114 THE WA-WAC-KA-TCI-XA : 



The Tusayan or Moki Indians at present live in seven 

 villages of which 0-rai-bi isthe most populous, tlie most dis- 

 tant from the railroad and therefore least modified. These 

 village Indians have built their pueblos for security against 

 foes upon lofty mesas approached by steep trails. The 

 East Mesa or First Mesa is the site of three villages called 

 Wal-pi, Si-tciim-o-vi, and Ha'-no or Te-wa. Of these 

 three Wal-pi is the most populous and Si-tcilm-o-vi the 

 smallest. They are situated on the flat platform which 

 forms the top of the mesa, in a space not more than a half 

 mile in length and a few hundred yards broad. The three 

 towns are but a short distance from each other. Wal-pi, 

 in some places four stories high, lies at the very west end of 

 this mesa. The pueblo is compactly arranged with no out- 

 lying houses, although a few of the families have built 

 houses in the plain beloAV. 



Si-tcdm-o-vi is a rambling pueblo in different quarters 

 one and two stories high, enclosing a central plaza. Te'- 

 wa or Ha'-no has, at the east end, a group of houses four 

 stories high built around a projection of rock on the mesa 

 top, and the quarter facing the south has two stories. 



The second mesa is split into two parts upon one of 

 which stands the village of Mi-c6ii-in-o-vi ; on the other 

 Ci-m6-pa-vi. Ci-pau-lo-vi, which also rises from the same 

 mesa like a. Saracen's castle, crowns the top of the conical 

 elevation and is the most picturesque of the seven towns 

 of the Tusayan. These three towns of the Middle or Second 

 Mesa are placed at the angles of an irregular triangle, Ci- 

 m6-pa-vi being separated from the part of the mesa on 

 which the other two towns are situated by a deep valley en- 

 tering from the southwest. The most distant of the seven 

 pueblos from the railroad is 0-rai-bi lying some fifteen 

 miles beyond the Middle Mesa. This village is likewise 

 perched on a table-land to the top of which the trails are 

 very steep. 



