. Bulletin. Ethnology. 210 CASA GKANDE [b. a. CASA GRANDE was much the same about 1762, when seen by the author of the anonymous Rudo Ensayo. Its construction is of the pise type, i. e., the walls, 3 to 5 ft. thick, con- sist of huge blocks of adobe mortar and gravel molded in place and allowed to dry hard, then smoothed on the inner surface. The present height of the outer walls is 20 to 25 ft., accommodating 2 stories, while the central part or tower, forming an additional story, is 28 to 30 ft. above the ground. The house meas- ures 43 by 59 ft., with 5 rooms in its ground plan. Casa Gr
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 210 CASA GKANDE [b. a. CASA GRANDE was much the same about 1762, when seen by the author of the anonymous Rudo Ensayo. Its construction is of the pise type, i. e., the walls, 3 to 5 ft. thick, con- sist of huge blocks of adobe mortar and gravel molded in place and allowed to dry hard, then smoothed on the inner surface. The present height of the outer walls is 20 to 25 ft., accommodating 2 stories, while the central part or tower, forming an additional story, is 28 to 30 ft. above the ground. The house meas- ures 43 by 59 ft., with 5 rooms in its ground plan. Casa Grande was also visited Oct. 31, 1775, by Father Pedro Font, who wrote an excellent de- scription of its appearance and mentions the outlying struc- tures,then fairly preserved. Font remarksthatthe Casa Grande it- self measured 50 by 70 ft., and in- fers that its beams (4 or 5 in. thick), ap- parently of pine, must have been carried 20 m., while the water supply for the set- tlement was conveyed from the river by means of a canal. At this date the build- ing was of 3 stories, though the neighbor- ing Pima informed Font that there had been 4. The celebrated ruins were visited 77 vears later (July 12, 1852) by J. R. Bartlett, whose description indicates little change in the main structure since the time of Font, although all but 2 of the outlying buildings had been reduced to mounds. By act of Congress of Mar. 2, 1889, 12,000 was appropri- ated for the repair of the building, and the work \vas performed under tlie direc- tion of the Secretary of the Interior. By Executive or- der of June 22, 1892, under the provisions of the same act, a tract of about | sq. m., surround- ing the ruin, was reserved from sale or settlement, and a custodian appointed. The origin of this and of other prehis- toric pueVjlo groups in s. Arizona and N. Chihuahua is unknown. It has long been reputed to have been one of the places of sojourn of the Nahua or Aztec in their migration from the n. to the val- l
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