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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



Ruined Pueblo of Wejegi, Chaco Canyon. This ruin is 011 the north side of the 

 Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, close under the cliff, about 9 miles above the junction 

 of the Escavada. The interior dimensions of the ruin are about 170 by 118 feet. 

 It forms three sides of a hollow square, and presents a front of 15 rooms on the 

 longer or 11 rooms on the shorter side. In the north row, some of the walls are 

 still standing to heights of from 12 to 18 feet, and this part of the structure was 

 at least three stories high. The walls are of stone, shaped as shown, and laid 

 up with mud or stone mortar of mud without lime. On the ground plan there 

 are 93 rooms. The north or main row is 5 feet deep; the east and west wings 

 are each 4 rooms deep. The rooms on the ground average about 9 feet square. 

 There are no openings in the outer wall. There are two circular &quot;estufas&quot; 23 

 feet in diameter, in the corners formed by the intersections of the wings with 



252 



Fig. 59. 



SHELL IMPLEMENTS. 

 252, Pyrula shell, Indiana, mound; 253, Pyrula shell, Kenturky, niou 



; 256, Haliotis shell, California. 



the main row, completely inclosing the building, but there is no standing wall 

 remaining. The building was once terraced from the court outward. It prob 

 ably contained about 210 rooms, and on the basis of the proportion existing in 

 the present inhabited pueblos, probably had a population of about 300 persons. 

 Scale, 1 inch to 5 feet, 1 : 60. Area represented, about 1 acre. 



Ruined tower, Colorado. This ruin is within a mile of McElmo Creek, a small tribu 

 tary of the Rio San Juan, in southwestern Colorado. The ruin seems to have 

 been a compact village or community dwelling, consisting of two circular build 

 ings and a great number of rectangular apartments. The greater part of the 

 village is in such a state of decay as to be hardly traceable among the sagebrush 

 and rubbish. The apartments number nearly a hundred and seem generally to 

 have been rectangular. The walls of the tower only are standing, and the only 

 portion represented. It is constructed of roughly hewn stone, and is one of the 

 best specimens of this ancient architecture. Scale, 1 inch to 2 feet, 1:24. Area 

 represented, 64 by 64 feet. 



