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them with water. Their lands are in the valley to the north. The population is 

 about nine hundred. The houses are built of stone laid in mud, and, like all the 

 other pueblos, consist of several stories built up in a terrace form ; and as they have 

 no doors opening upon the ground, one must mount to the roof by means of a ladder, 

 and then descend through a trap-door in order to gain admittance." 1 The " ter- 

 race form" here referred to is a characteristic of the architecture of the Village 

 Indians. A single house, not unfrequently two and three hundred feet long and a 

 hundred feet deep, is carried up four and five stories, the second story covering the 

 whole of the first except a space about ten feet wide along the front of the building 

 which forms the roof of the first story. In like manner the third story stands back 

 the same distance from the front of the second; and the fourth from the third; so that 

 the front shows a series of stories receding as they rise, like the steps of a pyramid. 

 The houses in the ancient Pueblo of Mexico were constructed upon the same gene- 

 ral principles, and can probably be explained, as well as the ancient Pueblos in 

 Yucatan, Chiapa and Guatemala, from the present architecture of the Village In- 

 dians of the Rio Grande. 



There are terms in the Laguna dialect for grandfather and grandmother, Na-na- 

 7ia#h-te and Pd-pd-kee-you ; for father and mother, Nis7i-te-a and Ni-ya ; for son and 

 daughter, Sa-mut and Sa-mak ; and for grandson and granddaughter, Sa-na-na and 

 Sa-pa-pa. A great-grandson and great-granddaughter become a son and daughter 

 as in the Pawnee, which by correlation would make a great-grandfather a father. 



There are terms for elder and younger brother, Sat-tum-si-yd, and Tum-mu-ha- 

 masli ; and for elder and younger sister, Sci-gwets-si-ya and Sci-gite-sa-ha-masJi. As 

 applied to collaterals, Tum-mu is my brother, a male speaking, and Sa-gwech is my 

 sister, a female speaking. The other terms are not given. 



First Indicative Feature. Not given ; but as the correlative relationship is that 

 of ' father' without much doubt my brother's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my 

 son and daughter. 



Second. Not given ; but since the correlative relationship is that of nc?e, it 

 seems equally probable that my sister's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my 

 nephew and niece. 



Third. My father's brother is my father, NlsJi-te-d. 



Fourth. My father's brother's son is my brother, Tum-mu. 



Fifth. My father's sister is my mother, Ni-ya. 



Sixth. My mother's brother is my uncle, Sa-nou-wa. 



Seventh. My mother's sister I call Sa-ni-ya. 



Eighth. Not given. 



Ninth. My grandfather's brother is my grandfather, Na-nSrhasJi-te. 



Tenth. Not given. 



The relationship of cousin is unknown. My father's sister's son is my son, 

 whence by correlation my mother's brother's son is my father. This would place 

 the children of a brother and sister in the relationship of father and son, as amongst 

 the Creek, Cherokees, Pawnees, and Minnitarees. 



1 Schoolcraft's Hist. Cond. and Pros. IV. 16. 



