Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 54.—Character of masonry shijwn in one of the house-groups of thecompound. Note the failure of the huilders to break the joints and theconsequent weakening of an otherwise excellent wall. The face of the stonesis pecked to smoothness and all the stones are artificially squared. Photographby Nusbaum. a grou]:) of ruins on a mesa rising from the southwestern margin ofthe Cebollita valley, about 20 miles south of Grant. A^alencia County,Xew^ ]\Iexico, and only a few yards from the great lava flow that hasspread over
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 54.—Character of masonry shijwn in one of the house-groups of thecompound. Note the failure of the huilders to break the joints and theconsequent weakening of an otherwise excellent wall. The face of the stonesis pecked to smoothness and all the stones are artificially squared. Photographby Nusbaum. a grou]:) of ruins on a mesa rising from the southwestern margin ofthe Cebollita valley, about 20 miles south of Grant. A^alencia County,Xew^ ]\Iexico, and only a few yards from the great lava flow that hasspread over the vallev to the westward for many miles. While noverv definite information regarding the origin of this ruined pueblo 54 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 63. Fig. —Stone outer wall of a defensive strueture near the mesa wall is about 132 feet long in the clear, and is pierced only by small loop-holes. Photograph by Nusbaum.
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