MINDELEFF] CLAN LOCALIZATION AS SHOWN BY PLANS 649 
detached houses, but the clusters are not nearly so regular as in the 
plan aboye, nor are the wall lines continuous to the same extent. 
This place is spoken of by the people of Oraibi as of recent establish- 
ment, but it has certainly been occupied for a much longer period than 
was the ruin near it. It is apparent from an inspection of the plan 
that the clusters were formed by the addition of room after room 
as year by year more people used the place in summer. It will be 
noticed that the rooms constituting the upper right-hand corner of the 
larger cluster on the map, while distinct from the other rooms, are 
still attached to them, while two other rooms in the immediate vicinity 




Fic. 3—Plan of ruin showing brief occupancy. 
are wholly detached. This indicates that the cluster was occupied by 
one clan or by related families, while the detached houses were the 
homes of other families not related to them. Thus we have in this 
village, comprising about the same number of rooms as the ruin 
first described, at least four distinct clans. 
Detached rooms, such as those shown on these plans, always indi- 
cate a family or person not connected directly with the rest of the 
inhabitants, perhaps the representative of some other clan or people. 
A stranger coming into a village and wishing to build would be 
required to erect his house on such a separate site. In the village of 
Sichumoyi (shown in plan in plate xxrv) there are two such detached 
