Hotevilla

A close-up of Hotevilla shows several distinctive patterns:

1) Long black symbols indicate one-story row houses;
squarish black symbols represent abandoned houses [compare with Hano in the 1880s],
new and old houses, or completely new houses.
2) The village is close to the edge of the mesa.
3) A land use map shows several kivas; here is how the kivas look on the ground.
4) An air photo (1967) shows the fields at the bottom of the mesa,
where the Hotevilla Spring can irrigate the fields and orchards,
shown on an earlier topographic map.

Compare Hotevilla today with another Hopi village, Oraibi, the oldest inhabited U.S. settlement, in this 1880s photo.

 

Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 11 April 2000.
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