. Bulletin. Ethnology. 48 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 65 K) ground-floor rooms, five or six of which had once been two stories high, and two kivas (fig. 20). As usual, the rooms are arranged about the back of the cave, the kivas are set in front, and low re- taining Avails convert the remaining space into living terraces; the larger at the front of the cave, the smaller at a slightly higher level, behind the kivas and betw^een two groups of rooms. On the back walls of the cave there are numbers of pictographs, a few pecked, but the majorit}^ painted in red and yellow. Architecturally O
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 48 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 65 K) ground-floor rooms, five or six of which had once been two stories high, and two kivas (fig. 20). As usual, the rooms are arranged about the back of the cave, the kivas are set in front, and low re- taining Avails convert the remaining space into living terraces; the larger at the front of the cave, the smaller at a slightly higher level, behind the kivas and betw^een two groups of rooms. On the back walls of the cave there are numbers of pictographs, a few pecked, but the majorit}^ painted in red and yellow. Architecturally OUu House is precisely like all the other cliff- dwellings thus far described. The masonry is of rough stones of all sizes and shapes, vaguely coursed, laid up with a great deal of adobe mortar and heavily spalled. While the walls average only 8 inches thick, they are surprisingly firm and solid. In some parts of the building the outer surface of the walls was evidently finished. with adobe plaster, traces of which can be seen in plate 13, h, on the wall of the left-hand room. All walls, however, were not so treated, nor was the interior of the rooms commonly plastered. Although there is no evidence of fire, all the roofs have disappeared; the sock- ets for the beams, however, show the use here, as in Firestick House, of two or three large timbers, crossed at right angles by seven or eight small ones. Where second stories are present, the upper and lower rooms each have doors of their own. The doorways them- selves average 23 inches high by 14 inches wide at the top and 15 inches at the bottom. They are provided with lintels made of wooden rods and stone slab overlintels; the slab forming the sill pi'ojects in a number of cases to form a little ledge or step (see pi. 13. h^ left-hand room). With the exception of room 1, whose floor had apparently been leveled with refuse, the rooms contained little but blown sand and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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