FEWKES] THE ALA-LENYA CLANS 591 
united with the Flute people, and from that time the group was com- 
posite. The combined clans did not remain at Lenyanobi, but moyed 
by way of Wikyaobi to a point called Ky ractapabi, where they were 
well within the present Hopi reservation. The route from Kwactapabi 
to Walpi, where they joined the Snake pueblo, was by Wipo, Kanelba, 
and Lefyaciipu, or Kokyanba (Spider spring). 
The spring known as Kwactapahu, situated a few miles from Walpi, 
is said to have been the site of a pueblo of the Horn-Flute clans for 
some time, and it was possibly while they were there that news of 
the Snake settlement at Walpi reached them. The chief of the pueblo 
sent Alosaka to spy out the country west and south of their settle- 
ment, and he returned with the report of the existence of the Snake 
town at Old Walpi. The Horn people, knowing that the Snake people 
must have made their way into the region after their separation, no 
doubt expected to find them as they journeyed westward. At all 
events, they recognized them as kindred. Kwactapahu was aban- 
doned, and the combined Horn-Flute clans were hospitably received 
by the Snake villagers. 
In the present Hopi ritual at Walpi there is a re smarkable confirma- 
tion of that part of the above legend which deals with the union of 
the clans from Kwactapahu and the people of Old Walpi. It is no 
less than a dramatization of the event with a cast of characters repre- 
senting the participants. 
About noon of the seventh day of the Flute ceremony, the Flute 
chief, accompanied by several members of the Flute priesthood, visited 
in sequence the springs mentioned above, where the Horn-Flute people 
had tarried during the latter part of their migration. They went 
first to Kanelba, about 5 miles from Walpi, thence to Wipo, still farther 
to the north, on the west side of the table-land of which the East 
mesa is a continuation. They then crossed the plain west of Wipo, 
and made their way onto the mesa which bounds the western edge of 
this plain. At a point called the Flute house they slept, and on the 
following morning went a mile beyond the Flute house to Kw: actapahu, 
where ceremonies were conducted and offerings made to the spring. 
The rites at Kwactapahu ended, the Flute priests retraced their 
steps, crossing the valley as their ancestors did in ancient times. At 
intervals they halted, set the tiponi or badge of office in position on 
the ground, and made symbols of rain clouds near by. One of the 
stopping places was near the mound called Tukinobi, on which there 
is a ruin of considerable size. They continued their course and 
approached the narrow neck of land ec: alled Hiitciovi, along which runs 
the trail by which Walpi is entered from the north. There they 
found a line of meal drawn across the trail which symbolized that no 
one could enter the pueblo. Entrance to Walpi was closed to the 
incoming personators of the ancient Horn-Flute clans. 
