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days. Hereupon followed the public war dance on the plaza on the 

 fourth day (as already referred to on a previous page). 



The people lived here in Hom61ovi a number of years, but how 

 many cannot be ascertained. Finally they concluded to move on 

 north-eastward because, it is claimed, there were so many mosquitos 

 there which would sting their children and their people and caused 

 great suffering. The Hopi say the reason why the people held out 

 so long, although they always suffered from the mosquitos, was that 

 they had such good fields there from which they raised good crops. 

 The mosquitos are called by most of the Hopi salt flies (6ong-totoptu), 

 but they are also called shipaulavitu by some, from which it seems 

 the present inhabitants of the village of Shupaulavi have derived 

 their name. When the migrating party had reached a certain bluff, 

 called Coyote Spring Bluff (probably about twenty-five or thirty 

 miles northeast of Winslow), they remained there, but not very long 

 it seems. Here they separated, the Batki clan proceeding north- 

 eastward to Aodtovi, the others going northward towards a place a 

 few miles west of Mat6vi. Here they again remained for a number 

 of years as they had good fields there. They finally proceeded farther 

 north to a place called Nashiwamu (about a mile south of Shonga- 

 pavi), where they probably remained about three years. Just as 

 they arrived at this place, the sun arose, the upper part of the sun 

 (his forehead, the Hopis say), just looming up above the horizon. 

 For this reason they were ever afterwards the Forehead clan (Kal- 

 namu). They made repeated efforts to get permission from the 

 village chiefs of Shongopavi to move on the mesa into the village, 

 but their efforts were unsuccessful. It seems that the chief had 

 heard something of their doings in PaMtkwapi, because he claimed that 

 they were dangerous, bad people (NAnukpantu). In the third year 

 they concluded that they would return to their previous home at 

 Hom61ovi. 



The chief of Shupaulavi, which village, however, was not called 

 by that name at that time, but was called Wdki (refuge house), heard 

 that these people were going to return and so he went to them and 

 invited them to move up to and settle down in his village, which invi- 

 tation they accepted. They are still by far the most numerous clan 

 in the village of Shupaulavi. The village was fi*om that time called 

 Shupaulavi, after the name of the new arrivals, who were called by 

 that name because they had fled from Hom61ovi on account of the 

 mosquitos which they called by that name. At that time Shupaulavi 

 was considerably larger than Shongopavi, the latter having lost a 

 great many inhabitants a long time before, when the people of that 



