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pueblo, evidently designed as an outlook over fields. This building is 
illustrated in Pl. LXvVI. 
The arrangement of the inner houses differs in the two halves of the 
ruin. It will be seen that in the north half the general arrangement is 
roughly parallel with the outer walls, with the exception of a small 
group near the east end of the arroyo. In the south half, on the other 
hand, the inner rows are nearly at right angles to the outer room clus- 
ters. An examination of the contours of the site will reveal the cause 
of this difference in the different configuration of the slopes in the two 
cases. In the south half the rows of rooms have been built on two 
long projecting ridges, and the diverging small cluster in the nortn ialf 
owes its direction to a similar cause. The line of outer wall being once 
fixed as a defensive bulwark, there seems to have been but little restric- 
tion in the adjustment of the inner buildings to conform to the irregu- 
larities of the site. (Pl. LX1I1.) 
Only three clearly defined means of access to the interior of the pueblo 
could be found in the outer walls, and of these only two were suitable 
for general use. One was at a reentering angle of the outer wall, just 
south of the east end of the arroyo, where the north wall, continued 
across the arroyo, overlaps the outer wall of the south half, and the 
other one was near the rounded northeastern corner of the pueblo. The 
third opening was a doorway of ordinary size in the thick north wall. 
It seems probable that other gateways once existed, especially in the 
south half. From its larger size and more compact arrangement this 
south half would seem to have greatly needed such facilities, but the 
preserved walls show no trace of them. 
The ground plan furnishes indications, mostly in the north half, of 
several large rooms of circular form, but broken down remains of square 
rooms are so much like those of round ones in appearance, owing to the 
greater amount of débris that collects at the corners, that it could not 
be definitely determined that the ceremonial rooms here were of the 
circular form so common in the ancient pueblos. While only circular 
kivas have been found associated with ancient pueblos of this type, the 
kivas of all the Cibola ruins above described are said by the Zunis to 
have been rectangular. The question can be decided for this pueblo only 
by excavation on a larger scale than the party was prepared to under- 
take. Slight excavation at a point where a round room was indicated 
on the surface, revealed portions of straight walls only. 
The large size of the refuse heap on the south side of the village indi- 
cates that the site had been occupied for many generations. Notwith- 
standing this long period of occupation, no important structure of the 
village seems to have extended beyond the plan. On the north side, 
outside the main wall, are seen several rectangles faintly outlined by 
stones, but these do not appear to have been rooms. They resemble 
similar inclosures seen in connection with ruined pueblos farther south, 
which proved on excavation to contain graves. 
