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The pueblo may have been abandoned or destroyed prior to the ad- 
vent of the Spaniards in this country, as claimed by the Indians, for no 
traditional mention of it is made in connection with the later feuds and 
wars that figure so prominently in the Tusayan oral history of the last 
three centuries. The pueblo was undoubtedly built by some of the an- 
cient gentes of the Tusayan stock, as its plan, the character of the site 
chosen, and, where traceable, the quality of workmanship link it with 
the other villages of the Jeditoh group. 
MOEN-KOPI RUINS. 
A very small group of rooms, even smaller than the neighboring 
farming pueblo of Moen-kopi, is situated on the western edge of the 
mesa summit about a quarter of a mile north of the modern village of 
Moen-kopi. As the plan shows (Fig. 4), the rooms were distributed in 
fooFeer, 
Fig. 4. Ruin near Moen-kopi, plan. 
three rows around a small court. This ruin also follows the general 
northeastern trend which has been noticed both in the ruined and in 
the occupied pueblos of Tusayan. The rows here were only one room 
deep and not more than a single story high at any point, as indicated 
by the very small amount of débris. As the plate shows, nearly the 
entire plan is clearly defined by fragments of standing walls. The walls 
are built of thin tablets of the dark-colored sandstone which caps the 
mesa. Where the walls have fallen the débris is comparatively free 
