A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME INDIAN HOMES. 801 



In my opinion, the next step taken in advance is by the 

 Mojaves of Arizona, and those Indians build for themselves 

 homes which are more or less permanent dwellings. One of 

 these is shown in Fig. 2, and its architecture is certainly very 

 remarkable. The upright portion of the frame is composed of 

 very heavy timbers, each piece being completely stripped of its 

 bark and firmly implanted in the ground. The rafters and the 

 frame and ridge-piece for them to rest upon are also of timber 

 much stouter than is at all necessary to support the roof. This 



Yia. 2. Style of House built by the Mojave Indians in Arizona. 



latter is composed of long prairie grass overlaid with a thick coat 

 of mud-plaster. It is quite impervious to the rain, and the eaves 

 at one side are not more than a foot and a half above the ground. 

 Indeed, the peak or ridge of this house is hardly as high as an 

 ordinary man's head. All the sides and the front are left open, 

 but the back is usually built up with timber and filled in with 

 mud-plaster, or sometimes these Indians build this kind of an 

 abode into an embankment at its rear. Internally it is not parti- 

 tioned off into rooms at all, and the right-hand side of the dwell- 

 ing constitutes a sort of a porch or wing, wherein the roof is hori- 



