36 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
The messengers did not succeed in persuading the Tewa to come and 
the embassy was sent three times more. On the fourth visit the Tewa 
consented to come, as the Walpi had offered to divide their land and 
their waters with them, and set out for Tusayan, led by their own chief, 
the village being left in the care of his son. This first band is said to 
have consisted of 146 women, and it was afterwards followed by another 
and perhaps others. 
Before the Hano arrived there had been a cessation of hostile inroads, 
and the Walpi received them churlishly and revoked thei promises re- 
garding the division of land and waters with them. They were shown 
where they could build houses for themselves on a yellow sand mound 
on the east side of the mesa just below the gap. They built there, but 
they were compelled to go for their food up to Walpi. They could get 
no vessels to carry their food in, and when they held out their hands for 
some the Walpi women mockingly poured out hot porridge and scalded 
the fingers of the Hano. 
After a time the Ute came down the valley on the west side of the 
mesa, doing great harm again, and drove off the Walpi flocks. Then 
the Hano got ready for war; they tied buckskins around their loins, 
whitened their legs with clay, and stained their body and arms with 
dark red earth (ocher). They overtook the Ute near Wipho (about 3 
miles north from Hano), but the Ute had driven the flocks up the steep 
mesa side, and when they saw the fewa coming they killed all the sheep 
and piled the carcasses up for a defense, behind which they lay down. 
They had a few firearms also, while the Hano had only clubs and bows 
and arrows; but after some fighting the Ute were driven out and the 
Tewa followed after them. The first Ute was killed a short distance 
beyond, and a stone heap still (?) marks the spot. Similar heaps marked 
the places where other Ute were killed as they fled before the Hano, 
but not far from the San Juan the last one was killed. 
Upon the return of the Hano from this successful expedition they were 
received gratefully and allowed to come up on the mesa to live—the old 
houses built by the Asa, in the present village of Hano, being assigned to 
them. The land was then divided, an imaginary line between Hano and 
Sichumovi, extending eastward entirely across the valley, marked the 
southern boundary, and from this line as far north as the spot where 
the last Utah was killed was assigned to the Hano as their possession. 
When the Hano first came the Walpi said to them, ‘‘let us spit in your mouths, 
and you will learn our tongue,” and to this the Hano consented. When the Hano 
came up and built on the mesa they said to the Walpi, ‘‘let us spit in your mouths 
and you will learn our tongue,” but the Walpi would not listen to this, saying it 
would make them vomit. This is the reason why all the Hano can talk Hopi, and 
none of the Hopituh can talk Hano. 
The Asa and the Hano were close friends while they dwelt in New Mex- 
ico, and when they came to this region both of them were called Hanomuh 
by the other people of Tusayan. This term signifies the mode in which 
the women of these people wear their hair, cut off in front on a line with 
