ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEMEZ PLATEAU 



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top of Puye mesa (pi. v, h) and an extensive tributary cliff-village 

 (pi. V, a). The pueblo was a huge quadrangular structure (fig. 2), 

 next to Tshirege the largest in the park. It was the most compact, the 

 most regular of all the large pueblos. The quadrangle had but one 

 entrance, tliis being in the eastern side, near the southeastern corner. 

 The four sides are so connected as to form practically one structure, 

 though it is not to be inferred that this was all built at one time. It 

 presents no new constructive architectural features. 



In some rooms of this building there are evidences of occupancy 

 after once having been abandoned. Doors and windows previously 

 used are found closed with masonry and plastered over. The last 

 floor is laid upon a foot or more of debris accumulated upon an original 

 floor and not removed in the process of remodeling. The pottery 

 between these two floors is noticeably different from that above the 

 upper floor. Round kivas, mostly 

 subterranean, are found both inside ^'' 

 and outside the court. {; 



The cliff -village at Puye was a |V 

 very extensive one. The mesa is a \ - ■ 

 mile and a quarter in length and a I ] 

 large portion of the south face is ' ^ 

 literally honeycombed with dwell- |,L 

 ings. A ledge midway up the face i :" 

 of the cliff divides it into two parts. | ■ 

 In some places the lower part con- i 

 tains three levels of dwellings, the | " 

 bottom series being, in many in- \ ^ 

 stances, below the talus. The dwell- 

 ings above the ledge are more 

 scattered, but are also disposed in 



three levels. They are not generally so well constructed as those in 

 the lower part and are in a more ruinous condition. There is rarely 

 communication between dwellings in different levels ; when such con- 

 nection exists it appears to be accidental. The porches illustrated in 

 plate III, h, were a prevalent feature here. Two round excavated 

 kivas are found in a ledge in front of the cliff. A number of caves 

 of unusual size for this locality evidently served the purpose of kivas 

 for the inhabitants of the cliff-village. 



'No. 3. CJiipiwi. — This is a small pueblo of imperfect quadrangular 

 form situated on a low mesa about two miles west and a little south of 

 Puye. It belongs to the older type of pueblos and was one of several 

 minor villages, including Shufinne, that are said to have been absorbed 

 into Puye. An extensive cliff-village, consisting mainly of open-front 

 dwellings, occupies the southern exposure of the mesa on which this 

 pueblo is located. 



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Fig. 2.- 



-Ground plan of Puy6. 



