36 BUREAU (»F AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 32 



of this ])uebl() is the one heavy interior wall, formino- a central axis 

 extending through the entire length of the structure, all parallel walls, 

 including the exterior, and all cross walls being much lighter and in 

 every way inferior. T\niether there was communication between 

 apartments on o])posite sides of tliis wall is as yet problematical. 

 Future excavations vasij decide that question. 



No. 31. Aheclnu (Tewa, "the screech of the owl"), figure 19. — This 

 was an adobe pueblo situated on the lower mesa some three hundred 

 feet above the Chama. It is just south of the present Mexican town 

 of Abiquiu. The site is variously knowii to the Tewa Indians as 

 Abechiu, Josege, and ^luke. This may l)e owing to the fact that there 

 have been several distinct occupations of this village. Its history has 

 been written by Bandelier. " 



The ruin is now reduced to low mounds which have been dug over 

 considerably in a desultory wa}'. 



No. 32. — On the top of the second mesa south of the Chama at 



Abiquiu are ruins of an 

 C*' ^% m-^Mu,- exceptional character. 



|: % ^i:'-\ '"■% This is a crescent-shaped 



|; J fi If mesa about one-half mile 



§^ wide by 1^ miles long. 



|l :^ I? /ijf The top is level and 



M: p f ,;p sparsely covered with 



^,.w,/.Mi/,...//.NV'^-MHyy':''^' %li■^i^^ M short buffalo grass and a 



fe,. .,...._..^. ,_„ .,>.-.„', ■ ..,,:«tfv.^...^v-™vn,>..,..-.-,;:;s^ few scrubbv pines and 



FIG. i9.-Grouna plan of Av.echiu. piuous. Its general trend 



is from southwest to 

 northeast. Beginning at about the center of the mesa and extending 

 toward the northwest are vestiges of ruins of very great extent. Only 

 sufficient material remains on the ground to indicate the outlines of the 

 buildings. This material consists of cobblestones and small lava blocks, 

 evidently the foundations of very ancient walls. The rooms outlined 

 vary from 8 to 10 feet wide by from 15 to 20 feet long, the average 

 being about 9 by 18. In some places these rooms are plainly outlined 

 by the protruding foundation stones, in others barely distinguishable, 

 and in still other places fading out entirely. They follow the trend of 

 the mesa for over 900 yards. One maj' count the outlines of rooms to 

 the number of many hundreds. The author ventures the opinion 

 that not fewer than 2,000 are plainly outlined. 



No. 33. CJiipiinuirige (Tewa, "house at the pointed peak"), figure 

 20. — A great ruined pueblo and clift- village occupying a small detached 

 mesa between the Canyones and Polvadera creek, 4 miles south of 

 Rio Chama and about 14 miles soutliAvest of Abiquiu. The site was 



a Papers of the Archseological Institute of America. American series, part ii, p. 54, Cambridge, Mass., 

 1884. 



