FEWKES] ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES OF AWATOBIA 615 
were united by cross partitions, forming a series of rooms, one back of 
another. The deeper we penetrated the mound the higher the walls 
were found to be, and this was true of the excavations along the whole 
southern side of the elevation (plate crx). If, as I suspect, these par- 
allel walls extend to the heart of the mounds, the greatest elevation of 
the former buildings must have been four stories. It would likewise 
seem probable that the town was more or less pyramidal, with the 
highest point somewhat back from the one- or two-story walls at the 
edge of the cliff, a style of architecture still preserved in Walpi. The 
loftiest wall, which was followed down to the floor, was 15 feet high, 
Fia. 256—Structure of house wall of Awatobi 
but as that was measured over 20 feet below the apex of the mound, it 
would seem that, from a distance, there would be a wall 30 feet high in 
the center of the mound. Even counting 7 feet as the height of each 
story we would have four stories above the foundation, and this, I 
believe, was the height of the old pueblo. But probably the wall did 
not rise to this height at the edge of the mesa, where it could not have 
been more than one or two stories high. There is no evidence of the 
former existence of an inclosed court of any considerable size between 
the buildings and the cliff, although a passage probably skirted the 
brink of the precipice, and house ladders may have been placed on 
