AQ) PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE 
SUPPLEMENTARY LEGEND. 
An interesting ruin which occurs on a mesa point a short distance 
north of Mashongnavi is known to the Tusayan under the name of 
Payupki. There are traditions and legends concerning it among the 
Tusayan, but the only version that could be obtained is not regarded by 
the writer as being up to the standard of those incorporated in the 
“Summary” and it is therefore given separately, as it has some sug- 
gestive value. It was obtained through Dr. Jeremiah Sullivan, then 
resident in Tusayan. 
The people of Payupki spoke the same language as those on the first 
mesa (Walpi). Long ago they lived in the north, on the San Juan, but 
they were compelled to abandon that region and came to a place about 
20 miles northwest from Oraibi. Being compelled to leave there, they 
went to Canyon de Chelly, where a band of Indians from the southeast 
joined them, with whom they formed an alliance, Together the two 
tribes moved eastward toward the Jemez Mountains, whence they 
drifted into the valley of the Rio Grande. There they became converts 
to the fire-worship then prevailing, but retained their old customs 
and language. At the time of the great insurrection (of 1680) they 
sheltered the native priests that were driven from some of the Rio 
Grande villages, and this action created such distrust and hatred among 
the people that the Payupki were forced to leave their settlement. 
Their first stop was at Old Laguna (12 miles east of the modern village) 
and they had with them then some 35 or 40 of the priests. After leav- 
ing Laguna they came to Bear Spring (Fort Wingate) and had a fight 
there with the Apache, whom they defeated. They remained at Bear 
Spring for several years, until the Zuni compelled them to move. They 
then attempted to reach the San Juan, but were deceived in the trail, 
turned to the west and came to where Pueblo Colorado is now (the 
present post-office of Ganado, between Fort Defiance and Keam’s 
Canyon). They remained there a long time, and through their success 
in farming became so favorably known that they were urged to come 
farther west. They refused, in consequence of which some Tusayan 
attacked them. They were captured and brought to Walpi (then on 
the point) and afterwards they were distributed among the villages. 
Previous to this capture the priests had been guiding them by feathers, 
smoke, and signs seen in the fire. When the priest’s omens and oracles 
had proved false the people were disposed to kill them, but the priests 
persuaded them to let it depend on a test case—offering to kill them- 
selves in the event of failure. So they had a great feast at Awatubi. 
The priests had long, hollow reeds inclosing various substances—feath- 
ers, flour, corn-pollen, Sacred water, native tobacco (piba), corn, beans, 
melon seeds, ete., and they formed in a circle at sunrise on the plaza 
and had their incantations and prayers. As the sun rose a priest stepped 
forth before the people and blew through his reed, desirous of blowing 
