MESA VERDE PUEBLO FEWKES. 



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aboriginal people in comparatively the same cultural stage as the 

 cliff dwellers. 



Far View House is a pure type of pueblo building, limited to pre- 

 historic times, its essential differences from the mixed or historic 

 type, characteristic of modern pueblos, being its compact form and 

 circular kivas embedded in surrounding house walls. 



It is desirable, now that the general features of one of these have 

 been excavated, to extend the work to other neighboring mounds of 

 the group. The writer hopes some day to see all these mounds exca- 



FiG. 6. — Corn fetish. 



vated and repaired. The sight of a dozen large, well-constructed 

 pueblos in an area half a mile long by a quarter of a mile wide 

 would be as instructive as exceptional. The excavation and repair 

 of this cluster of mounds would be a worthy task for any institution 

 to undertake, fraught as it is with so many problems of archeological 

 interest, but it would require an enthusiastic devotion to scientific 

 research supported by a large sum of money and many months of 

 arduous toil by skilled workmen, 



