610 TUSAYAN MIGRATION TRADITIONS (ETH. ANN.19 


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Pautiwag Teoro? Kanu? Kannae 9 Pibag Winutag Tuwasmi?¢ 
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Ciaum# SikwiZ? Lefihonima ¢ TO 7 7 
: Kokoma @ Pavuhhamana ¢ 
Kiitekwabi¢ 
Kumahabi ? Ponyanumka 9 
Nae? Potecad 
Asa OR TCAKWAINA CLANS * 
The Asa clans are said to have formerly lived at Kaétibi, near Santa 
Fe (Alaviya),* and near Abiquiu. They are reputed to have originally 
been of Tewa ancestry, and to have left the Rio Grande at about the 
end of the sixteenth century. In their western migration they went 
to Tukwi (Santo Domingo) and from there to Kawaika (Laguna). 
From Kawaika they proceeded to Akokaiabi (Acoma), and thence to 
Sioki (Zuni), where some of this clan still live, being known to the 
Zuni as the Aiwakokwe clan. How long the Asa lived at the pueblo 
last named, and whether the Zuni ascribe to the clan an origin in the 
upper Rio Grande, are unknown. 
Some of the Asa continued their migration from Zuni, proceeding 
to the Awatobi mesa, where they built a pueblo called Teakwainaki 
(‘‘ village of the Teakwaina clans”), near the wagon road west of the 
extreme end of the mesa. It is said that katcinas were then with them. 
They did not remain at this village a long time, but continued to the 
East mesa. The site of their first village at this mesa is not clearly 
indicated by the legends; perhaps they joined the Tewa clans, their 
kindred, above the spring called Isba, and it is said by some that they 
aided the other Tewa in their fights with the Ute. The Asa legends 
recount that after they had been in Tusayan for some time they built 
houses on the end of the East mesa above the gap (Wala), east of 
Hano. Years of drought resulted in a famine, and the Asa moyed 
away to Canyon de Chelly, in the *t Navaho country,” where they lived 
in houses now in ruins. They intermarried with the Navaho, but 
ultimately returned to Walpi, and found that other Tewa clans occupied 
their former dwellings, whereupon the Walpi chief assigned them a 
site for a new village at the head of the ‘Stairway trail,” if they would 
defend it against enemies. Their houses for the greater part are now 
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1The cult of Teakwaina common to Zufii and the East mesa is ascribed to this clan. 
2 Alta villa, Spanish ‘* High town,” 
