38 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
of the village. Their kiva is named after this circumstance as that of 
“the Watchers of the High Place.” 
Some of the Bear and Lizard families being crowded for building space, 
moved from Walpi and built the first houses on the site of the present 
village of Sichumovi, which is named from the Sivwapsi, a shrub which 
formerly grew there on some mounds (chumo). 
This was after the Asa had been in Walpi for some time; probably 
about 125 years ago. Some of the Asa, and the Badger, the latter 
descendants of women saved from the Awatubi catastrophe, also moved 
to Sichumovyi, but a plague of smallpox caused the village to be aban 
doned shortly afterward. This pestilence is said to have greatly re- 
duced the number of the Tusayan, and after it disappeared there were 
many vacant houses in every village. Sichumoyi was again occupied 
by a few Asa families, but the first houses were torn down and new ones 
constructed from them. 
LIST OF TRADITIONARY GENTES. 
In the following table the early phratries (nyu-mu) are arranged in the 
order of their arrival, and the direction from which each came is given, 
except in the ease of the Bear people. There are very few represent- 
atives of this phratry existing now, and very little tradition extant con- 
cerning its early history. The table does not show the condition of these 
organizations in the present community but as they appear in the tra- 
ditional accounts of their coming to Tusayan, although representatives 
of most of them can still be found in the various villages. There are, 
moreover, in addition to these, many other gentes and sub-gentes of 
more recent origin. The subdivision, or rather the multiplication of 
gentes may be said to be a continuous process; as, for example, in 
“corn” can be found families claiming to be of the root, stem, leaf, ear, 
blossom, ete., all belonging to corn; but there may be several families 
of each of these components constituting district sub-gentes. At present 
there are really but four phratries recognized among the Hopituh, the 
Snake, Horn, Eagle, and Rain, which is indifferently designated as 
Water or Corn: 
1. Ho’-nan—Bear. 2. Teu’-a—Rattlesnake—from the west 
Hoes Bear. and north—Continued. 
Ko/-Icyati-a _..... /Spider: Uiasen- steers Cactus, candela- 
TCO nT ee ane | bra, or branch- 
He'k-pa.........- Fir. | ing stemmed 
species. 
2. Teu'-a— Rattlesnake—from the west He!-wil ss eee Dove 
and north. Pi-vi Wiese ese Marmot. 
Teul-a <22<s.-s505 Rattlesnake. Pi‘h-tea.-.--...-. Skunk. 
GUE Ae = s54ecc Cactus—opuntia. Ka-la’-ci-au-u ....Raccoon. 
Pii'n-6. -22-- 5: -Cactus, the spe- | 3, A’-la—Horn—from the east. 
cies that grows So/-will-wa. ..-... Deer. 
in dome -like Teaib=10eemepaeet Antelope. 
, masses, Pa‘Ti-wa .....--.- Mountain sheep. 
