FEWKES] THE RUIN OF KUKUCHOMO 587 
east of Tusayan, and that they were temporary habitations, possibly 
vantage points, occupied for defense. Plate cvr illustrates their gen- 
eral appearance, while the rooms of which they are composed are shown 
in figure 253, At the place where the mesa narrows between these 
mounds and the pueblos to the west, a wall was built from one edge of 
the mesa to the other to defend the trail on this side. This wall appears 
to have had watch towers or houses at intervals, which are now in ruins, 
as shown in figure 254, 
Fig. 253—Kiikiichomo 
The legends concerning the ancient inhabitants of Kiikiichomo are 
conflicting. The late A. M. Stephen stated that tradition ascribes them 
to the Coyote and Pikya (Corn) peoples, with whom the denizens of 
Sikyatki made friendship, and whom the latter induced to settle there 
to protect them from the Walpians. He regarded them as the last 
arrivals of the Water-house phratry, while the Coyote people came from 
the north at nearly the same time. From his account it would appear 
that the twin mounds, Kiikiichomo, were abandoned before the destrue- 
tion of Sikyatki. The Coyote people were, I believe, akin to the Kokop 
