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attacked said that they would not stay at their villages, as they 

 would certainly be attacked again by their enemies. So they dressed 

 up and packed up all their things, and forming into line, went to 

 Orafbi, the chief going at the head of the line. They were admitted 

 to the village and are still living there. In that battle not many of 

 them had been killed, as they were well defended from their assailants, 

 and the latter, after having taken some women and children, escaped. 



110. THE EARLY SPANISH MISSIONS AT ORAIBl.' 



A long time ago the Oraibi were living in their village. The 

 Spaniards often made inroads upon them and warred against them. 

 Finally they made peace with each other and the Spaniards requested 

 that they be permitted to live in Orafbi. The Hopi consented, so 

 they hunted a place where the Spaniards could build their house, and 

 selected a place north of the village of Oraibi, where the ruins of the 

 old Spanish buildings may still be seen. Here the Hopi assisted them 

 in building their house. They got the stone for them and helped 

 them to build their house, which the old people say was built in a 

 spiral or snail-house shaped form, there being four spirals. In the 

 center of the spiral-shaped construction was the house, or rather kiva, 

 as the Hopi call it in their tales. Here, tradition says, the Spaniards 

 withdrew, especially in winter when it was cold. Coming out of this 

 kiva they had to go around four times through the long winding 

 hallway which ended in the square house with four rooms. From 

 this house the egress or ingress was made through doors, while from 

 the place in the center the Hopi say they came out through the 

 roof. 



Soon another house, which tradition calls an "assembly house," was 

 built north-east of this structure. This large house had a tower in 

 which bells were suspended. When this assembly house was finished, 

 the Spaniards called all the people from the village, and when they 

 had assembled at their house, they told them that they should all 

 go to the new, large assembly house, and when they had done so the 

 Tutd,achi told them that he was going to wash their heads (baptize 

 them). They asked him what that was, what that meant. He told 

 them that that was something very good. So they consented and 

 he poured a little water on the heads of those present. After this the 

 Tutdachi called another Tutaachi from Basoi,^ who came with a num- 

 ber of others and brought clothing and shoes for the Hopi. The shoes 



» Told by Wikvaya (Oraibi). 



2 This place could not be identified and I doubt whether the name was eiven correctly. 



