. Bulletin. Ethnology. 34 BUREAU OF AMEBICAK ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 32 fi-a*i;nientaiy mesas about a mile south of the river stood the village of Poihuuinge. Its ruins are probably 500 feet above the level of the river. The pueblo was of adobe, with large irregular blocks of basalt in the foundation. It consisted of three buildings so placed as to form an irregular quadrangle, the south side being open. The extreme length of the longest side is 421 feet. There are two circular, subter- ranean kivas within the court. About 100 yards south of the pueblo is the ruin of a large circular kiva, 50 feet in
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 34 BUREAU OF AMEBICAK ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 32 fi-a*i;nientaiy mesas about a mile south of the river stood the village of Poihuuinge. Its ruins are probably 500 feet above the level of the river. The pueblo was of adobe, with large irregular blocks of basalt in the foundation. It consisted of three buildings so placed as to form an irregular quadrangle, the south side being open. The extreme length of the longest side is 421 feet. There are two circular, subter- ranean kivas within the court. About 100 yards south of the pueblo is the ruin of a large circular kiva, 50 feet in diameter, which was in part subterranean and in part constructed of irregular blocks of basalt, conglomerate, and sandstone carried above ground to a height of probably eight or ten feet. About 200 yards east are the ruins of a building similarly constructed, which bears some evidence of having been used for a shrine. In this structure large blocks or slabs of stone set on edge were used in the walls and the general form is that of shrines still in use among the Tewa. It is 35 feet in diame- ter, considerably larger than any of the shrines now in use. The pottery of this ruin is strik- ingly similar to that found in the ruins farther south. While there is every evidence of the '-• use of corn at this pueblo, there has been no possibility of agri- culture in the immediate vicin- ity. The nearest land that might have been arable is about a mile away. No. 29. Teeuinge {fig. 17).—• This is a large ruin situated on the rim of the mesa overlooking the valley, just below the con- fluence of the Rio Oso with the Chama. It is about a quarter of a mile south of the river, and the bluff on wliich it stands is about 200 feet high. The pueblo was constructed of adobe with some use of lava blocks in the foundation walls, and is now reduced to low mounds. It was built in two large adjoining quadrangles, or would perhaps be better described as one long rectangle divided by cross walls i
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