Chapter 11

The following nomenclature, collected by Mr. Stephen, comprises the terms commonly used in designating the constructional details of Tusayan houses and kivas:

The ground floor rooms forming the first terrace.

The roofed recess at the end of the first terrace.

The third terrace, used in common as a loitering place.

“The place of the flat stone;” small rooms in which “piki,” or paper-bread, is baked. “Tuma,” the piki stone, and “tcok” describing its flat position.

“Where you sit overhead;” the third story.

The second story; a doorway always opens from it upon the roof of the “kiko´li.”

“The highest place;” the fourth story.

A wall.

An outer corner.

An inside corner.

The main roof timbers.

Smaller cross poles. “Winahoya,” a small pole, and “Kwapi,” in place.

The willow covering.

The brush covering.

The grass covering.

The mud plaster of roof covering, “Balatle´lewini,” to spread.

Dry earth covering the roof. “Tcuka,” earth, “katuto,” to sit, and “at´cvewata,” one laid above another.

An entire roof.

The fireplace.

“Smoke-house,” an inside chimney-hood.

A series of bottomless jars piled above each other, and luted together as a chimney-top.

A bottomless earthen vessel serving as a chimney pot.

Any small hole in a wall, or roof, smaller than a doorway.

An opening, such as a doorway. This term is also applied to a gap in a cliff.

A door frame.

A lintel; literally, “that holds the sides in place.”

“The place step;” the door sill.

A handhold; the small pole in a doorway below the lintel.

A window; literally, “glass covered opening.”

A cover.

A door. “Apab,” inside; wina, a pole.

“Stone cover,” a stone slab.

A projection in the wall of a room suggesting a partition, such as shown inPl.LXXXV. The same term is applied to a projecting cliff in a mesa.

An entire roof. The main beams, cross poles, and roof layers have the same names as in the kiva, given later.

Projecting poles; rafters extending beyond the walls.

“Spread out;” the floor.

“Leveled with stones;” a raised level for the foundation.

“Floor ledge;” the floor of one room raised above that of an adjoining one.

“Lower place;” the floor of a lower room. Sand dunes in a valley are called “Hakolpi.”

A shelf.

A stone shelf.

A support for a shelf.

A hewn plank shelf.

A wooden peg in a wall.

A shelf hanging from the ceiling.

The cords for suspending a shelf.

A niche in the wall.

A stone mortar.

The complete mealing apparatus for grinding corn.

The trough or outer frame of stone slabs.

The metate or grinding slab.

The coarsest grinding slab.

The next finer slab; from “talaki” to parch crushed corn in a vessel at the fire.

The slab of finest texture; from “pin,” fine.

The upright partition stones separating the metates. The rubbing stones have the same names as the metates.

A stone stairway.

A stairway pecked into a cliff face.

A ladder.

Steps of wood.

The covered way.

“Opening to pass through;” a narrow passage between houses.

“Place closed with houses;” courts and spaces between house groups.

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.

The main roof timbers.

The smaller cross poles.

The willow covering.

The brush covering.

The grass covering.

The dry earth layer of the roof.

The layer of mud plaster on the roof.

An entire roof.

The following terms are used to specially designate various features of the kivas:

Both of these terms are used to designate the kiva hatchway beams upon which the hatchway walls rest.

The main beams in the roof, nearest to the hatchway.

The main beams next to the central ones.

The main beams next in order, and all the beams intervening between the “epeoka” and the end beams are so designated.

The beams at the ends of a kiva.

“Stone placed with hands.”

“Hard stone.”

Both of these latter terms are applied to corner foundation stones.

Moveable mat of reeds or sticks for covering hatchway opening,Fig. 29. “Kwaku,” wild hay; “utepi,” a stopper.

The raised hatchway; “the sitting place,”Fig. 95.

The walls of the hatchway.

The kiva doorway; the opening into the hatchway,Fig. 28.

Small niches in the wall. “Apap,” from “apabi,” inside, and “hoya,” small.

An archaic term. The etymology of this word is not known.

The fireplace. “Kwuhi,” coals or embers; “küaiti,” head.

Pegs for drying fuel, fixed under the hatchway. “Ko-hu,” wood;Fig. 28.

Pegs in the walls.

A ladder. This term is applied to any ladder.Figs. 45-47.

Ladder rungs; “Leta,” from “lestabi;” see above.

The platform elevation or upper level of the floor. “Tu-vwi,” a ledge;Fig. 24.

Stone ledges around the sides, for seats. The same term is used to designate any ledge, as that of a mesa, etc.

“Katcina,” house. The niche in a ledge at the end of the kiva.

The planks set into the floor, to which the lower beam of a blanket loom is fastened.

Terms applied to the main floor; they both mean “the large space.”

Hewn planks a foot wide and 6 to 8 feet long, set into the floor.

A plank.

“Stone spread out;” the flagged floor; also designates the slabs covering the hatchway.

Stones with holes pecked in the ends for holding the loom beam while the warp is being adjusted; also used as seats; seep. 132.

section of terraces

Fig. 114.Diagram showing ideal section of terraces, with Tusayan names.

The accompanying diagram is an ideal section of a Tusayan four-story house, and gives the native names for the various rooms and terraces.

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 ChaptersIIandIIIwill 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 ofTâaaiyalanamesa, 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 ofplan 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 Zuñi, are made up of remnants of various bands of builders. In Cibola, however, some of the Indians state that their ancestors, before reaching Zuñi, 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. Zuñi, 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. Zuñi 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 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, andregarded 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 “Aztecs” 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 “plantings,” 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 “Aztec colonies,” 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 regularform, 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.

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 Zuñi, 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.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.LXXXIIIillustrates a building of the type described located on the outskirts of Zuñi, across the river from the main pueblo.

The cultural distinctions between the Pueblo Indians and neighboring tribes gradually become less clearly defined as investigation progresses. Mr. Cushing’s study of the Zuñi 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.

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.

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 “year,” 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.

Adobe balls used in garden walls

Adobe bricks, in Hawikut church

Adobe mortar, in Tâaaiyalana structures

Cibola and Tusayan use of, compared

Adobe walls on stone foundation at Moenkopi

Aiyáhokwi, the descendants of the Asa at Zuñi

Altar, conformity of, to direction of kiva

Apache, inroads upon Tusayan by the

exposure of southern Cibola to the

Architecture, comparison of constructional details of Tusayan and Cibola

Art, textile and fictile, degree of Pueblo advancement in

Arts of Cibola and Tusayan closely related

Spanish mission established at

clay tubes used as roof drains at

fragments of passage wall at

Aztecs, ruined structures attributed to the

Baho, use of, in kiva consecratory ceremonies

Bandelier, A.F., description of chimney

Bat house, description of ruin of

Bátni, the first pueblo of the Snake people of Tusayan

Beams, Tusayan kivas, taken from Spanish church at Shumopavi

for supporting passageway wall

Bear people, settlement in Tusayan of the

Bear-skin-rope people, settlement in Tusayan of the

Benches or ledges of masonry, Zuñi rooms

around rooms of pueblo houses

Bins for storage in Tusayan rooms

Blankets formerly used to cover doorways

Blue Jay people, settlement in Tusayan of the

Bond stones used in pueblo walls

Boundary line, Hano and Sichumovi

Boundary mark, Shumopavi and Oraibi

Bricks of adobe modern in Zuñi

Brush, use of, in roof construction

Burial custom of K’iakima natives

Burrowing Owl people, settlement in Tusayan of the

Buttress, formerly of Halona, existing in Zuñi

support of passageway roofs by

Canyon de Chelly, proposed study of ruins of

Tusayan, tradition concerning villages of

early occupancy of, by the Bear people at Tusayan

use of whitewash in cliff houses of

finish of roofs of houses of

doorway described and figured

Casa Blanca, traces of whitewashing at

Castañeda’s account of Cibolan milling

Cattle introduced into Tusayan

Cave lodges occupied in historic times

Cave used by inhabitants of Kwaituki

Ceiling plan of Shupaulovi kiva

Ceilings, retention of original appearance of rooms through nonrenovation of

Cellars not used in Tusayan and Cibola

Ceremonial paraphernalia of Tusayan taken by the Navajo

Ceremonies connected with Tusayan house-building

Ceremonies accompanying kiva construction

Ceremonies performed at placing of Zuñi ladders

upper story partitions of, supported by beams

symmetry of arrangement of outer openings of

Chairs, lack of in Pueblo houses

Charred roof timbers of Tusayan kiva

Chimney-hoods, how constructed

Chimneys, traces of in K’iakima

Chukubi pueblo, built by the Squash people

fragments of passage wall at

Church, Shumopavi, established by Spanish monks

Churches established in Zuñi and Tusayan

Cibola, ruins and inhabited villages of

architecture of compared with that of Tusayan

Circular doorway of Kin-tiel described

Circular wall of kiva near Sikyatki

Clay tubes used as roof drains

developed from temporary shelters

Climatic conditions, effect of, upon pueblo architecture

Clustering of Tâaaiyalana ruins

Cochití claimed to be a former Tewa pueblo

Communal village, development of pueblo architecture from conical lodge to

Contours represented on plans, interval of

Cooking pits and ovens described

Cooking stones of Tusayan, flames of

Cords, used for suspending chimney

Corner stones of Tusayan kivas

Cotton cultivated by the Tusayan

Covered passages and gateways described

Coyote people, settlement in Tusayan of the

Crossbars used in fastening wooden doors

Culture of pueblo tribes, degree of

Cushing, Frank H., identifies K’iakima as scene of death of Estevanico

opinion concerning western wall of Halona

opinion concerning distribution of Tâaaiyalana ruins

on the former occupancy of Kin-tiel

Haloua identified as one of the Seven Cities of Cibola

on Zuñi tradition concerning stone-close

Dance ceremony in kiva consecration

Dance rock, Tusayan, reference to snake dance of

Débris, how indicated in plans of ruins

an indication of original height of walls

Deer horns used as pegs in Zuñi

Defense, wall for, at Bat House

a motive for selection of dwelling site

architecture relied upon for

not a factor in selection of Mashongnavi site

features of, at Tusayan and Zuñi compared

sites chosen for, inconvenient to sources of subsistence

use of Kelchipauan church for, by natives

the motive of occupation of Tâaaiyalana mesa

provisions for, in Ketchipauan church

motive for, dying out in Zuñi

not a motive in selection of site of Zuñi

adaptation of architecture to

Doors to ground floor rooms of Zuñi

Doors of various lands described

Doorway, Walpi kiva, closed with cottonwood slab

how sealed against intrusion

Drainage of roof, relations of certain roof openings to

Eagle people, migration legend of the

Earth used in pueblo roof construction

Eaves, lack of, in Tusayan houses

Entrances, uniformity of direction of, in Zuñi kivas

Environment, adaptation, of architecture to

Estevanico’s death, at K’iakima

Farming outlook, Matsaki used as

Feathers, use of, in house-building ceremonies

Feather wand or baho used in kiva-building ceremonials

Fetiches, where placed during kiva ceremonial

Fire gens, Tebugkihu constructed by the

Fire-house or Tebugkihu, Tusayan

Fire people of Tusayan, migration of the

sandstone slabs, Shupaulovi kiva

Floors in pueblo buildings, various kinds described

Folk-tale of the Zuñi, describing stone-close

Food sacrifices in Tusayan house building

Fortress houses the highest type of Pueblo construction

Frames of trap-doors, method of making

Furniture of the Pueblos described

Gardens and corrals of the Pueblos

Gateway jambs at Kin-tiel, finish of

Gateways, probable existence in Kin-tiel of

Gateways and covered passages described

Gentes of Tusayan, grouping of houses by

Girders supporting upper walls

Tusayan houses supported by piers

Glass used in modern Pueblo windows

Grass, use of, in roof construction

Graves, probable existence of, in Kin-tiel

Greasewood, the ordinary kiva fuel

Grinding stones. See Metate; Milling.

Ground plans of Zuñi and Tusayan compared

of mesa villages influenced by prevailing winds

Gyarzobi or Paroquet kiva, roof timbers of

Hairdressing among the Tusayan

remains of the nucleus of Zuñi

walls of the nucleus of modern Zuñi

“Halving” of timbers in kiva trap-frames

Hand-holds cut in faces of cliffs

Hand-holds in frames of trap-doors

Hano, Asa group occupy site of

rude transom over roof beam in

Hano people, length of time spent in Tusayan by the

trouble between the Walpi and

Hanomuh, the inhabitants of Hano

Hano traditions regarding settlement in Tusayan

Harvest time, how determined in Zuñi

Hawikuh church, durability of masonry of

Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition, excavations at Halona

High-house people, a Navajo clan

Hinged sashes not in use in Zuñi

Hodge, F. Webb, on stone-close of Halona

Holmes, William H., on ruins of the San Juan

Homólobi, the early home of the Sun and Water peoples

legend of Water people concerning

Hopituh, the native name of the Tusayan

Hopituh marriage within phratries and gentes

Horn House, description of ruin of

early settlement in Tusayan of the

House-building rites of Tusayan

House clusters in Zuñi, arrangement of

Hungo Pavie, finish of roofs in

Interior arrangement of pueblos

Interior of Zuñi house described

Irrigation of gardens near Walpi

Jackson, W. H., on ruins of the San Juan

photographs of pueblo ruins by

describes fireplace of Echo Cave

Jar of large size used for storage

Jars used in chimney construction

Katchina people depart from Oraibi for eastern Tusayan villages

Katchinkihu, occurrence of, in ruined kiva near Sikyatki

Ketchipauan church built of stone

Kikoli rooms occupied in winter

occurrence of upright stone slab at

upper room of, paved with stone

Kin-tiel, finish of gateway jambs at

circular doorway at, described

openings at, of uniform height

Kisákobi, description of pueblo of

Kitdauwi—the house song of Tusayan

Kiva, study of construction of

native explanation of position of

duties of mungwi, or chief of the

significance of structural plan of

Kin-tiel and Cibola compared

Zuñi, where located during Spanish occupancy

Zuñi, stone window-frames of

Kwaituki, description of ruin of

Kwálakwai, Hano tradition related by

Kwetcap tutwi, the second pueblo of the snake people of Tusayan

Ladders, arrangement in Tusayan kiva

withdrawal of rungs to prevent use of

significance of position of, in kivas

second-story terrace of Tusayan reached principally by

Laguna, arrival of the Asanyumu at

Lalénkobáki, a female society of Tusayan

Land apportionment by gentes in Tusayan

Language of the Asa and Hano of Tusayan

Languages of Tusayan, tradition regarding difference in

Las Animas ruins, trap-door frames in

Latch strings used on Zuñi doors

Lathing or wattling of kiva walls

Ledges or benches around rooms

Light, method of introducing, in inner rooms

Lighting, method of, in crowded portions of Zuñi

Lintels of old windows embedded in masonry

Lock and key of wood, how made

Loophole-like openings in pueblo buildings

Mamzrántiki, an Oraibi society of women

Mandan ladder described and figured

Maricopa, myth of the Water people of Tusayan concerning the

Marriage of the Hopituh within phratries and gentes

Mashongnavi, origin of name of

settlement of Paroquet and Katchina peoples in

settlementof the Water people at

description of dais of kiva at

corrals of rude stonework at

Ojo Caliente carelessly constructed

Masonry of Pueblo Bonito, skill shown in

Meal, votive, used in pueblo house-building

Metates, or grinding stones, how arranged in pueblo houses

Migration, effect of, upon pueblo architecture

Migration of Tusayan Water people

Migration of the Bear people of Tusayan

Migration of the Asanynmu of Tusayan

Milling troughs of Pueblo households

Mindeleff, Cosmos, acknowledgments to

on traditional history of Tusayan

Mindeleff, Victor, paper on pueblo architecture

Mishiptonga, description of ruin of

Mission buildings of Shumopavi

Mission house at Walpi, timbers of, used in Walpi kiva

Moen-kopi surveyed and studied

Mole people, settlement in Tusayan of the

Montezuma Canyon ruins, use of large stone blocks in

Monument marking boundary of Oraibi and Shumopavi

Morgan, L.H., Mandan ladder described by

on. trap-door frames in Las Animas ruins

Mormon and Pueblo building compared

Mormons, effect of the, upon development of Moen-kopi

establishment of woolen mill at Moen-kopi by the

Mortars used in Pueblo households

Navajo, Asa of Tusayan live among

huts of, closed with blankets

method of sheep-herding compared with Pueblo

Nelson, E.W., graves unearthed by

collection of stone-closes by

Niches formed in old window openings

Nomenclature of Tusayan structural details

Nutria, compared with Kin-tiel

Nuvayauma, old Mashongnavi tradition related by

Oak mound kiva, Tusayan, decadence of membership of

Ojo Caliente, a modern village

Old Mashongnavi, tradition concerning occupation of

Openings, splayed, in Ketchipauan church

walls of Tâaaiyalana structures

Openings of Pueblo houses banded with whitewash

Oraibi, retirement of Sikyátki inhabitants to

departure of Ketchina and Paroquet peoples from

traditions regarding first settlement of

settlement of the Water people at

affray between the Walpi and

rare use of plastering on outer walls of

Oraibi, notched ladders described and figured

corral walls at, laid without mortar

Oraibi-Shumopavi boundary stone

Oven-shaped structures described and figured

Oven-surface imbedded with pottery scales

Palát Kivabi, the pristine habitat of the Squash and Sun people of Tusayan

Paneled doors in modern pueblos

Parallelogramic form of Tusayan buildings

Paroquet people, settlement in Shumopavi of the

Partitions in Ketchipauan church

Partitions of upper story supported by beams

Paving stones of kiva floor, how finished

Payupki, tradition concerning pueblo of

fragments of passage wall at

Peaches planted by the Asa people

Pegs, deer horns used as, in Zuñi

Peña Blanca formerly inhabited by the Hano

Peñasco Blanco, occurrence of upright stone slab at

method of roof construction at

Pescado compared with Kin-tiel

corral walls at, how constructed

ovens at, described and figured

fragment of stone close in steps of

Pestles or crushers used with Pueblo mortars

Petroglyph, or sun-symbol at Matsaki

legend of the Tusayan concerning

Pictograph on Oraibi-Shumopavi boundary monument

Piers of masonry for supporting girders

Pima, myth of the Water people of Tusayan concerning the

opinion of the, as to ancient stone inclosures

Pine invariably used for kiva ladders

Pink clay used in house decorations

Plan of villages, traditional mention of

Plans and descriptions, Tusayan ruins

Plan of pueblo houses not usually prearranged

Planting time, how determined in Zuñi

Plaster, frequent renewal of, at Shumopavi

Plastering, renovation of rooms by frequent

on outer walls in Ojo Caliente

Shupaulovi kiva, condition of

side hole of door for fastening

Platform in floor of Tusayan kiva

Plume stick, baho, or feather wand, used in Kiva consecratory ceremonials

Plume-stick shrines at Mashongnavi

Polaka, Hano tradition given by

Poles for suspension of blankets, etc.

Ponobi kiva of Oraibi, wall lathing of

Population, enlargement of pueblos necessitated by increase of

Posts of porch, remains of, at Hawikuh and Ketchipauan

Posts sunk in floor forming part of loom

Pots used in chimney construction

Pottery fragments, Horn House ruin

Pottery of Payupki, character of

Prayer plume, or baho, used in kiva consecratory ceremonials

Props used for fastening wooden doors

Pueblo architecture, study of, by Victor Mindeleff

symmetry of arrangement of outer openings of

Pueblo buildings, mode of additions to

Pueblo construction in Tusayan and Cibola, details of

Pueblo openings, carelessness in placing

Pueblo remains, area occupied by

Pueblos of Tusayan and Cibola compared

Pyramidal form of pueblo house rows

Rabbit-skin robes used to cover doorways

Rawhide thong used in pueblo construction to fasten lock

Rectangular kivas, antiquity of

Rectangular rooms, how developed

Rectangular type of architecture

Repair of houses infrequent in Tusayan

Reservoir site as affecting selection of dwelling site

Rites and methods of Tusayan kiva building

Rites of house-building at Tusayan

Rito de los Frijoles, chimney of, described

Roof construction, pueblo buildings

Roof-openings, pueblo buildings

Rooms, arrangement of, into rows in Tusayan

confused arrangement of, in Walpi

Tâaaiyalana ruins, arrangement of

Tusayan, smaller than in Zuñi

Rows of houses forming Shumopavi

between Horn House and Bat House

Rungs of ladders, how attached

Sacrifices of food in Tusayan house-building

Sandals of yucca found in Canyon de Chelly

Sandstone used in pueblo construction, how quarried

San Felipe, return of Payupki to

Santa Clara doubtfully identified with Kápung

Santo Domingo, settlement of the Asanyumu

Sash of rude construction in window openings

Sealing of doorways of pueblo buildings

Seats of stone in Tusayan kivas

Selenite used in pueblo windows

Semisubterranean kivas of Tusayan

Seven cities of Cibola. See Cibola.

Sheep, introduced into Tusayan

introduction of, among the Pueblos

Shumopavi, Spanish mission established at

removal of portion of Bear people from

Shumopavi-Oraibi boundary stone

Shumopavi people, removal of, to mesa site

Shupaulovi, settlement of Paroquet and Ketchina peoples in

settlement of Bear people at

settlement of the water people at

description of dais of kiva of

ground and ceiling plans of kiva of

description of chimney-hood at

Sichumovi, settled by peoples from Walpi

Sikyátki people dispute with the Walpi

Sites of pueblo buildings, why selected

Slabs of stone in pueblo architecture

Smoke escape through roof-opening and transoms

Snake dance, relation of dance-rock to

Snake people, the first occupants of the Tusayan region

construction of modern Walpi by the

Snow, use of, as water supply by the Zuñi

Spaniards, early visit of, to Tusayan

Spanish authority, effect of, upon purity of Zuñi kiva type

Spanish beams in Tusayan kivas

Spanish churches at pueblos, Hawikuk

Spanish influence in Zuñi and Tusayan

Spanish missions established in Tusayan

Spider people, settlement in Tusayan of the

Splash-stones described and figured

Splayed openings in Ketchipauan church

Squash people, settlement in Tusayan of the

Stakes used in construction of stone walls

Stephen, A. M., material on traditional history of Tusayan collected by

opinion on Walpi architectural features

on distribution of Oraibi gentes

on orientation of Tusayan kivas

discovery of ancient kiva type near Sikyatki

typical kiva measurements by

on wattling or lathing of kiva walls

on significance of structural plan of kiva

collection of primitive andirons or bosses by

Steps or foot-holes of Walpi trail

Stone, size, character, and finish of, in pueblo ruins

effect of use of, in chimney hoods

flags used to floor Tusayan kiva

inclosures in Southern Arizona

roof drains, curious forms of

shelters, possible remains of, at Payupki

slabs formerly used to close doorways

Stone wedges used in pueblo wall finish

atOraibi

Storage facilities of pueblo dwellings

Structural features of kivas similar

Subterranean character of kivas

Sullivan, Jeremiah, Payupki tradition obtained by

Sunflower stalks used in chimney construction

Supplies, how taken to Walpi mesa

Survey of Tusayan and Cibola, methods of

Tâaaiyalana, relation of K’iakima to

flight of Zuñis to, during Pueblo revolt

mesa of, temporarily occupied

Tables not used in Pueblo houses

Taos formerly partly inhabited by the Tewa

Tcosobi or Jay kiva, roof timbers of

Tebowúki, an early pueblo of the fire people of Tusayan

Tebugkihu or fire-house, description of

fragments of passage-wall at

Terraced roofs of Tusayan, names of

Terrace cooking-pits and fireplaces

Terrace rooms, half open, not seen in ancient pueblos

Oraibi, formed by natural causes

ancient pueblos, how reached

Tusayan, order of settlement of, by various peoples

Timbers for roof, kind used in kiva-building

Time for planting and harvesting, how determined in Zuñi

Topography, houses of Walpi constructed to conform to

Tradition, historical value of

regarding Hano and Tusayan languages

concerning occupancy of Old Mashongnavi

concerning early occupancy of former pueblos by existing tribes

Traditionary gentes of Tusayan, list of

Transportation to Walpi mesa, Indian method

kivas, no means of fastening

frames furnished with hand-holds

Túpkabi. See Canyon de Chelly.

ruins and inhabited villages of

Tusayan and Cibola architecture, compared by constructional details

Twigs, use of, in roof construction

Ute, conflict with, by the Tewa of Hano

Vargas, Don Diego, visit to Tusayan of

Vocabulary of Tusayan architectural terms

Walls, how indicated on plans of ruins

construction of, in Moen-kopi ruins

showing precision of workmanship

dimensions in Tâaaiyalana mesa

original height of, indicated by débris

thickness of, in modern Tusayan

paintings on, in Tusayan kiva

pueblo, mode of construction of

Walpi, settlement of Bear people at

Spanish mission established at

construction of, by the Snake people

dispute of, with the Sikyatki

abandoned by Bear, Lizard, Asa, and Badger peoples

upper story partitions of, supported by beams

use of large stone blocks in garden walls of

south passageway of, described

Walpi people, attack of Awatubi by the

affray between the Oraibi and

trouble between the Hano and

various pueblos formerly occupied by the

Warp-sticks, mode of supporting

Water, method of carrying, at Walpi

Water family, last to settle at Tusayan

Water jars used in chimney construction

Wattling or lathing of kiva walls

Whitewash on outer walls of Shumopavi

how made and applied in Zuñi

Wíksrun people, settlement in Tusayan of the

Willow wands used in roof construction

Window, doorway and chimney in one

Windows of various kinds described

Wings constructed in court of Pueblo Bonito

Women, house owners at Tusayan

work of, in Tusayan house-building

societies of, and kivas for, in Tusayan

Wood, kinds of, used in Tusayan construction

Wood rack of pueblos described

Wooden doors not found in pre-Columbian ruins

Wooden features of pueblo windows

Woolen mill established by Mormons at Moen-kopi

Workshop, use of the kiva, as a

Yeso used for interior whitewash

Yucca fiber sandals from Canyon de Chelly

portion of site of, formerly occupied by Halona

tradition as to occupancy of Kin-tiel by the

plans and descriptions of villages of


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