. Bulletin. Ethnology. fewkes] PREHISTORIC VILLAGES, CASTLES, AND TOWERS 47 cate that corner of a rectangular pueblo. Hovenweep House (pi. 14, a) was the largest building in this canyon, but with the exception of the addition of a semicircular tower or great house, does not differ greatly from, a pueblo like Far View House on the Mesa Verde. The piles of stone and earth indicating rooms below justify the conjec- ture that when the fallen debris is removed the unfallen walls will still rise several feet above their rocky foundations. If properl}?- excavated, Hovenweep House would be an instruct
. Bulletin. Ethnology. fewkes] PREHISTORIC VILLAGES, CASTLES, AND TOWERS 47 cate that corner of a rectangular pueblo. Hovenweep House (pi. 14, a) was the largest building in this canyon, but with the exception of the addition of a semicircular tower or great house, does not differ greatly from, a pueblo like Far View House on the Mesa Verde. The piles of stone and earth indicating rooms below justify the conjec- ture that when the fallen debris is removed the unfallen walls will still rise several feet above their rocky foundations. If properl}?- excavated, Hovenweep House would be an instructive building, but in its present condition, while very picturesque, its structure is difficult to Fio. 8.—Ground plun of Hoyenweep Castle. Hovenweep Castle This ruin (pis. 14,b, c; 18, b), like the preceding ,x has circular kivas compactly embedded in rectangular rooms arranged about them, indi- cating the pure type of pueblos. The massive-walled semicircular towers and great houses are combined with square rooms and kivas, indicating that it is distinguished by two sections, an eastern and a western, which, united, impart to the whole the shape of a letter L (fig. 8). WESTERN section of hovenweep castle The western section (fig. 8, A-D, M) of'Hovenweep Castle is made up of five rooms, the most western of which, M, is semicircular, while A, B, C, and D are rectangular. Room A is almost square, one of its walls forming the straight wall of the south side of the semicircular. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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