52 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
to do with its selection as a dwelling site. The masonry is in about 
the same state of preservation as that of the Horn House, and some of 
the stones of the fallen walls seem to have been washed «own from the 
mesa edge to the talus below. 
BAT HOUSE. 
The Bat House is a ruin of nearly the same size as the Horn House, 
although in its distribution it does not follow the mesa edge so closely 
as the latter, and is not so elongated in its general form.” The northern 
portion is quite irregular, and the rooms seem to have been somewhat 
crowded. The southern half, with only an occasional room traceable, 
as indicated on the plan, Pl. vit, still shows that the rooms were dis- 
tributed about a large open court. 
The Bat House is situated on the northwest side of the Jeditoh Valley, 
on part of the same mesa occupied by the two ruins described above. 
It occupies the summit of a projecting spur, overlooking the main val- 
ley for an extent of more than 5 miles. The ruin lies on the extreme 
edge of the cliff, here about 200 feet high, and lying beneath it on the 
east and south are large areas of arable land. Altogether it forms an 
excellent defensive site, combined with a fair degree of convenience to 
fields and water from the Tusayan point of view. 
This ruin, near its northeastern extremity, contains a feature that is 
quite foreign to the architecture of Tusayan, viz, a defensive wall. It 
is the only instance of the use by the Hopituh of an inclosing wall, 
though it is met with again at Payupki (Pl. xtir), which, however, was 
built by people from the Rio Grande country. 
MISHIPTONGA. 
Mishiptonga is the Tusayan name for the southernmost, and by far 
the largest, of the Jeditoh series of ruins (Pl. 1x). It occurs quite close 
to the Jeditoh spring which gives its name to the valley along whose 
northern and western border are distributed the ruins above described, 
beginning with the Horn house. 
This village is rather more irregular in its arrangement than any 
other of the series. There are indications of a number of courts inclosed 
by large and small clusters of rooms, very irregularly disposed, but 
with a general trend towards the northeast, being roughly parallel with 
the mesa edge. In plan this village approaches somewhat that of the 
inhabited Tusayan villages. At the extreme southern extremity of the 
mesa promontory is a small secondary bench, 20 feet lower than the 
site of the main village. This bench has also been occupied by a num- 
ber of houses. On the east side the pueblo was built to the very edge 
of the bluff, where small fragments of masonry are still standing. The 
whole village seems so irregular and crowded in its arrangement that 
it suggests a long period of occupancy and growth, much more than do 
the other villages of this (Jeditoh) group. 
