30 . PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
which is used as a place for the deposit of votive offerings, but the 
etymology of the term can not be traced. 
Some of the Bear people also took up their abode at Shupaulovi, and 
later a nyumu of the Water family called Batni, moisture, built with 
them; and the diminished families of the existing village are still com- 
posed entirely of these three nyumu. 
The next arrivals seem to have been the Asanyumu, who in early 
days lived in the region of the Chama, in New Mexico, at a village 
called Kaékibi, near the place now known as Abiquiu. When they left 
that region they moved slowly westward to a place called Tawii (Santo 
Domingo), where some of them are said to still reside. The next halt 
was at Kaiwaéika (Laguna) where it is said some families still remain, 
and they staid also a short time at A‘ikoka (Acoma); but none of them 
remained at that place. From the latter place they went to Sidki (Zuni), 
where they remained a long time and left a number of their people there, 
who are now called Aiyaéhokwi by the Zuni. They finally reached Tu- 
sayan by way of Awatubi. They had been preceded from the same part 
ot New Mexico by the Honan nyumu (the Badger people), whom they 
found living at the last-named village. The Magpie, the Pute Kohu 
(Boomerang-shaped hunting stick), and the Field-mouse families of the 
Asa remained and built beside the Badger, but the rest of its groups con- 
tinued across to the Walpi Mesa. They were not at first permitted to 
come up to Walpi, which then occupied its present site, but were allotted 
a place to build at Coyote Water, a small spring on the east side of the 
mesa, just under the gap. They had not lived there very long, however, 
when for some valuable services in defeating at one time a raid of the 
Ute (who used to be called the Teingawtptuh) and of the Navajo at 
another, they were given for planting grounds all the space on the mesa 
summit from the gap to where Sichumovyi now stands, and the same width, 
extending across the valley to the east. On the mesa summit they built 
the early portion of the house mass on the north side of the village, now 
known as Hano. But soon after this came a succession of dry seasons, 
which caused a great scarcity of food almost amounting to a famine, and 
many moved away to distant streams. The Asa people went to Tup- 
kabi (Deep Canyon, the de Chelly), about 70 miles northeast from Walpi, 
where the Navajo received them kindly and supplied them with food. 
The Asa had preserved some seeds of the peach, which they planted in 
the canyon nooks, and numerous little orchards still flourish there. They 
also brought the Navajo new varieties of food plants, and their relations 
grew very cordial. They built houses along the base of the canyon walls, 
and dwelt there for two or three generations, during which time many 
of the Asa women were given to the Navajo, and the descendants of 
these now constitute a numerous clan among the Navajo, known as the 
Kidini, the High-house people. 
The Navajo and the Asa eventually quarreled and the latter returned 
to Walpi, but this was after the arrival of the Hano, by whom they 
