NO. 17 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQ16 81 
ture, published by the Bureau of American Ethnology. Doctor 
Fewkes found the architectural features of this ruin essentially the 
same as when visited by Mindeleff. The ground-plan of Fire House 
is exceptional in being circular, while that of Sikyatki appears to 
be rectangular. On the very threshold of the investigation this 
radical difference in form seemed to disprove the legend, but it is 
by no means disastrous to a theory of relationship of the two ruins. 
On the rim of the East Mesa, above Sikyatki, there stand two con- 
spicuous conical mounds, which legends always associate with the 
village in the foothills. They are remains of the only circular pueblo 
Fic. 86.—Northwest angle of Far View House. Dr. Fewkes in the 
foreground. Photograph by E. E. Higley. 
ruins in the Hopi country, and were probably constructed by relatives 
of the emigrants from Fire House before they built the larger 
rectangular village at the foot of the Mesa. 
The round form of Fire House has a still more important signifi- 
cance, for it corroborates the Hopi legends that their ancestors came 
from some place near Jemez, a pueblo situated in or near a zone of 
round ruins extending from southern Utah to the Zuni River. 
The pottery of Fire House is more instructive than its architecture, 
for its symbolism is the same as that characteristic of the zone of 
circular ruins. Its rude character and simple conventionalized 
figures, as compared with the fine specimens from Sikyatki, add 
