Pl. CXLVIII. (Frontispiece). The Third Mesa with Oraibi. 



The view is taken from the east ; the distance is about one mile. In the 

 foreground may be seen to the right the beginning of a mesa, to the left and in 

 the centre peach orchards and bean patches. In the background is the mesa, 

 which is about four hundred feet high, and on the top of which, somewhat to the 

 right, is perched the ancient village of Ordibi, the largest of the seven H6pi vil- 

 lages, with a population of about eight hundred people. In the centre of the 

 picture may be seen, meandering through sand hills, orchards, fields, and up the 

 mesa, the principal trail to the village, which, for generations, has been used by 

 the water-carrier to springs, by the priest to distant shrines, by the tiller of the 

 soil to his little fields in the valley, and by the visitor to the neighboring villages 

 of Tusayan, and to the distantly located ones of the befriended Pueblo and Zuni 

 Indians. 



