ell-defined ruins, called Kisakobi and Kuechaptuevela, are now pointed
out as the sites of Old Walpi. Of these Kuechaptuevela is regarded as
the older.

Judging by their ruins these towns were of considerable size. From
their exposed situation they were open to the inroads of predatory
tribes, and from these hostile raids their abandonment became
necessary. From Kuechaptuevela the ancient Walpians moved to a point
higher on the mesa, nearer its western limit, and built Kisakobi,
where the pueblo stood in the seventeenth century. There is evidence
that a Spanish mission was erected at this point, and the place is
sometimes called Nueshaki, a corruption of "Missa-ki," Mass-house. From
this place the original nucleus of Walpians moved to the present site
about the close of the seventeenth century. Later the original
population was joined by other phratries, some of which, as the Asa,
had lived in the cliff-houses of Tsegi, or Canyon de Chelly, as late
as the beginning of the eighteenth century. This, however, is not the
place to trace the composition of the different modern villages.

Sichomovi was a colony from Walpi, founded about 1750, and Hano was
built not earlier than 1700. The former was settled by the Badger
people, later joined by a group of Tanoan clans called the Asa, from
the Rio Grande, who were invited to Tusayan to aid the Hopi in
resisting the invasions of northern nomads.

By the middle of the eighteenth century the population of the province
of Tusayan was for the first time distributed in the seven pueblos now
inhabited. No village has been deserted since that time, nor has any
new site been occupied.

In order that the reader may have an idea of the Tusayan pueblos at
the time mentioned, an account of them from a little-known description
by Morfi in 1782 is introduced:[32]

_Morfi's account of the Tusayan pueblos_

Quarenta y seis leguas al Poniente de Zuni, con alguna
inclinacion al N. O. estan los tres primeros pueblos de la
provincia de Moqui, que en el dia en el corto distrito de
4-1/2 leguas (112 recto) tiene siete pueblos en tres mesas o
penoles que corren linea recta de Oriente a Poniente.

_Tanos_[33]

En la punta occidental de la primera, y en la mas estrecho
de su eminencia estan situados tres de los quales el primero
es el de Tanos (alli dicen Tegueas), cuyas moradores tienen
idioma particular y distinto del Moquino. Es pueblo r