MINDELEFF.] TRADITIONS—HANO AND WALPI. 3iUl 
the mouth and carelessly parted or hanging over the face, the back hair 
rolled up in a compact queue at the nape of the neck. This uncomely 
fashion prevails with both matron and maid, while among the other 
Tusayan the matron parts her hair evenly down the head and wears it 
hanging in a straight queue on either side, the maidens wearing theirs 
in a curious discoid arrangement over each temple. 
Although the Asa and the Hano women have the same peculiar fash- 
ion of wearing the hair, still there is no affinity of blood claimed between 
them. The Asaspeak the same language as the other Tusayan, but the 
Tewa (Hano) have a quite distinct language which belongs to the Tanoan 
stock. They claim that the occupants of the following pueblos, in the 
same region of the Rio Grande, are of their people and speak the same 
tongue. 
K6tite Cochiti (?). Kapung Santa Clara (?) 
Numi Nambé, Pokwadi Pojoaque. 
Ohke San Juan. Tets6gi Tesuque. 
Poséwe (Doubtless extinct.) Also half of Taos. 
Pleasant relations existed for some time, but the Walpi again grew 
ill-tempered; they encroached upon the Hano planting grounds and stole 
their property. These troubles increased, and the Hano moved away 
from the mesa; they crossed the west valley and built temporary shelters. 
They sent some men to explore the land on the westward to find a suita- 
ble place for a new dwelling. These scouts went to the Moen-kopi, and 
on returning, the favorable story they told of the land they had seen 
determined the Tewa to go there. 
Meanwhile some knowledge of these troubles had reached Tceew4- 
digi, and a party of the Tewa came to Tusayan to take their friends back. 
This led the Hopituh to make reparation, which restored the confi- 
dence of the Hano, and they returned to the mesa, and the recently 
arrived party were also induced to remain. Yet even now, when the 
Hano (Tewa) go to visit their people on the river, the latter beseech 
them to come back, but the old Tewa say, “we shall stay here till our 
breath leaves us, then surely we shall go back to our first home to live 
forever.” 
The Walpi for a long time frowned down all attempts on the part of the 
Hano to fraternize; they prohibited intermarriages, and in general ta- 
bued the Hano. Something of this spirit was maintained until quite 
recent years, and for this reason the Hano still speak their own lan- 
guage, and have preserved several distinctive customs, although now the 
most friendly relations exist among all the villages. After the Hano 
were quietly established in their present position the Asa returned, and 
the Walpi allotted them a place to build in their own village. As before 
mentioned, the house mass on the southeast side of Walpi, at the head 
of the trail leading up to the village at that point, is still occupied by 
Asa families, and their tenure of possession was on the condition that 
they should always defend that point of access and guard the south end 
