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. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. an openspace or couil. The rows are divided into four distinct clusters, witha single room outside, forming a total of five locations in a \illagewhich housed at most twenty-ti\e or thirty persons. The continuityof the wall lines and comparative regularity of the rooms within eachcluster, the uniformity in height of the rooms, which, if the debrisupon the ground may Ije accepted as a criterion, was one storj^, andthe geneial uniformity in the character of the masonry, all suggestthat the site w
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. an openspace or couil. The rows are divided into four distinct clusters, witha single room outside, forming a total of five locations in a \illagewhich housed at most twenty-ti\e or thirty persons. The continuityof the wall lines and comparative regularity of the rooms within eachcluster, the uniformity in height of the rooms, which, if the debrisupon the ground may Ije accepted as a criterion, was one storj^, andthe geneial uniformity in the character of the masonry, all suggestthat the site was occupied a short time oidy. This suggestion is aidedby the almost complete absence of pottery fragments. It is a safeinference that persons of at least five different clans occupied this site. A plan of interest in connection with the last is that shown inplate XXI, which illustrates the modern village of Moenkapi, occupiedonly during the simimer. Here we have two main clusters and two 1 A Study of iueblo .tU-cluleuturt:, lu Ihu ElgLlli Auuuul Kcporl uf the Bureau of EtliUology. >oo _Io zI. CO z O 2O zo I CO peo])lc used the place in summer. It will benoticed that the rooms constituting- the upper right-hand corner of thelarger cluster on the map, while distinct from the other rooms, arestill attached to them, while two other rooms in the immediate vicinity / /. ScaJe lOoFter. I I I Fit;. 3—Plan of ruin showing brief occupancy. are wholly detached. This indicates that the cluster was occupied l)yone clan or by related families, while the detached
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectindians, bookyear1895