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quantities of sweepings, ashes, broken 

 implements, and potsherds with whieh 

 they filled all the depressions about 

 their town, and heaped up considerable 

 mounds beside, these four clans con- 

 tinued long in residence. When even- 

 tually the building was abandoned, 

 everything: inflammable was destroved 



years, the Tueblos returned to build 

 again upon the mesa, they brought with 

 them a skill undreamed of in earlier 

 times. On the slight elevation result- 

 ing from the decay of the cobblestone 

 house, they marked off an area eighty- 

 six by fifty-four feet and erected upon 

 it a two-story structure of faced sand- 



The circular subterraueau clubhouse owned by the men of each Pueblo dan, from which the women 

 were excluded except on special occasions, served as sleeping quarters and council chamber. The round pit 

 seen in the foreground is a fireplace, while the rectangular area slightly above and to the left of it is the 

 opening through which fresh air entered the room. A tunnel connects this opening with a shaft outside the 

 curving wall which leads to the surface 



by fire. Previous to the conflagration, 

 however, all manufactured articles ex- 

 cept a few corn mills, half a dozen stone 

 axes, and one broken water jar Avere 

 removed, but whether by the departing 

 population, or by looters, we shall 

 never know. 



Nature resumed her work of oblitera- 

 tion, while in other centers aboriginal 

 architecture continued its slow devel- 

 opment. When, after a lapse of many 



stone blocks. So accurate were their 

 calculations that the corners varied less 

 than five degrees from right angles, and 

 in spite of centuries of settling, when 

 uncovered, the bases of the walls were 

 as straight as if the masons had trued 

 them in with line and level only the day 

 before. 



Enclosed within the rectangle there 

 are twenty-five secular rooms and two 

 kivas. Throughout the masonry is 



