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ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS FEWKES 



teristic or salient points which distinguish Fire House from ruined 

 buildings in the Hopi reservation, especially its circular or oval form 

 and the massive, well-constructed masonry of its walls. 



The exact dimensions of Fire House (pi. i) can be obtained only 

 by excavation, but it is approximately 94 by 79 feet in greater and 

 lesser diameter. Some parts of the outside wall are now 10 feet high, 

 and its thickness averages 3 feet, but if the stones accumulated about 



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FIG. i. Fire House. 



its base were removed the height would be 4 or 5 feet greater. There 

 are evidences of an external passage-way through the outer wall 

 indicating a central court. Within the enclosure there are many 

 indications of rooms some of which appear to be circular, but the 

 interior is so filled with fallen walls that an accurate ground plan 

 could not be drawn without extensive excavation. The stones form 

 ing the wall are, as a rule, cubical blocks, well dressed and accurately 

 fitted, showing good masonry. 



Two of the largest of the wall stones are 5 feet long and 3 feet 

 wide, with an estimated thickness of 2 feet. As it would take 



