62 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
on the ground and is entered from its roof through large trap-doors, 
as shown on the plans. The lower rooms within this first terrace are 
not inhabited, but are used as storerooms. 
At several points ruined walls are seen, remains of abandoned rooms 
that have fallen into decay. Occasionally a rough, buttress-like projec- 
tion from a wall is the only vestige of a room or a cluster of rooms, all 
traces on the ground having been obliterated. 
The mesa summit, that forms the site of this village, is nearly level, 
with very little earth on its surface. A thin accumulation of soil and 
rubbish lightly covers the inner court, but outside, along the face of the 
long row, the bare rock is exposed continuously. Where the rooms have 
been abandoned and the walls have fallen, the stones have all been 
utilized in later constructions, leaving no vestige of the former wall on 
the rocky site, as the stones of the masonry have always been set upon 
the surface of the rock, with no excavation or preparation of footings 
of any kind. 
SICHUMOVI. 
According to traditional accounts this village was founded at a more 
recent date than Walpi. It has, however, undergone many changes 
since its first establishment. 
The principal building is a long irregular row, similiar to that of Hano 
(Pl. xvi). A portion of an L-shaped cluster west of this row, and a 
small row near it parallel to the main building, form a rude approximation 
to the inclosed court arrangement. The terracing here, however, is not 
always on the court side, whereas in ancient examples such arrangement 
was an essential defensive feature, as the court furnished the only 
approach to upper terraces. In all of these villages there is a noticeable 
tendency to face the rows eastward instead of toward the court. The 
motive of such uniformity of direction in the houses must have been 
strong, to counteract the tendency to adhere to the ancient arrangement. 
The two kivas of the village are built side by side, in contact, probably 
on account of the presence at this point of a favorable fissure or depres- 
sion in the mesa surface. 
On the south side of the village are the remains of two small clusters 
of rooms that apparently have been abandoned along time. A portion 
of a room still bounded by standing walls has been utilized as a corral 
for burros (Pl. xtx). 
At this village are three small detached houses, each composed of 
but a single room, a feature not at all in keeping with the spirit of 
pueblo construction. In this instance it is probably due to the selection 
of the village as the residence of whites connected with the agency or 
school. Of these single-room houses, one, near the south end of the 
long row, was being built by an American, who was living in another 
such house near the middle of this row. The third house, although 
fairly well preserved at the time of the survey, was abandoned and 
falling into ruin. Adjoining the middle one of these three buildings on 
