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Show NOTES ON THE MOQUI PUEBLOS. 397 met, who very affably showed me the way { me encami-naron) to that which I ought to take; and having of-built the present village of Hano, sometimes improperly called Tewa. About the same time, or possibly during the period of the great revolt between 1680 and 1692, a Tewa village known as Payupki was founded on Middle Mesa by mixed Tiwa ( or Tigua) and Tewa natives of Sandia on the Rio Grande. This pueblo was occupied about half a century, when, in 1742, they were induced to return to their former home in New Mexico. Sandia ( Spanish, " watermelon "), like the village built in the Tusayan country, still bears the name Payupki. The ruined walls of this Middle Mesa town are still standing. Not long after the abandonment of Payupki, or about the middle of the eighteenth century, another pueblo was built on East Mesa. It was called Sichomovi, and still exists as an occupied town, between Walpi and Hano. It was settled principally by two clans ( one of them being of eastern origin), who resided first at Walpi, but through a trifling dispute abandoned that village and with the Badger people occupied the new site. Yet another town was established in the eighteenth century, this time by people from Walpi and Mashongnovi, who erected their houses on Middle Mesa, on the site called Shipaulovi, " place of the peaches." So far as known, Garces is the first writer to record the name of this village, although, as received from the mouths of the Yavapai, it became corrupted into " Sesepaulaba." The next reference to the town was by Juan A. Morfi, who recorded it under the name Xipaolabi, with the statement that it contained 14 families. It will be seen that the seven Tusayan villages of Coronado's time were by no means identical with the one Tewa and six Hop! pueblos of Tusayan at the present time; indeed, with the possible exception of Oraibi, none of the villages occupies its sixteenth- century site, even if we accept the belief that the |
