ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 53 
One of the most instructive ruins excavated in 1922 is a 
round tower, 15 feet in diameter and 10 feet high, situated 
about 300 feet north of Far View House. In front of this 
tower were found three subterranean kivas under the fallen 
débris, in one of which were constructed walls of a square 
building, indicating secondary occupation, and erected 
after the abandonment of the kiva. This tower and accom- 
panying kivas may be called Far View Tower, and the 
indications are that it was used for observations, particularly 
of the sun on the horizon at sunrise and sunset, in order to 
determine the time for planting and other dates important 
for an agricultural people. These towers were probably 
rooms for the worship of the sun and other sky gods. 
Some distance north of Far View Tower there were dis- 
covered in the cedars a number of large stones arranged 
vertically in rows projecting 3 feet above the surface of the 
ground. Excavation showed that these megaliths were walls 
of buildings of anomalous character, indicating a new type 
of architecture on the Mesa Verde. This ruin, ‘‘ Megalithic 
House,”’ was not completely excavated, but all the others 
were repaired, the tops of the walls being covered with 
cement to prevent future erosion. 
An important collection made by the chief in the course 
of the summer’s work contains many rare and unique speci- 
mens, an account of which will later be published in a report 
on the excavations. 
During his work at the Mesa Verde the chief gave camp- 
fire talks in the special amphitheater constructed for that 
purpose by the superintendent of the park. The average 
attendance on these talks was about 40 each evening, and 
at times, as on a visit of a convention of teachers, there were 
150 listeners. He also spent considerable time daily taking 
parties over the new work which he was doing in the neigh- 
borhood of Far View House. 
Ever since 1917 the chief has been attempting to have the 
sites of three clusters of towers in Utah withdrawn from 
private ownership and made into a national monument, to 
be called Hovenweep National Monument. Various cir- 
cumstances have made it impossible to bring this about. 
