The distribution of the houses over sites of varying
degrees of inaccessibility, suggests a succession of approaches to the
occupation of the open and unprotected valley.
Some of the masonry of this village is carelessly constructed, and, as
in the other farming pueblos, there is much less adobe plastering and
smoothing of outer walls than in the home pueblo.
[Illustration: Plate XLIV. Moen-kopi.]
[Illustration: Plate (unnumbered key).]
At the time of the survey the occupation of this village throughout
the year was proposed by several families, who wished to resort to
the parent village only at stated ceremonials and important festivals.
The comparative security of recent times is thus tending to the
disintegration of the huge central pueblo. This result must be
inevitable, as the dying out of the defensive motive brings about a
realization of the great inconvenience of the present centralized
system.
ZU?I.
The pueblo of Zu?i is built upon a small knoll on the north bank of
the Zu?i River, about three miles west of the conspicuous mesa of
T?aaiyalana. It is the successor of all the original "Seven Cities of
Cibola" of the Spaniards, and is the largest of the modern pueblos.
As before stated, the remains of Halona, one of the "seven cities," as
identified by Mr. Cushing, have served as a nucleus for the construction
of the modern pueblo, and have been incorporated into the most densely
clustered portions, represented on the plan (Pl.
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