zaguato

Updated: May 14, 2025

Espejo, therefore, appears to have been the first to mention Awatobi as "Aguato," which is metamorphosed in Hakluyt into "Zaguato or "Ahuzto," although evidently Oñate's "Aguatuybá" was intended as a name of a pueblo. I have not been able to determine satisfactorily the date of the erection of the mission building of San Bernardino at Awatobi, but the name is mentioned as early as 1629.

Jesse Walter Fewkes - 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

While the different pueblos of Tusayan were not specially mentioned until forty years after they were first visited, the name Awatobi is readily recognized in the account of Espejo in 1583, where it is called Aguato, which appears as Zaguato and Ahuato in Hakluyt. In the time of Oñate the same name is written Aguatuybá.

Jesse Walter Fewkes - 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