MINDELEFF.] MOEN-KOPI. 79 
favorably with the American mason’s work, though the result is attained 
in a wholly different manner, viz, by close and careful chinking with 
numberless small tablets of stone. This process brings the wall to a 
remarkably smooth and even surface, the joints almost disappearing in 
the mosaic-like effect of the wall mass. The masonry of Moen-kopi is 
more than ordinarily rough, as the small village was probably built 
hastily and used for temporary occupation as a farming center. In the 
winter the place is usually abandoned, the few families occupying it 
during the farming months returning to Oraibi for the season of festivi- 
ties and ceremonials. 
