76 ' BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull, to, fewkes] 



remaining. Two kivas suffice for the ceremonies of the majority of 

 the Rio Grande pueblos; but Cliff Palace with a population of the 

 same size had 23 and Spruce-tree House, a much smaller cliff pueblo, 

 had 8. 



One can not fail to notice a similarity in sites of some of the great 

 houses of the McElmo to neighboring cliff habitations and a like 

 relation of Sun Temple to the cliff-dwellings in Fewkes Canyon in the 

 Mesa Verde. Possibly the purpose of these great houses and Sun 

 Temple was identical. Some of the great houses were probably 

 granaries and Sun Temple may have been intended partly for a like 

 use. No indications of remains of stored corn have been observed in 

 any of these buildings, but Oastaneda ' speaks of a village of sub- 

 terranean granaries (" silos") in the Rio Grande country, which is 

 instructive in this connection. 



i Fourteenth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 1, p. 523. This village is spoken of as "lately destroyed;" 

 in other words it was a ruin in 1540. 



