18 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
which would shine for a while and then disappear. The old men said, ‘‘Beneath 
that star there must be people,” so they determined to travel toward it. They eut 
a staff and set it in the ground and watched till the star reached its top, then they 
started and traveled as long as the star shone; when it disappeared they halted. 
But the star did not shine every night, for sometimes many years elapsed before it 
appeared again. When this occurred, our people built houses during their halt; 
they built both round and square houses, and all the ruins between here and Navajo 
Mountain mark the places where our people lived. They waited till the star came 
to the top of the staff again, then they moved on, but many people were left in those 
houses and they followed afterward at various times. When our people reached 
Wipho (a spring a few miles north from Walpi) the star disappeared and has never 
been seen since. They built a house there and after a time Mdasauwn (the god of the 
face of the earth) came and compelled them to move farther down the valley, to a 
point about half way between the East and Middle Mesa, and there they stayed 
many plantings. One time the old men were assembled and Masauwu came among 
them, looking like a horrible skeleton, and his bones rattling dreadfully. He menaced 
them with awful gestures, and lifted off his fleshless head and thrust it into their 
faces; but he could not frighten them. So he said, “I have lost my wager; all 
that I have is yours; ask for anything you want and I will give it to you.” At that 
time our people’s house was beside the water course, and Masauwu said, ‘‘ Why are 
you sitting here in the mud? Go up yonder where it is dry.” So they went across to 
the low, sandy terrace on the west side of the mesa, near the point, and built a 
house and lived there. Again the old men were assembled and two demons came 
among them and the old men took the great Baho and the nwelas and chased them 
away. When they were returning, and were not far north from their village, they 
met the Lenbaki (Cane-F lute, a religious society still maintained) of the Horn family. 
The old men would not allow them to come in until Mésauwu appeared and declared 
them to be good Hopituh. So they built houses adjoining ours and that made a fine, 
large village. Then other Hopituh came in from time to time, and our people would 
say, ‘Build here, or build there,” and portioned the land among the new comers. 
The site of the first Snake house in the valley, mentioned in the 
foregoing legend, is now barely to be discerned, and the people refuse 
to point out the exact spot. It is held as a place of votive offerings 
during the ceremony of the Snake dance, and, as its name, Batni, im- 
plies, certain rain-fetiches are deposited there in small jars buried in 
the ground. The site of the village next occupied can be quite easily 
distinguished, and is now called Kweteap tutwi, ash heap terrace, and 
this was the village to which the name Walpi was first applied—a term 
meaning the place at the notched mesa, in allusion to a broad gap in 
the stratum of sandstone on the summit of the mesa, and by which it 
can be distinguished from a great distance. The ground plan of this 
sarly Walpi can still be partly traced, indicating the former existence 
of an extensive village of clustering, little-roomed houses, with thick 
walls constructed of small stones. 
The advent of the Lenbaki is still commemorated by a biennial cere- 
mony, and is celebrated on the year alternating with their other bien- 
nial ceremony, the Snake dance. 
The Horn people, to which the Lenbaki belonged, have a legend of 
coming from a mountain range in the east. 
Its peaks were always snow covered, and the trees were always green. Irom the 
hillside the plains were seen, over which roamed the deer, the antelope, and the 
