. Bulletin. Ethnology. m BULL. 30] HOPI 563 villages and in Oraibi that are not now represented at VValpi. For the Hano clans see Hano. The Honau (Bear) clan is represented on each mesa and is supposed to be the oldest in Tusayan. It is said to have come originally from the Rio Grande valley, but on the p]ast mesa the clan is now so reduced as to be threatened with extinc- tion at Walpi within a generation. The Chua (Snake) people were among the earliestto settle in Tusayan, joiningthe Bears and living with them when Walpi was in the foot-hills. The legends of this people declare that they cam
. Bulletin. Ethnology. m BULL. 30] HOPI 563 villages and in Oraibi that are not now represented at VValpi. For the Hano clans see Hano. The Honau (Bear) clan is represented on each mesa and is supposed to be the oldest in Tusayan. It is said to have come originally from the Rio Grande valley, but on the p]ast mesa the clan is now so reduced as to be threatened with extinc- tion at Walpi within a generation. The Chua (Snake) people were among the earliestto settle in Tusayan, joiningthe Bears and living with them when Walpi was in the foot-hills. The legends of this people declare that they came from pue- blos in the N., near Navaho mt., on the Rio Colorado. In their northern home they were united with the Ala (Horn) people, who separated from them in their south- erly migration and united with the Flute people at the now-ruined i:)ueblo of Leng- yanobi, n. of the East mesa. The com- bined Snake and Ala people control the Antelope and Snake fraternities, and possess the fetishes and other parapher- nalia of the famous Snake dance. The palladium of this people is kept at Walpi, thus leading to the belief that this was the first Hopi home of the Snake and kindred people. The Lengya (Flute) people, once very strong, are now almost extinct at the East mesa, but are numerous in some of the other pueblos. They are said to have lived formerly at Lengyanobi and to have come to Tusayan from the S., or from pue- blos along Little Colorado r. The chief of the Flute priesthood controls the Flute ceremony, which occurs biennially, alter- nating with the Snake dance. There are two divisions in the Flute fraternity, one known as the Drab Flute and the other as the Blue Flute, the former being extinct at Walpi. Sichomovi and Hano have no representatives of this phratry, but it is represented in all the other Hopi villages. There are Ala, or Horn, people in most of the Hopi pueblos, and clans belonging to this phratry are named generally after horned animals. Their ancestors came to
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