. 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 . Coco-Maricopa Village. them impervious to water. The wheat and shelledcorn (maize) are put into large vases or baskets, fromthree to five feet high, made out of ropes of wheatenstraw. These ropes, which are as thick as ones arm,are coiled around into graceful forms, and sewedtogether like some kinds of basket work. The vases 236 THE COCO-MARICOPA AND so formed contain ten or twel


. 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 . Coco-Maricopa Village. them impervious to water. The wheat and shelledcorn (maize) are put into large vases or baskets, fromthree to five feet high, made out of ropes of wheatenstraw. These ropes, which are as thick as ones arm,are coiled around into graceful forms, and sewedtogether like some kinds of basket work. The vases 236 THE COCO-MARICOPA AND so formed contain ten or twelve, and some even fifteenbushels of grain. The following sketch exhibits a viewof the interior of a Pimo granary or store-houser


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