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Show NOTES ON THE MOQUI PUEBLOS. 393 are enemies only of this pueblo of Oraibe and of the Moqui concave [ sic]. The names of the pueblos of Moqui, 2 according to If he had continued in that direction he would have fetched up at Lee's ferry over the Colorado, near the northern border of Arizona. There is a multiplicity of confusing trails all through the Moqui, Zuni, and Navajo country, which no stranger should undertake without a guide. The Moqui concave or Muqui concabe of Garces, rendered in both places Muqui concabe in the Beaumont MS. and Munqui-concabe in the pub. Doc, p. 332, does not mean " concave " or " hollow" Moqui; but what it means is not clear at first sight. The phrase is not Spanish, and Mr. Hodge suggests in a letter to me that it is a mangled form of the word Moencapi or Moen-copie, the name of the Oraibe farming place or suburb which has already come up in my note on Moencopie wash. I have myself no doubt that he has hit it exactly right. This interpretation of Muqui concabe is borne out by the form Munquicon-cabe ( one word, with an n in the first syllable) which we find in print, and by the fact that it renders the rest of Garces' list of names much more nearly correct. ' MOKI: Spanish form, Moqui, evidently derived from the Zuni name A'- mu- kwe, an opprobrious epithet, although moki in the Moki language signifies " dead." Their own name is H6pituh- shinumuh (" peaceful people"), abbreviated to Ho-pituh and Hopi, the last form now being generally applied to the people by ethnologists. They are a group of Indians occupying six villages on a large desert reservation in northeastern Arizona. They first became definitely known to civilization in 1540, when Francisco Vasquez Corbnado, having reached Granada, one of the " Seven Cities of Cibola " ( identified as the ruined Zuni pueblo of Hawiku, in western New Mexico), learned from the natives of those pueblos of a province of seven |