are on the west side and nearer the north end than usual. The arrangement
of the katchinkihu is quite different from that described in the Shupaulovi kivas. The orifice occurs in the
north wall at a height of 3Â½ feet above the floor, and 2 feet 3 inches above the top of the bench that extends
across this end of the room. The firepit is somewhat smaller than in the other examples illustrated. Fig. 28
illustrates the appearance of the kiva hatchway from within as seen from the north end of the kiva, but the
ladder has been omitted from the drawing to avoid confusion. The ladder rests against the edge of the coping
that caps the dwarf wall on the near side of the hatchway, its top leaning toward the spectator. The small
smoke-blackened sticks that are used for the suspension of bundles of greasewood and other fuel in the
hatchway are clearly shown. At the far end of the trapdoor, on the outside, is indicated the mat of reeds or
rushes that is used for closing the openings when necessary. It is here shown rolled up at the foot of the slope
of the hatchway top, its customary position when not in use. 128 When this mat is used for closing the kiva
opening it is usually held in place by several large stone slabs laid over it. Fig. 29 illustrates a specimen of the
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Fig. 28. Interior view of a kiva hatchway in Tusayan.
The above kiva plans show that each of the illustrated examples is provided with four long narrow planks, set
in the kiva floor close to the 129 wall and provided with orifices for the attachment of looms. This feature is a
common accompaniment of kiva construction and pertains to the use of the ceremonial room as a workshop
by the male blanket weavers of Tusayan. It will be more fully described in the discussion of the various uses
of the kiva.
Fig. 29. Mat used in closing the entrance of Tusayan kiva.
The essential structural features of the kivas above described are remarkably similar, though the illustrations
of types have been selected at random. Minor modifications are seen in the positions of many of the features,
but a certain general relation between the various constructional requirements of the ceremonial room is found
to prevail throughout all the villages.
Work by women.—After all the above described details have been provided for, following the
completion of the roofs and floors, the women belonging to the people who are to occupy the kiva continue
the labor of its construction. They go over the interior surface of the walls, breaking off projections and filling
up the interstices with small stones, and then they smoothly plaster the walls and the inside of the hatchway
with mud, and sometimes whitewash them with a gypsiferous clay found in the neighborhood. Once every
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Consecration.—When all the work is finished the kiva chief prepares a baho and â——feeds the
house,â—— as it is termed; that is, he thrusts a little meal, with piki crumbs, over one of the roof timbers, and
in the same place inserts the end of the baho. As he does this he expresses his hope that the roof may never
fall and that sickness and other evils may never enter the kiva.
It is difficult to elicit intelligent explanation of the theory of the baho and the prayer ceremonies in either kiva
or house construction. The baho is a prayer token; the petitioner is not satisfied by merely speaking or singing
his prayer, he must have some tangible thing upon which to transmit it. He regards his prayer as a mysterious,
impalpable portion of his own substance, and hence he seeks to embody it in some object, which thus
becomes consecrated. The baho, which is inserted in the roof of the kiva, is a piece of willow twig about six
inches long, stripped of its bark and painted. From it hang four small feathers suspended by short cotton
strings tied at equal distances along the twig. In order to obtain recognition from the powers especially
addressed, different colored feathers and distinct methods of attaching them to bits of wood and string are
resorted to. In the present case these are addressed to the â——chiefsâ—— who control the paths taken by the
people after coming up from the interior of the earth. They are thus designated:
To the west: SikyÂák omaÂúwu Yellow Cloud.

To the south: SaÂ´kwa omaÂúwu Blue Cloud.
To the east: PalÂá omaÂúwu Red Cloud.
To the north: Kwetsh omaÂúwu White Cloud.
130 Two separate feathers are also attached to the roof. These are addressed to the zenith, hÃ©yap
omÃ¡uwu—the invisible space of the above—and to the nadir, Myuingwa—god of the
interior of the earth and maker of the germ of life. To the four first mentioned the bahos under the corner
stones are also addressed. These feathers are prepared by the kiva chief in another kiva. He smokes devoutly
over them, and as he exhales the smoke upon them he formulates the prayers to the chiefs or powers, who not
only control the paths or lives of all the people, but also preside over the six regions of space whence come all
the necessaries of life. The ancients also occupy his thoughts during these devotions; he desires that all the
pleasures they enjoyed while here may come to his people, and he reciprocally wishes the ancients to partake
of all the enjoyments of the living.
All the labor and ceremonies being completed the women prepare food for a feast. Friends are invited, and the
men dance all night in the kiva to the accompaniment of their own songs and the beating of a primitive drum,
rejoicing over their new home. The kiva chief then proclaims the name by which the kiva will be known. This
is often merely a term of his choosing, often without reference to its appropriateness.
Various uses of kivas.—Allusions occur in some of the traditions, suggesting that in earlier times one
class of kiva was devoted wholly to the purposes of a ceremonial chamber, and was constantly occupied by a
priest. An altar and fetiches were permanently maintained, and appropriate groups of these fetiches were
displayed from month to month, as the different priests of the sacred feasts succeeded each other, each new
moon bringing its prescribed feast.
Many of the kivas were built by religious societies, which still hold their stated observances in them, and in
Oraibi several still bear the names of the societies using them. A society always celebrates in a particular kiva,
but none of these kivas are now preserved exclusively for religious purposes; they are all places of social
resort for the men, especially during the winter, when they occupy themselves with the arts common among
them. The same kiva thus serves as a temple during a sacred feast, at other times as a council house for the
discussion of public affairs. It is also used as a workshop by the industrious and as a lounging place by the
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Fig. 30. Rectangular sipapuh

in a Mashongnavi kiva.
There are still traces of two classes of kiva, marked by the distinction that only certain ones contain the
sipapuh, and in these the more important ceremonies are held. It is said that no sipapuh has been made
recently. The prescribed operation is performed by the chief and the assistant priests or fetich keepers of the
society owning the kiva. Some say the mystic lore pertaining to its preparation is lost and none can now be
made. It is also said that a stone sipapuh was formerly used instead of the cottonwood plank now commonly
seen. The use of stone for this purpose, however, is nearly obsolete, though the second 131 kiva of
Shupaulovi, illustrated in plan in Fig. 25, contains an example of this ancient form. In one of the newest kivas
of Mashongnavi the plank of the sipapuh is pierced with a square hole, which is cut with a shoulder, the
shoulder supporting the plug with which the orifice is closed (see Fig. 30). This is a decided innovation on the
traditional form, as the orifice from which the people emerged, which is symbolized in the sipapuh, is
described as being of circular form in all the versions of the Tusayan genesis myth. The presence of the
sipapuh possibly at one time distinguished such kivas as were considered strictly consecrated to religious
observances from those that were of more general use. At Tusayan, at the present time, certain societies do not
meet in the ordinary kiva but in an apartment of a dwelling house, each society having its own exclusive place
of meeting. The house so used is called the house of the â——Sister of the eldest brother,â—— meaning,
probably, that she is the descendant of the founder of the society. This womanâ——s house is also called the
â——house of grandmother,â—— and in it is preserved the tiponi and other fetiches of the society. The tiponi
is a ceremonial object about 18 inches long, consisting of feathers set upright around a small disk of silicified
wood, which serves as its base when set upon the altar. This fetich is also called iso (grandmother), hence the
name given to the house where it is kept. In the house, where the order of warriors (Kuleataka) meets, the
eldest son of the woman who owns it is the chief of the order. The apartment in which they meet is a low
room on the ground floor, and is entered only by a hatchway and ladder. There is no sipapuh in this chamber,
for the warriors appeal directly to CÃ³tukinungwa, the heart of the zenith, the sky god. Large figures of
animal fetiches are painted in different colors upon the walls. On the west wall is the Mountain Lion; on the
south, the Bear; on the east, the Wild Cat, surmounted with a shield inclosing a star; on the north, the White
Wolf; and on the east side of this figure is painted a large disk, representing the sun. The walls of the
chambers of the other societies are not decorated permanently. Here is, then, really another class of kiva,
although it is not so called by the people on the Walpi mesa. The ordinary term for the ground story rooms is
used, â——kikoli,â—— the house without any opening in its walls. But on the second mesa, and at Oraibi,
although they sometimes use this term kikoli, they commonly apply the term â——kivaâ—— to the ground
story of the dwelling house used as well as to the underground chambers.
It is probable that a class of kivas, not specially consecrated, has existed from a very early period. The rooms
in the dwelling houses have always been small and dark, and in early times without chimneys. 132 Within
such cramped limits it was inconvenient for the men to practice any of the arts they knew, especially weaving,
which could have been carried on out of doors, as is done still occasionally, but subject to many interruptions.
It is possible that a class of kivas was designed for such ordinary purposes, though now one type of room
seems to answer all these various uses. In most of the existing kivas there are planks, in which stout loops are
secured, fixed in the floor close to the wall, for attaching the lower beam of a primitive vertical loom, and
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attachment of the upper loom poles. The planks or logs to which is attached the lower part of the loom appear
in some cases to be quite carefully worked. They are often partly buried in the ground and under the edges of
adjacent paving stones in such a manner as to be held in place very securely against the strain of the tightly
stretched warp while the blanket is being made.
Fig. 31. Loom post

in kiva at Tusayan. The holes pierced in the upper surface of these logs are very neatly executed in the manner
illustrated in Fig. 31, which shows one of the orifices in section, together with the adjoining paving stones.
The outward appearance of the device, as seen at short intervals along the length of the log, is also shown.
Strips of buckskin or bits of rope are passed through these U-shaped cavities, and then over the lower pole of
the loom at the bottom of the extended series of warp threads. The latter can thus be tightened preparatory to
the operation of filling in with the woof. The kiva looms seem to be used mainly for weaving the dark-blue
and black blankets of diagonal and diamond pattern, which form a staple article of trade with the Zuni and the
Rio Grande Pueblos. As an additional convenience for the practice of weaving, one of the kivas of
Mashongnavi is provided with movable seats. These consist simply of single stones of suitable size and form.
Usually they are 8 or 10 inches thick, a foot wide, and perhaps 15 or 18 inches long. Besides their use as seats,
these stones are used in connection with the edges of the stone slabs that cap the permanent benches of the
kiva to support temporarily the upper and lower poles of the blanket loom while the warp is gradually wound
around them. The large stones that are incorporated into the side of the benches of some of the Mashongnavi
kivas have occasionally round, cup-shaped cavities, of about an inch in diameter, drilled into them. These
holes receive one end of a warp stick, the other end, being supported in a corresponding hole of the heavy,
movable stone seat. The other warp stick is supported in a similar manner, while the thread is passed around
both in a horizontal direction preparatory to placing and stretching it in a vertical position for the final
working of the blanket. A number of these cup-shaped 133 pits are formed along the side of the stone bench,
to provide for various lengths of warp that may be required. On the opposite side of this same kiva a number
of similar holes or depressions are turned into the mud plastering of the wall. All these devices are of common
occurrence at other of the Tusayan kivas, and indicate the antiquity of the practice of using the kivas for such
industrial purposes. There is a suggestion of similar use of the ancient circular kivas in an example in Canyon
de Chelly. At a small cluster of rooms, built partly on a rocky ledge and partly on adjoining loose earth and
rocky debris, a land slide had carried away half of a circular kiva, exposing a well-defined section of its floor
and the debris within the room. Here the writer found a number of partly finished sandals of yucca fiber, with
the long, unwoven fiber carefully wrapped about the finished portion of the work, as though the sandals had
been temporarily laid aside until the maker could again work on them. A number of coils of yucca fiber,
similar to that used in the sandals, and several balls of brown fiber, formed from the inner bark of the cedar,
were found on the floor of the room. The condition of the ruin and the debris that filled the kiva clearly
suggested that these specimens were in use just where they were found at the time of the abandonment or
destruction of the houses. No traces were seen, however, of any structural devices like those of Tusayan that
would serve as aids to the weavers, though the weaving of the particular articles comprised in the collection
from this spot would probably not require any cumbrous apparatus.
Kiva ownership.—The kiva is usually spoken of as being the home of the organization which maintains
it. Different kivas are not used in common by all the inhabitants. Every man has a membership in some
particular one and he frequents that one only. The same person is often a member of different societies, which
takes him to different kivas, but that is only on set occasions. There is also much informal visiting among
them, but a man presumes to make a loitering place only of the kiva in which he holds membership.

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In each kiva there is a kiva mungwi (kiva chief), and he controls to a great extent all matters pertaining to the
kiva and its membership. This office or trust is hereditary and passes from uncle to nephew through the
female line—that is, on the death of a kiva chief the eldest son of his eldest sister succeeds him.
A kiva may belong either to a society, a group of gentes, or an individual. If belonging to a society or order,
the kiva chief commonly has inherited his office in the manner indicated from the â——eldest brotherâ——
of the society who assumed its construction. But the kiva chief is not necessarily chief of the society; in fact,
usually he is but an ordinary member. A similar custom of inheritance prevails where the kiva belongs to a
group of gentes, only in that case the kiva chief is usually chief of the gentile group.
As for those held by individuals, a couple of examples will illustrate the Tusayan practice. In Hano the chief
kiva was originally built 134 by a group of â——Sunâ—— gentes, but about 45 years ago, during an
epidemic of smallpox, all the people who belonged to the kiva died except one man. The room fell into ruin,
its roof timbers were carried off, and it became filled up with dust and rubbish. The title to it, however, rested
with the old survivor, as all the more direct heirs had died, and he, when about to die, gave the kiva to
Kotshve, a â——Snakeâ—— man from Walpi, who married a Tewa (Hano) woman and still lives in Hano.
This man repaired it and renamed it TokÃ³nabi (said to be a Pah-Ute term, meaning black mountain, but it is
the only name the Tusayan have for Navajo Mountain) because his people (the â——Snakeâ——) came from
that place. He in turn gave it to his eldest son, who is therefore kiva mungwi, but the son says his successor
will be the eldest son of his eldest sister. The membership is composed of men from all the Hano gentes, but
not all of any one gens. In fact, it is not now customary for all the members of a gens to be members of the
same kiva.
Another somewhat similar instance occurs in Sichumovi. A kiva, abandoned for a long time after the smallpox
plague, was taken possession of by an individual, who repaired it and renamed it KevinyÃ¡p
tshÃ³mo—Oak Mound. He made his friends its members, but he called the kiva his own. He also says
that his eldest sisterâ——s son will succeed him as chief.
In each village one of the kivas, usually the largest one, is called (aside from its own special name)
mungkiva—chief kiva. It is frequented by the kimungwi—house or village chief—and the
tshaakmungwi—chief talker, councillor—and in it also the more elaborate ceremonies are
observed.
No women frequent any of the kivas; in fact they never enter them except to plaster the walls at customary
periods, or during the occasion of certain ceremonies. Yet one at least of the Oraibi kivas was built for the
observances of a society of women, the MamzrÃ¡ntiki. This and another female
society—LalÃ©nkobÃ¡ki—exist in all the other villages, and on the occasion of their festivals
the women are given the exclusive use of one of the kivas.
Motives for building a kiva.—Only two causes are mentioned for building a new kiva. Quarrels giving
rise to serious dissensions among the occupants of a kiva are one cause. An instance of this occurred quite
recently at Hano. The conduct of the kiva chief gave rise to dissensions, and the members opposed to him
prepared to build a separate room of their own. They chose a gap on the side of the mesa cliff, close to Hano,
collected stones for the walls, and brought the roof timbers from the distant wooded mesas; but when all was
ready to lay the foundation their differences were adjusted and a complete reconciliation was effected.
The other cause assigned is the necessity for additional room when a gens has outgrown its kiva. When a gens
has increased in numbers sufficiently to warrant its having a second kiva, the chief of the gentile 135 group,
who in this case is also chief of the order, proposes to his kin to build a separate kiva, and that being agreed to,
he assumes the direction of the construction and all the dedicatory and other ceremonies connected with the
undertaking. An instance of this kind occurred within the last year or two at Oraibi, where the members of the

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â——Katchinaâ—— gentes, who are also members of the religious order of Katchina, built a spacious kiva
for themselves.
The construction of a new kiva is said to be of rare occurrence. On the other hand, it is common to hear the
kiva chief lament the decadence of its membership. In the â——Oak Moundâ—— kiva at Sichumovi there
are now but four members. The young men have married and moved to their wivesâ—— houses in more
thriving villages, and the older men have died. The chief in this case also says that some 2 years ago the agent
gave him a stove and pipe, which he set up in the room to add to its comfort. He now has grave fears that the
stove is an evil innovation, and has exercised a deleterious influence upon the fortune of his kiva and its
members; but the stove is still retained.
Significance of structural plan.—The designation of the curious orifice of the sipapuh as â——the
place from which the people emergedâ—— in connection with the peculiar arrangement of the kiva interior
with its change of floor level, suggested to the author that these features might be regarded as typifying the
four worlds of the genesis myth that has exercised such an influence on Tusayan customs; but no clear data on
this subject were obtained by the writer, nor has Mr. Stephen, who is specially well equipped for such
investigations, discovered that a definite conception exists concerning the significance of the structural plan of
the kiva. Still, from many suggestive allusions made by the various kiva chiefs and others, he also has been
led to infer that it typifies the four â——houses,â—— or stages, described in their creation myths. The
sipapuh, with its cavity beneath the floor, is certainly regarded as indicating the place of beginning, the lowest
house under the earth, the abode of Myuingwa, the Creator; the main or lower floor represents the second
stage; and the elevated section of the floor is made to denote the third stage, where animals were created. Mr.
Stephen observed, at the New Year festivals, that animal fetiches were set in groups upon this platform. It is
also to be noted that the ladder leading to the surface is invariably made of pine, and always rests upon the
platform, never upon the lower floor, and in their traditional genesis it is stated that the people climbed up
from the third house (stage) by a ladder of pine, and through such an opening as the kiva hatchway; only most
of the stories indicate that the opening was round. The outer air is the fourth world, or that now occupied.
There are occasional references in the Tusayan traditions to circular kivas, but these are so confused with
fantastic accounts of early mythic structures that their literal rendition would serve no useful purpose in the
present discussion.
136 Typical measurements.—The following list is a record of a number of measurements of Tusayan

kivas collected by Mr. Stephen. The wide difference between the end measurements of the same kiva are
usually due to the interior offsets that have been noticed on the plans, but the differences in the lengths of the
sides are due to irregularities of the site. The latter differences are not so marked as the former.
Width at ends. Length of sides.

Height Height at ends.
at
center.
13 6 —— 24 0 —— 8 6 —— ——
12 0 —— 21 9 —— 7 6 6 6 ——
14 6 14 6 24 6 23 3 8 0 6 6 6 6
12 2 12 11 23 9 23 9 7 10 6 1 6 0
12 6 12 6 26 0 25 3 7 6 6 6 6 6
13 4 12 10 26 8 26 7 7 10 7 0 7 0
15 0 13 6 26 6 24 11 7 4 6 3 6 2
12 6 11 5 23 7 21 9 8 0 7 0 7 0
12 5 13 5 22 8 24 1 7 3 6 1 6 9

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10 6 13 6 27 0 27 0 8 3 6 3 6 2
13 6 11 6 29 9 29 0 11 0 5 11 ——
14 6 —— 28 6 28 6 9 8 6 0 ——
13 2 14 0 28 9 29 9 8 6 7 0 6 4
15 1 14 0 28 6 —— 9 6 7 3 6 6
13 0 12 6 28 7 29 6 —— 7 4 6 3
List of Tusayan kivas.—The following list gives the present names of all the kivas in use at Tusayan.
The mungkiva or chief kiva of the village is in each case designated:
HANO.
1. TokoÂńabi kiva Navajo Mountain.
2. Hano sinteÂ´ kiva Place of the Hano.
TokoÂńabi kiva is the mungkiva.
WALPI.
1. DjivaÂ´to kiva Goat.
2. Al kiva AÂ´la, Horn.
3. NacaÂ´b kiva NaÂćabi, half-way or central.
4. PickuÂíbi kiva Opening oak bud.5
WikwaÂ´lobi kiva Place of the watchers.
5. Mung kiva Mungwi chief.
No. 5 is the mungkiva.
SICHUMOVI.
1. BaveÂńtcomo Water mound.
2. Kwinzaptcomo Oak mound.
BaveÂńtcomo is the mungkiva.
MASHONGNAVI.
1. TcavwuÂńa kiva A small coiled-ware jar.
2. HonaÂń kiva Honani, Badger, a gens.
3. GyÂárzohi kiva GyÂárzo, Paroquet, a gens.
4. Kotcobi kiva High place.
TeavwuÂńa kiva is the mungkiva.
137 SHUPAULOVI.
1. AÂ´tkabi kiva Place below.
2. Kokyangobi kiva Place of spider.
AÂ´tkabi kiva is the mungkiva.
SHUMOPAVI.
1. NuvwaÂ´tikyuobi High place of snow, San Francisco Mountain.
3. GyÂárzobi GyÂárzo, Paroquet, a gens.
4. TcoÂ´sobi Blue Jay, a gens.
TcoÂ´sobi is the mungkiva.

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ORAIBI.
1. Tdau kiva TdaÂúollauwuh The singers.
2. HaÂ´wiobi kiva HaÂ´wi, stair; High stair place.
obi, high place.
3. Ish kiva IsaÂúwuh Coyote, a gens.
4. Kwang kiva KwaÂ´kwanti Religious order.
5. MaÂ´zrau kiva MaÂ´mzrauti Female order.
6. NaÂćabi kiva Half way or Central place.
7. SaÂ´kwalen kiva SaÂ´kwa leÂńa Blue Flute, a religious order.
8. PoÂńgobi kiva Pongo, a circle An order who decorate themselves with circular marks on
the body.
9. HanoÂ´ kiva HaÂńomuh A fashion of cutting the hair.
10. Motc kiva MoÂ´mtci The Warriors, an order.
11. KwitaÂ´koli kiva Kwita, ordure; Ordure heap.
koÂ´li, a heap.
12. Katcin kiva Katcina A gens.
13. Tcu kiva Tcua, a snake Religions order.
Tdau kiva is the mungkiva.
DETAILS OF TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA CONSTRUCTION.
WALLS.
The complete operation of building a wall has never been observed at ZuÃ±i by the writer, but a close
examination of numerous finished and some broken-down walls indicates that the methods of construction
adopted are essentially the same as those employed in Tusayan, which, have been repeatedly observed; with
the possible difference, however, that in the former adobe mud mortar is more liberally used. A singular
feature of pueblo masonry as observed at Tusayan is the very sparing use of mud in the construction of the
walls; in fact, in some instances when walls are built during the dry season, the larger stones are laid up in the
walls without the use of mud at all, and are allowed to stand in this condition until the rains come; then the
mud mortar is mixed, the interstices of the walls filled in with it and with chinking stones, and the inside walls
are plastered. But the usual practice is to complete the house at once, finishing it inside and out with the
requisite mortar. In some instances the outside walls are coated, completely 138 covering the masonry, but
this is not done in many of the houses, as may be seen by reference to the preceding illustrations of the
Tusayan villages. At ZuÃ±i, on the other hand, a liberal and frequently renewed coating of mud is applied to
the walls. Only one piece of masonry was seen in the entire village that did not have traces of this coating of
mud, viz, that portion of the second story wall of house No. 2 described as possibly belonging to the ancient
nucleus pueblo of Halona and illustrated in Pl. LVIII. Even the rough masonry of the kivas is partly surfaced
with this medium, though many jagged stones are still visible. As a result of this practice it is now in many
cases impossible to determine from mere superficial inspection whether the underlying masonry has been
constructed of stone or of adobe; a difficulty that may be realized from an examination of the views of ZuÃ±i
in Chapter III. Where the fall of water, such as the discharge from a roof-drain, has removed the outer coating
of mud that covers stonework and adobe alike, a large proportion of these exposures reveal stone masonry, so
that it is clearly apparent that ZuÃ±i is essentially a stone village. The extensive use of sun-dried bricks of
adobe has grown up within quite recent times. It is apparent, however, that the ZuÃ±i builders preferred to use
stone; and even at the present time they frequently eke out with stonework portions of a house when the
supply of adobe has fallen short. An early instance of such supplementary use of stone masonry still survives
in the church building, where the old Spanish adobe has been repaired and filled in with the typical tabular
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aboriginal masonry, consisting of small stones carefully laid, with very little intervening mortar showing on
the face. Such reversion to aboriginal methods probably took place on every opportunity, though it is
remarkable that the Indians should have been allowed to employ their own methods in this instance. Although
this church building has for many generations furnished a conspicuous example of typical adobe construction
to the ZuÃ±i, he has never taken the lesson sufficiently to heart to closely imitate the Spanish methods either
in the preparation of the material or in the manner of its use. The adobe bricks of the church are of large and
uniform size, and the mud from which they were made had a liberal admixture of straw. This binding material
does not appear in ZuÃ±i in any other example of adobe that has been examined, nor does it seem to have
been utilized in any of the native pueblo work either at this place or at Tusayan.
Fig. 32. A ZuÃ±i chimney,

showing pottery fragments
embedded in its adobe base. Where molded adobe bricks have been used by the ZuÃ±i in housebuilding they
have been made from the raw material just as it was taken from the fields. As a result these bricks have little
of the durability of the Spanish work. Pl. XCVI illustrates an adobe wall of ZuÃ±i, part of an unroofed house.
The old adobe church at Hawikuh (Pl. XLVIII), abandoned for two centuries, has withstood the wear of time
and weather better than any of the stonework of the surrounding houses. On the right-hand side of the street
that shows in the foreground of Pl. LXXVIII is an illustration of the construction 139 of a wall with adobe
bricks. This example is very recent, as it has not yet been roofed over. The top of the wall, however, is
temporarily protected by the usual series of thin sandstone slabs used in the finishing of wall copings. The
very rapid disintegration of native-made adobe walls has brought about the use in ZuÃ±i of many protective
devices, some of which will be noticed in connection with the discussion of roof drains and wall copings.
Figs. 32 and 33 illustrate a curious employment of pottery fragments on a mud-plastered wall and on the base
of a chimney to protect the adobe coating against rapid erosion by the rains. These pieces, usually fragments
from large vessels, are embedded in the adobe with the convex side out, forming an armor of pottery scales
well adapted to resist disintegration, by the elements.
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Fig. 33. A ZuÃ±i oven with pottery scales embedded in its surface.
The introduction of the use of adobe in ZuÃ±i should probably be attributed to foreign influence, but the
position of the village in the open plain at a distance of several miles from the nearest outcrop of suitable
building stone naturally led the builders to use stone more sparingly when an available substitute was found
close at hand. The thin slabs of stone, which had to be brought from a great distance, came to be used only for
the more exposed portions of buildings, such as copings on walls and borders around roof openings. Still, the
pueblo 140 builders never attained to a full appreciation of the advantages and requirements of this medium
as compared with stone. The adobe walls are built only as thick as is absolutely necessary, few of them being
more than a foot in thickness. The walls are thus, in proportion, to height and weight, sustained, thinner than
the crude brick construction of other peoples, and require protection and constant repairs to insure durability.
As to thickness, they are evidently modeled directly after the walls of stone masonry, which had already, in
both Tusayan and Cibola, been pushed to the limit of thinness. In fact, since the date of the survey of ZuÃ±i,
on which the published plan is based, the walls of several rooms over the court passageway in the house,
illustrated in Pl. LXXXII, have entirely fallen in, demonstrating the insufficiency of the thin walls to sustain
the weight of several stories.
The climate of the pueblo region is not wholly suited to the employment of adobe construction, as it is there
practiced. For several months in the year (the rainy season) scarcely a day passes without violent storms
which play havoc with the earth-covered houses, necessitating constant vigilance and frequent repairs on the
part of the occupants.
Though the practice of mud-coating all walls has in Cibola undoubtedly led to greater carelessness and a less
rigid adherence to ancient methods of construction, the stone masonry may still be seen to retain some of the
peculiarities that characterize ancient examples. Features of this class are still more apparent at Tusayan, and
notwithstanding the rudeness of much of the modern stone masonry of this province, the fact that the builders
are familiar with the superior methods of the ancient builders, is clearly shown in the masonry of the present
villages.
Perhaps the most noteworthy characteristic of pueblo masonry, and one which is more or less present in both
ancient and modern examples, is the use of small chinking stones for bringing the masonry to an even face
after the larger stones forming the body of the wall have been laid in place. This method of construction has,
in the case of some of the best built ancient pueblos, such as those on the Chaco in New Mexico, resulted in
the production of marvelously finished stone walls, in which the mosaic-like bits are so closely laid as to show
none but the finest joints on the face of the wall with but little trace of mortar. The chinking wedges
necessarily varied greatly in dimensions to suit the sizes of the interstices between the larger stones of the
wall. The use of stone in this manner no doubt suggested the banded walls that form so striking a feature in
some of the Chaco houses. This arrangement was likely to be brought about by the occurrence in the cliffs of
seams of stone of two degrees of thickness, suggesting to the builders the use of stones of similar thickness in
continuous bands. The ornamental effect of this device was originally an accidental result of adopting the
most convenient method of using the material at hand. Though the masonry of the modern pueblos does not
afford examples of distinct bands, the 141 introduction of the small chinking spalls often follows horizontal
lines of considerable length. Even in mud-plastered ZuÃ±i, many outcrops of these thin, tabular wedges
protrude from the partly eroded mudcoating of a wall and indicate the presence of this kind of stone masonry.
An example is illustrated in Fig. 34, a tower-like projection at the northeast corner of house No. 2.
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Fig. 34. Stone wedges of ZuÃ±i masonry exposed in rain-washed wall.
In the Tusayan house illustrated in Pl. LXXXIV, the construction of which was observed at Oraibi, the
interstices between the large stones that formed the body of the wall, containing but small quantities of 142
mud mortar, were filled in or plugged with small fragments of stone, which, after being partly embedded in
the mud of the joint, were driven in with unhafted stone hammers, producing a fairly even face of masonry,
afterward gone over with mud plastering of the consistency of modeling clay, applied a handful at a time.
Piled up on the ground near the new house at convenient points for the builders may be seen examples of the
larger wall stones, indicating the marked tabular character of the pueblo masonsâ—— material. The narrow
edges of similar stones are visible in the unplastered portions of the house wall, which also illustrates the
relative proportion of chinking stones. This latter, however, is a variable feature. Pl. XV affords a clear
illustration of the proportion of these small stones in the old masonry of Payupki; while in Pl. XI, illustrating a
portion of the outer wall of the Fire House, the tablets are fewer in number and thinner, their use
predominating in the horizontal joints, as in the best of the old examples, but not to the same extent. Fig. 35
illustrates the inner face of an unplastered wall of a small house at Ojo Caliente, in which the modern method
of using the chinking stones is shown. This example bears a strong resemblance to the Payupki masonry
illustrated in Pl. XV in the irregularity with which the chinking stones are distributed in the joints of the wall.
The same room affords an illustration of a cellar-like feature having the appearance of an intentional
excavation to attain a depth for this room 143 corresponding to the adjoining floor level, but this effect is due
simply to a clever adaptation of the house wall to an existing ledge of sandstone. The latter has had scarcely
any artificial treatment beyond the partial smoothing of the rock in a few places and the cutting out of a small
niche from the rocky wall. This niche occupies about the same position in this room that it does in the
ordinary pueblo house. It is remarkable that the pueblo builders did not to a greater extent utilize their skill in
working stone in the preparation of some of the irregular rocky sites that they have at times occupied for the
more convenient reception of their wall foundations; but in nearly all such cases the buildings have been
modified to suit the ground. An example of this practice is illustrated in Pl. XXIII, from the west side of
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Walpi. In some of the ancient examples the labor required to so prepare the sites would not have exceeded that
expended on the massive masonry composed of numberless small stones. Many of the older works testify to
the remarkable patience and industry of the builders in amassing and carefully adjusting vast quantities of
building materials, and the modern Indians of Tusayan and Cibola have inherited much of this ancient spirit;
yet this industry was rarely diverted to the excavation of room or village sites, except in the case of the kivas,
in which special motives led to the practice. In some of the Chaco pueblos, as now seen, the floors of outer
marginal rooms seem to be depressed below the general level of the surrounding soil; but it is now difficult to
determine whether such was the original arrangement, as much sand and soil have drifted against the outer
walls, raising the surface. In none of the pueblos within the limits of the provinces under discussion has there
been found any evidence of the existence of underground cellars; the rooms that answer such purpose are built
on the level of the ground. At Tusayan the ancient practice of using the ground-floor rooms for storage still
prevails. In these are kept the dried fruit, vegetables, and meats that constitute the principal winter food of the
Tusayan. Throughout Tusayan the walls of the first terrace rooms are not finished with as much care as those
above that face the open courts. A quite smoothly finished coat of adobe is often seen in the upper stories, but
is much more rarely applied to the rough masonry of the ground-floor rooms. At ZuÃ±i no such difference of
treatment is to be seen, a result of the recent departure from their original defensive use. At the present day
most of the rooms that are built on the ground have external doors, often of large size, and are regarded by the
ZuÃ±i as preferable to the upper terraces as homes. This indicates that the idea of convenience has already
largely overcome the traditional defensive requirements of pueblo arrangement. The general finish and quality
of the masonry, too, does not vary noticeably in different portions of the village. An occasional wall may be
seen in which underlying stones may be traced through the thin adobe covering, as in one of the walls of the
court illustrated in Pl. LXXXII, but most of the walls have a fairly smooth 144 finish. The occasional
examples of rougher masonry do not seem to be confined to any particular portion of the village. At Tusayan,
on the other hand, there is a noticeable difference in the extent to which the finishing coat of adobe has been
used in the masonry. The villages of the first mesa, whose occupants have come in frequent contact with the
eastern pueblo Indians and with outsiders generally, show the effect in the adoption of several devices still
unknown to their western neighbors, as is shown in the discussion of the distribution of roof openings in these
villages, pp. 201-208. The builders of the first mesa seem also to have imitated their eastern brethren in the
free use of the adobe coating over their masonry, while at the villages of the middle mesa, and particularly at
Oraibi, the practice has been comparatively rare, imparting an appearance of ruggedness and antiquity to the
architecture.
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Fig. 35. An unplastered house wall in Ojo Caliente.
The stonework of this village, perhaps approaches the ancient types more closely than that of the others, some
of the walls being noticeable for the frequent use of long bond stones. The execution of the masonry at the
corners of some of the houses enforces this resemblance and indicates a knowledge of the principles of good
construction in the proper alternation of the long stones. A comparison with the Kin-tiel masonry (Pl.
LXXXIX) will show this resemblance. As a rule in pueblo masonry an upper house wall was supported along
its whole length by a wall of a lower story, but occasional exceptions occur in both ancient and modern work,
where the builders have dared to trust the weight of upper walls to wooden beams or girders, supported along
part of their length by buttresses from the walls at their ends or by large, clumsy pieces of masonry, as was
seen in the house of Sichumovi. In an upper story of Walpi also, partitions occur that are not built
immediately over the lower walls, but on large beams supported on masonry piers. In the much higher terraces
of ZuÃ±i, the strength of many of the inner ground walls must be seriously taxed to withstand the
superincumbent weight, as such walls are doubtless of only the average thickness and strength of ground
walls. The dense clustering of this village has certainly in some instances thrown the weight of two, three, or
even four additional, stories upon walls in which no provision was made for the unusual strain. The few
supporting walls that were accessible to inspection did not indicate any provision in their thickness for the
support of additional weight; in fact, the builders of the original walls could have no knowledge of their future
requirements in this respect. In the pueblos of the Chaco upper partition walls were, in a few instances,
supported directly on double girders, two posts of 12 or 14 inches in diameter placed side by side, without
reinforcement by stone piers or buttresses, the room below being left wholly unobstructed. This construction
was practicable for the careful builders of the Chaco, but an attempt by the Tusayan to achieve the same result
would probably end in disaster. It was quite common among the ancient builders to divide the ground or
storage floor into smaller rooms than the floor above, still preserving the vertical alignment of the walls.
Plate LXXXIX. Masonry in the north wing of Kin-tiel.
145 The finish of pueblo masonry rarely went far beyond the two leading forms, to which attention has been
called, the free use of adobe on the one hand and the banded arrangement of ancient masonry on the other.
These types appear to present development along divergent lines. The banded feature doubtless reached such a
point of development in the Chaco pueblos that its decorative value began to be appreciated, for it is apparent
that its elaboration has extended far beyond the requirements of mere utility. This point would never have
been reached had the practice prevailed of covering the walls with a coating of mud. The cruder examples of
banded construction, however—those that still kept well within constructional
expediency—were doubtless covered with a coating of plaster where they occurred inside of the rooms.
At Tusayan and Cibola, on the other hand, the tendency has been rather to elaborate the plastic element of the
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masonry. The nearly universal use of adobe is undoubtedly largely responsible for the more slovenly methods
of building now in vogue, as it effectually conceals careless construction. It is not to be expected that walls
would be carefully constructed of banded stonework when they were to be subsequently covered with mud.
The elaboration of the use of adobe and its employment as a periodical coating for the dwellings, probably
developed gradually into the use of a whitewash for the house walls, resulting finally in crude attempts at wall
decoration.
Many of the interiors in ZuÃ±i are washed with a coating of white, clayey gypsum, used in the form of a
solution made by dissolving in hot water the lumps of the raw material, found in many localities. The mixture
is applied to the walls while hot, and is spread by means of a rude glove-like sack, made of sheep or goat skin,
with the hair side out. With this primitive brush the ZuÃ±i housewives succeed in laying on a smooth and
uniform coating over the plaster. An example of this class of work was observed in a room of house No. 2. It
is difficult to determine to what extent this idea is aboriginal; as now employed it has doubtless been affected
by the methods of the neighboring Spanish population, among whom the practice of white-coating the adobe
houses inside and out is quite common. Several traces of whitewashing have been found among the
cliff-dwellings of Canyon de Chelly, notably at the ruin known as Casa Blanca, but as some of these ruins
contained evidences of post-Spanish occupation, the occurrence there of the whitewash does not necessarily
imply any great antiquity for the practice.
External use of this material is much rarer, particularly in ZuÃ±i, where only a few walls of upper stories are
whitened. Where it is not protected from the rains by an overhanging coping or other feature, the finish is not
durable. Occasionally where a doorway or other opening has been repaired the evidences of patchwork are
obliterated by a surrounding band of fresh plastering, varying in width from 4 inches to a foot or more.
Usually this band is laid on as a thick wash of adobe, but in some instances a decorative effect is attained by
using white. It 146 is curious to find that at Tusayan the decorative treatment of the finishing wash has been
carried farther than, at ZuÃ±i. The use of a darker band of color about the base of a whitewashed room has
already been noticed in the description of a Tusayan interior. On many of the outer walls of upper stories the
whitewash has been stopped within a foot of the coping, the unwhitened portion of the walls at the top having
the effect of a frieze. In a second story house of Mashongnavi, that had been carefully whitewashed,
additional decorative effect was produced by tinting a broad band about the base of the wall with an
application of bright pinkish clay, which was also carried around the doorway as an enframing band, as in the
case of the ZuÃ±i door above described. The angles on each side, at the junction of the broad base band with
the narrower doorway border, were filled in with a design of alternating pink and white squares. This doorway
is illustrated in Fig. 36. Farther north, on the same terrace, the jamb of a whitewashed doorway was decorated
with the design shown on the right hand side of Fig. 36, executed also in pink clay. This design closely
resembles a pattern that is commonly embroidered upon the large white â——kachina,â—— or ceremonial
blankets. It is not known whether the device is here regarded as having any special significance. The pink clay
in which these designs have been executed has in Sichumovi been used for the coating of an entire house
front.
Fig. 36. Wall decorations in Mashongnavi executed in pink on a white ground.
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In addition to the above-mentioned uses of stone and earth in the masonry of house walls, the pueblo builders
have employed both these materials in a more primitive manner in building the walls of corrals and gardens,
and for other purposes. The small terraced gardens of ZuÃ±i, located on the borders of the village on the
southwest and southeast sides, close to the river bank, are each surrounded by walls 2Â½ or 3 feet high, of
very light construction, the average thickness not exceeding 6 or 8 inches. These rude walls are built of small,
irregularly rounded lumps of adobe, formed by hand, and coarsely plastered with mud. When the crops are
gathered in the fall the walls are broken down in places to facilitate access to the inclosures, so that they
require repairing at each planting season. Aside from this they are so frail as to require frequent repairs
throughout the period of their use. This method of building walls was adopted because it was the readiest and
147 least laborious means of inclosing the required space. The character of these garden walls is illustrated in
Pl. XC, and their construction with rough lumps of crude adobe shows also the contrast between the weak
appearance of this work and the more substantial effect of the masonry of the adjoining unfinished house. At
the Cibolan farming pueblos inclosing walls were usually made of stone, as were also those of Tusayan. Pl.
LXX indicates the manner in which the material has been used in the corrals of Pescado, located within the
village. The stone walls are used in combination with stakes, such as are employed at the main pueblo.
Plate XC. Adobe garden walls near ZuÃ±i.
Small inclosed gardens, like those of ZuÃ±i, occur at several points in Tusayan. The thin walls are made of
dry masonry, quite as rude in character as those inclosing the ZuÃ±i gardens. The smaller clusters are usually
located in the midst of large areas of broken stone that has fallen from the mesa above. In the foreground of
Pl. XXII may be seen a number of examples of such work. Pl. XCI illustrates a group of corrals at Oraibi
whose walls are laid up without the use of mud mortar.
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Plate XCI. A group of stone corrals near Oraibi.
Where exceptionally large blocks of stone are available they have been utilized in an upright position, and
occur at greater or less intervals along the thin walls of dry masonry. An example of this use was seen in a
garden wall on the west side of Walpi, where the stones had been set on end in the yielding surface of a sandy
slope among the foothills. A similar arrangement, occurring close to the houses at Ojo Caliente, is illustrated
in Pl. XCII. Large, upright slabs of stone have been used by the pueblo builders in many ways, sometimes
incorporated into the architecture of the houses, and again in detached positions at some distance from the
villages. Pls. XCIII and XCIV, drawn from the photographs of Mr. W. H. Jackson, afford illustrations of this
usage in the ancient ruins of Montezuma Canyon. In the first of these cases the stones were utilized,
apparently, in house masonry. Among the ruins in the valley of the San Juan and its tributaries, as described
by Messrs. W. H. Holmes and W. H. Jackson, varied arrangements of upright slabs of stone are of frequent
occurrence. The rows of stones are sometimes arranged in squares, sometimes in circles, and occasionally are
incorporated into the walls of ordinary masonry, as in the example illustrated. Isolated slabs are also met with
among the ruins. At Kâ——iakima, at a point near the margin of the ruin, occurs a series of very large,
upright slabs, which occupy the positions of headstones to a number of small inclosures, thought to be
mortuary, outlined upon the ground. These have been already described in connection with the ground plan of
this village.
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Plate XCII. An inclosing wall of upright stones at Ojo Caliente.
The employment of upright slabs of stone to mark graves probably prevailed to some extent in ancient
practice, but other uses suggest themselves. Occupying a conspicuous point in the village of Kin-tiel (Pl.
LXIII) is an upright slab of sandstone which seems to stand in its original position undisturbed, though the
walls of the adjoining rooms 148 are in ruins. A similar feature was seen at PeÃ±asco Blanco, on the east
side of the village and a short distance without the inclosing wall. Both these rude pillars are, in character and
in position, very similar to an upright stone of known use at ZuÃ±i. A hundred and fifty feet from this pueblo
is a large upright block of sandstone, which is said to be used as a datum point in the observations of the sun
made by a priest of ZuÃ±i for the regulation of the time for planting and harvesting, for determining the new
year, and for fixing the dates of certain other ceremonial observances. By the aid of such devices as the native
priests have at their command they are enabled to fix the date of the winter solstice with a fair degree of
accuracy. Such rude determination of time was probably an aboriginal invention, and may have furnished the
motive in other cases for placing stone pillars in such unusual positions. The explanation of the governor of
ZuÃ±i for a sun symbol seen on an upright stone at Matsaki has been given in the description of that place.
Single slabs are also used, as seen in the easternmost room group of TÃ¢aaiyalana, and in the southwestern
cluster on the same mesa, in the building of shrines for the deposit of plume sticks and other ceremonial
objects.
Plate XCIII. Upright blocks of sandstone built into an ancient pueblo wall.
An unusual employment of small stones in an upright position occurs at ZuÃ±i. The inclosing wall of the
church yard, still used as a burial place, is provided at intervals along its top with upright pieces of stone set
into the joints of a regular coping course that caps the wall. This feature may have some connection with the
idea of vertical grave stones, noted at Kâ——iakima. It is difficult to surmise what practical purpose could
have been subserved by these small upright stones.
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Plate XCIV. Ancient wall of upright rocks in southwestern Colorado.
Notwithstanding the use of large stones for special purposes the pueblo builders rarely appreciated the
advantages that might be obtained by the proper use of such material. Pueblo masonry is essentially made up
of small, often minute, constructional units. This restriction doubtless resulted in a higher degree of mural
finish than would otherwise have been attained, but it also imposes certain limitations upon their architectural
achievement. Some of these are noted in the discussion of openings and of other details of construction.
Pl. XLV, an illustration of a Mormon mill building at Moen-kopi, already referred to in the description of that
village, is introduced for the purpose of comparing the methods adopted by the natives and by the whites in
the treatment of the same class of material. Perhaps the most noteworthy contrast is seen in the sills and lintels
of the openings.
ROOFS AND FLOORS.
In the pueblo system of building, roof and floor is one; for all the floors, except such as are formed
immediately on the surface of the ground, are at the same time the roofs and ceilings of lower rooms. The
pueblo plan of to-day readily admits of additions at any time and almost at any point of the basal construction.
The addition of rooms 149 above converts a roof into the floor of the new room, so that there can be no
distinction in method of construction between floors and roofs, except the floors are occasionally covered with
a complete paving of thin stone slabs, a device that in external roofs is confined to the copings that cap the
walls and enframe openings.
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Fig. 37. Diagram of ZuÃ±i roof construction.
The methods of roofing their houses practiced by the pueblo builders varied but little, and followed the
general order of construction that has been outlined in describing Tusayan house building. The diagram,
shown in Fig. 37, an isometric projection illustrating roof construction, is taken from a ZuÃ±i example, the
building of which was observed by the writer. The roof is built by first a series of principal beams or rafters.
These are usually straight, round poles of 6 or 8 inches in diameter, with all bark and projecting knots
removed. Squared beams are of very rare occurrence; the only ones seen were those of the Tusayan kivas, of
Spanish manufacture. In recently constructed houses the principal beams are often of large size and are very
neatly squared off at the ends. Similar square ended beams of large size are met with in the ancient work of
the Chaco pueblos, but there the enormous labor involved in producing the result with only the aid of stone
implements is in keeping with the highly finished character of the masonry and the general massiveness of the
construction. The same treatment was adopted in Kin-tiel, as may be seen in Pl. XCV, which illustrates a
beam resting upon a ledge or offset of the inner walls. The recent introduction of improved mechanical aids
has exerted a strong influence on the character of the construction in greatly facilitating execution. The use of
the American ax made it a much easier task to cut large timbers, and the introduction of the â——burroâ——
and ox greatly facilitated their transportation. In the case of the modern pueblos, such as ZuÃ±i, the dwelling
rooms that were built by families so poor as not to have these aids would to some extent indicate the fact by
their more primitive construction, and particularly by their small size, in 150 this respect more closely
resembling the rooms of the ancient pueblos. As a result the poorer classes would be more likely to perpetuate
primitive devices, through the necessity for practicing methods that to the wealthier members of the tribe were
becoming a matter of tradition only. In such a sedentary tribe as the present ZuÃ±i, these differences of
wealth and station are more marked than one would expect to find among a people practicing a style of
architecture so evidently influenced by the communal principle, and the architecture of to-day shows the
effect of such distinctions. In the house of the governor of ZuÃ±i a new room has been recently built, in
which the second series of the roof, that applied over the principal beams, consisted of pine shakes or
shingles, and these supported the final earth covering without any intervening material. In the typical
arrangement, however, illustrated in the figure, the first series, or principal beams, are covered by another
series of small poles, about an inch and a half or two inches in diameter, at right angles to the first, and usually
laid quite close together. The ends of these small poles are partially embedded in the masonry of the walls. In
an example of the more careful and laborious work of the ancient builders seen at PeÃ±asco Blanco, on the
Chaco, the principal beams were covered with narrow boards, from 2 to 4 inches wide and about 1 inch thick,
over which was put the usual covering of earth. The boards had the appearance of having been split out with
wedges, the edges and faces having the characteristic fibrous appearance of torn or split wood. At ZuÃ±i an
instance occurs where split poles have been used for the second series of a roof extending through the whole
thickness of the wall and projecting outside, as is commonly the case with the first series. A similar
arrangement was seen in a ruined tower in the vicinity of Fort Wingate, New Mexico. In the typical roof
construction illustrated the second series is covered with small twigs or brush, laid in close contact and at right
angles to the underlying series, or parallel with the main beams. Pl. XCVI, illustrating an unroofed adobe
house in ZuÃ±i, shows several bundles of this material on an adjoining roof. This series is in turn covered
with a layer of grass and small brush, again at right angles, which prepares the frame for the reception of the
final earth covering, this latter being the fifth application to the roof. In the example illustrated the entire earth
covering of the roof was finished in a single application of the material. It has been seen that at Tusayan a
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Plate XCV. Ancient floor-beams at Kin-tiel.
In ancient construction, the method of arranging the material varied somewhat. In some cases series 3 was
very carefully constructed of straight willow wands laid side by side in contact. This gave a very neat
appearance to the ceiling within the room. Examples were seen in Canyon de Chelly, at Mummy Cave, and at
Hungo Pavie and Pueblo Bonito on the Chaco.
Again examples occur where series 2 is composed of 2-inch poles in contact and the joints are chinked on the
upper side with small 151 stones to prevent the earth from sifting through. This arrangement was seen in a
small cluster on the canyon bottom on the de Chelly.
Plate XCVI. Adobe walls in ZuÃ±i.
The small size of available roofing rafters has at Tusayan brought about a construction of clumsy piers of
masonry in a few of the larger rooms, which support the ends of two sets of main girders, and these in turn
carry series 1, or the main ceiling beams of the roof. The girders are generally double, an arrangement that has
been often employed in ancient times, as many examples occur among the ruins. The purpose of such
arrangement may have been to admit of the abutment of the ends of series 1, when the members of the latter
were laid in contact. In the absence of squared beams, which seem never to have been used in the old work,
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diagram, Fig. 38.
Fig. 38. Showing abutment

of smaller roof beams
over round girders.
The final roof covering, composed of clay, is usually laid on very carefully and firmly, and, when the surface
is unbroken, answers fairly well as a watershed. A slight slope or fall is given to the roof. This roof subserves
every purpose of a front yard to the rooms that open upon it, and seems to be used exactly like the ground
itself. Sheepskins are stretched and pegged out upon it for tanning or drying, and the characteristic ZuÃ±i
dome-shaped oven is frequently built upon it. In ZuÃ±i generally upper rooms are provided only with a mud
floor, although occasionally the method of paving with large thin slabs of stone is adopted. These are often
somewhat irregular in form, the object being to have them as large as possible, so that considerable ingenuity
is often displayed in selecting the pieces and in joining the irregular edges. This arrangement, similar to that of
the kiva floors of Tusayan, is occasionally met with in the kivas.
In making excavations at Kin-tiel, the floor of the ground room in which the circular door illustrated in Pl. C,
was found was paved with large, irregular fragments of stone, the thickness of which did not average more
than an inch. Its floor, whose paving was all in place, was strewn with broken, irregular fragments similar in
character, which must have been used as the flooring of an upper chamber.
WALL COPINGS AND ROOF DRAINS.
In the construction of the typical pueblo house the walls are carried up to the height of the roof surface, and
are then capped with a continuous protecting coping of thin flat stones, laid in close contact, their outer edges
flush with the face of the wall. This arrangement is still the prevailing one at Tusayan, though there is an
occasional example of the projecting coping that practically forms a cornice. This latter is the more usual form
at ZuÃ±i, though in the farming pueblos of Cibola 152 it does not occur with any greater frequency than at
Tusayan. The flush coping is in Tusayan made of the thinnest and most uniform specimens of building stone
available, but these are not nearly so well adapted to the purpose as those found in the vicinity of ZuÃ±i.
Here the projecting stones are of singularly regular and symmetrical form, and receive very little artificial
treatment. Their extreme thinness makes it easy to trim off the projecting corners and angles, reducing them to
such a form that they can be laid in close contact. Thus laid they furnish an admirable protection against the
destructive action of the violent rains. The stones are usually trimmed to a width corresponding to the
thickness of the walls. Of course where a projecting cornice is built, it can be made, to some extent, to
conform to the width of available coping stones. These can usually be procured, however, of nearly uniform
width. In the case of the overhanging cornices the necessary projection is attained by continuing either the
main roof beams, or sometimes the smaller poles of the second series, according to the position of the required
cornice, for a foot or more beyond the outer face of the wall. Over these poles the roofing is continued as in
ordinary roof construction with the exception that the edge of the earth covering is built of masonry, an
additional precaution against its destruction by the rains. In many places the adobe plastering originally
applied to the faces of these cornices, as well as to the walls, has been washed away, exposing the whole
construction. In some of these instances the face of the cornice furnishes a complete section of the roof, in
which all the series of its construction can be readily identified. The protective agency of these coping stones
is well illustrated in Pl. XCVII, which shows the destructive effect of rain at a point where an open joint has
admitted enough water to bare the masonry of the cornice face, eating through its coating of adobe, while at
the firmly closed joint toward the left there has been no erosive action. The much larger proportion of
projecting copings or cornices in ZuÃ±i, as compared with Tusayan, is undoubtedly attributable to the
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universal smoothing of the walls with adobe, and to the more general use of this perishable medium in this
village, and the consequent necessity for protecting the walls. The efficiency of this means of protecting the
wall against the wear of weather is seen in the preservation of external whitewashing for several feet below
such a cornice on the face of the walls. At the pueblo of Acoma a similar extensive use of projecting cornices
is met with, particularly on the third story walls. Here again it is due to the use of adobe, which has been more
frequently employed in the finish of the higher and newer portions of the village than in the lower terraces. As
a rule these overhanging copings occur principally on the southern exposures of the buildings and on the
terraced sides of house rows. When walls rise to the height of several stories directly from the ground, such as
the back walls of house rows, they are not usually provided with this feature but are capped with flush
copings.
Plate XCVII. Wall coping and oven at ZuÃ±i.
153 The rapid and destructive erosion of the earthen roof covering must have early stimulated the pueblo
architect to devise means for promptly distributing where it would do the least harm, the water which came
upon his house. This necessity must have led to the early use of roof drains, for in no other way could the
ancient builders have provided for the effectual removal of the water from, the roofs and at the same time
have preserved intact the masonry of the walls. Unfortunately we have no examples of such features in the
ruined pueblos, for in the destruction or decay of the houses they are among the first details to be lost. The
roof drain in the modern architecture becomes a very prominent feature, particularly at ZuÃ±i.
Fig. 39. Single stone roof drains.

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Fig. 40. Trough roof drains of stone.
Fig. 41. Wooden roof drains.

These drains are formed by piercing an opening through the thickness of the coping wall, at a point where the
drainage from the roof would collect, the opening being made with a decided pitch and furnished with a spout
or device of some kind to insure the discharge of the water beyond the face of the wall. These spouts assume a
variety of forms. Perhaps the most common is that of a single long, narrow slab of stone, set at a suitable
angle and of sufficient projection to throw the discharge clear of the wall. Fig. 39 illustrates drains of this
type, No. 1 being a Tusayan example and No. 2 from ZuÃ±i. It will be noted that the surrounding masonry of
the former, as well as the stone itself, are much ruder than the ZuÃ±i example. Another type of drain, not
differing greatly from the preceding, is illustrated in Fig. 40. This form is a slight improvement on the single
stone drain, as it is provided with side 154 pieces which convert the device into a trough-like spout, and more
effectually direct the discharge. No. 1 is a Tusayan spout and No. 2 a ZuÃ±i example. Wooden spouts are also
commonly used for this purpose. Fig. 41 illustrates an example from each province of this form of drain.
These are usually made from small tree trunks, not exceeding 3 or 4 inches in diameter, and are gouged out
from one side. No tubular specimens of wooden spouts were seen. At Tusayan the builders have utilized stone
of a concretionary formation for roof drains. The workers in stone could not wish for material more suitably
fashioned for the purpose than these specimens. Two of these curious stone channels are illustrated in Fig. 42.
Two more examples of Tusayan roof drains are illustrated in Fig. 43. The first of the latter shows the use of a
discarded metate, or mealing stone, and the second of a gourd that has been walled into the coping.

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Fig. 42. Curved roof drains of stone in Tusayan.
Fig. 43. Tusayan roof drains; a discarded metate and a gourd.

155 It is said that tubes of clay were used at Awatubi in olden times for roof drains, but there remains no
positive evidence of this. Three forms of this device are attributed to the people of that village. Some are said
to have been made of wood, others of stone, and some again of sun-dried clay. The native explanation of the
use in this connection of sun-dried clay, instead of the more durable baked product, was that the application of
fire to any object that water passes through would be likely to dry up the rains. It was stated in this connection
that at the present day the cobs of the corn used for planting are not burned until rain has fallen on the crop. If
the clay spout described really existed among the people at Awatubi, it was likely to have been an innovation
introduced by the Spanish missionaries. Among the potsherds picked up at this ruin was a small piece of
coarsely made clay tube, which seemed to be too large and too roughly modeled to have been the handle of a
ladle, which it roughly resembled, or to have belonged to any other known form of domestic pottery. As a roof
drain its use would not accord with the restrictions referred to in the native account, as the piece had been
burnt.
In some cases in ZuÃ±i where drains discharge from the roofs of upper terraces directly upon those below, the
lower roofs and also the adjoining vertical walls are protected by thin tablets of stone, as shown in Fig. 44. It
will be seen that one of these is placed upon the lower roof in such a position that the drainage falls directly
upon it. Where the adobe roof covering is left unprotected its destruction by the rain is very rapid, as the
showers of the rainy season in these regions, though usually of short duration, are often extremely violent. The
force of the torrents is illustrated in the neighboring country. Here small ruts in the surface of the ground are
rapidly converted into large arroyos. Frequently ordinary wagon tracks along a bit of valley slope serve as an
initial channel to the rapidly accumulating waters and are eaten 156 away in a few weeks so that the road
becomes wholly impassable, and must be abandoned for a new one alongside.

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Fig. 44. ZuÃ±i roof drain, with splash stones on roof below.
The shiftlessness of the native builders in the use of the more convenient material brings its own penalty
during this season in a necessity for constant watchfulness and frequent repairs to keep the houses habitable.
One can often see in ZuÃ±i where an inefficient drain or a broken coping has given the water free access to
the face of a plastered wall, carrying away all its covering and exposing in a vertical space the jagged stones
of the underlying masonry. It is noticeable that much more attention has been paid to protective devices at
ZuÃ±i than at Tusayan. This is undoubtedly due to the prevalent use of adobe in the former. This friable
material must be protected at all vulnerable points with slabs of stone in order quickly to divert the water and
preserve the roofs and walls from destruction.
LADDERS AND STEPS.
In the inclosed court of the old fortress pueblos the first terrace was reached only by means of ladders, but the
terraces or rooms above this were reached both by ladders and steps. The removal of the lower tier of ladders
thus gave security against intrusion and attack. The builders of Tusayan have preserved this primitive
arrangement in much greater purity than those of Cibola.
In ZuÃ±i numerous ladders are seen on every terrace, but the purpose of these, on the highest terraces, is not
to provide access to the rooms of the upper story, which always have external doors opening on the terraces,
but to facilitate repairs of the roofs. At Tusayan, on the 157 other hand, ladders are of rare occurrence above
the first terrace, their place being supplied by flights of stone steps. The relative scarcity of stone at ZuÃ±i,
suitable for building material, and its great abundance at Tusayan, undoubtedly account for this difference of
usage, especially as the proximity of the timber supply of the ZuÃ±i mountains to the former facilitates the
substitution of wood for steps of masonry.
The earliest form of ladder among the pueblos was probably a notched log, a form still occasionally used.
Figures 45 and 46 illustrate examples of this type of ladder from Tusayan.
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Fig. 45. A modern notched ladder in Oraibi. Fig. 46. Tusayan notched ladders
from Mashongnavi.
158 A notched ladder from Oraibi, made with a modern axe, is shown. This specimen has a squareness of
outline and an evenness of surface not observed in the ancient examples. The ladder from Mashongnavi,
illustrated on the left of Fig. 46, closely resembles the Oraibi specimen, though the workmanship is somewhat
ruder. The example illustrated on the right of the same figure is from Oraibi. This ladder is very old, and its
present rough and weatherbeaten surface affords but little evidence of the character of the implement used in
making it.
The ladder having two poles connected by cross rungs is undoubtedly a native invention, and was probably
developed through a series of improvements on the primitive notched type. It is described in detail in the
earliest Spanish accounts. Fig. 47 illustrates on the left the notched ladder, and on the right a typical two-pole
ladder in its most primitive form. In this case the rungs are simply lashed to the uprights. The center ladder of
the diagram is a Mandan device illustrated by Mr. Lewis H. Morgan.6 As used by the Mandans this ladder is
placed with its forked end on the ground, the reverse of the Pueblo practice. It will readily be seen, on
comparing these examples, that an elongation of the fork which occurs as a constant accompaniment of the
notched ladder might eventually suggest a construction similar to that of the Mandan ladder reversed. The
function of the fork on the notched ladder in steadying it when placed against the wall would be more
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Fig. 47. Aboriginal American forms of ladder.

159 At one stage in the development of the form of ladder in common use to-day the rungs were laid in
depressions or notches of the vertical poles, resembling the larger notches of the single ladder, and then lashed
on with thongs of rawhide or with other materials. Later, when the use of iron became known, holes were
burned through the side poles. This is the nearly universal practice to-day, though some of the more skillful
pueblo carpenters manage to chisel out rectangular holes. The piercing of the side poles, particularly prevalent
in Zuni, has brought about a curious departure from the ancient practice of removing the ladder in times of
threatened danger. Long rungs are loosely slipped into the holes in the side pieces, and the security formerly
gained by taking up the entire ladder is now obtained, partially at least, by the removal of the rungs. The
boring of the side pieces and the employment of loose rungs seriously interferes with the stability of the
structure, as means must be provided to prevent the spreading apart of the side pieces. The Zuni architect has
met this difficulty by prolonging the poles of the ladder and attaching a cross piece near their upper ends to
hold them together. As a rule this cross piece is provided with a hole near each end into which the tapering
extremities of the poles are inserted. From their high position near the extremities of the ladders, seen in
silhouette against the sky, they form peculiarly striking features of Zuni. They are frequently decorated with
rude carvings of terraced notches. Examples of this device may be seen in the views of Zuni, and several
typical specimens are illustrated in detail in Pl. XCVIII. The use of cross pieces on ladders emerging from
roof openings is not so common as on external ones, as there is not the same necessity for holding together the
poles, the sides of the opening performing that office.
There are two places in Zuni, portions of the densest house cluster, where the needs of unusual traffic have
been met by the employment of double ladders, made of three vertical poles, which accommodate two tiers of
rungs. The sticks forming the rungs are inserted in continuous lengths through all three poles, and the cross
pieces at the top are also continuous, being formed of a single flat piece of wood perforated by three holes for
the reception of the tips of the poles. In additional to the usual cross pieces pierced for the reception of the
side poles and rudely carved into ornamental forms, many temporary cross pieces are added during the harvest
season in the early autumn to support the strips of meat and melons, strings of red peppers, and other articles
dried in the open air prior to storage for winter use. At this season every device that will serve this purpose is
employed. Occasionally poles are seen extending across the reentering angles of a house or are supported on
the coping and rafters. The projecting roof beams also are similarly utilized at this season.
Zuni ladders are usually provided with about eight rungs, but a few have as many as twelve. The women
ascend these ladders carrying ollas of water on their heads, children play upon them, and a few of the 160
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described in a previous section all houses built during the year are consecrated at a certain season, and among
other details of the ceremonial, certain rites, intended to prevent accidents to children, etc., are performed at
the foot of the ladders.
In Tusayan, where stone is abundant, the ladder has not reached the elaborate development seen in ZuÃ±i.
The perforated cross piece is rarely seen, as there is little necessity for its adoption. The side poles are held
together by the top and bottom rungs, which pass entirely through the side pieces and are securely fixed, while
the ends of the others are only partly embedded in the side pieces. In other cases (Pl. XXXII) the poles are
rigidly held in place by ropes or rawhide lashings.
Short ladders whose side poles are but little prolonged beyond the top rung are of common occurrence,
particularly in Oraibi. Three such ladders are shown in Pl. LXXXIV. A similar example may be seen in Pl.
CVII, in connection with a large opening closed with rough masonry. In these cases the rungs are made to
occupy slight notches or depressions in the upright poles and are then firmly lashed with rawhide, forming a
fairly rigid structure. This type of ladder is probably a survival of the earliest form of the pueblo ladder.
Plate XCVIII. Cross-pieces on ZuÃ±i ladders.

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In addition to the high cross piece whose function is to retain in place the vertical poles, the kiva ladders are
usually provided, both in ZuÃ±i and Tusayan, with a cross piece consisting of a round stick tied to the
uprights and placed at a uniform height above the kiva roof. This stick affords a handhold for the marked
dancers who are often encumbered with ceremonial paraphernalia as they enter the kiva. In the case of the
Oraibi kiva occupying the foreground of Pl. XXXVIII, it may be seen that this handhold cross piece is
inserted into holes in the side poles, an exception to the general practice. In Pl. LXXXVII, illustrating kivas,
the position of this feature will be seen.
Plate XCIX. Outside steps at Pescado.
The exceptional mode of access to Tusayan kiva hatchways by means of short nights of stone steps has
already been noticed. In several instances the top steps of these short flights cover the thickness of the wall.
The remains of a similar stairway were observed in Pueblo Bonito, where it evidently reached directly from
the ground to an external doorway. Access by such means, however, is a departure from the original defensive
idea.
Fig. 48. Stone steps at Oraibi, with platform at corner.

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Modern practice in ZuÃ±i has departed more widely from the primitive system than at Tusayan. In the former
pueblo short nights of stone steps giving access to doors raised but a short distance above the ground are very
commonly seen. Even in the small farming pueblo of Pescado two examples of this arrangement are met with.
Pl. XCIX illustrates one of these found on the north outside wall. In the general views of the Tusayan villages
the closer adherence to primitive methods is 161 clearly indicated, although the modern compare very
unfavorably with the ancient examples in precision of execution. Pl. XXXII illustrates two flights of stone
steps of Shupaulovi. In many cases the workmanship of these stone steps does not surpass that seen in the
Walpi trail, illustrated in Pl. XXV.
Fig. 49. Stone steps, with platform at chimney, in Oraibi.
Fig. 50. Stone steps in Shumopavi.

162 Perhaps in no one detail of pueblo construction are the careless and shiftless modern methods so
conspicuous as in the stone steps of the upper terraces of Tusayan. Here are seen many awkward makeshifts
by means of which the builders have tried to compensate for their lack of foresight in planning. The absence
of a definite plan for a house cluster of many rooms, already noted in the discussion of dwelling-house
construction, is rendered conspicuous by the manner in which the stone stairways are used. Figs. 48 and 49

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illustrate stone steps on upper terraces in Oraibi. In both cases the steps have been added long after the rooms
against which they abut were built. In order to conform to the fixed requirement of placing such means of
access at the corners of the upper rooms, the builders constructed a clumsy platform to afford passage around
the previously built chimney. Fig. 50 shows the result of a similar lack of foresight. The upper portion of the
flight, consisting of three steps, has been abruptly turned at right angles to the main flight, and is supported
upon rude poles and beams. The restriction of this feature to the corners of upper rooms where they were most
likely to conflict with chimneys is undoubtedly a survival of ancient practice, and due to the necessary vertical
alignment of walls and masonry in this primitive construction.
COOKING PITS AND OVENS.
Most of the cooking of the ancient Pueblos was probably done out of doors, as among the ruins vestiges of
cooking pits, almost identical in 163 character with those still found in Tusayan, are frequently seen. In
Cibola the large dome-shaped ovens, common to the Pueblos of the Rio Grande and to their Mexican
neighbors are in general use. In Tusayan a few examples of this form of oven occur upon the roofs of the
terraces, while the cooking pit in a variety of forms is still extensively used.
Fig. 51. A series of

cooking pits in Mashongnavi.
The distribution of the dome-shaped ovens in Cibola and in Tusayan may be seen on the ground plans in
Chapters III and IV. The simplest form of cooking pit, still commonly used in Tusayan, consists of a
depression in the ground, lined with a coating of mud. The pit is usually of small size and is commonly placed
at some little distance from the house; in a few cases it is located in a sheltered corner of the building. Fig. 51
illustrates a series of three such primitive ovens built against a house wall, in a low bench or ledge of masonry
raised 6 inches above the ground; the holes measure about a foot across and are about 18 or 20 inches deep.
Many similar pits occur in the Tusayan villages; some of them are walled in with upright stone slabs, whose
rough edges project 6 or 8 inches above the ground, the result closely resembling the ancient form of in-door
fireplace, such as that seen in a room of Kin-tiel. (Pl. C.)
Plate C. An excavated room at Kin-tiel.
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In its perfected form the cooking pit in Tusayan takes the place of the more elaborate oven used in ZuÃ±i.
Figs. 52 and 53 show two specimens of pits used for the preparation of pi-gummi, a kind of baked mush.
Fig. 52. Pi-gummi ovens of Mashongnavi.
Fig. 53. Cross sections of

pi-gummi ovens of Mashongnavi.
164 These occur on the east side of Mashongnavi. They project 6 or 8 inches above the ground, and have a
depth of from 18 to 24 inches. The dÃ©bris scattered about the pits indicates the manner in which they are
covered with slabs of stone and sealed with mud when in use. In all the oven, devices of the pueblos the
interior is first thoroughly heated by a long continued fire within, the structure. When the temperature is
sufficiently high the ashes and dirt are cleaned out, the articles to be cooked inserted, and the orifices sealed.
The food is often left in these heated receptacles for 12 hours or more, and on removal it is generally found to
be very nicely cooked. Each of the pi-gummi ovens illustrated above is provided with a tube-like orifice 3 or 4
inches in diameter, descending obliquely from the ground level into the cavity. Through this opening the fire
is arranged and kept in order, and in this respect it seems to be the counterpart of the smaller hole of the
ZuÃ±i dome-shaped ovens. When the principal opening, by which the vessel containing the pi-gummi or
other articles is introduced, has been covered with a slab of stone and sealed with mud, the effect is similar to
that of the dome-shaped oven when the ground-opening or doorway is hermetically closed.

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Fig. 54. Diagram showing

foundation stones
of a ZuÃ±i oven.
No example of the dome-shaped oven of pre-Columbian origin has been found among the pueblo ruins,
although its prototype probably existed in ancient times, possibly in the form of a kiln for baking a fine
quality of pottery formerly manufactured. However, the cooking pit alone, developed to the point of the
pi-gummi oven of Tusayan, may have been the stem upon which the foreign idea was engrafted. Instances of
the complete adoption by these conservative people of a wholly foreign idea or feature of construction are not
likely to be found, as improvements are almost universally confined to the mere modification of existing
devices. In the few instances in which more radical changes are attempted the resulting forms bear evidence of
the fact.
In Cibola the construction of a dome-shaped oven is begun by laying out roughly a circle of flat stones as a
foundation. Upon these the 165 upper structure is rudely built of stones laid in the mud and approximately in
the courses, though often during construction one side will be carried considerably higher than another. The
walls curve inward to an apparently unsafe degree, but the mud mortar is often allowed to partly dry before
carrying the overhanging portion so far as to endanger the structure, and accidents rarely happen. The oven
illustrated in Pl. XCVII shows near its broken doorway the arrangement of foundation stones referred to.
Typical examples of the dome oven occur in the foreground of the general view of ZuÃ±i shown in Pl.
LXXVIII.
Fig. 55. Dome-shaped oven on a plinth of masonry.

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The dome ovens of Cibola are generally smoothly plastered, inside and out, but a few examples are seen in
which the stones of the masonry are exposed. In. Pl. XCIX may be seen two ovens differing in size, one of
which shows the manner in which the opening is blocked up with stone to keep out stray dogs during periods
of disuse. Fig. 55 illustrates a mud-plastered oven at Pescado, which is elevated about a foot above the ground
on a base or plinth of masonry. The opening of this oven is on the side toward the houses. This form is quite
exceptional in Cibola, though of frequent occurrence among the Rio Grande pueblos. A very large and
carefully finished example was examined at Jemez.
Fig. 56. Oven in Pescado exposing stones of masonry.
166
Figs. 56 and 57 illustrate two specimens of rough masonry ovens seen at Pescado. In one of these a decided
horizontal arrangement of the stones in the masonry prevails. The specimen at the right is small and rudely
constructed, showing but little care in the use of the building material. The few specimens of dome ovens seen
in Tusayan are characterized by the same rudeness of construction noticed in their house masonry. The rarity
of this oven at Tusayan, where so many of the constructions have retained a degree of primitiveness not seen
elsewhere, is perhaps an additional evidence of its foreign origin.

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Fig. 57. Oven in Pescado exposing stones of masonry.
167
OVEN-SHAPED STRUCTURES.
In Tusayan, there are other structures, of rude dome-shape, likely to be mistaken for some form of cooking
device. Fig. 58 illustrates two specimens of shrines that occur in courts of Mashongnavi. These are receptacles
for plume sticks (bahos) and other votive offerings used at certain festivals, which, after being so used, are
sealed up with stone slabs and adobe. These shrines occur at several of the villages, as noted in the discussion
of the plans in Chapter III. In the foreground of Pl. XXXVIII may be seen an Oraibi specimen somewhat
resembling those seen at Mashongnavi.
Fig. 58. Shrines in Mashongnavi. Fig. 59. A poultry house in Sichumovi resembling an oven.
Fig. 59 illustrates a very rude structure of stones in Sichumovi, resembling in form a dome oven, which is
used as a poultry house. Several of these are seen in the Tusayan villages.
FIREPLACES AND CHIMNEYS.
The original fireplace of the ancient pueblo builders was probably the simple cooking pit transferred to a
position within the dwelling room, and employed for the lighter cooking of the family as well as for warming
168 the dwelling. It was placed in the center of the floor in order that the occupants of the house might
conveniently gather around it. One of the first improvements made in this shallow indoor cooking pit must
have consisted in surrounding it with a wall of sufficient height to protect the fire against drafts, as seen in the
outdoor pits of Tusayan. In excavating a room in the ancient pueblo of Kin-tiel, a completely preserved
fireplace, about a foot deep, and walled in with thin slabs of stone set on edge, was brought to light. The
depression had been hollowed out of the solid rock.
This fireplace, together with the room in which it was found, is illustrated in Pl. C and Fig. 60. It is of
rectangular form, but other examples have been found which are circular. Mr. W. H. Jackson describes a
fireplace in a cliff dwelling in â——Echo Caveâ—— that consisted of a circular, basin-like depression 30
inches across and 10 inches deep. Rooms furnishing evidence that fires were made in the corners against the
walls are found in many cliff dwellings; the smoke escaped overhead, and the blackened walls afford no trace
of a chimney or flue of any kind.
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Fig. 60. Ground plan of an excavated room in Kin-tiel.
The pueblo chimney is undoubtedly a post-Spanish feature, and the best forms in use at the present time are
probably of very recent origin, though they are still associated with fireplaces that have departed little from
the aboriginal form seen at Kin-tiel and elsewhere. It is interesting to note, in this connection, that the
ceremony consecrating the house is performed in Tusayan before the chimney is added, suggesting that the
latter feature did not form a part of the aboriginal dwelling.
169 In Cibola a few distinct forms of chimney are used at the present time, but in the more remote Tusayan
the chimney seems to be still in the experimental stage. Numbers of awkward constructions, varying from the
ordinary cooking pit to the more elaborate hooded structures, testify to the chaotic condition of the
chimney-building art in the latter province.
Before the invention of a chimney hood, and while the primitive fireplace occupied a central position in the
floor of the room, the smoke probably escaped through the door and window openings. Later a hole in the
roof provided an exit, as in the kivas of to-day, where ceremonial use has perpetuated an arrangement long
since superseded in dwelling-house construction. The comfort of a dwelling room provided with this feature is
sufficiently attested by the popularity of the modern kivas as a resort for the men. The idea of a rude hood or
flue to facilitate the egress of the smoke would not be suggested until the fireplace was transferred from the
center of a room to a corner, and in the first adoption of this device the builders would rely upon the adjacent
walls for the needed support of the constructional members. Practically all of the chimneys of Tusayan are
placed in corners at the present time, though the ZuÃ±i builders have developed sufficient skill to construct a
rigid hood and flue in the center of a side wall, as may be seen in the view of a ZuÃ±i interior, Pl. LXXXVI.
Although the pueblo chimney owes its existence to foreign suggestion it has evidently reached its present
form through a series of timid experiments, and the proper principles of its construction seem to have been but
feebly apprehended by the native builders, particularly in Tusayan. The early form of hood, shown in Fig. 66,
was made by placing a short supporting pole across the corner of a room at a sufficient distance from the floor
and upon it arranging sticks to form the frame work of a contracting hood or flue. The whole construction was
finally covered with a thick coating of mud. This primitive wooden construction has probably been in use for
a long time, although it was modified in special cases so as to extend across the entire width of narrow rooms
to accommodate â——pikiâ—— stones or other cumbersome cooking devices. It embodies the principle of
roof construction that must have been employed in the primitive house from which the pueblo was developed,
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and practically constitutes a miniature conical roof suspended over the fireplace and depending upon the walls
of the room for support. On account of the careful and economical use of fuel by these people the light and
inflammable material of which the chimney is constructed does not involve the danger of combustion that
would be expected. The perfect feasibility of such use of wood is well illustrated in some of the old log-cabin
chimneys in the Southern States, where, however, the arrangement of the pieces is horizontal, not vertical.
These latter curiously exemplify also the use of a miniature section of house construction to form a conduit for
the smoke, placed at a sufficient height to admit of access to the fire.
Fig. 61. A corner chimney hood

with two supporting poles
(Tusayan).
170 A further improvement in the chimney was the construction of a corner hood support by means of two
short poles instead of a single piece, thus forming a rectangular smoke hood of enlarged capacity. This latter is
the most common form in use at the present time in both provinces, but its arrangement in Tusayan, where it
represents the highest achievement of the natives in chimney construction, is much more varied than in
Cibola. In the latter province the same form is occasionally executed in stone. Fig. 61 illustrates a corner
hood, in which the crossed ends of the supporting poles are exposed to view. The outer end of the lower pole
is supported from the roof beams by a cord or rope, the latter being embedded in the mud plastering with
which the hood is finished. The vertically ridged character of the surface reveals the underlying construction,
in which light sticks have been used as a base for the plaster. The Tusayans say that large sunflower stalks are
preferred for this purpose on account of their lightness. Figs. 63 and 64 show another Tusayan hood of the
type described, and in Fig. 69 a large hood of the same general form, suspended over a piki-stone, is
noticeable for the frank treatment of the suspending cords, which are clearly exposed to view for nearly their
entire length.

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Fig. 62. A curved chimney

hood of Mashongnavi.
In a chimney in a Mashongnavi house, illustrated in Fig. 62, a simple, sharply curved piece of wood has been
used for the lower rim of this hood, thus obtaining all the capacity of the two-poled form. The vertical sticks
in this example are barely discernible through the plastering, which has been applied with more than the usual
degree of care.
171 A curious example illustrating a rudimentary form of two-poled hood is shown in Fig. 63. A straight pole
of unusual length is built into the walls across the corner of a room, and its insertion into the wall is much
farther from the corner on one side than the other. From the longer stretch of inclosed wall protrudes a short
pole that joins the principal one and serves as a support for one side of the chimney-hood. In this case the
builder appears to have been too timid to venture on the bolder construction required in the perfected
two-poled hood. This example probably represents a stage in the development of the higher form.

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Fig. 63. A Mashongnavi chimney hood
and walled up fireplace.
In some instances the rectangular corner hood is not suspended from the ceiling, but is supported from
beneath by a stone slab or a piece of wood. Such a chimney hood seen in a house of Shupaulovi measures
nearly 4 by 5 feet. The short side is supported by two stone slabs built into the wall and extending from the
hood to the floor. Upon the upper stone rests one end of the wooden lintel supporting the long side, while the
other end, near the corner of the room, is held in position by a light crotch of wood. Fig. 64 illustrates this
hood; the plan indicating the relation of the stones and the forked stick to the corner of the room. Fig. 71,
illustrating a terrace fireplace and chimney of Shumopavi, shows the employment of similar supports.
Fig. 64. A chimney hood

of Shupaulovi.
Corner chimney hoods in ZuÃ±i do not differ essentially from the more symmetrical of the Tusayan
specimens, but they are distinguished by 172 better finish, and by less exposure of the framework, having
been, like the ordinary masonry, subjected to an unusually free application of adobe.
The builders of Tusayan appear to have been afraid to add the necessary weight of mud mortar to produce this
finished effect, the hoods usually showing a vertically ridged or crenated surface, caused by the sticks of the
framework showing through the thin mud coat. Stone also is often employed in their construction, and its use
has developed a large, square-headed type of chimney unknown at Tusayan. This is illustrated in Fig. 65. This
form of hood, projecting some distance beyond its flue, affords space that may be used as a mantel-shelf, an
advantage gained only to a very small degree by the forms discussed above. This chimney, as before stated, is
built against one of the walls of a room, and near the middle.
Fig. 65. A semi-detached

square chimney hood
of ZuÃ±i.

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Fig. 66. Unplastered

ZuÃ±i
chimney hoods,
illustrating construction.
All the joints of these hoods, and even the material used, are generally concealed from view by a carefully
applied coating of plaster, supplemented by a gypsum wash, and usually there is no visible evidence of the
manner in which they are built, but the construction is little superior to that of the simple corner hoods. The
method of framing the various types of hoods is illustrated in Fig. 66. The example on the left shows an
unplastered wooden hood skeleton. The arrangement of the parts in projecting rectangular stone hoods is
illustrated in the right-hand diagram of the figure. In constructing such a chimney a thin buttress is first built
against the wall of sufficient width and 173 height to support one side of the hood. The opposite side of the
hood is supported by a flat stone, firmly set on edge into the masonry of the wall. The front of the hood is
supported by a second flat stone which rests at one end on a rude shoulder in the projecting slab, and at the
other end upon the front edge of the buttress. It would be quite practicable for the pueblo builders to form a
notch in the lower corner of the supported stone to rest firmly upon a projection of the supporting stone, but in
the few cases in which the construction could be observed no such treatment was seen, for they depended
mainly on the interlocking of the ragged ends of the stones. This structure serves to support the body of the
flue, usually with an intervening stone-covered space forming a shelf. At the present period the flue is usually
built of thin sandstone slabs, rudely adjusted to afford mutual support. The whole structure is bound together
and smoothed over with mud plastering, and is finally finished with the gypsum wash, applied also to the rest
of the room. Mr. A. F. Bandelier describes â——a regular chimney, with mantel and shelf, built of stone
slabs,â—— which he found â——in the caves of the Rito de los Frijoles, as well as in the cliff dwellings of
the regular detached family house type,â——7 which, from the description, must have closely resembled the
ZuÃ±i chimney described above. Houses containing such devices may be quite old, but if so they were
certainly reoccupied in post-Spanish times. Such dwellings are likely to have been used as places of refuge in
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Fig. 67. A fireplace and mantel in Sichumovi.

Among the many forms of chimneys and fireplaces seen in Tusayan a curious approach to our own
arrangement of fireplace and mantel was noticed in a house in Sichumovi. In addition to the principal mantel
ledge, a light wooden shelf was arranged against the wall on one side of the flue, one of its ends being
supported by an upright piece of wood with a cap, and the other resting on a peg driven into the wall. This
fireplace and mantel is illustrated in Fig. 67.
Aside from the peculiar â——guyaveâ—— or â——pikiâ—— baking oven, there is but little variation in the
form of indoor fireplaces in Cibola, while in Tusayan it appears to have been subjected to about the same
mutations 174 already noted in the outdoor cooking pits. A serious problem was encountered by the Tusayan
builder when he was called upon to construct cooking-pit fireplaces, a foot or more deep, in a loom of an
upper terrace. As it was impracticable to sink the pit into the floor, the necessary depth was obtained by
walling up the sides, as is shown in Fig. 68, which illustrates a second-story fireplace in Mashongnavi. Other
examples may be seen in the outdoor chimneys shown in Figs. 72 and 73.
Fig. 68. A second-story

fireplace in Mashongnavi.
175 A modification of the interior fireplace designed for cooking the thin, paper-like bread, known to the
Spanish-speaking peoples of this region as â——guyave,â—— and by the Tusayan as â——piki,â—— is
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constructed than in the latter, and the surface of the baking stone itself is more highly finished. In the guyave
oven a tablet of carefully prepared sandstone is supported in a horizontal position by two slabs set on edge and
firmly imbedded in the floor. A horizontal flue is thus formed in which the fire is built. The upper stone,
whose surface is to receive the thin guyave batter, undergoes during its original preparation a certain treatment
with fire and piÃ±on gum, and perhaps other ingredients, which imparts to it a highly polished black finish.
This operation is usually performed away from the pueblo, near a point where suitable stone is found, and is
accompanied by a ceremonial, which is intended to prevent the stone from breaking on exposure to the fire
when first used. During one stage of these rites the strictest silence is enjoined, as, according to the native
account, a single word spoken at such a time would crack the tablet.
Fig. 69. Piki stone and

chimney hood in Sichumovi.
When the long guyave stone is in position upon the edges of the back and front stones the fire must be so
applied as to maintain the stone at a uniform temperature. This is done by frequent feeding with small bits of
sage brush or other fuel. The necessity for such economy in the use of fuel has to a certain extent affected the
forms of all the heating and cooking devices. Fig. 69 illustrates a Sichumovi piki stone, and Fig. 70 shows the
use of the oven in connection with a cooking fireplace, a combination that is not uncommon. The latter
example 176 is from Shumopavi. The illustration shows an interesting feature in the use of a primitive
andiron or boss to support the cooking pot in position above the fire. This boss is modeled from the same clay
as the fireplace floor and is attached to it and forms a part of it. Mr. Stephen has collected free specimens of
these primitive props which had never been attached to the floor. These were of the rudely conical form
illustrated in the figure, and were made of a coarsely mixed clay thoroughly baked to a stony hardness.

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Fig. 70. Piki stone and primitive andiron in Shumopavi.
Fig. 71. A terrace fireplace

and chimney of Shumopavi.
Chimneys and fireplaces are often found in Tusayan in the small, recessed, balcony-like rooms of the second
terrace. When a deep cooking-pit is required in such a position, it is obtained by building up the sides, as in
the indoor fireplaces of upper rooms. Such a fireplace is illustrated in Fig. 71. A roofed recess which usually
occurs at one end of the first terrace, called â——tupubi,â—— takes its name from the flat piki oven, the
variety of fireplace generally built in these alcoves. The transfer of the fireplace from the second-story room
to the corner of such a roofed-terrace alcove was easily accomplished, and probably led to the occasional use
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cooking-pit on an upper 177 terrace of Walpi. In this instance the cooking pit is very massively built, and in
the absence of a sheltering â——tupubiâ—— corner is effectually protected on three sides by mud-plastered
stone work, the whole being capped with the usual chimneypot. The contrivance is placed conveniently near
the roof hatchway of a dwelling room.
Fig. 72. A terrace cooking-pit and chimney of Walpi.
The outdoor use of the above-described fireplaces on upper terraces has apparently suggested the
improvement of the ground cooking pit 178 in a similar manner. Several specimens were seen in which the
cooking pit of the ordinary depressed type, excavated near an inner corner of a house wall, was provided with
sheltering masonry and a chimney cap; but such an arrangement is by no means of frequent occurrence. Fig.
73 illustrates an example that was seen on the east side of Shumopavi. It will be noticed that in the use of this
arrangement on the ground—an arrangement that evidently originated on the terraces—the
builders have reverted to the earlier form of excavated pit. In other respects the example illustrated is not
distinguishable from the terrace forms above described.
Fig. 73. A ground cooking-pit

of Shumopavi covered
with a chimney.
In the discussion of the details of kiva arrangement in Tusayan (p. 121) it was shown that the chimney is not
used in any form in these ceremonial chambers; but the simple roof-opening forming the hatchway serves as a
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also finds vent through the opening that gives access to the chamber, but in the framing of the roof, as is
shown elsewhere, some distinction between door and chimney is observed. The roof-hole is made double, one
portion accommodating the ingress ladder and the other intended to serve for the egress of the smoke.
The external chimney of the pueblos is a simple structure, and exhibits but few variations from the type. The
original form was undoubtedly a mere hole in the roof; its use is perpetuated in the kivas. This primitive form
was gradually improved by raising its sides above the roof, forming a rudimentary shaft. The earlier forms are
likely to have been rectangular, the round following and developing later short masonry shafts which were
finally given height by the addition of chimney pots. In ZuÃ±i the chimney has occasionally developed into a
rather tall shaft, projecting sometimes to a height of 4 or 5 feet above the roof. This is particularly noticeable
on the lower terraces of ZuÃ±i, the chimneys of 179 the higher rooms being more frequently of the short
types prevalent in the farming pueblos of Cibola and in Tusayan. The tall chimneys found in ZuÃ±i proper,
and consisting often of four or five chimney pots on a substructure of masonry, are undoubtedly due to the
same conditions that have so much influenced other constructional details; that is, the exceptional height of
the clusters and crowding of the rooms. As a result of this the chimney is a more conspicuous feature in
ZuÃ±i than elsewhere, as will be shown by a comparison of the views of the villages given in Chapters III and
IV.
Fig. 74. Tusayan chimneys.

In Tusayan many of the chimneys are quite low, a single pot surmounting a masonry substructure not more
than 6 inches high being quite common. As a rule, however, the builders preferred to use a series of pots. Two
typical Tusayan chimneys are illustrated in Fig. 74. Most of the substructures for chimneys in this province
are rudely rectangular in form, and clearly expose the rough stonework of the masonry, while in ZuÃ±i the
use of adobe generally obliterates all traces of construction. In both provinces chimneys are seen without the
chimney pot. These usually occur in clusters, simply because the builder of a room or group of rooms
preferred that form of chimney. Pl. CI illustrates a portion of the upper terraces of ZuÃ±i where a number of
masonry chimneys are grouped together. Those on the highest roof are principally of the rectangular form,
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rising several inches above the roof surface and formed of slabs set on edge or of ordinary masonry. These
upper chimneys are often closed or covered with thin slabs of sandstone laid over them in the same manner as
the roof holes that they resemble. The fireplaces to which some of them belong appear to be used for heating
the rooms rather than for cooking, as they are often disused for long periods during the summer season.
Plate CI. Masonry chimneys of ZuÃ±i.
180 Pl. CI also illustrates chimneys in which pots have been used in connection with masonry bases, and also
a round masonry chimney. The latter is immediately behind the single pot chimney seen in the foreground. On
the extreme left of the figure is shown a chimney into which fire pots have been incorporated, the lower ones
being almost concealed from view by the coating of adobe. A similar effect may be seen in the small chimney
on the highest roof shown in Pl. LVIII. Pl. LXXXII shows various methods of using the chimney pots. In one
case the chimney is capped with a reversed large-mouthed jar, the broken bottom serving as an outlet for the
smoke. The vessel usually employed for this purpose is an ordinary black cooking pot, the bottom being
burned out, or otherwise rendered unfit for household use. Other vessels are occasionally used. Pl. LXXXIII
shows the use, as the crowning member of the chimney, of an ordinary water jar, with dark decorations on a
white ground. A vessel very badly broken is often made to serve in chimney building by skillful use of mud
and mortar. To facilitate smoke exit the upper pot is made to overlap the neck of the one below by breaking
out the bottom sufficiently. The joining is not often visible, as it is usually coated with adobe. The lower pots
of a series are in many cases entirely embedded in the adobe.
The pueblo builder has never been able to construct a detached chimney a full story in height, either with or
without the aid of chimney pots; where it is necessary to build such shafts to obtain the proper draft he is
compelled to rely on the support of adjoining walls, and usually seeks a corner. Pl. CI shows a chimney of this
kind that has been built of masonry to the full height of a story. A similar example is shown in the foreground
of Pl. LXXVIII. In Pl. XXII may be seen a chimney of the full height of the adjoining story, but in this
instance it is constructed wholly of pots. Pl. LXXXV illustrates a similar case indoors.
The external chimney probably developed gradually from the simple roof opening, as previously noted. The
raised combing about trapdoors or roof holes afforded the first suggestion in this direction. From this
developed the square chimney, and finally the tall round shaft, crowned with a series of pots. The whole

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chimney, both internal and external, excluding only the primitive fireplace, is probably of comparatively
recent origin, and based on the foreign (Spanish) suggestion.
GATEWAYS AND COVERED PASSAGES.
Gateways, arranged for defense, occur in many of the more compactly-built ancient pueblos. Some of the
passageways in the modern villages of Tusayan and Cibola resemble these older examples, but most of the
narrow passages, giving access to the inner courts of the inhabited villages, are not the result of the defensive
idea, but are formed by the crowding together of the dwellings. They occur, as a rule, within the pueblo and
not upon its periphery. Many of the terraces now face outward and are reached from the outside of the pueblo,
being in marked contrast to the early arrangement, in which narrow passages to inclose 181 courts were
exclusively used for access. In the ground plans of several villages occupied within historic times, but now
ruined, vestiges of openings arranged on the original defensive plan may be traced. About midway on the
northeast side of Awatubi fragments of a standing wall were seen, apparently the two sides of a passageway to
the inclosed court of the pueblo. The masonry is much broken down, however, and no indication is afforded
of the treatment adopted, nor do the remains indicate whether this entrance was originally covered or not. It is
illustrated in Pl. CII.
Plate CII. Remains of a gateway in Awatubi.
Other examples of this feature may be seen in the ground plans of Tebugkihu, Chukubi, and Payupki (Fig. 7,
and Pls. XII and XIII).
In the first of these the deep jambs of the opening are clearly defined, but in the other two only low mounds of
dÃ©bris suggest the gateway. In the ancient Cibolan pueblos, including those on the mesa of TÃ¢aaiyalana,
no remains of external gateways have been found; the plans suggest that the disposition of the various clusters
approximated somewhat the irregular arrangement of the present day. There are only occasional traces, as of a
continuous defensive outer wall, such as those seen at Nutria and Pescado. In the pueblos of the Cibola group,
ancient and modern, access to the inner portion of the pueblo was usually afforded at a number of points. In
the pueblo of Kin-tiel, however, occurs an excellent example of the defensive gateway. The jambs and corners
of the opening are finished with great neatness, as may be seen in the illustration (Pl. CIII). This gateway or
passage was roofed over, and the rectangular depressions for the reception of cross-beams still contain short
stumps, protected from destruction by the masonry. The masonry over the passageway in falling carried away
part of the masonry above the jamb corner, thus indicating continuity of bond. The ground plan of this ruin
(Pl. LXIII) indicates clearly the various points at which access to the inner courts was obtained. On the east
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side a noticeable feature is the overlapping of the boundary wall of the south wing, forming an indirect
entranceway. The remains do not indicate that this passage, like the one just described, was roofed over. In
some cases the modern passageways, as they follow the jogs and angles of adjoining rows of houses, display
similar changes of direction. In Shupaulovi, which preserves most distinctly in its plan the idea of the inclosed
court, the passageway at the south end of the village changes its direction at a right angle before emerging into
the court (Pl. XXX). This arrangement was undoubtedly determined by the position of the terraces long before
the passageway was roofed over and built upon. Pl. XXII shows the south passageway of Walpi; the entrances
are made narrower than the rest of the passage by building buttresses of masonry at the sides. This was
probably done to secure the necessary support for the north and south walls of the upper story. One of the
walls, as maybe seen in the illustration, rests directly upon a cross beam, strengthened in this manner.
Plate CIII. Ancient gateway, Kin-tiel.
182 One of the smaller inclosed courts of ZuÃ±i, illustrated in Pl. LXXXII, is reached by means of two
covered passages, bearing some general resemblance to the ancient defensive entrances, but these houses,
reached from within the court, have also terraces without. The low passage shown in the figure has gradually
been surmounted by rooms, reaching in some cases a height of three terraces above the openings; but the
accumulated weight finally proved too much for the beams and sustaining walls—probably never
intended by the builders to withstand the severe test afterwards put upon them—and following an
unusually protracted period of wet weather, the entire section of rooms above fell to the ground. This occurred
since the surveying and photographing. It is rather remarkable that the frail adobe walls withstood so long the
unusual strain, or even that they sustained the addition of a top story at all.
In the preceding examples the passageway was covered throughout its length by rooms, but cases occur in
both Tusayan and Cibola in which only portions of the roof form the floor of superstructures. Pl. CIV shows a
passage roofed over beyond the two-story portion of the building for a sufficient distance to form a small
terrace, upon which a ladder stands. Pl. XXIII illustrates a similar arrangement on the west side of Walpi. The
outer edges of these terraces are covered with coping stones and treated in the same manner as outer walls of
lower rooms. In ZuÃ±i an example of this form of passage roof occurs between two of the eastern house
rows, where the rooms have not been subjected to the close crowding characteristic of the western clusters of
the pueblo.
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Plate CIV. A covered passageway in Mashongnavi.
DOORS.
In ZuÃ±i many rooms of the ground story, which in early times must have been used largely for storage, have
been converted into well-lighted, habitable apartments by the addition of external doors. In Tusayan this
modification has not taken place to an equal extent, the distinctly defensive character of the first terrace
reached by removable ladders being still preserved. In this province a doorway on the ground is always
provided in building a house, but originally this space was not designed to be permanent; it was left merely
for convenience of passing in and out during the construction, and was built up before the walls were
completed. Of late years, however, such doorways are often preserved, and additional small openings are
constructed for windows.
In ancient times the larger doorways of the upper terraces were probably never closed, except by means of
blankets or rabbit-skin robes hung over them in cold weather. Examples have been seen that seem to have
been constructed with this object in view, for a slight pole, of the same kind as those used in the lintels, is
built into the masonry of the jambs a few inches below the lintel proper. Openings imperfectly closed against
the cold and wind were naturally placed in the lee walls to avoid the prevailing southwest winds, and the
ground plans of the exposed mesa villages were undoubtedly influenced by this circumstance, 183 the
tendency being to change them from the early inclosed court type and to place the houses in longitudinal rows
facing eastward. This is noticeable in the plans given in Chapter II.
Doorways closed with masonry are seen in many ruins. Possibly these are an indication of the temporary
absence of the owner, as in the harvest season, or at the time of the destruction or abandonment of the village;
but they may have been closed for the purpose of economizing warmth and fuel during the winter season. No
provision was made for closing them with movable doors. The practice of fastening up the doors during the
harvesting season prevails at the present time among the ZuÃ±i, but the result is attained without great
difficulty by means of rude cross bars, now that they have framed wooden doors. One of these is illustrated in
Fig. 75. These doors are usually opened by a latch-string, which, when not hung outside, is reached by means
of a small round hole through the wall at the side of the door. Through this hole the owner of the house, on
leaving it, secures the door by props and braces on the inside of the room, the hole being sealed up and
plastered in the same manner that other openings are treated.
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Fig. 75. A barred ZuÃ±i door.
This curious arrangement affords another illustration of the survival of ancient methods in modified forms. It
is not employed, however, in closing the doors of the first terrace; these are fastened by barring from the
inside, the exit being made by means of internal ladders to the terrace above, the upper doors only being
fastened in the manner illustrated. In Pl. LXXIX may be seen good examples of the side hole. Fig. 75 shows a
barred door. The plastering or sealing of the small side 184 hole instead of the entire opening was brought
about by the introduction of the wooden door, which in its present paneled form is of foreign introduction, but
in this, as in so many other cases, some analogous feature which facilitated the adoption of the idea probably
already existed. Tradition points to the early use of a small door, made of a single slab of wood, that closed
the small rectangular wall niches, in which valuables, such as turquoise, shell, etc., were kept. This slab, it is
said, was reduced and smoothed by rubbing with a piece of sandstone. A number of beams, rafters, and
roofing planks, seen in the Chaco pueblos, were probably squared and finished in this way. The latter
examples show a degree of familiarity with this treatment of wood that would enable the builders to construct
such doors with ease. As yet, however, no examples of wooden doors have been seen in any of the
pre-Columbian ruins.
The pueblo type of paneled door is much more frequently seen in Cibola than in Tusayan, and in the latter
province it does not assume the variety of treatment seen in ZuÃ±i, nor is the work so neatly executed. The
views of the modern pueblos, given in Chapters III and IV, will indicate the extent to which this feature
occurs in the two groups. In the construction of a paneled door the vertical stile on one side is prolonged at the
top and bottom into a rounded pivot, which works into cup-like sockets in the lintel and sill, as illustrated in
Fig. 76. The hinge is thus produced in the wood itself without the aid of any external appliances.
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Fig. 76. Wooden pivot

hinges of a ZuÃ±i door.
It is difficult to trace the origin of this device among the pueblos. It closely resembles the pivot hinges
sometimes used in mediÃ¦val Europe in connection with massive gates for closing masonry passages; in such
cases the prolonged pivots worked in cavities of stone sills and lintels. The Indians claim to have employed it
in very early times, but no evidence on this point has been found. It is quite possible that the idea was
borrowed from some of the earlier Mormon settlers who came into the country, as these people use a number
of primitive devices which are undoubtedly survivals of methods of construction once common in the
countries from which they came. Vestiges of the use of a pivotal hinge, constructed on a much more massive
scale than any of the pueblo examples, were seen at an old fortress-like, stone storehouse of the Mormons,
built near the site of Moen-kopi by the first Mormon settlers.
The paneled door now in use among the pueblos is rudely made, and consists of a frame inclosing a single
panel. This panel, when of large size, is occasionally made of two or more pieces. These doors vary greatly in
size. A few reach the height of 5 feet, but the usual height 185 is from 3Â½ to 4 feet. As doors are commonly
elevated a foot or more above the ground or floor, the use of such openings does not entail the full degree of
discomfort that the small size suggests. Doors of larger size, with sills raised but an inch or two above the
floor or ground, have recently been introduced in some of the ground stories in ZuÃ±i; but these are very
recent, and the idea has been adopted only by the most progressive people.
Pl. XLI shows a small paneled door, not more than a foot square, used as a blind to close a back window of a
dwelling. The smallest examples of paneled doors are those employed for closing the small, square openings
186 in the back walls of house rows, which still retain the defensive arrangement so marked in many of the
ancient pueblos. In some instances doors occur in the second stories of unterraced walls, their sills being 5 or
6 feet above the ground. In such cases the doors are reached by ladders whose upper ends rest upon the sills.
Elevated openings of this kind are closed in the usual manner with a rude, single-paneled door, which is often
whitened with a coating of clayey gypsum.
Carefully worked paneled doors are much more common in ZuÃ±i than in Tusayan, and within the latter
province the villages of the first mesa make more extended use of this type of door, as they have come into
more intimate contact with their eastern brethren than other villages of the group. Fig. 77 illustrates a portion
of a Hano house in which two wooden doors occur. These specimens indicate the rudeness of Tusayan
workmanship. It will be seen that the workman who framed the upper one of these doors met with
considerable difficulty in properly joining the two boards of the panel and in connecting these with the frame.
The figure shows that at several points the door has been reenforced and strengthened by buckskin and
rawhide thongs. The same device has been employed in the lower door, both in fastening together the two
pieces of the panel and in attaching the latter to the framing. These doors also illustrate the customary manner
of barring the door during the absence of the occupant of the house.
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Fig. 77. Paneled wooden doors in Hano.
The doorway is usually framed at the time the house is built. The sill is generally elevated above the ground
outside and the floor inside, and the door openings, with a few exceptions, are thus practically only large
windows. In this respect they follow the arrangement characteristic of the ancient pueblos, in which all the
larger openings are window-like doorways. These are sometimes seen on the court margin of house rows, and
frequently occur between communicating rooms within the cluster. They are usually raised about a foot and a
half above the floor, and in some cases are provided with one or two steps. In ZuÃ±i, doorways between
communicating rooms, though now framed in wood, preserve the same arrangement, as may be seen in Pl.
LXXXVI.
The side pieces of a paneled pueblo door are mortised, an achievement far beyond the aboriginal art of these
people. Fig. 78 illustrates the manner in which the framing is done. All the necessary grooving, and the
preparation of the projecting tenons is laboriously executed with the most primitive tools, in many cases the
whole frame, with all its joints, being cut out with a small knife.
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Fig. 78. Framing of a

ZuÃ±i door-panel.
Doors are usually fastened by a simple wooden latch, the bar of which turns upon a wooden pin. They are
opened from without by lifting the 187 latch from its wooden catch, by means of a string passed through a
small hole in the door, and hanging outside. Some few doors are, however, provided with a cumbersome
wooden lock, operated by means of a square, notched stick that serves as a key. These locks are usually
fastened to the inner side of the door by thongs of buckskin or rawhide, passed through small holes bored or
drilled through the edge of the lock, and through the stile and panel of the door at corresponding points. The
entire mechanism consists of wood and strings joined together in the rudest manner. Primitive as this device
is, however, its conception is far in advance of the aboriginal culture of the pueblos, and both it and the string
latch must have come from without. The lock was probably a contrivance of the early Mormons, as it is
evidently roughly modeled after a metallic lock.
Many doors having no permanent means of closure are still in use. These are very common in Tusayan, and
occur also in Cibola, particularly in the farming pueblos. The open front of the â——tupubiâ—— or
balcony-like recess, seen so frequently at the ends of first-terrace roofs in Tusayan, is often constructed with a
transom-like arrangement in connection with the girder supporting the edge of the roof, in the same manner in
which doorways proper are treated. Pl. XXXII illustrates a balcony in which one bounding side is formed by a
flight of stone steps, producing a notched or terraced effect. The supporting girder in this instance is
embedded in the wall and coated over with adobe, obscuring the construction. Fig. 79 shows a rude transom
over the supporting beam of a balcony roof in the principal house of Hano. The upper doorway shown in this
house has been partly walled in, reducing its size somewhat. It is also provided with a small horizontal
opening over the main lintel, which, like the doorway, has been partly filled with masonry. This upper
transom often seems to have resulted from carrying such openings to the full height of the story. The transom
probably originated from the spaces left between the ends of beams resting on the main girder that spanned
the principal opening (see Fig. 81). Somewhat similar balconies are seen in Cibola, both in ZuÃ±i and in the
farming villages, but they do not assume so much importance as in Tusayan. An example is shown in Pl. CI,
in which the construction of this feature is clearly visible.
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Fig. 79. Rude transoms over Tusayan openings.
In the remains of the ancient pueblos there is no evidence of the use of the half-open terrace rooms described
above. If such rooms existed, especially if constructed in the open manner of the Tusayan examples, they must
have been among the first to succumb to destruction. The comparative rarity of this feature in ZuÃ±i does not
necessarily indicate that it is not of native origin, as owing to the exceptional manner of clustering and to
prolonged exposure to foreign influence, this pueblo exhibits a wider departure from the ancient type than do
any of the Tusayan villages. It is likely that the ancient builders, trusting to the double protection of the
inclosed court and the defensive first terrace, 188 freely adopted this open and convenient arrangement in
connection with the upper roofs.
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Fig. 80. A large Tusayan doorway

with small transom openings.
The transom-like opening commonly accompanying the large opening is also seen in many of the inclosed
doorways of Tusayan, but in some of these cases its origin can not be traced to the roof constructions, as the
openings do not approach the ceilings of the rooms. In early days such doorways were closed by means of
large slabs of stone set on edge, and these were sometimes supplemented by a suspended blanket. In severe
winter weather many of the openings were closed with masonry. At the present time many doorways not
provided with paneled doors 189 are closed in such ways. When a doorway is thus treated its transom is left
open for the admission of light and air. The Indians state that in early times this transom was provided for the
exit of smoke when the main doorway was closed, and even now such provision is not wholly superfluous.
Fig. 80 illustrates a large doorway of Tusayan with a small transom. The opening was being reduced in size
by means of adobe masonry at the time the drawing was made. Fig. 81 shows a double transom over a lintel
composed of two poles; a section of masonry separating the transom into two distinct openings rests upon the
lintel of the doorway and supports a roof-beam; this is shown in the figure. Other examples of transoms may
be seen in connection with many of the illustrations of Tusayan doorways.
Fig. 81. A doorway and

double transom in Walpi.
The transom bars over exterior doorways of houses probably bear some relation to a feature seen in some of
the best preserved ruins and still surviving to some extent in Tusayan practice. This consists of a straight pole,
usually of the same dimensions as the poles of which the lintel is made, extending across the opening from 2
to 6 inches below the main lintel, and fixed into the masonry in a position to serve as a curtain pole. Originally
this pole undoubtedly served as a means of suspension for the blanket or skin rug used in closing the opening,
just as such means are now used in the huts of the Navajo, as well as 190 occasionally in the houses of
Tusayan. The space above this cross stick answered the same purpose as the transoms of the present time.
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Fig. 82. An ancient doorway

in Canyon de Chelly cliff ruin.
Fig. 83. A symmetrically notched

doorway in Mashongnavi.
A most striking feature of doorways is the occasional departure from the quadrangular form, seen in some
ruined villages and also in some of the modern houses of Tusayan. Fig. 82 illustrates a specimen of this type
found in a small cliff ruin, in Canyon de Chelly. Ancient examples of this form of opening are distinguished
by a symmetrical disposition of the step in the jamb, while the modern doors are seldom so arranged. A
modern example from Mashongnavi is shown in Fig. 83. This opening also illustrates the double or divided
transom. The beam ends shown in the figure project beyond the face of the wall and support an overhanging
coping or cornice. A door-like window, approximating the symmetrical form described, is seen immediately
over the passage-way shown in Pl. XXII. This form is evidently the result of the partial closing of a larger
rectangular opening.
Fig. 84 shows the usual type of terraced doorway in Tusayan, in which one jamb is stepped at a considerably
greater height than the other. In Tusayan large openings occur in which only one jamb is stepped, producing
an effect somewhat of that of the large balcony openings with flights of stone steps at one side, previously
illustrated. An opening of this form is shown in Fig. 85. Both of the stepped doorways, 191 illustrated above,
are provided with transom openings extending from one roof beam to another. In the absence of a movable
door the openings were made of the smallest size consistent with convenient use. The stepped form was very
likely suggested by the temporary partial blocking up of an opening with loose, flat stones in such a manner as
to least impair its use. This is still quite commonly done, large openings being often seen in which the lower
portion on one or both sides is narrowed by means of adobe bricks or stones loosely piled up. In this
connection it may be noted that the secondary lintel pole, previously described as occurring in both ancient
and modern doorways, serves the additional purpose of a hand-hold when supplies are brought into the house
on the backs of the occupants. The stepping of the doorway, while diminishing its exposed area, does not
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interfere with its use in bringing in large bundles, etc. Series of steps, picked into the faces of the cliffs, and
affording access to cliff dwellings, frequently have a supplementary series of narrow and deep cavities that
furnish a secure hold for the hands. The requirements of the precipitous environment of these people have led
to the carrying of loads of produce, fuel, etc., on the back by means of a suspending band passed across the
forehead; 192 this left the hands free to aid in the difficult task of climbing. These conditions seem to have
brought about the use, in some cases, of handholds in the marginal frames of interior trapdoors as an aid in
climbing the ladder.
Fig. 84. A Tusayan notched doorway.
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Fig. 85. A large Tusayan

doorway with one notched jamb.
One more characteristic type of the ancient pueblo doorway remains to be described. During the autumn of
1883, when the ruined pueblo of Kin-tiel was surveyed, a number of excavations were made in and about the
pueblo. A small room on the east side, near the brink of the arroyo that traverses the ruin from east to west,
was completely cleared out, exposing its fireplace, the stone paving of its floor, and other details of
construction. Built into an inner partition of this room was found a large slab of stone, pierced with a circular
hole of sufficient size for a man to squeeze through. This slab was set on edge and incorporated into the
masonry of the partition, and evidently served as a means of communication with another room. The position
of this doorway and its relation to the room in which it occurs may be seen from the illustration in Pl. C,
which shows the stone in situ. The doorway or â——stone-closeâ—— is shown in Fig. 86 on a sufficient
scale to indicate the degree of technical skill in the architectural treatment of stone possessed by the builders
of this old pueblo. The writer visited ZuÃ±i in October of the same season, and on describing this find to Mr.
Frank H. Cushing, learned that the ZuÃ±i Indians still preserved traditional knowledge of this device. Mr.
Cushing kindly furnished at the 193 time the following extract from the tale of â——The Deer-Slayer and the
Wizards,â—— a ZuÃ±i folk-tale of the early occupancy of the valley of ZuÃ±i.
Fig. 86. An ancient circular

doorway or â——stone-closeâ——
in Kin-tiel.
â——â——How will they enter?â—— said the young man to his wife. â——Through the stone-close at the
side,â—— she answered. In the days of the ancients, the doorways were often made of a great slab of stone
with a round hole cut through the middle, and a round stone slab to close it, which was called the stone-close,
that the enemy might not enter in times of war.â——
Mr. Cushing had found displaced fragments of such circular stone doorways at ruins some distance northwest
from ZuÃ±i, but had been under the impression that they were used as roof openings. All examples of this
device known to the writer as having been found in place occurred in side walls of rooms. Mr. E. W. Nelson,
while making collections of pottery from ruins near Springerville, Arizona, found and sent to the Smithsonian
Institution, in the autumn of 1884, â——a flat stone about 18 inches square with a round hole cut in the
middle of it. This stone was taken from the wall of one of the old ruined stone houses near Springerville, in an
Indian ruin. The stone was set in the wall between two inner rooms of the ruin, and evidently served as a
means of communication or perhaps a ventilator. I send it on mainly as an example of their stone-working
craft.â—— The position of this feature in the excavated room of Kin-tiel is indicated on the ground plan, Fig.
60, which also shows the position of other details seen in the general view of the room, Pl. C.
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A small fragment of a â——stone-closeâ—— doorway was found incorporated into the masonry of a flight of
outside stone steps at Pescado, indicating its use in some neighboring ruin, thus bringing it well within the
Cibola district. Another point at which similar remains have been brought to light is the pueblo of Halona, just
across the river from the present ZuÃ±i. Mr. F. Webb Hodge, recently connected with the Hemenway
Southwestern Archeological Exposition, under the direction of Mr. F. H. Cushing, describes this form of
opening as being of quite common occurrence in the rooms of this long-buried pueblo. Here the doorways are
associated with the round slabs used for closing them. The latter were held in place by props within the room.
No slabs of this form were seen at Kin-tiel, but quite possibly some of the large slabs of nearly rectangular
form, found within this ruin, may have served the same purpose. It would seem more reasonable to use the
rectangular 194 slabs for this purpose when the openings were conveniently near the floors. No example of
the stone-close has as yet been found in Tusayan.
The annular doorway described above affords the only instance known to the writer where access openings
were closed with a rigid device of aboriginal invention; and from the character of its material this device was
necessarily restricted to openings of small size. The larger rectangular doorways, when not partly closed by
masonry, probably were covered only with blankets or skin rugs suspended from the lintel. In the discussion
of sealed windows modern examples resembling the stone-close device will be noted, but these are usually
employed in a more permanent manner.
The small size of the ordinary pueblo doorway was perhaps due as much to the fact that there was no
convenient means of closing it as it was to defensive reasons. Many primitive habitations, even quite rude
ones built with no intention of defense, are characterized by small doors and windows. The planning of
dwellings and the distribution of openings in such a manner as to protect and render comfortable the inhabited
rooms implies a greater advance in architectural skill than these builders had achieved.
The inconveniently small size of the doorways of the modern pueblos is only a survival of ancient conditions.
The use of full-sized doors, admitting a man without stooping, is entirely practicable at the present day, but
the conservative builders persist in adhering to the early type. The ancient position of the door, with its sill at
a considerable height from the ground, is also retained. From the absence of any convenient means of rigidly
closing the doors and windows, in early times external openings were restricted to the smallest practicable
dimensions. The convenience of these openings was increased without altering their dimensions by elevating
them to a certain height above the ground. In the ruin of Kin-tiel there is marked uniformity in the height of
the openings above the ground, and such openings were likely to be quite uniform when used for similar
purposes. The most common elevation of the sills of doorways was such that a man could readily step over at
one stride. It will be seen that the same economy of space has effected the use of windows in this system of
architecture.
WINDOWS.
In the pueblo system of building, doors and windows are not always clearly differentiated. Many of the
openings, while used for access to the dwellings, also answer all the purposes of windows, and, both in their
form and in their position in the walls, seem more fully to meet the requirements of openings for the
admission of light and air than for access. We have seen in the illustrations in Chapters III and IV, openings of
considerable size so located in the face of the outer wall as to unfit them for use as doorways, and others
whose size is wholly inadequate, but which are still provided with the typical though diminutive 195
single-paneled door. Many of these small openings, occurring most frequently in the back walls of house
rows, have the jambs, lintels, etc., characteristic of the typical modern door. However, as the drawings above
referred to indicate, there are many openings concerning the use of which there can be no doubt, as they can
only provide outlook, light, and air.
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In the most common form of window in present use in Tusayan and Cibola the width usually exceeds the
height. Although found often in what appear to be the older portions of the present pueblos, this shape
probably does not date very far back. The windows of the ancient pueblos were sometimes square, or nearly
so, when of small size, but when larger they were never distinguishable from doorways in either size or finish,
and the height exceeded the width. This restriction of the width of openings was due to the exceptionally
small size of the building stone made use of. Although larger stones were available, the builders had not
sufficient constructive skill to successfully utilize them. The failure to utilize this material indicates a degree
of ignorance of mechanical aids that at first thought seems scarcely in keeping with the massiveness of form
and the high degree of finish characterizing many of the remains; but as already seen in the discussion of
masonry, the latter results were attained by the patient industry of many hands, although laboring with but
little of the spirit of cooperation. The narrowness of the largest doors and windows in the ancient pueblos
suggests timidity on the part of the ancient builders. The apparently bolder construction of the present day,
shown in the prevailing use of horizontal openings, is not due to greater constructive skill, but rather to the
markedly greater carelessness of modern construction.
The same contrast between modern and ancient practice is seen in the disposition of openings in walls. In the
modern pueblos there does not seem to be any regularity or system in their introduction, while in some of the
older pueblos, such as Pueblo Bonito on the Chaco, and others of the same group, the arrangement of the outer
openings exhibits a certain degree of symmetry. The accompanying diagram, Fig. 87, illustrates a portion of
the northern outer wall of Pueblo Bonito, in which the small windows of successive rooms, besides being
uniform in size, are grouped in pairs. The degree of technical skill shown in the execution of the masonry
about these openings is in keeping with the precision with which the openings themselves are placed. Pl. CV,
gives a view of a portion of the wall containing these openings.
Plate CV. Small square openings in Pueblo Bonito.
Fig. 87. Diagram illustrating symmetrical

arrangement of small openings
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in Pueblo Bonito.
196 In marked contrast to the above examples is the slovenly practice of the modern pueblos. There are rarely
two openings of the same size, even in a single room, nor are these usually placed at a uniform height from
the floor. The placing appears to be purely a matter of individual taste, and no trace of system or uniformity is
to be found. Windows occur sometimes at considerable height, near or even at the ceiling in some cases, while
others are placed almost at the base of the wall; examples may be found occupying all intermediate heights
between these extremes. Many of the illustrations show this characteristic irregularity, but Pls. LXXIX and
LXXXII of ZuÃ±i perhaps represent it most clearly.
The framing of these openings differs but little from that of the ancient examples. The modern opening is
distinguished principally by the more careless method of combining the materials, and by the introduction in
many instances of a rude sash. A number of small poles or sticks, usually of cedar, with the bark peeled off,
are laid side by side in contact, across the opening, to form a support for the stones and earth of the
superposed masonry. Frequently a particularly large tablet of stone is placed immediately upon the sticks, but
this stone is never long enough or thick enough to answer the purpose of a lintel for larger openings. The
number of small sticks used is sufficient to reach from the face to the back of the wall, and in the simplest
openings the surrounding masonry forms jambs and sill. American or Spanish influence occasionally shows
itself in the employment of sawed boards for lintels, sills, and jambs. The wooden features of the windows
exhibit a curiously light and flimsy construction.
A large percentage of the windows, in both Tusayan and Cibola, are furnished with glass at the present time.
Occasionally a primitive sash of several lights is found, but frequently the glass is used singly; in some
instances it is set directly into the adobe without any intervening sash or frame. In several cases in ZuÃ±i the
primitive sash or frame has been rudely decorated with incised lines and notches. An example of this is shown
in Fig. 88. The frame or sash is usually built solidly into the wall. Hinged sashes do not seem to have been
adopted as yet. Often the introduction of lights shows a curious and awkward compromise between aboriginal
methods and foreign ideas.
Fig. 88. Incised decoration

on a rude window sash in ZuÃ±i.
Characteristic of ZuÃ±i windows, and also of those of the neighboring pueblo of Acoma, is the use of
semitranslucent slabs of selenite, about 1 inch in thickness and of irregular form. Pieces are occasionally met
with about 18 inches long and 8 or 10 inches 197 wide, but usually they are much smaller and very irregular
in outline. For windows pieces are selected that approximately fit against each other, and thin, flat strips of
wood are fixed in a vertical position in the openings to serve as supports for the irregular fragments of
selenite, which could not be retained in place without some such provision. The use of window openings at
the bases of walls probably suggested this use of vertical sticks as a support to slabs of selenite, as in this
position they would be particularly useful, the windows being generally arranged on a slope, as shown in Fig.
89. Similar glazing is also employed in the related, obliquely pierced openings of ZuÃ±i, to be described later.
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Fig. 89. Sloping selenite window

at base of ZuÃ±i wall on upper terrace.
Selenite, in all probability, was not used in pre-Spanish times. No examples have as yet been met with among
ruins in the region where this material is found and now used. Throughout the south and east portion of the
ancient pueblo region, explored by Mr. A. F. Bandelier, where many of the remains were in a very good state
of preservation, no cases of the use of this substance were seen. Fig. 90 illustrates a typical selenite window.
Fig. 90. A ZuÃ±i window

glazed with selenite.
In ZuÃ±i some of the kivas are provided with small external windows framed with slabs of stone. It is likely
that the kivas would for a long time perpetuate methods and practices that had been superseded in the
construction of dwellings. The use of stone jambs, however, would necessarily be limited to openings of small
size, as such use for large openings was beyond the mechanical skill of the pueblo builders.
198 Fig. 91 illustrates the manner of making small openings in external exposed walls in ZuÃ±i. Stone
frames occur only occasionally in what seem to be the older and least modified portions of the village. At
Tusayan, however, this method of framing windows is much more noticeable, as the exceptional crowding
that has exercised such an influence on ZuÃ±i construction has not occurred there. The Tusayan houses are
arranged more in rows, often with a suggestion of large inclosures resembling the courts of the ancient
pueblos. The inclosures have not been encroached upon, the streets are wider, and altogether the earlier
methods seem to have been retained in greater purity than in ZuÃ±i. The unbroken outer wall, of two or three
stories in height, like the same feature of the old villages, is pierced at various heights with small openings
that do not seriously impair its efficiency for defense. Tusayan examples of these loop-hole-like openings
maybe seen in Pls. XXII, XXIII, and XXXIX.
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Fig. 91. Small openings in the back wall of a ZuÃ±i house-cluster.
In some of the ancient pueblos such openings were arranged on a distinctly defensive plan, and were
constructed with great care. Openings of this type, not more than 4 inches square, pierced the second story
outer wall of the pueblo of Wejegi in the Chaco Canyon. In the pueblo of Kin-tiel (Pl. LXIII) similar
loop-hole-like openings were very skillfully constructed in the outer wall at the rounded northeastern corner
of the pueblo. The openings pierced the wall at an oblique angle, as shown on the plan. Two of these
channel-like loopholes maybe seen in Pl. LXV. This figure also shows the carefully executed jamb corners
and faces of three large openings of the second story, which, though greatly undermined by the falling away
of the lower masonry, are still held in position by the bond of thin flat stones of which the wall is built.
Plate CVI. Sealed openings in a detached house of Nutria.
It is often the practice in the modern pueblos to seal up the windows of a house with masonry, and sometimes
the doors also during the temporary absence of the occupant, which absence often takes place at the seasons of
planting and harvesting. At such times many ZuÃ±i families occupy outlying farming pueblos, such as Nutria
and Pescado, and the 199 Tusayans, in a like manner, live in rude summer shelters close to their fields. Such
absence from the home pueblo often lasts for a month or more at a time. The work of closing the opening is
done sometimes in the roughest manner, but examples are seen in which carefully laid masonry has been used.
The latter is sometimes plastered. Occasionally the sealing is done with a thin slab of sandstone, somewhat
larger than the opening, held in place with mud plastering, or propped from the inside after the manner of the
â——stone closeâ—— previously described. Fig. 92 illustrates specimens of sealed openings in the village of
Hano of the Tusayan group. The upper window is closed with a single large slab and a few small chinking
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stones at one side. The masonry used in closing the lower opening is scarcely distinguishable from that of the
adjoining walls. Pl. CVI illustrates a similar treatment of an opening in a detached house of Nutria, whose
occupants had returned to the home pueblo of ZuÃ±i at the close of the harvesting season. The doorway in
this case is only partly closed, leaving a window-like aperture at 200 its top, and the stones used for the
purpose are simply piled up without the use of adobe mortar.
Fig. 92. Sealed openings in Tusayan.
Windows and doors closed with masonry are often met with in the remains of ancient pueblos, suggesting,
perhaps, that some of the occupants were absent at the time of the destruction of the village. When large
door-like openings in upper external walls were built up and plastered over in this way, as in some ruins, the
purpose was to economize heat during the winter, as blankets or rugs made of skins would be inadequate.
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Plate CVII. Partial filling-in of a large opening in Oraibi, converting it into a doorway.
Besides the closing and reopening of doors and windows just described, the modern pueblo builders
frequently make permanent changes in such openings. Doors are often converted into windows, and windows
are reduced in size or enlarged, or new ones are broken through the walls, apparently, with the greatest
freedom, so that they do not, from their finish or method of construction, furnish any clue to the antiquity of
the mud-covered wall in which they are found. Occasionally surface weathering of the walls, particularly in
ZuÃ±i, exposes a bit of horizontal pole embedded in the masonry, the lintel of a window long since sealed up
and obliterated by successive coats of mud finish. It is probable that many openings are so covered up as to
leave no trace of their existence on the external wall. In ZuÃ±i particularly, where the original arrangement
for entering and lighting many of the rooms must have been wholly lost in the dense clustering of later times,
such changes are very numerous. It often happens that the addition of a new room will shut off one or more
old windows, and in such cases the latter are often converted into interior niches which serve as open
cupboards. Such niches were sometimes of considerable size in the older pueblos. Changes in the character of
openings are quite common in all of the pueblos. Usually the evidences of such changes are much clearer in
the rougher and more exposed work of Tusayan than in the adobe-finished houses of ZuÃ±i. Pl. CVII
illustrates a large, balcony-like opening in Oraibi that has been reduced to the size of an ordinary door by
filling in with rough masonry. A small window has been left immediately over the lintel of the newer door. Pl.
CVIII illustrates two large openings in this village that have been treated in a somewhat similar manner, but
the filling has been carried farther. Both of these openings have been used as doorways at one stage of their
reduction, the one on the right having been provided with a small transom; the combined opening was
arranged wholly within the large one and under its transom. In the further conversion of this doorway into a
small window, the secondary transom was blocked up with stone slabs, set on edge, and a small loophole
window in the upper lefthand corner of the large opening was also closed. The masonry filling of the large
opening on the left in this illustration shows no trace of a transom over the smaller doorway. A small loophole
in the corner of this large opening is still left open. It will be noted that the original transoms of the large
openings have in all these cases been entirely filled up with masonry.
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Plate CVIII. Large openings reduced to small windows, Oraibi.
201
The clearness with which all the steps of the gradual reduction of these openings can be traced in the exposed
stone work is in marked contrast with the obscurity of such features in ZuÃ±i. In the latter group, however,
examples are occasionally seen where a doorway has been partly closed with masonry, leaving enough space
at the top for a window. Often in such cases the filled-in masonry is thinner than that of the adjoining wall,
and consequently the form of the original doorway is easily traced. Fig. 93, from an adobe wall in ZuÃ±i,
gives an illustration of this. The entrance doorway of the detached ZuÃ±i house illustrated in Pl. LXXXIII,
has been similarly reduced in size, leaving traces of the original form in a slight offset. In modern times, both
in Tusayan and Cibola, changes in the form and disposition of openings seem to have been made with the
greatest freedom, but in the ancient pueblos altered doors or windows have rarely been found. The original
placing of these features was more carefully considered, and the buildings were rarely subjected to unforeseen
and irregular crowding.
Fig. 93. A ZuÃ±i doorway converted into a window.
In both ancient and modern pueblo work, windows, used only as such, seem to have been universally
quadrilateral, offsets and steps being confined exclusively to doorways.
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ROOF OPENINGS.
The line of separation between roof openings and doors and windows is, with few exceptions, sharply drawn.
The origin of these roof-holes, whose use at the present time is widespread, was undoubtedly in the simple
trap door which gave access to the rooms of the first terrace. Pl. XXXVIII, illustrating a court of Oraibi,
shows in the foreground a kiva hatchway of the usual form seen in Tusayan. Here there is but little difference
between the entrance traps of the ceremonial chambers and those that give access to the rooms of the first
terrace; the former are in most cases somewhat larger to admit of ingress of costumed dancers, 202 and the
kiva traps are usually on a somewhat sharper slope, conforming to the pitch of the small dome-roof of the
kivas, while those of the house terraces have the scarcely perceptible fall of the house roofs in which they are
placed. In ZuÃ±i, however, where the development and use of openings has been carried further, the kiva
hatchways are distinguished by a specialized form that will be described later. An examination of the plans of
the modern villages in Chapters II and III will show the general distribution of roof openings. Those used as
hatchways are distinguishable by their greater dimensions, and in many cases by the presence of the ladders
that give access to the rooms below. The smaller roof openings in their simplest form are constructed in
essentially the same manner as the trap doors, and the width is usually regulated by the distance between two
adjacent roof beams. The second series of small roof poles is interrupted at the sides of the opening, which
sides are finished by means of carefully laid small stones in the same manner as are projecting copings. This
finish is often carried several inches above the roof and crowned with narrow stone slabs, one on each of the
four sides, forming a sort of frame which protects the mud plastered sides of the opening from the action of
the rains. Examples of this simple type may be seen in many of the figures illustrating Chapters II and III, and
in Pl. XCVII. Fig. 94 also illustrates common types of roof openings seen in ZuÃ±i. Two of the examples in
this figure are 203 of openings that give access to lower rooms. Occasional instances are seen in this pueblo
in which an exaggerated height is given to the coping, the result slightly approaching a square chimney in
effect. Fig. 95 illustrates an example of this form.
Fig. 94. ZuÃ±i roof-openings.
In ZuÃ±i, where many minor variations in the forms of roof openings occur, certain of these variations appear
to be related to roof drainage. These have three sides crowned in the usual manner with coping stones laid flat,
but the fourth side is formed by setting a thin slab on edge, as illustrated in Fig. 96.
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Fig. 95. A ZuÃ±i roof opening, with raised coping.
Fig. 94 also embodies two specimens of this form.
204 The special object of this arrangement is in some cases difficult to determine; the raised end in all the
examples on any one roof always takes the same direction, and in many cases its position relative to drainage
suggests that it is a provision against flooding by rain on the slightly sloping roof; but this relation to drainage
is by no means constant. Roof holes on the west side of the village in such positions as to be directly exposed
to the violent sand storms that prevail here during certain months of the year seem in some cases to have in
view protection against the flying sand. We do not meet with evidence of any fixed system to guide the
disposition of this feature. In many cases these trap holes are provided with a thin slab of sandstone large
enough to cover the whole opening, and used in times of rain. During fair weather these are laid on the roof,
near the hole they are designed to cover, or lie tilted against the higher edge of the trap, as shown in Fig. 97.
Fig. 96. ZuÃ±i roof-openings, with one elevated end.
When the cover is placed on one of these holes, with a high slab at one end, it has a steep pitch, to shed water,
and at the same time light and air are to some extent admitted, but it is very doubtful if this is the result of
direct intention on the part of the builder. The possible development of this roof trap of unusual elevation into
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a rudimentary chimney has already been mentioned in the discussion of chimneys. A development in this
direction would possibly be suggested by the desirability of separating the access by ladder from the
inconvenient smoke hole. This must have been brought very forcibly to the attention of the Indian when, at the
time a fire was burning in the fireplace, they were compelled to descend the ladder amidst the smoke and heat.
Fig. 97. A ZuÃ±i roof hole with cover.
205
The survival to the present time of such an inconvenient arrangement in the kivas can be explained only on
the ground of the intense conservatism of these people in all that pertains to religion. In the small roof holes
methods of construction are seen which would not be so practicable on the larger scale of the ladder holes
after which they have been modeled. In these latter the sides are built up of masonry or adobe, but the framing
around them is more like the usual coping over walls. The stone that, set on edge in the small openings built
for the admission of light, forms a raised end never occurs in these. The ladder for access rests against the
coping.
When occurring in connection with kivas, ladder holes have certain peculiarities in which they differ from the
ordinary form used in dwellings. The opening in such cases is made of large size to admit dancers in costume
with full paraphernalia. These, the largest roof openings to be found in ZuÃ±i, are framed with pieces of
wood. The methods of holding the pieces in place vary somewhat in minor detail. It is quite likely that recent
examples, while still preserving the form and general appearance of the earlier ones, would bear evidence that
the builders had used their knowledge of improved methods of joining and finishing.
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Fig. 98. Kiva trapdoor in ZuÃ±i.
As may readily be seen from the illustration, Fig. 98, this framing, by the addition of a cross piece, divides the
opening unequally. The smaller aperture is situated immediately above the fireplace (which conforms to the
ancient type without chimney and located in the open floor of the room) and is very evidently designed to
furnish an outlet to the smoke. In a chamber having no side doors or windows, or at most 206 very small
square windows, and consequently no drafts, the column of smoke and flame can often on still nights be seen
rising vertically from the roof. The other portion of the opening containing the ladder is used for ingress and
egress. This singular combination strongly suggests that at no very remote period one opening was used to
answer both purposes, as it still does in the Tusayan kivas. It also suggests the direction in which
differentiation of functions began to take place, which in the kiva was delayed and held back by the
conservative religious feeling, when in the civil architecture it may have been the initial point of a
development that culminated in the chimney, a development that was assisted in its later steps by suggestions
from foreign sources. In the more primitively constructed examples the cross pieces seem to be simply laid on
without any cutting in. The central piece is held in place by a peg set into each side piece, the weight and
thrust of the ladder helping to hold it. The primitive arrangement here seen has been somewhat improved upon
in some other cases, but it was not ascertained whether these were of later date or not.
In the best made frames for kiva entrances the timbers are â——halvedâ—— in the manner of our carpenters,
the joint being additionally secured by a pin as shown in Fig. 99.
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Fig. 99. Halved and pinned

trapdoor frame
of a ZuÃ±i kiva.
The use of a frame of wood in these trapdoors dates back to a comparatively high antiquity, and is not at all a
modern innovation, as one would at first be inclined to believe. Their use in so highly developed a form in the
ceremonial chamber is an argument in favor of antiquity. Only two examples were discovered by Mr. L. H.
Morgan in a ruined pueblo on the Animas. â——One of these measured 16 by 17 inches and the other was 16
inches square. Each was formed in the floor by pieces of wood put together. The work was neatly
done.â——8
Unfortunately, Mr. Morgan does not describe in detail the manner in which the joining was effected, or
whether the pieces were halved or cut to fit. It seems hardly likely, considering the rude facilities possessed by
the ancients, that the enormous labor of reducing large pieces of wood to such interfitting shapes would have
been undertaken. A certain neatness of finish would undoubtedly be attained by arranging the principal roof
beams and the small poles that cross them at right angles, in the usual careful manner of the ancient builders.
The kiva roof opening, with the hole serving for access and smoke exit, is paralleled 207 in the excavated
lodges of the San Francisco Mountains, where a single opening served this double purpose. A slight recess or
excavation in the side of the entrance shaft evidently served for the exit of smoke.
At the village of Acoma the kiva trapdoors differ somewhat from the ZuÃ±i form. The survey of this village
was somewhat hasty, and no opportunity was afforded of ascertaining from the Indians the special purpose of
the mode of construction adopted. The roof hole is divided, as in ZuÃ±i, but the portion against which the
ladder leans, instead of being made into a smoke vent, is provided with a small roof. These roof holes to the
ceremonial chamber are entered directly from the open air, while in the dwelling rooms it seems customary
(much more customary than at ZuÃ±i) to enter the lower stories through trapdoors within upper rooms. In
many instances second-story rooms have no exterior rooms but are entered from rooms above, contrary to the
usual arrangement in both Tusayan and Cibola. All six of the kivas in this village are provided with this
peculiarly constructed opening.
In ZuÃ±i close crowding of the cells has led to an exceptionally frequent use of roof-lights and trapdoors. The
ingenuity of the builders was greatly taxed to admit sufficient light to the inner rooms. The roof hole, which
was originally used only to furnish the means of access and light for the first terrace, as is still the case in
Tusayan, is here used in all stories indiscriminately, and principally for light and air. In large clusters there are
necessarily many dark rooms, which has led to the employment of great numbers of roof holes, more or less
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directly modeled after the ordinary trapdoor. Their occurrence is particularly frequent in the larger clusters of
the village, as in house No. 1. The exceptional size of this pile, and of the adjoining house No. 4, with the
consequent large proportion of dark rooms, have taxed the ingenuity of the ZuÃ±i to the utmost, and as a
result we see roof openings here assuming a degree of importance not found elsewhere.
Fig. 100. Typical sections

of ZuÃ±i oblique openings.
In addition to roof openings of the type described, the dense clustering of the ZuÃ±i houses has led to the
invention of a curious device for lighting inner rooms not reached by ordinary external openings. This consists
of an opening, usually of oval or subrectangular form in elevation, placed at the junction of the roof with a
vertical wall. This opening is carried down obliquely between the roofing beams, as shown in the sections,
Fig. 100, so that the light is admitted within the room just at the junction of the ceiling and the inner face of
the wall. With the meager facilities and rude methods of the ZuÃ±i, this peculiar arrangement often involved
weak construction, and the openings, placed so low in the wall, were in danger of admitting water from the
roof. The difficulty of obtaining the desired light by this device was much lessened where the outer roof was
somewhat lower than the ceiling within.
208 These oblique openings occur not only in the larger clusters of houses Nos. 1 and 4, but also in the more
openly planned portions of the village, though they do not occur either at Acoma or in the Tusayan villages.
They afford an interesting example of the transfer and continuance in use of a constructional device developed
in one place by unusual conditions to a new field in which it was uncalled for, being less efficient and more
difficult of introduction than the devices in ordinary use.
FURNITURE.
The pueblo Indian has little household furniture, in the sense in which the term is commonly employed; but
his home contains certain features which are more or less closely embodied in the house construction and
which answers the purpose. The suspended pole that serves as a clothes rack for ordinary wearing apparel,
extra blankets, robes, etc., has already been described in treating of interiors. Religious costumes and
ceremonial paraphernalia are more carefully provided for, and are stored away in some hidden corner of the
dark storerooms.
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The small wall niches, which are formed by closing a window with a thin filling-in wall, and which answer
the purpose of cupboards or receptacles 209 for many of the smaller household articles, have also been
described and illustrated in connection with the ZuÃ±i interior (Pl. LXXXVI).
In many houses, both in Tusayan and in Cibola, shelves are constructed for the more convenient storage of
food, etc. These are often constructed in a very primitive manner, particularly in the former province. An
unusually frail example may be seen in Fig. 67, in connection with a fireplace. Fig. 101, showing a series of
mealing stones in a Tusayan house, also illustrates a rude shelf in the corner of the room, supported at one end
by an upright stone slab and at the other by a projecting wooden peg. Shelves made of sawed boards are
occasionally seen, but as a rule such boards are considered too valuable to be used in this manner. A more
common arrangement, particularly in Tusayan, is a combination of three or four slender poles placed side by
side, 2 or 3 inches apart, forming a rude shelf, upon which trays of food are kept.
Fig. 101. Arrangement of mealing stones in a Tusayan house.
Fig. 102. A Tusayan grain bin.
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Another device for the storage of food, occasionally seen in the pueblo house, is a pocket or bin built into the
corner of a room. Fig. 101, illustrating the plan of a Tusayan house, indicates the position of one of these
cupboard-like inclosures. A sketch of this specimen is shown in 210 Fig. 102. This bin, used for the storage
of beans, grain, and the like, is formed by cutting off a corner of the room by setting two stone slabs into the
floor, and it is covered with the mud plastering which extends over the neighboring walls.
A curious modification of this device was seen in one of the inner rooms in ZuÃ±i, in the house of JosÃ©
PiÃ©. A large earthen jar, apparently an ordinary water vessel, was built into a projecting masonry bench near
the corner of the room in such a manner that its rim projected less than half an inch above its surface. This jar
was used for the same purpose as the Tusayan corner bin.
Fig. 103. A ZuÃ±i plume box.

Some of the Indians of the present time have chests or boxes in which their ceremonial blankets and
paraphernalia are kept. These of course have been introduced since the days of American boards and boxes. In
ZuÃ±i, however, the Indians still use a small wooden receptacle for the precious ceremonial articles, such as
feathers and beads. This is an oblong box, provided with a countersunk lid, and usually carved from a single
piece of wood. Typical specimens are illustrated in Figs. 103 and 104. The workmanship displayed in these
objects is not beyond the aboriginal skill of the native workman, and their use is undoubtedly ancient.
Fig. 104. A ZuÃ±i plume box.
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Perhaps the most important article of furniture in the home of the pueblo Indian is the mealing trough,
containing the household milling apparatus. This trough usually contains a series of three metates of varying
degrees of coarseness firmly fixed in a slanting position most convenient for the workers. It consists of thin
slabs of sandstone set into the floor on edge, similar slabs forming the separating partitions between the
compartments. This arrangement is shown in Fig. 105, illustrating a Tusayan mealing trough. Those of ZuÃ±i
are of the same form, as maybe seen in the illustration of a ZuÃ±i interior, Fig. 105. Occasionally in recently
constructed specimens the thin inclosing walls of the trough are made of planks. In the example illustrated one
end of the series is bounded by a board, all the other walls and divisions being made of the usual stone slabs.
The metates themselves are not usually more than 3 inches in thickness. They are so adjusted in their setting
of stones and mortar as to slope away from the operator at the proper angle. This arrangement of the mealing
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stones is characteristic of the more densely clustered communal houses of late date. In the more primitive
house the mealing stone was usually a single large piece of cellular basalt, or similar rock, in which a broad,
sloping depression was carved, and which could be transported from place to place. Fig. 106 illustrates an
example of this type from the vicinity of Globe, in southern Arizona. The stationary mealing trough of the
present day is undoubtedly the successor of the earner moveable form, yet it was in use among the pueblos at
the time of the first Spanish expedition, as the following extract from CastaÃ±edaâ——s account9 of Cibola
will show. He says a special room is designed to grind the grain: â——This last is apart, and contains a
furnace and three stones made fast in {no para} masonry. 212 Three women sit down before these stones; the
first crushes the grain, the second brays it, and the third reduces it entirely to powder.â—— It will be seen
how exactly this description fits both the arrangement and the use of this mill at the present time. The
perfection of mechanical devices and the refinement of methods here exhibited would seem to be in advance
of the achievement of this people in other directions.
Fig. 105. A Tusayan mealing trough.
Fig. 106. An ancient pueblo

form of metate.
The grinding stones of the mealing apparatus are of correspondingly varying degrees of roughness; those of
basalt or lava are used for the first crushing of the corn, and sandstone is used for the final grinding on the last
metate of the series. By means of these primitive appliances the corn meal is as finely ground as our wheaten
flour. The grinding stones now used are always flat, as shown in Fig. 105, and differ from those that were
used with the early massive type of metate in being of cylindrical form.
One end of the series of milling troughs is usually built against the wall near the corner of the room. In some
cases, where the room is quite narrow, the series extends across from wall to wall. Series comprising four
mealing stones, sometimes seen in ZuÃ±i, are very generally arranged in this manner. In all cases sufficient
floor space is left behind the mills to accommodate the women who kneel at their work. Pl. LXXXVI
illustrates an unusual arrangement, in which the fourth mealing stone is set at right angles to the other stones
of the series.
Mortars are in general use in ZuÃ±i and Tusayan households. As a rule they are of considerable size, and
made of the same material as the rougher mealing stones. They are employed for crushing and grinding the
chile or red pepper that enters so largely into the food of the ZuÃ±i, and whose use has extended to the
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Mexicans of the same region. These mortars have the ordinary circular depressions and are used with a round
pestle or crusher, often of somewhat long, cylindrical form for convenience in handling.
Parts of the apparatus for indoor blanket weaving seen in some of the pueblo houses may be included under
the heading of furniture. These consist of devices for the attachment of the movable parts of the loom, which
need not be described in this connection. In some of the Tusayan houses may be seen examples of posts sunk
in the floor provided with holes for the insertion of cords for attaching and tightening the warp, similar to
those built into the kiva floors, illustrated in Fig. 31. No device of this kind was seen in ZuÃ±i. A more
primitive appliance for such work is seen in both groups of pueblos in an occasional stump of a beam or short
pole projecting from the wall at varying heights. Ceiling beams are also used for stretching the warp both in
blanket and belt weaving.
The furnishings of a pueblo house do not include tables and chairs. The meals are eaten directly from the
stone-paved floor, the participants rarely having any other seat than the blanket that they wear, rolled up or
folded into convenient form. Small stools are sometimes seen, but 213 the need of such appliances does not
seem to be keenly felt by these Indians, who can, for hours, sit in a peculiar squatting position on their
haunches, without any apparent discomfort. Though moveable chairs or stools are rare, nearly all of the
dwellings are provided with the low ledge or bench around the rooms, which in earlier times seems to have
been confined to the kivas. A slight advance on this fixed form of seat was the stone block used in the
Tusayan kivas, described on p. 132, which at the same time served a useful purpose in the adjustment of the
warp threads for blanket weaving.
Fig. 107. ZuÃ±i stools.
Fig. 108. A ZuÃ±i chair.
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The few wooden stools observed show very primitive workmanship, and are usually made of a single piece of
wood. Fig. 107 illustrates two forms of wooden stool from ZuÃ±i. The small three-legged stool on the left has
been cut from the trunk of a piÃ±on tree in such a manner as to utilize as legs the three branches into which
the main stem separated. The other stool illustrated is also cut from a single piece of tree trunk, which has
been reduced in weight by cutting out one side, leaving the two ends for support.
A curiously worked chair of modern form seen in ZuÃ±i is illustrated in Fig. 108. It was difficult to determine
the antiquity of this specimen, as its rickety condition may have been due to the clumsy workmanship quite as
much as to the effects of age. Rude as is the workmanship, however, it was far beyond the unaided skill of the
native craftsman to join and mortise the various pieces that go to make up this chair. Some decorative effect
has been sought here, the ornamentation, made up of notches and sunken grooves, closely resembling that on
the window sash illustrated in Fig. 88, and somewhat similar in effect to the carving on the Spanish beams
seen in the Tusayan kivas. The whole construction strongly suggests Spanish influence.
214 Even the influence of Americans has as yet failed to bring about the use of tables or bedsteads among the
pueblo Indians. The floor answers all the purposes of both these useful articles of furniture. The food dishes
are placed directly upon it at meal times, and at night the blankets, rugs, and sheep skins that form the bed are
spread directly upon it. These latter, during the day, are suspended upon the clothes pole previously described
and illustrated.
CORRALS AND GARDENS.
The introduction of domestic sheep among the pueblos has added a new and important element to their mode
of living, but they seem never to have reached a clear understanding as to how these animals should be cared
for. No forethought is exercised to separate the rams so that the lambs will be born at a favorable season. The
flocks consist of sheep and goats which are allowed to run together at all tunes. Black sheep and some with a
grayish color of wool are often seen among them. No attempt is made to eliminate these dark-fleeced
members of the flock, since the black and gray wool is utilized in its natural color in producing many of the
designs and patterns of the blankets woven by these people. The flocks are usually driven up into the corrals
or inclosures every evening, and are taken out again in the morning, frequently at quite a late hour. This,
together with the time consumed in driving them to and from pasture, gives them much less chance to thrive
than those of the nomadic Navajo. In Tusayan the corrals are usually of small size and inclosed by thin walls
of rude stone work. This may be seen in the foreground of Pl. XXI. Pl. CIX illustrates several corrals just
outside the village of Mashongnavi similarly constructed, but of somewhat larger size. Some of the corrals of
Oraibi are of still larger size, approaching in this respect the corrals of Cibola. The Oraibi pens are rudely
rectangular in form, with more or less rounded angles, and are also built of rude masonry.
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Plate CIX. Stone corrals and kiva of Mashongnavi.
In the less important villages of Cibola stone is occasionally used for inclosing the corrals, as in Tusayan, as
may be seen in Pl. LXX, illustrating an inclosure of this character in the court of the farming pueblo of
Pescado. Pl. CX illustrates in detail the manner in which stone work is combined with the use of rude stakes
in the construction of this inclosure. On the rugged sites of the Tusayan villages corrals are placed wherever
favorable nooks happen to be found in the rocks, but at ZuÃ±i, built in the comparatively open plain, they
form a nearly continuous belt around the pueblo. Here they are made of stakes and brush held in place by
horizontal poles tied on with strips of rawhide. The rudely contrived gateways are supported in natural forks at
the top and sides of posts. Often one or two small inclosures used for burros or horses occur near these sheep
corrals. The construction is identical with those above described and is very rude. It is illustrated in Fig. 109,
which shows the manner in which the stakes are arranged, and also 215 the method of attaching the
horizontal tie-pieces. The construction of these inclosures is frail, and the danger of pushing the stakes over by
pressure from within is guarded against by employing forked braces that abut against horizontal pieces tied on
4 or 5 feet from the ground. Reference to Pl. LXXIV will illustrate this construction.
Plate CX. Portion of a corral in Pescado.
Within the village of ZuÃ±i inclosures resembling miniature corrals are sometimes seen built against the
houses; these are used as cages for eagles. A number of these birds are kept in ZuÃ±i for the sake of their
plumage, which is highly valued for ceremonial purposes. Pl. CXI illustrates one of these coops, constructed
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Fig. 109. Construction of a ZuÃ±i corral.
In both of the pueblo groups under discussion, small gardens contiguous to the villages are frequent. Those of
Tusayan are walled in with stone.
Within the pueblo of ZuÃ±i a small group of garden patches is inclosed by stake fences, but the majority of
the gardens in the vicinity of the 216 principal villages are provided with low walls of mud masonry. The
small terraced gardens here are near the river bank on the southwest and southeast sides of the village. The
inclosed spaces, averaging in size about 10 feet square, are used for the cultivation of red peppers, beans, etc.,
which, during the dry season, are watered by hand. These inclosures, situated close to the dwellings, suggest a
probable explanation for similar inclosures found in many of the ruins in the southern and eastern portions of
the ancient pueblo region. Mr. Bandelier was informed by the Pimas10 that these inclosures were ancient
gardens. He concluded that since acequias were frequent in the immediate vicinity these gardens must have
been used as reserves in case of war, when the larger fields were not available, but the manner of their
occurrence in ZuÃ±i suggests rather that they were intended for cultivation of special crops, such as pepper,
beans, cotton, and perhaps also of a variety of 217 tobacco—corn, melons, squashes, etc., being
cultivated elsewhere in larger tracts. There is a large group of gardens on the bank of the stream at the
southeastern corner of ZuÃ±i, and here there are slight indications of terracing. A second group on the steeper
slope at the southwestern corner is distinctly terraced. Small walled gardens of the same type as these ZuÃ±i
examples occur in the vicinity of some of the Tusayan villages on the middle mesa. They are located near the
springs or water pockets, apparently to facilitate watering by hand. Some of them contain a few small peach
trees in addition to the vegetable crops ordinarily met with. The clusters here are, as a rule, smaller than those
of ZuÃ±i, as there is much less space available in the vicinity of the springs. At one point on the west side of
the first mesa, a few miles above Walpi, a copious spring serves to irrigate quite an extensive series of small
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Plate CXI. ZuÃ±i eagle-cage.
At several points around ZuÃ±i, usually at a greater distance than the terrace gardens, are fields of much
larger area inclosed in a similar manner. Their inclosure was simply to secure them against the depredations of
stray burros, so numerous about the village. When the crops are gathered in the autumn, several breaches are
made in the low wall and the burros are allowed to luxuriate on the remains. Pl. LIX indicates the position of
the large cluster of garden patches on the southeastern side of ZuÃ±i. Fig. 110, taken from photographs made
in 1873, shows several of these small gardens with their growing crops and a large field of corn beyond. The
workmanship of the garden walls as contrasted with that of the house masonry has been already described and
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Fig. 110. Gardens of ZuÃ±i.
â——KISIâ—— CONSTRUCTION.
Lightly constructed shelters for the use of those in charge of fields were probably a constant accompaniment
of pueblo horticulture. Such shelters were built of stone or of brush, according to which material was most
available.
In very precipitous localities, as the Canyon de Chelly, these outlooks naturally became the so-called
cliff-dwellings or isolated shelters. In Cibola single stone houses are in common use, not to the exclusion,
however, of the lighter structures of brush, while in Tusayan these lighter forms, of which there are a number
of well defined varieties, are almost exclusively used. A detailed study of the methods of construction
employed in these rude shelters would be of great interest as affording a comparison both with the building
methods of the ruder neighboring tribes and with those adopted in constructing some of the details of the
terraced house; the writer, however, did not have an opportunity of making an examination of all the field
shelters used in these pueblos. Two of the simpler types are the â——tuwahlki,â—— or watch house, and the
â——kishoni,â—— or uncovered shade. The former is constructed by first 218 planting a short forked stick
in the ground, which supports one end of a pole, the other end resting on the ground. The interval between this
ridge pole and the ground is roughly filled in with slanting sticks and brush, the inclosed space being not more
than 3 feet in height, with a maximum width of four or five feet. These shelters are for the accommodation of
the children who watch the melon patches until the fruit is harvested.
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Fig. 111. Kishoni, or uncovered shade, of Tusayan.
The kishoni, or uncovered shade, illustrated in Fig. 111, is perhaps the simplest form of shelter employed. Ten
or a dozen cottonwood saplings are set firmly into the ground, so as to form a slightly curved inclosure with
convex side toward the south. Cottonwood and willow boughs in foliage, grease-wood, sage brush, and rabbit
brush are laid with stems upward in even rows against these saplings to a height of 6 or 7 feet. This light
material is held in place by bands of small cottonwood branches laid in continuous horizontal lines around the
outside of the shelter and these are attached to the upright saplings with cottonwood and willow twigs.
Fig. 112. A Tusayan field shelter, from southwest.
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219 Figs. 112 and 113 illustrate a much more elaborate field shelter in Tusayan. As may readily be seen from
the figures this shelter covers a considerable area; it will be seen too that the upright branches that inclose two
of its sides are of sufficient height to considerably shade the level roof of poles and brush, converting it into a
comfortable retreat.
Fig. 113. A Tusayan field shelter, from northeast.
220
ARCHITECTURAL NOMENCLATURE.
The following nomenclature, collected by Mr. Stephen, comprises the terms commonly used in designating
the constructional details of Tusayan houses and kivas:
KikoÂ´li The ground floor rooms forming the first terrace.

TupuÂ´bi The roofed recess at the end of the first terrace.
AhÂ´pabi A terrace roof.
IhÂ´pobi
TupatÂća ihÂ´pobi The third terrace, used in common as a loitering place.
TumtcoÂ´kobi â——The place of the flat stone;â—— small rooms in which
â——piki,â—— or paper-bread, is baked. â——Tuma,â—— the piki stone,
and â——tcokâ—— describing its flat position.
TupaÂ´tca â——Where you sit overhead;â—— the third story.
OÂ´mi AhÂ´pabi The second story; a doorway always opens from it upon the roof of the
â——kikoÂ´li.â——
Kitcobi â——The highest place;â—— the fourth story.
Tuhkwa A wall.
Puce An outer corner.
Apaphucua An inside corner.
Lestabi The main roof timbers.
WinaÂ´kwapi
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Smaller cross poles. â——Winahoya,â—— a small pole, and
â——Kwapi,â—— in place.
KahaÂ´b kwapi The willow covering.
SÃ¼ibi kwapi The brush covering.
SiÂ´hÃ¼ kwapi The grass covering.
KiamÂ´ balawi The mud plaster of roof covering, â——BalatleÂ´lewini,â—— to spread.
TcukatÂćvewata Dry earth covering the roof. â——Tcuka,â—— earth, â——katuto,â—— to
sit, and â——atÂćvewata,â—— one laid above another.
Kiami An entire roof.
KwoÂ´pku The fireplace.
KwiÂ´tcki â——Smoke-house,â—— an inside chimney-hood.
SibvuÂ´tÃ¼tÃ¼kÂ´mula A series of bottomless jars piled above each other, and luted together as a
chimney-top.
SibvuÂ´ A bottomless earthen vessel serving as a chimney pot.
BokÂći Any small hole in a wall, or roof, smaller than a doorway.
HiÂ´tci An opening, such as a doorway. This term is also applied to a gap in a cliff.
HiÂ´tci KalauÂ´wata A door frame.
TÃ»Ã±aÃ±Â´Ã®ata A lintel; literally, â——that holds the sides in place.â——
WuwÃ»kÂ´pi â——The place step;â—— the door sill.
NiÃ±uhÂ´pi A handhold; the small pole in a doorway below the lintel.
PanaÂ´ptca Ã¼tcÂ´pi bokÂći A window; literally, â——glass covered opening.â——
UtÂćpi A cover.
AhpaÂ´bÃ¼tcÂ´pi A door. â——Apab,â—— inside; wina, a pole.
WinaÂ´Ã¼tcÂ´pi
OÂ´wa Ã¼tcÂ´ppÃ® â——Stone cover,â—— a stone slab.
221 TÃ¼iÂ´ka A projection in the wall of a room suggesting a partition, such as shown in
Pl. LXXXV. The same term is applied to a projecting cliff in a mesa.
KiamÂí An entire roof. The main beams, cross poles, and roof layers have the same
names as in the kiva, given later.
WÄ−naÂ´kÃ¼Âí Projecting poles; rafters extending beyond the walls.
BalÂ´kakini â——Spread out;â—— the floor.
OÂ´tcokpÃ¼Â´h â——Leveled with stones;â—— a raised level for the foundation.
BaÂ´lkakini tÃ¼Â´wi â——Floor ledge;â—— the floor of one room raised above that of an
adjoining one.
HakoÂ´la â——Lower place;â—— the floor of a lower room. Sand dunes in a valley
are called â——Hakolpi.â——
KoÂ´ltci A shelf.
OwakoÂ´ltci A stone shelf.
TaÂ´pÃ¼ kÃ¼Âíta A support for a shelf.
WinaÂ´koltci A hewn plank shelf.
KokiÃ¼ni A wooden peg in a wall.
TÃ¼leta A shelf hanging from the ceiling.
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TÃ¼kÃ»lci A niche in the wall.
TÃ¼kÃ»li A stone mortar.
MaÂ´ta The complete mealing apparatus for grinding corn.
OwaÂ´mata The trough or outer frame of stone slabs.
MataÂ´ki The metate or grinding slab.
KakomÂ´ta mataÂ´ki The coarsest grinding slab.
TalaÂ´kÃ® mataÂ´ki The next finer slab; from â——talakiâ—— to parch crushed corn in a vessel
at the fire.
PiÃ±ÂńyÃ¼mta mataÂ´ki The slab of finest texture; from â——pin,â—— fine.
MaÂ´ta Ã¼Â´tci The upright partition stones separating the metates. The rubbing stones have
the same names as the metates.
HawiÂ´wita A stone stairway.
TÃ¼tÃ¼Â´beÃ± hawiÂ´wita A stairway pecked into a cliff face.
SaÂ´ka A ladder.
WinaÂ´hawiÂ´pi Steps of wood.
KiÂćka The covered way.
HitcuÂýÃ®Â´wa â——Opening to pass through;â—— a narrow passage between houses.
KiÂ´sombi â——Place closed with houses;â—— courts and spaces between house
groups.
BavwaÂ´kwapi A gutter pipe inserted in the roof coping.
In kiva nomenclature the various parts of the roof have the same names as the corresponding features of the
dwellings. These are described on pp. 148-151.
LeÂ´stabi The main roof timbers.

WinaÂ´kwapi The smaller cross poles.
KahaÂ´b kwapi The willow covering.
SÃ¼ibi kwapi The brush covering.
SiÂ´hÃ¼ kwapi The grass covering.
TcukaÂ´tcve wata The dry earth layer of the roof.
KiamÂ´baÂ´lawi The layer of mud plaster on the roof.
Kiami An entire roof.
222 The following terms are used to specially designate various features of the kivas:
TÃ¼patÂćaiata, lestabi Both of these terms are used to designate the kiva hatchway beams upon
LestaÂ´bkwapi, which the hatchway walls rest.
SÃ¼naÂćabi leÂ´stabi The main beams in the roof, nearest to the hatchway.
Ä—pÂéoka leÂ´stabi The main beams next to the central ones.
PÃ¼epÂéoka leÂ´stabi The main beams next in order, and all the beams intervening between the
â——epeokaâ—— and the end beams are so designated.
KalaÂ´beoka lestabi The beams at the ends of a kiva.
MataÂówa â——Stone placed with hands.â——
HÃ¼zrÃ¼owa â——Hard stone.â——
Both of these latter terms are applied to corner foundation stones.

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KwaÂ´kÃ¼ Ã¼tÂćpi Moveable mat of reeds or sticks for covering hatchway opening, Fig. 29.
â——Kwaku,â—— wild hay; â——utepi,â—— a stopper.
TÃ¼patÂćaiata The raised hatchway; â——the sitting place,â—— Fig. 95.
TÃ¼patÂćaiata tÃ¼Â´kwa The walls of the hatchway.
KipatÂćtjuaÂ´ta The kiva doorway; the opening into the hatchway, Fig. 28.
ApaÂ´phoÂýa Small niches in the wall. â——Apap,â—— from â——apabi,â—— inside,
and â——hoya,â—— small.
SiÂ´papÃ¼h An archaic term. The etymology of this word is not known.
KwÅ—pÂ´kota The fireplace. â——Kwuhi,â—— coals or embers; â——kÃ¼aiti,â——
head.
KÅ—iÂ´tci Pegs for drying fuel, fixed under the hatchway. â——Ko-hu,â—— wood;
Fig. 28.
KokÃ¼Âína Pegs in the walls.
SaÂ´ka A ladder. This term is applied to any ladder. Figs. 45-47.
SaÂ´kaleta Ladder rungs; â——Leta,â—— from â——lestabi;â—— see above.
TÃ¼vwibi The platform elevation or upper level of the floor. â——Tu-vwi,â—— a
ledge; Fig. 24.
TÃ¼vwi Stone ledges around the sides, for seats. The same term is used to designate
any ledge, as that of a mesa, etc.
KatcinÂ´ KibÃ¼ â——Katcina,â—— house. The niche in a ledge at the end of the kiva.
KwiÂ´sa The planks set into the floor, to which the lower beam of a blanket loom is
fastened.
KaintupÂ´ha Terms applied to the main floor; they both mean â——the large space.â——
KivaÂ´kani
TapÃ¼Â´wÃ¼Â´tci Hewn planks a foot wide and 6 to 8 feet long, set into the floor.
WinaÂ´wÃ¼Â´tci A plank.
OwaÂ´pÃ¼hÃ¼Âímiata â——Stone spread out;â—— the flagged floor; also designates the slabs
covering the hatchway.
223 YauÂ´wiopi. Stones with holes pecked in the ends for holding the loom beam while the
warp is being adjusted; also used as seats; see p. 132.
Fig. 114. Diagram showing ideal section of terraces, with Tusayan names.

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The accompanying diagram is an ideal section of a Tusayan four-story house, and gives the native names for
the various rooms and terraces.
CONCLUDING REMARKS.
The modern villages of Tusayan and Cibola differ more widely in arrangement and in the relation they bear to
the surrounding topography than did their predecessors even of historic times.
Many of the older pueblos of both groups appear to have belonged to the valley types—villages of
considerable size, located in open plains or on the slopes of low-lying foothills. A comparison of the plans in
Chapters II and III will illustrate these differences. In Tusayan the necessity of defense has driven the builders
to inaccessible sites, so that now all the occupied villages of the province are found on mesa summits. The
inhabitants of the valley pueblos of Cibola, although compelled at one time to build their houses upon the
almost inaccessible summit of TÃ¢aaiyalana mesa, occupied this site only temporarily, and soon established a
large valley pueblo, the size and large population of which afforded that defensive efficiency which the
Tusayan obtained only by building on mesa promontories. This has resulted in some adherence on the part of
the Tusayan to the village plans of their ancestors, while at Zuni the great house clusters, forming the largest
pueblo occupied in modern times, show a wide departure from the primitive types. In both provinces the
architecture is distinguished from that of other portions of the pueblo region by greater irregularity of 224
plan and by less skillfully executed constructional details; each group, however, happens to contain a notable
exception to this general carelessness.
In Cibola the pueblo of Kin-tiel, built with a continuous defensive outer wall, occupies architecturally a
somewhat anomalous position, notwithstanding its traditional connection with the group, and the Fire House
occupies much the same relation in reference to Tusayan. The latter, however, does not break in upon the
unity of the group, since the Tusayan, to a much greater extent than the ZuÃ±i, are made up of remnants of
various bands of builders. In Cibola, however, some of the Indians state that their ancestors, before reaching
ZuÃ±i, built a number of pueblos, whose ruins are distinguished from those illustrated in the present paper by
the presence of circular kivas, this form of ceremonial room being, apparently, wholly absent from the
Cibolan pueblos here discussed.
The people of Cibola and of Tusayan belong to distinct linguistic stocks, but their arts are very closely related,
the differences being no greater than would result from the slightly different conditions that have operated
within the last few generations. ZuÃ±i, perhaps, came more directly under early Spanish influence than
Tusayan.
Churches were established, as has been seen, in both provinces, but it is doubtful whether their presence
produced any lasting impression on the people. In Tusayan the sway of the Spaniards was very brief. At some
of the pueblos the churches seem to have been built outside of the village proper where ample space was
available within the pueblo; but such an encroachment on the original inclosed courts seems never to have
been attempted. ZuÃ±i is an apparent exception; but all the house clusters east of the church have probably
been built later than the church itself, the church court of the present village being a much larger area than
would be reserved for the usual pueblo court. These early churches were, as a rule, built of adobe, even when
occurring in stone pueblos. The only exception noticed is at Ketchipauan, where it was built of the
characteristic Indian smoothly chinked masonry. The Spaniards usually intruded their own construction, even
to the composition of the bricks, which are nearly always made of straw adobe.
At Tusayan there is no evidence that a church or mission house ever formed part of the villages on the mesa
summits. Their plans are complete in themselves, and probably represent closely the first pueblos built on
these sites. These summits have been extensively occupied only in comparatively recent times, although one
CONCLUDING REMARKS. 220

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or more small clusters may have been built here at an early date as outlooks over the fields in the valleys
below.
It is to be noted that some of the ruins connected traditionally and historically with Tusayan and Cibola differ
in no particular from stone pueblos widely scattered over the southwestern plateaus which have been from
time to time invested with a halo of romantic antiquity, and 225 regarded as remarkable achievements in
civilization by a vanished but once powerful race. These deserted stone houses, occurring in the midst of
desert solitudes, appealed strongly to the imaginations of early explorers, and their stimulated fancy connected
the remains with â——Aztecsâ—— and other mysterious peoples. That this early implanted bias has caused
the invention of many ingenious theories concerning the origin and disappearance of the builders of the
ancient pueblos, is amply attested in the conclusions reached by many of the writers on this subject.
In connection with the architectural examination of some of these remains many traditions have been obtained
from the present tribes, clearly indicating that some of the village ruins, and even cliff dwellings, have been
built and occupied by ancestors of the present Pueblo Indians, sometimes at a date well within the historic
period.
The migrations of the Tusayan clans, as described in the legends collected by Mr. Stephen, were slow and
tedious. While they pursued their wanderings and awaited the favorable omens of the gods they halted many
times and planted. They speak traditionally of stopping at certain places on their routes during a certain
number of â——plantings,â—— always building the characteristic stone pueblos and then again taking up the
march.
When these Indians are questioned as to whence they came, their replies are various and conflicting; but this
is due to the fact that the members of one clan came, after a long series of wanderings, from the north, for
instance, while those of other gentes may have come last from the east. The tribe to-day seems to be made up
of a collection or a confederacy of many enfeebled remnants of independent phratries and groups once more
numerous and powerful. Some clans traditionally referred to as having been important are now represented by
few survivors, and bid fair soon to become extinct. So the members of each phratry have their own store of
traditions, relating to the wanderings of their own ancestors, which differ from those of other clans, and refer
to villages successively built and occupied by them. In the case of others of the pueblos, the occupation of
cliff dwellings and cave lodges is known to have occurred within historic times.
Both architectural and traditional evidence are in accord in establishing a continuity of descent from the
ancient Pueblos to those of the present day. Many of the communities are now made up of the more or less
scattered but interrelated remnants of gentes which in former times occupied villages, the remains of which
are to-day looked upon as the early homes of â——Aztec colonies,â—— etc.
The adaptation, of this architecture to the peculiar environment indicates that it has long been practiced under
the same conditions that now prevail. Nearly all of the ancient pueblos were built of the sandstone found in
natural quarries at the bases of hundreds of cliffs throughout these table-lands. This stone readily breaks into
small pieces of regular 226 form, suitable for use in the simple masonry of the pueblos without receiving any
artificial treatment. The walls themselves give an exaggerated idea of finish, owing to the care and neatness
with which the component stones are placed. Some of the illustrations in the last chapter, from photographs,
show clearly that the material of the walls was much ruder than the appearance of the finished masonry would
suggest, and that this finish depended on the careful selection and arrangement of the fragments. This is even
more noticeable in the Chaco ruins, in which the walls were wrought to a high degrees of surface finish. The
core of the wall was laid up with the larger and more irregular stones, and was afterwards brought to a smooth
face by carefully filling in and chinking the joints with smaller stones and fragments, sometimes not more
than a quarter of an inch thick; this method is still roughly followed by both Tusayan and Cibolan builders.

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Although many details of construction and arrangement display remarkable adaptation to the physical
character of the country, yet the influence of such environment would not alone suffice to produce this
architectural type. In order to develop the results found, another element was necessary. This element was the
necessity for defense. The pueblo population was probably subjected to the more or less continuous influence
of this defensive motive throughout the period of their occupation of this territory. A strong independent race
of people, who had to fear no invasion by stronger foes, would necessarily have been influenced more by the
physical environment and would have progressed further in the art of building, but the motive for building
rectangular rooms—the initial point of departure in the development of pueblo
architecture—would not have been brought into action. The crowding of many habitations upon a small
cliff ledge or other restricted site, resulting in the rectangular form of rooms, was most likely due to the
conditions imposed by this necessity for defense.
The general outlines of the development of this architecture wherein the ancient builders were stimulated to
the best use of the exceptional materials about them, both by the difficult conditions of their semi-desert
environment and by constant necessity for protection against their neighbors, can be traced in its various
stages of growth from the primitive conical lodge to its culmination in the large communal village of
many-storied terraced buildings which we find to have been in use at the time of the Spanish discovery, and
which still survives in ZuÃ±i, perhaps its most striking modern example. Yet the various steps have resulted
from a simple and direct use of the material immediately at hand, while methods gradually improved as
frequent experiments taught the builders more fully to utilize local facilities. In all cases the material was
derived from the nearest available source, and often variations in the quality of the finished work are due to
variations in the quality of the stone near by. The results accomplished attest the patient and persistent
industry of the ancient builders, but the work does not display great skill in construction or in preparation of
material. 227 The same desert environment that furnished such an abundance of material for the ancient
builders, also, from its difficult and inhospitable character and the constant variations in the water supply,
compelled the frequent employment of this material. This was an important factor in bringing about the
attained degree of advancement in the building art. At the present day constant local changes occur in the
water sources of these arid table-lands, while the general character of the climate remains unaltered.
The distinguishing characteristics of Pueblo architecture may be regarded as the product of a defensive motive
and of an arid environment that furnished an abundance of suitable building material, and at the same time the
climatic conditions that compelled its frequent employment.
The decline of the defensive motive within the last few years has greatly affected the more recent architecture.
Even after the long practice of the system has rendered it somewhat fixed, comparative security from attack
has caused many of the Pueblo Indians to recognize the inconvenience of dwellings grouped in large clusters
on sites difficult of access, while the sources of their subsistence are necessarily sparsely scattered over large
areas. This is noticeable in the building of small, detached houses at a distance from the main villages, the
greater convenience to crops, flocks and water outweighing the defensive motive. In Cibola particularly, a
marked tendency in this direction has shown itself within a score of years; Ojo Caliente, the newest of the
farming pueblos, is perhaps the most striking example within the two provinces. The greater security of the
pueblos as the country comes more fully into the hands of Americans, has also resulted in the more careless
construction in modern examples as compared with the ancient.
There is no doubt that, as time shall go on, the system of building many-storied clusters of rectangular rooms
will gradually be abandoned by these people. In the absence of the defensive motive a more convenient
system, employing scattered small houses, located near springs and fields, will gradually take its place, thus
returning to a mode of building that probably prevailed in the evolution of the pueblo prior to the clustering of
many rooms into large defensive villages. Pl. LXXXIII illustrates a building of the type described located on
the outskirts of ZuÃ±i, across the river from the main pueblo.

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The cultural distinctions between the Pueblo Indians and neighboring tribes gradually become less clearly
defined as investigation progresses. Mr. Cushingâ——s study of the ZuÃ±i social, political, and religious
systems has clearly established their essential identity in grade of culture with those of other tribes. In many of
the arts, too, such as weaving, ceramics, etc., these people in no degree surpass many tribes who build ruder
dwellings.
228 In architecture, though, they have progressed far beyond their neighbors; many of the devices employed
attest the essentially primitive character of the art, and demonstrate that the apparent distinction in grade of
culture is mainly due to the exceptional condition of the environment.
FOOTNOTES
1. This chapter is compiled by Cosmos Mindeleff from material collected by A. M. Stephen.
2. The term by which the Tusayan Indians proper designate themselves. This term does not include the
inhabitants of the village of Tewa or Hano, who are called Hanomuh.
3. The term yasuna, translated here as â——year,â—— is of rather indefinite significance; it sometimes
means thirteen moons and in other instances much longer periods.
4. See Millstone for April, 1884, Indianapolis, Indiana.
5. These two names are common to the kiva in which the Snake order meets and in which the indoor
ceremonies pertaining to the Snake-dance are celebrated.
6. Cont. to N.A. Ethn., vol. 4, Houses and House life, pp. 129-131.
7. Fifth Ann. Rept. Arch. Inst. Am., p. 74.
8. Contributions to N.A. Ethnology, vol. 4. House Life, etc., p. 182.
9. Given by W. W. H. Davis in El Gringo, p. 119.
10. Fifth Ann. Rept. Arch. Inst. Am., p. 92.
INDEX
A
Acoma, arrival of the Asanyumu at 30
direction of kivas of 116
kiva trap-doors at 207
Adobe, use in Tusayan 54, 78
use in ZuÃ±i attributed to foreign influence 139
necessity for protecting against rain 156
used in Spanish churches 224
Adobe balls used in garden walls 146
Adobe bricks, in Hawikut church 81
use modern in ZuÃ±i 138
FOOTNOTES 223
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Adobe mortar, in TÃ¢aaiyalana structures 90
Cibola and Tusayan use of, compared 137
Adobe walls on stone foundation at Moenkopi 78
Ã—ikoka. See Acoma 30
AiyÃ¡hokwi, the descendants of the Asa at ZuÃ±i 30
Alleyway, Hawikuh 81
Altar, conformity of, to direction of kiva 116
Andiron, Shumopavi 176
Annular doorway 192, 193
Apache, inroads upon Tusayan by the 25, 26, 35
exposure of southern Cibola to the 96
Architectural nomenclature 220, 223
Architecture, comparison of constructional details of Tusayan and Cibola 100-223
adaption to defense 226, 227
adaption to environment 225, 226, 227, 228
Art, textile and fictile, degree of Pueblo advancement in 227
Arts of Cibola and Tusayan closely related 224
Asa, migrations of the 30, 31
language of the 37
houses of, Hano 61
Asanyumu. See Asa.
Awatubi, survey of 14
Spanish mission established at 22
when and by whom built 29
settlement of the Asa at 30
attacked by the Walpi 34
description of ruins of 49, 50
possession of sheep by the 50
clay tubes used as roof drains at 155
fragments of passage wall at 181
Aztecs, ruined structures attributed to the 225
B
Badger people leave Walpi 31
Baho, use of, in kiva consecratory ceremonies 119-120, 129, 130
Balcony, notched and terraced 187
Banded masonry 145
Bandelier, A.F., description of chimney 173
explorations of 197
on ancient stone inclosures 216
Bat house, description of ruin of 52
BÃ¡tni, the first pueblo of the Snake people of Tusayan 18
Bedsteads not used by Pueblos 214
INDEX 224
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Beams, Tusayan kivas, taken from Spanish church at Shumopavi 76
for supporting upper walls 144
modern finish of 149
construction of steps upon 162
for supporting passageway wall 181
Chaco pueblos, how squared 184
Bear people, settlement in Tusayan of the 20, 26
removal to Walpi of the 21, 27
movements of 27, 30, 31, 38
Bear-skin-rope people, settlement in Tusayan of the 26, 27
Benches or ledges of masonry, ZuÃ±i rooms 110
Tusayan kivas 121, 123, 125
Mashongnavi mungkiva 127
around rooms of pueblo houses 213
Bins for storage in Tusayan rooms 109, 209, 210
Blankets formerly used to cover doorways 182, 188, 189, 194
Blue Jay people, settlement in Tusayan of the 26, 27
Bond stones used in pueblo walls 144, 198
Boss, or andiron, Shumopavi 176
Boundary line, Hano and Sichumovi 36
Boundary mark, Shumopavi and Oraibi 28
Boxes for plumes 210
Bricks of adobe modern in ZuÃ±i 138
Brush, use of, in roof construction 150
Brush shelters 217-219
Burial custom of Kâ——iakima natives 86
Burial inclosures at Kâ——iakima 147
Burial place of ZuÃ±i 148
Burrowing Owl people, settlement in Tusayan of the 26
Buttress, formerly of Halona, existing in ZuÃ±i 88, 89
Buttress projections, ZuÃ±i 111
Tusayan rooms 109, 110
girders supported by 144
chimney supported by 172, 173
support of passageway roofs by 181
C
Cages for eagles at ZuÃ±i 214
Canyon de Chelly, proposed study of ruins of 14
Tusayan, tradition concerning villages of 19
early occupancy of, by the Bear people at Tusayan 20
occupied by the Asa 30
use of whitewash in cliff houses of 74, 145
INDEX 225
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circular kivas of 117, 133
finish of roofs of houses of 150, 151
doorway described and figured 190
cliff dwellings of 217
Casa Blanca, traces of whitewashing at 145
CastaÃ±edaâ——s account of Cibolan milling 211, 212
Cattle introduced into Tusayan 22
Cave lodges occupied in historic times 225
Cave used by inhabitants of Kwaituki 57
Ceiling plan of Shupaulovi kiva 123, 125, 126
Ceilings, retention of original appearance of rooms through nonrenovation 89
of
Cellars not used in Tusayan and Cibola 143
Ceremonial chamber. See Kiva.
Ceremonial paraphernalia of Tusayan taken by the Navajo 50
Ceremonies connected with Tusayan house-building 100-104, 168
Ceremonies accompanying kiva construction 115, 118
Ceremonies performed at placing of ZuÃ±i ladders 160
Chaco ruins, character of 14, 70
compared with Kin-tiel 92
finish of masonry of 140, 226
upper story partitions of, supported by beams 144
finish of woodwork of 149, 184
symmetry of arrangement of outer openings of 195
loop-holes in walls of 198
Chairs, lack of in Pueblo houses 212
Chalowe, description of 83
Charred roof timbers of Tusayan kiva 120
Chimney. See Fireplace.
Chimney-hoods, how constructed 169-175
Chimneys, traces of in Kâ——iakima 85
remains of, at Matsaki 86
Tusayan 102
ZuÃ±i 111
described and figured 167-180
Chukubi pueblo, built by the Squash people 25
description 58, 59
Church, Shumopavi, established by Spanish monks 75, 76
Hawikuh 81, 138
Ketchipauan, remains of 81, 82
in court of ZuÃ±i 98, 138, 148
INDEX 226
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See Mission.
Churches established in ZuÃ±i and Tusayan 224
Cibola, ruins and inhabited villages of 80-99
architecture of compared with that of Tusayan 100-223
See ZuÃ±i.
Circular doorway of Kin-tiel described 192
Circular kivas, antiquity of 116
traditional references to 135
absent in Cibolan pueblos 224
Circular room at Oraibi Wash 54-55
Circular rooms at Kin-tiel 93
Circular wall of kiva near Sikyatki 117
Clay surface of pueblo roofs 151
Clay tubes used as roof drains 155
Cliff dwellings, Moen-kopi 54
use of whitewash in 74
absence of chimneys in 168
developed from temporary shelters 217
occupied in historic times 225
Climatic conditions, effect of, upon pueblo architecture 140, 227
Clustering of TÃ¢aaiyalana ruins 89-90
CochitÃ− claimed to be a former Tewa pueblo 37
Communal village, development of pueblo architecture from conical lodge 226
to
Consecration of kivas 129
Contours represented on plans, interval of 45
Cooking, pueblo method of 164
Cooking pits and ovens described 162-166, 176-177
Cooking stones of Tusayan, flames of 104
Copings of walls described 151-152
Coping of hatchways 203
Coping. See Roof-coping.
Cords, used for suspending chimney 170
Corner stones of Tusayan kivas 119
Corrals, Payupki 59
Sichumovi 62-63
Hawikuh 81
Ketchipauan 81
modern, at Kâ——iakima 85
how constructed 146
described in detail 214-217
Cotton cultivated by the Tusayan 33
INDEX 227
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Courts, Mishiptonga 52
Kwaituki 56
Chukubi 59
Sichumovi 62
Walpi 63
Mashongnavi 68
Shupaulovi 71
Shumopavi 74
Hawikuh 81
Ketchipauan 81
Matsaki 86
TÃ¢aaiyalana 90
Kin-tiel 92
Pescado 95
ZuÃ±i 98
Covered way, how developed 76
Covered passages and gateways described 180-182
Coyote people, settlement in Tusayan of the 26
Coyote kiva, direction of the 116
Crossbars used in fastening wooden doors 183
Crosspieces of ladders 159
Cruzate, visit to Awatubi of 49
Culture of pueblo tribes, degree of 227
Cushing, Frank H., identifies Kâ——iakima as scene of death of 86
Estevanico
excavations at Halona 88, 193
opinion concerning western wall of Halona 89
opinion concerning distribution of TÃ¢aaiyalana ruins 89-90
on the former occupancy of Kin-tiel 92
Haloua identified as one of the Seven Cities of Cibola 97
on ZuÃ±i tradition concerning stone-close 192
D
Dais of kivas 121, 122, 123
Dance ceremony in kiva consecration 130
Dance rock, Tusayan, reference to snake dance of 65
DÃ©bris, how indicated in plans of ruins 45
an indication of original height of walls 90
Decoration, house openings 145-146
Kiva roof timbers 119, 120
ladder crosspieces 159
roof beams 123, 124
wall of Mashongnavi house 146
INDEX 228
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wooden chair 213
ZuÃ±i window sashes 196
Deer horns used as pegs in ZuÃ±i 111
Defense, wall for, at Bat House 52
a motive for selection of dwelling site 56
architecture relied upon for 58
method of, of Payupki 59, 60
not a factor in selection of Mashongnavi site 67
features of, at Ojo Calient 69
wall for, at Pueblo Bonito 70
features of, at Tusayan and ZuÃ±i compared 76
sites chosen for, inconvenient to sources of subsistence 77
use of Kelchipauan church for, by natives 82
the motive of occupation of TÃ¢aaiyalana mesa 90
provision for, at Kin-tie 92, 93
provisions for, in Ketchipauan church 96
motive for, dying out in ZuÃ±i 96-97
efficiency of, at ZuÃ±i 97
not a motive in selection of site of ZuÃ±i 97
gateways arranged for 180, 182
loopholes for 198
adaptation of architecture to 225
Doors to ground floor rooms of ZuÃ±i 143
Doors of various lands described 183-194
Doorway, Walpi kiva, closed with cottonwood slab 64
Kin-tiel 93
position of, in Tusayan 103
stepped form in Tusayan 109
how sealed against intrusion 110
window and chimney in one 121
annular 193
Doorways, closed with masonry 183, 187, 188, 189
why made small 197
Drainage of roof, relations of certain roof openings to 203-204
Drains of roofs described 153-156
Drains. See roof drains.
E
Eagle cages of ZuÃ±i 214
Eagle people, migration legend of the 28
Earth used in pueblo roof construction 150
Eaves, lack of, in Tusayan houses 102
Echo Cave fireplace described 168
INDEX 229
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Entrances, uniformity of direction of, in ZuÃ±i kivas 116
Environment, adaptation, of architecture to 225, 226, 227, 228
Estevanicoâ——s death, at Kâ——iakima 86
Estufa. See Kiva.
F
Families occupying Oraibi 105-108
Farming outlook, Matsaki used as 86
near Kin-tiel 93
Farming pueblos, Cibola 14
Moen-kopi 77
Nutria 94, 95
Pescado 95-96
Ojo Caliente 96
ZuÃ±i 198
Fastenings of doors 186
Feathers, use of, in house-building ceremonies 101, 102
Feather wand or baho used in kiva-building ceremonials 119, 120, 129, 130
Fences of corrals and gardens 215, 217
Fetiches, where placed during kiva ceremonial 122
Tusayan kivas 130, 131
Fire gens, Tebugkihu constructed by the 57
Fire-house or Tebugkihu, Tusayan 20, 57, 100, 142, 224
Fire people of Tusayan, migration of the 20
Fireplaces 102, 109, 121, 125, 163, 167-180
Floor, Mashongnavi house 109
stone flags, Tusayan kiva 121
sandstone slabs, Shupaulovi kiva 123
Floors in pueblo buildings, various kinds described 121, 135, 148-151
Folk-tale of the ZuÃ±i, describing stone-close 193
Food sacrifices in Tusayan house building 101, 102
Fortress houses the highest type of Pueblo construction 77
Frames of trap-doors, method of making 206
Framing of windows, method of 196-198
Fuel, how stored in Tusayan 103
Fuel used in kivas 121
Fuel of kivas, where stored 124
Furniture of the Pueblos described 208-214
G
Gardens and corrals of the Pueblos 214-217
Gardens and garden walls 215-217
Garden walls, how constructed 146
Gateway at Awatubi 49
INDEX 230
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Gateway jambs at Kin-tiel, finish of 181
Gateways, probable existence in Kin-tiel of 93
Gateways and covered passages described 180-182
Gateways of corrals 214
Genesis myth of the Tusayan 16
Gentes of Tusayan, grouping of houses by 24
land apportionment by 29
list of traditionary 38
localization of 104-108
Girders supporting upper walls 144
Tusayan houses supported by piers 151
Glass used in modern Pueblo windows 193
Glazing of Pueblo windows 196, 197
Goat kiva of Walpi, height of 119
Gourd used as roof drain 154, 155
Grass, use of, in roof construction 150
Graves, probable existence of, in Kin-tiel 93
Gravestones at Kâ——iakima 85, 86, 147
Greasewood, the ordinary kiva fuel 121
Grinding stones. See Metate; Milling.
Ground plan, Mashongnavi room 108
Shupaulovi kiva 125
Ground plans of ZuÃ±i and Tusayan compared 76
of mesa villages influenced by prevailing winds 182
Guyave or piki oven 173, 175
Gyarzobi or Paroquet kiva, roof timbers of 120
Gypsum used as whitewash 73, 74, 172
H
Hairdressing among the Tusayan 37
Halona, description of 88, 89
remains of the nucleus of ZuÃ±i 97, 98
walls of the nucleus of modern ZuÃ±i 138
stone-close at, described 193
â——Halvingâ—— of timbers in kiva trap-frames 206
Hampassawan, description of 83-85
Hand-holds cut in faces of cliffs 191
Hand-holds in frames of trap-doors 192
Hano, Asa group occupy site of 30
description of 61, 62
kiva, ownership of 134
kivas, list of 136
INDEX 231
Pueblo Architecture
rude transom over roof beam in 187
sealed openings in 199
Hano people, length of time spent in Tusayan by the 35
received by the Tusayan 36
trouble between the Walpi and 37
Hanomuh, the inhabitants of Hano 17
definition of 36
Hano traditions regarding settlement in Tusayan 35
Harvest time, how determined in ZuÃ±i 148
Hatchways to pueblo houses 110, 120, 121, 124, 127
Hawikuh, description of 80, 81
Hawikuh church, durability of masonry of 138
Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition, excavations at Halona 193
High-house people, a Navajo clan 30
Hinged sashes not in use in ZuÃ±i 196
Hinges of Pueblo doors 184
Hodge, F. Webb, on stone-close of Halona 193
Holmes, William H., on ruins of the San Juan 147
HomÃ³lobi, the early home of the Sun and Water peoples 29
legend of Water people concerning 31
Hopituh, the native name of the Tusayan 17
Hopituh marriage within phratries and gentes 24
Horn House, description of ruin of 50, 51
Horn people migration legend 18
early settlement in Tusayan of the 19
House-building rites of Tusayan 100-104
House clusters in ZuÃ±i, arrangement of 98
Hungo Pavie, finish of roofs in 150
I
Interior arrangement of pueblos 108-111
Interior of ZuÃ±i house described 110
Irrigation of gardens near Walpi 217
J
Jackson, W. H., on ruins of the San Juan 147
photographs of pueblo ruins by 147
describes fireplace of Echo Cave 168
Jar of large size used for storage 210
Jars used in chimney construction 180
Jeditoh group of ruins 52, 53
Jemez oven-opening described 165
K
KaÃ©kibi, an ancient pueblo 30
INDEX 232
Pueblo Architecture
KaiwÃ¡ika. See Laguna 30
KÃ¡pung. See Santa Clara 37
Katchina kiva of Oraibi 135
Katchina people depart from Oraibi for eastern Tusayan villages 26, 27
Katchinkihu, occurrence of, in ruined kiva near Sikyatki 117
described 121, 123
Shupaulovi kiva 126
Mashonguavi mungkiva 127
KÃ³tite. See CochitÃ−.
Ketchipauan church built of stone 224
Ketchipauan, description of 81-83
KiÃ¡ini. See High-house people 30
Kâ——iakima, description of 85, 86
upright stone slabs at 147
Kikoli rooms occupied in winter 103, 104, 131
Kin-tiel, description of 91-94
compared with Nutria 94
compared with Pescado 96
plan of, prearranged 100
compared with Oraibi 114
occurrence of upright stone slab at 147-148
beams of ruins of 149
upper room of, paved with stone 151
fireplace in room of 163, 168
defensive gateway at 181
Kin-tiel, finish of gateway jambs at 181
circular doorway at, described 192, 193
openings at, of uniform height 194
site of 224
KisÃ¡kobi, description of pueblo of 21
Kishoni, or uncovered shade 217-218
â——Kisiâ—— construction 217-219
Kitdauwi—the house song of Tusayan 118-119
Kiva, study of construction of 14
remains of, at Payupki 60
Mashongnavi 66
of Moen-kopi 78
origin of the name 111
ancient form of 116, 117
native explanation of position of 118
duties of mungwi, or chief of the 133
ownership of 133-134
INDEX 233
Pueblo Architecture
motive for building 134-135
significance of structural plan of 135
measurements of 136
hatchways of 201-202, 205-207
openings of, at Acoma 207
See Mungkiva.
Kivas, excavated, at Awatubi 50
Hano 61
Sichumovi 62
Walpi 63, 64, 65
Shupaulovi 72
Shumopavi 74
Kin-tiel and Cibola compared 93
ZuÃ±i, where located during Spanish occupancy 99
in Tusayan 111-137
typical plans of 118-129
dimensions of 118, 136
of, measurements of 118, 136
annually repaired by women 129
uses of 130
nomenclature of 130, 223-223
Tusayan, list of 136
nonuse of chimneys in 178
ZuÃ±i, stone window-frames of 197
Kwaituki, description of ruin of 56-57
KwÃ¡lakwai, Hano tradition related by 35
Kwetcap tutwi, the second pueblo of the snake people of Tusayan 18
L
Ladders, arrangement in Tusayan kiva 121
withdrawal of rungs to prevent use of 113
significance of position of, in kivas 135
described 156-162
second-story terrace of Tusayan reached principally by 182
openings for, in roofs 205
Laguna, arrival of the Asanyumu at 30
LalÃ©nkobÃ¡ki, a female society of Tusayan 134
Land apportionment by gentes in Tusayan 29
Language of the Asa and Hano of Tusayan 37
Languages of Tusayan, tradition regarding difference in 36
Las Animas ruins, trap-door frames in 206
Latches of doors 186-187
Latch strings used on ZuÃ±i doors 183
INDEX 234
Pueblo Architecture
Lathing or wattling of kiva walls 126
Ledges of masonry in kivas 121
Ledges or benches around rooms 213
Lenbaki, society of Tusayan 18
Light, method of introducing, in inner rooms 207
Lighting, method of, in crowded portions of ZuÃ±i 99
Lintels of old windows embedded in masonry 200
Lizard people move from Walpi 31, 38
Lock and key of wood, how made 187
Loom appurtenances 212
Loom posts of kivas 128-129, 132
Loophole-like openings in pueblo buildings 127, 198
M
MamzrÃ¡ntiki, an Oraibi society of women 134
Mandan ladder described and figured 158
Maricopa, myth of the Water people of Tusayan concerning the 32
Marriage of the Hopituh within phratries and gentes 24
Mashongnavi, origin of name of 26
settlement of Paroquet and Katchina peoples in 27
settlementof the Water people at 32
description of ruins of 48
age of masonry at 66
description of 66-70
ground plan of room of 108
description of dais of kiva at 122
list of kivas at 136
wall decoration at 146
notched ladder of 157-158
pi-gummi ovens at 163-164
shrines of 167
chimney hoods of 170-171
second-story fireplace at 174
doorway with transom at 190
corrals of rude stonework at 214
See Old Mashongnavi.
Masonry, ancient, at Nutria 94
Ojo Caliente carelessly constructed 96
exterior, of kivas 114
Masonry of Pueblo Bonito, skill shown in 195
Mat close for kiva hatchways 127, 128
Matsaki, description of 86
INDEX 235
Pueblo Architecture
sun symbol at 148
Meal, votive, used in pueblo house-building 101
Mealing trough. See Milling.
Metate used as roof-drain 154, 155
Metates, or grinding stones, how arranged in pueblo houses 109, 110, 210, 211
Migration, effect of, upon pueblo architecture 15
Migration of the Tusayan 17
Migration of Tusayan Water people 31, 32
Migration of the Horn people 18, 19
Migration of the Bear people of Tusayan 20
Migration of the Asanynmu of Tusayan 30
Milling troughs of Pueblo households 109, 210, 212
Mindeleff, Cosmos, acknowledgments to 14, 15
on traditional history of Tusayan 16-41
Mindeleff, Victor, paper on pueblo architecture 3-228
Mishiptonga, description of ruin of 52-53
Mission buildings of Shumopavi 27, 75-76
Mission house at Walpi, timbers of, used in Walpi kiva 119
Missions of Tusayan 22, 49
Moen-kopi surveyed and studied 14
description of ruins of 53-54
description of village of 77
Mole people, settlement in Tusayan of the 27
Montezuma Canyon ruins, use of large stone blocks in 147
Monument marking boundary of Oraibi and Shumopavi 28
Morgan, L.H., Mandan ladder described by 158
on. trap-door frames in Las Animas ruins 205
Mormon and Pueblo building compared 148
Mormons, effect of the, upon development of Moen-kopi 77
establishment of woolen mill at Moen-kopi by the 78
fort built by, at Moen-kopi 184
lock and key contrivance of 187
Mortar of adobe mud 137
Mortars used in Pueblo households 212
Mortised door in ZuÃ±i house 110, 186
Mummy cave, Arizona, ruin in 64
finish of roofs in ruins of 150
Mungkiva, Mashongnavi 127
of Shupaulovi 113, 122
Tusayan 134
N
NambÃ©, Tewa pueblo 37
INDEX 236
Pueblo Architecture
Navajo, Asa of Tusayan live among 30
huts of, closed with blankets 189
method of sheep-herding compared with Pueblo 214
Nelson, E.W., graves unearthed by 86
collection of stone-closes by 193
Niches, use of, in kivas 121, 122
Niches formed in old window openings 110, 200, 208-209
Nomenclature of Tusayan structural details 220-223
NÃºmi. See NambÃ©.
Notched logs used as ladders 157-158
Nutria, compared with Kin-tiel 91
Nuvayauma, old Mashongnavi tradition related by 47-48
Nuvwatikyuobi kiva 120
O
Oak mound kiva, Tusayan, decadence of membership of 135
Ohke. See San Juan.
Ojo Caliente, a modern village 54, 96-97
chinked walls of 142
Old Mashongnavi, tradition concerning occupation of 47-48
Openings, splayed, in Ketchipauan church 82
walls of TÃ¢aaiyalana structures 90
Kin-tiel walls 92, 93
oblique ZuÃ±i 98, 207-208
to kivas 113-114
in wall of ZuÃ±i kiva 114
in lee walls 182
Openings of Pueblo houses banded with whitewash 145-146
Oraibi, retirement of SikyÃ¡tki inhabitants to 24
departure of Ketchina and Paroquet peoples from 27
settlement by the Bears of 27
traditions regarding first settlement of 27
settlement of the Water people at 33
affray between the Walpi and 35
families occupying 105-108
direction of kivas of 115-116
rare use of plastering on outer walls of 144
Oraibi, notched ladders described and figured 157-158
stone steps at, figured 161
corral walls at, laid without mortar 147
distribution of gentes of 104-105
INDEX 237
Pueblo Architecture
kiva for women 134
list of kivas of 137
kiva, hatchway of 201
corrals at, large size of 214
Oraibi-Shumopavi boundary stone 28
Oraibi wash, ruins on the 54-56
Orientation of kivas 115-116
Ovens at Pescado 95
upon roofs 151
various kinds described 162-166
in ZuÃ±i 164-165
Oven-shaped structures described and figured 167
Oven-surface imbedded with pottery scales 139
P
Paintings on kiva walls 131
PalÃ¡t Kivabi, the pristine habitat of the Squash and Sun people of Tusayan 25, 29
Paneled doors in modern pueblos 184-186
Parallelogramic form of Tusayan buildings 102-118
Paroquet people, settlement in Shumopavi of the 37
Partitions in Ketchipauan church 82
Partitions of upper story supported by beams 144
Passageways, Shupaulovi 72
Shumopavi 74
rarity of, at Oraibi 76
Paving Shupaulovi kiva 126
Paving stones of kiva floor, how finished 125
Payupki, tradition concerning pueblo of 40
migration legend 40
finish of masonry of 143
Peaches planted by the Asa people 30
Pegs, deer horns used as, in ZuÃ±i 111
Pegs for suspending kiva fuel 121
PeÃ±a Blanca formerly inhabited by the Hano 35
PeÃ±asco Blanco, occurrence of upright stone slab at 148
method of roof construction at 150
Pescado compared with Kin-tiel 91
corral walls at, how constructed 147
outside steps at 160
INDEX 238
Pueblo Architecture
ovens at, described and figured 165-166
fragment of stone close in steps of 193
stone inclosure in court of 214
Pestles or crushers used with Pueblo mortars 212
Petroglyph, or sun-symbol at Matsaki 86
Ketchipauan church 82
legend of the Tusayan concerning 32
Phratries, Tusayan 24, 38
Pictograph on Oraibi-Shumopavi boundary monument 28
Piers of masonry for supporting girders 151
Piers. See Buttresses.
Pi-gummi ovens of Mashongnavi 163
Piki or guyave oven 173-175
Piki stone, process of making 175
Pima, myth of the Water people of Tusayan concerning the 32
opinion of the, as to ancient stone inclosures 216
Pinawa, description of 86, 88
Pine invariably used for kiva ladders 135
Pink clay used in house decorations 146
Pits for cooking 163
Plan of villages, traditional mention of 104
Plans and descriptions, Tusayan ruins 45-60
inhabited villages 61-79
Cibolan ruins 80
ZuÃ±i villages 94-99
Plan of pueblo houses not usually prearranged 100-162
Planting time, how determined in ZuÃ±i 148
Plaster, frequent renewal of, at Shumopavi 73
Plastering, renovation of rooms by frequent 89
on outer walls in Ojo Caliente 96
custom formerly observed in 102
on floor in Mashongnavi 109
kiva walls 115
Shupaulovi kiva, condition of 124-125
Shupaulovi kiva 126
on walls 140
on masonry 144
chimney hoods 169, 172
side hole of door for fastening 183-184
Platform in floor of Tusayan kiva 121
Platform at head of steps 161-162
Plaza. See Court.
INDEX 239
Pueblo Architecture
Plume boxes 210
Plume stick, baho, or feather wand, used in Kiva consecratory ceremonials 119-120, 129, 130
Plume-stick shrines at Mashongnavi 167
Pojoaque, a Tewa pueblo 37
PokwÃ¡di. See Pojoaque 37
Polaka, Hano tradition given by 35
Poles for suspension of blankets, etc. 110, 189, 208, 214
Ponobi kiva of Oraibi, wall lathing of 126
Population, enlargement of pueblos necessitated by increase of 70
Porch posts 81, 82
PosÃ³we, a former Tewa pueblo 37
Posts of porch, remains of, at Hawikuh and Ketchipauan 81, 82
Posts sunk in floor forming part of loom 212
Pots used in chimney construction 179-180
Pottery fragments, Horn House ruin 51
Kwaituki 57
ruin on Oraibi wash 55
used in mud-plastered walls 139
Pottery of Payupki, character of 60
Poultry house of Sichumovi 167
Prayer plume, or baho, used in kiva consecratory ceremonials 119, 120, 129, 130
Props used for fastening wooden doors 183
Pueblo architecture, study of, by Victor Mindeleff 8-228
Pueblo Bonito, additions to 70
the largest yet examined 92
finish of roof of 150
stairway described 160
symmetry of arrangement of outer openings of 195
skill shown in masonry of 195
Pueblo buildings, mode of additions to 70, 97, 98, 102, 148-149
Pueblo construction in Tusayan and Cibola, details of 137-223
Pueblo Grande. See Kin-tiel.
Pueblo openings, carelessness in placing 196
Pueblo remains, area occupied by 13
Pueblo revolt of 1680 89
Pueblos of Tusayan and Cibola compared 80
Pueblos, inhabited 61-79, 94-99
Pyramidal form of pueblo house rows 61
R
Rabbit-skin robes used to cover doorways 182, 194
Racks for suspending clothes 208, 214
Rawhide thong used in pueblo construction to fasten lock 186, 187, 214
INDEX 240
Pueblo Architecture
Rectangular kivas, antiquity of 116
Rectangular rooms, how developed 226
Rectangular type of architecture 72
Reeds used for kiva lathing 126
Repair of houses infrequent in Tusayan 73
Reservoirs, pueblo 82-83, 91, 92, 97
Reservoir site as affecting selection of dwelling site 51-52
Revolt of the Pueblos in 1680 23
Rites and methods of Tusayan kiva building 118-137
Rites of house-building at Tusayan 100-104
Rito de los Frijoles, chimney of, described 173
Roof construction, pueblo buildings 120, 149
Roof-coping of Tusayan houses 102
Roof-drains, pueblo buildings 102, 153-156
Roof-openings, pueblo buildings 61, 63, 77, 98, 169, 178, 201-208
Roofs, pueblo buildings 63, 102, 119, 148-151
Roof timbers of kivas 119
Rooms, arrangement of, into rows in Tusayan 49
confused arrangement of, in Walpi 63
TÃ¢aaiyalana ruins, arrangement of 90
circular, at Kin-tiel 93
Tusayan, smaller than in ZuÃ±i 108
names of, in Tusayan 223
Rows of houses forming Shumopavi 74
Ruins, method of survey of 45
Ruins, Tusayan 45-60
between Horn House and Bat House 51
Oraibi wash 54-56
Cibola 80
TÃ¢aaiyalana 89
Rungs of ladders, how attached 158, 159
S
Sacrifices of food in Tusayan house-building 101, 102
Sandals of yucca found in Canyon de Chelly 133
Sandstone used in pueblo construction, how quarried 225
San Felipe, return of Payupki to 41
San Juan, a Tewa pueblo 37
Santa Clara doubtfully identified with KÃ¡pung 37
Santo Domingo, settlement of the Asanyumu 30
Sash of rude construction in window openings 196
Sealing of doorways of pueblo buildings 110, 183-184, 198-201
Seats of stone in Tusayan kivas 132
INDEX 241
Pueblo Architecture
Selenite used in pueblo windows 196, 197
Semisubterranean kivas of Tusayan 113
Seven cities of Cibola. See Cibola.
Sheep, introduced into Tusayan 22
possessed by the Awatubi 50
introduction of, among the Pueblos 214
ShitÃ¡imu pueblo 28, 48, 49
Shelters in pueblo fields 60, 198, 217-219
Shelves, pueblo buildings 109, 173, 209
Shrine, Matsaki 86
court of Shupaulovi 71
court of Shumopavi 75
TÃ¢aaiyalana 90
Shrines, pueblo 72, 148, 167
Shumopavi, Spanish mission established at 22
by whom built 27
removal of portion of Bear people from 27
kivas of 113, 114, 137
primitive andiron at 176
piki stone at 176
fireplace and chimney of 176, 177
ground cooking-pit of 178
Shumopavi-Oraibi boundary stone 28
Shumopavi people, removal of, to mesa site 23
Shupaulovi, settlement of Paroquet and Ketchina peoples in 27
when established 29
settlement of Bear people at 30
settlement of the water people at 32
mungkiva of, described 113
description of dais of kiva of 123
ground and ceiling plans of kiva of 125
description of chimney-hood at 171, 172
passageway at, described 181
Sichumovi, settled by peoples from Walpi 31
derivation of term 38
description of 62, 63
ownership of kiva of 134
INDEX 242
Pueblo Architecture
poultry-house of 167
fireplace and mantel of 173
piki stone at 175
Sikyatki, ruin of 20, 21
pueblo of 24
ancient kiva near 117
SikyÃ¡tki people dispute with the Walpi 24
slaughtered by the Walpi 25
Sills of doors 110, 186, 194
SiÃ³ki. See ZuÃ±i 30
Sipapuh, Tusayan kivas 117, 121, 122, 123, 126, 130,
131, 135
Sites of pueblo buildings, why selected 63, 66, 90, 97, 112, 223
Slabs of stone in pueblo architecture 147
Slavery among the Tusayan 41
Smallpox prevalent in Tusayan 38, 134
Smoke escape through roof-opening and transoms 189, 204, 206, 207
Snake dance, relation of dance-rock to 65
Snake people, the first occupants of the Tusayan region 17
construction of modern Walpi by the 23
Snow, use of, as water supply by the ZuÃ±i 91
Spaniards, early visit of, to Tusayan 21, 22
Spanish authority, effect of, upon purity of ZuÃ±i kiva type 112
Spanish beams in Tusayan kivas 119, 123, 124, 125, 126
Spanish churches at pueblos, Hawikuk 81, 82, 138
Spanish influence in ZuÃ±i and Tusayan 169, 180, 196, 213, 224
Spanish missions established in Tusayan 22
Spider people, settlement in Tusayan of the 27
Splash-stones described and figured 155, 156
Splayed openings in Ketchipauan church 82
Squash people, settlement in Tusayan of the 25
Stakes used in construction of stone walls 147
Stephen, A. M., material on traditional history of Tusayan collected by 16-41
opinion on Walpi architectural features 72
acknowledgments to 100
on distribution of Oraibi gentes 104, 105
on orientation of Tusayan kivas 115
discovery of ancient kiva type near Sikyatki 117
typical kiva measurements by 122
on wattling or lathing of kiva walls 126
on significance of structural plan of kiva 135
INDEX 243
Pueblo Architecture
collection of primitive andirons or bosses by 176
Steps and ladders described 156-162
Steps cut in faces of cliffs 191
Steps or foot-holes of Walpi trail 65
Steps to kivas 114
Stone, size, character, and finish of, in pueblo ruins 55, 58, 60, 138
means of obtaining, in ZuÃ±i 139
effect of use of, in chimney hoods 172
corrals 214
flags used to floor Tusayan kiva 121
inclosures in Southern Arizona 216
roof drains, curious forms of 154
shelters, possible remains of, at Payupki 60
slabs formerly used to close doorways 188
Stone-close anciently used 192, 193
Stone wedges used in pueblo wall finish 140, 142
Stonework, Shumopavi 75
at Oraibi 144
Mormon and Pueblos compared 148
Stone steps, Pescado 95
Tusayan 157
Stools used by the Pueblos 212, 213
Storage facilities of pueblo dwellings 57, 62, 103, 109, 143, 144, 182,
209
Straw adobe made by Spaniards 138, 224
Structural features of kivas similar 129
Subterranean character of kivas 63, 72, 112, 113
Sullivan, Jeremiah, Payupki tradition obtained by 40
Sunflower stalks used in chimney construction 170
Sun people of Tusayan 29
Supplies, how taken to Walpi mesa 65
Survey of Tusayan and Cibola, methods of 44-45
T
TÃ¢aaiyalana, relation of Kâ——iakima to 85
stone inclosures at base of 85
description of ruins of 89-91
flight of ZuÃ±is to, during Pueblo revolt 89
mesa of, temporarily occupied 223
Tables not used in Pueblo houses 212, 214
Talla Hogan. See Awatubi 49-50
Taos formerly partly inhabited by the Tewa 37
TceewÃ¡ge. See PeÃ±a Blanca.
INDEX 244
Pueblo Architecture
Tcosobi or Jay kiva, roof timbers of 120
TebowÃºki, an early pueblo of the fire people of Tusayan 20
Tebugkihu or fire-house, description of 57
fragments of passage-wall at 181
Terraced doorways 190-191
Terraced gardens 217
Terraced roofs of Tusayan, names of 104
Terrace cooking-pits and fireplaces 174-177
Terrace rooms, half open, not seen in ancient pueblos 187
Terraces, Sichumovi form of 62
Oraibi, formed by natural causes 76
ZuÃ±i 97, 98, 144
ancient pueblos, how reached 156
Tusayan names of 223
Tusayan, order of settlement of, by various peoples 29
Tesuque, a Tewa pueblo 37
TetsÃ³gi. See Tesuque.
Tewa conflict with the Ute 36
Tewa, language of the 37
Tewa. See Hano.
Timbers for roof, kind used in kiva-building 19
Time for planting and harvesting, how determined in ZuÃ±i 148
Tiponi of Tusayan explained 131
Topography, houses of Walpi constructed to conform to 64
of Shupaulovi 71
Tradition, historical value of 15
Tradition, Tusayan 16-41
Hano 35
regarding Hano and Tusayan languages 36
concerning Payupki pueblo 40
concerning occupancy of Old Mashongnavi 47-48
of foundation of Walpi 63
concerning circular kivas 135
ZuÃ±i concerning stone-close 92-193
concerning early occupancy of former pueblos by existing tribes 225
Traditionary gentes of Tusayan, list of 38
Trails, Walpi 65, 66
TÃ¢aaiyalana 89
Transoms over pueblo doorways 187-189
Transportation to Walpi mesa, Indian method 66
Trapdoors, Sichumovi 63
kivas, no means of fastening 113
INDEX 245
Pueblo Architecture
frames furnished with hand-holds 192
Tupubi defined 176
TÃºpkabi. See Canyon de Chelly.
Tusayan, survey of 15
traditional history of 16-41
ruins and inhabited villages of 42-79
house-building rites 100-104
houses of, owned by women 101
kivas in 111-137
Tusayan and Cibola architecture, compared by constructional details 100-223
details of 137-223
Tusayan. See Hopituh.
Tuwahlki, or watch-house 217
Tuwii. See Santo Domingo 30
Twigs, use of, in roof construction 150
U
Ute, conflict with, by the Tewa of Hano 36
inroads of, upon Tusayan 25, 26, 35
V
Vargas, Don Diego, visit to Tusayan of 35
Vocabulary of Tusayan architectural terms 220-223
W
Walls, how indicated on plans of ruins 45
defensive, at Bat House 52
construction of, in Moen-kopi ruins 53
curved, instances of 54
showing precision of workmanship 54
dimensions in TÃ¢aaiyalana mesa 90
original height of, indicated by dÃ©bris 90
thickness of, in modern Tusayan 102
paintings on, in Tusayan kiva 131
pueblo, mode of construction of 137-148
copings of 139, 151, 152
Walls, strength of 144
weakness of, in ZuÃ±i 182
of gardens 215
Walpi, settlement of Bear people at 21, 27
Spanish mission established at 22
construction of, by the Snake people 23
dispute of, with the Sikyatki 24
settlement of the Asa at 30, 31
INDEX 246
Pueblo Architecture
abandoned by Bear, Lizard, Asa, and Badger peoples 31
court-surrounded kiva of 114
kivas of 119, 136
upper story partitions of, supported by beams 144
use of large stone blocks in garden walls of 47
cooking pit at 176, 177
south passageway of, described 181
Walpi people, attack of Awatubi by the 34
affray between the Oraibi and 35
trouble between the Hano and 37
various pueblos formerly occupied by the 46, 47
Warp-sticks, mode of supporting 133
Water, method of carrying, at Walpi 65
Water family, last to settle at Tusayan 29
migration legend of 31
Water jars used in chimney construction 180
Water supply, Cibola 80
Ketchipauan 82, 83
TÃ¢aaiyalana dwellings 90, 91
Kin-tiel 92
ZuÃ±i 97
Water vessels, forms of 109
Wattling or lathing of kiva walls 126
Weaving appliances 212
Wejegi pueblo, loop-holes in 198
Well or reservoir of ZuÃ±i 97
Whitewash on outer walls of Shumopavi 73-74
on Mashongnavi room 109
how made and applied in ZuÃ±i 145
on house walls 145
used for coating doors 186
WÃ−ksrun people, settlement in Tusayan of the 27
Willow wands used in roof construction 150
Window, doorway and chimney in one 121
Windows of various kinds described 194, 201
Wings constructed in court of Pueblo Bonito 70
Women, house owners at Tusayan 101
work of, in Tusayan house-building 101, 102
roof-building performed by 102
work of, in kiva-building 129
when admitted to kivas 134
INDEX 247
Pueblo Architecture
societies of, and kivas for, in Tusayan 134
Wood, kinds of, used in Tusayan construction 102
Wood rack of pueblos described 103
Wood-working, how performed 184
Wooden doors not found in pre-Columbian ruins 184
Wooden features of pueblo windows 196
Woolen mill established by Mormons at Moen-kopi 78
Workshop, use of the kiva, as a 129, 133
Y
Yeso used for interior whitewash 74
Yucca, use of, in lathing 127
Yucca fiber sandals from Canyon de Chelly 133
Z
ZuÃ±i, survey of pueblo of 14
arrival of the Asanyumu at 30
portion of site of, formerly occupied by Halona 88
tradition as to occupancy of Kin-tiel by the 92
plans and descriptions of villages of 94-99
description of pueblo of 97-99
See Cibola.
Transcriberâ——s Notes on the Illustrations
Bureau of Ethnology articles rarely included artist credits, but some of the drawings are signed:
Henry Hobart Nichols (1869-1962) was one of the Smithsonianâ——s stable of artists. These drawings would
have been some of his earliest work. The â——fil.â—— in one signature distinguishes him from his father,
the engraver H. Hobart Nichols (1838-1886), whose signature also appears in at least one Bureau of
Ethnology publication.
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Title: A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola

Author: Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff

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TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA.

Fig. 1. View of the First Mesa 43

General Map of the Pueblo Region

A STUDY OF PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE

A STUDY OF PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE IN TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA. 11

Plate II. Old Mashongnavi, plan.

TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF TUSAYAN.

Plate III. General view of Awatubi.

KÃ³tite CochitÃ− (?). KÃ¡pung Santa Clara (?)

LIST OF TRADITIONARY GENTES.

LIST OF TRADITIONARY GENTES. 30

LIST OF TRADITIONARY GENTES. 31

TeÂ´-wa gentes and phratries.

Ke HoÂ´-nau Cac Bear.

KeÂ´gi KiÂ´-hu Ki-aÂ´-ni House.

OÂ´-ku-wuÃ± OÂ´-mau Kus Cloud.

LIST OF TRADITIONARY GENTES. 32

RUINS AND INHABITED VILLAGES OF TUSAYAN.

PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE PROVINCE.

Fig. 1. View of the First Mesa.

PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE PROVINCE. 35

PLANS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF RUINS.

PLANS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF RUINS. 37

Fig. 2. Ruins, Old Walpi mound.

Plate IV. Awatubi (Talla-Hogan), plan.

Plate V. Standing walls of Awatubi.

Plate VI. Adobe fragment in Awatubi.

Plate VII. Horn House ruin, plan.

SMALL RUIN BETWEEN HORN HOUSE AND BAT HOUSE.

Fig. 3. Ruin between Bat House and Horn House.

SMALL RUIN BETWEEN HORN HOUSE AND BAT HOUSE. 43

Plate VIII. Bat House.

Plate IX. Mishiptonga (Jeditoh).

Plate X. A small ruin near Moen-kopi.

Fig. 4. Ruin near Moen-kopi, plan.

RUINS ON THE ORAIBI WASH.

RUINS ON THE ORAIBI WASH. 47

Fig. 5. Ruin 7 miles north of Oraibi.

Fig. 6. Ruin 14 miles north of Oraibi (Kwaituki).

TEBUGKIHU, OR FIRE HOUSE.

Fig. 7. Oval (Fire House) ruin,

TEBUGKIHU, OR FIRE HOUSE. 50

Plate XI. Masonry on the outer wall of the Fire-House, detail.

Plate XII. Chukubi, plan.

Plate XIV. General view of Payupki.

Plate XIII. Payupki, plan.

Plate XV. Standing walls of Payupki.

PLANS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE INHABITED VILLAGES.

Plate XVII. View of Hano.

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