Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1897) (14804316503)

Identifier: annualreportofbu219smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network



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z O X o 03 z ))rosent location,three .sites of Walpi, one of the Hopi towns, are visiWle from the sum-mit of the mesa. Aeeording to the native traditions the last movementof this village, only completed in the present century, was conmi Micedwhen the Spaniards were in control, over two centuries agd. It issaid that the movement was brought about by the women of the village,who took their children and household goods up on the sunnnit of theme.sa, where a few outlooks had been ))uiit. and left the men tf) followthem or remain whtMe they were. The men followed. Among the inhabited villages the home pueblo can he di.stinguishedfrom tht» sunnuer establishments by the presence of the kivas. andoften the same distinction can l)e drawn in the ca.se of ruins. Inmany of the latter the kivas are cii-cular and are easily found evenwhen much broken down.