Walpi

The site of the village next occupied can be quite easily distinguished, and is now called Kwetcap tutwi, ash heap terrace, and this was the village to which the name Walpi was first applied -- a term meaning the place at the notched mesa, in allusion to a broad gap in the stratum of sandstone on the summit of the mesa, and by which it can be distinguished from a great distance.

A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 Cosmos Mindeleff

The site of the village next occupied can be quite easily distinguished, and is now called Kwetcap tutwi, ash heap terrace, and this was the village to which the name Walpi was first applied -- a term meaning the place at the notched mesa, in allusion to a broad gap in the stratum of sandstone on the summit of the mesa, and by which it can be distinguished from a great distance.

Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 Various 1868

After lunch Evelyn took us to First Mesa and the village of Walpi, which is now used mainly for ceremonies.

Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010

After lunch Evelyn took us to First Mesa and the village of Walpi, which is now used mainly for ceremonies.

Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010

After lunch Evelyn took us to First Mesa and the village of Walpi, which is now used mainly for ceremonies.

Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010

After lunch Evelyn took us to First Mesa and the village of Walpi, which is now used mainly for ceremonies.

Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010

The name Küchaptüvela signifies "Ash-hill terrace," and probably the old settlement, like the modern, was known as Walpi,

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

A series of three small villages perch atop the mesa, the last one, Walpi, being the oldest.

William Horden: On The Road to The Sacred 2010

First established about 1100 years ago, Walpi is very much off the grid and as you walk along the narrow street surrounded by houses and kivas jammed together you can catch glimpses of the 300-foot drop that lies just behind the structures.

Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010

First established about 1100 years ago, Walpi is very much off the grid and as you walk along the narrow street surrounded by houses and kivas jammed together you can catch glimpses of the 300-foot drop that lies just behind the structures.

Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010