. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . asses, so as to shedthe rain and protect them from the intense heat of the 234 THE- COCO-MARICOPA AND sun; some are then plastered over with mud. Anopening for a door is left, about three feet high, tocreep in at. These habitations vary in height fromfive to seven feet; so that in many of them one cannotstand erect. In fact they are chiefly used to sit andsleep in. In diameter th
. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . asses, so as to shedthe rain and protect them from the intense heat of the 234 THE- COCO-MARICOPA AND sun; some are then plastered over with mud. Anopening for a door is left, about three feet high, tocreep in at. These habitations vary in height fromfive to seven feet; so that in many of them one cannotstand erect. In fact they are chiefly used to sit andsleep in. In diameter they are from fifteen to twenty-five feet. In the most westerly village of the Coco-Maricopas, from which the annexed sketch was taken,the wigwams are wholly plastered with mud. Theircooking is done out of doors, where the greater por-tion of their time is passed, beneath a kind of shed orbower attached to the wigwams This is open on allsides, and merely protected from the sun these bowers the people are generally seenengaged in their household occupations, only resortingto their better protected abodes in cool or rainyweather. The accompanying sketch shows the man-ner of erecting these
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