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and the children that they wanted to take, and moved off with them, 

 not waiting for the Oraibi who were to have the first opportunity 

 to select their prisoners. So the Oraibi only got a very few. The 

 older women were killed. The chief of Aoatovi and his son were 

 both destroyed with the others in the kivas. The village was not 

 destroyed, but as soon as the raiders had taken such prisoners as 

 they wanted to take and had killed the others and probably took 

 some of the spoils of the houses, they returned. At a place between 

 Walpi and Mishongnovi called Skeleton Mound (Maschomo), they 

 halted. The Oraibi now showed their dissatisfaction and said to 

 the others: "This is not the way the chief told us that it should be. 

 We should select our prisoners first. You have taken what belonged 

 to us. This here was to be ours; that there was to be ours; and this 

 was to be ours; and you have taken them. Now you give to us what 

 belongs to us, as the chief of Aoatovi told us." Thus they spoke to 

 them. 



But the Mishongnovi and Walpi refused to give up the women 

 and maidens. "We have captured them, we have taken them," 

 they said, "and by that they became ours. We shall not give them 

 to you." Hereupon the Oraibi chief said: "Very well, then these 

 are mine. They were given to me," and hereupon he called upon 

 his people to take them." "Let us kill them," he said, "and then 

 they will belong to nobody, and there will be no wrangle about them. " 

 Hereupon the Oraibi grabbed a great many of them, whereupon the 

 women and maidens who were thus taken cried and begged to be 

 allowed to go along. "Do not kill us," they implored them, "we 

 shall go with you." Many of the younger and prettier ones about 

 whom the quarrel had taken place were killed. Some, however, 

 pitied their victims and these as well as others about whom there was 

 no contention were taken to the different villages. That is the rea- 

 son why in Oraibi, Mish6ngnovi, and Walpi so many of the Aoatovi 

 people may be found to the present day. 



In Oraibi the following clans are represented from those people: 

 the Sand clan, the Rabbit clan, the Coyote clan, and the Butterfly 

 clan. Of the latter, however, only one woman is left. There are in 

 Oraibi two different kinds of all of these clans except the Sand clan, 

 all of which are probably the Aodtovi people, while those of the other 

 clans have come from different directions. The Aoatovi people in- 

 troduced in Oraibi the Odqol cult, which is the latest cult introduced in 

 Oraibi. The same cult was also introduced by them in Mish6ngnovi 

 and W^lpi. At every Soyal ceremony these clans place their b^hos 

 at a separate place at the edge of the mesa for their dead ancestors. 



