MINDELEFF. ] HOUSE BUILDING. 103 
Anawita (war-chief of Sichumovi) describes the house in Walpi in 
which he was born as having had five rooms on the ground floor, and 
as being four stories high, but it was terraced both in front and rear, 
his sisters and their families occupying the rear portion. The fourth 
story consisted of a single room and had terraces on two opposite sides. 
This old house is now very dilapidated, and the greater portion of the 
walls have been carried away. There is no prescribed position for com- 
municating doorways, but the outer doors are usually placed in the 
lee walls to avoid the prevailing southwest winds. 
Formerly on the approach of cold weather, and to some extent the 
custom still exists, people withdrew from the upper stories to the ki- 
koli rooms, where they huddled together to keep warm. Economy in 
the consumption of fuel also prompted this expedient; but these ground- 
floor rooms forming the first terrace, as a rule having no external door- 
ways, and entered from without by means of a roof hatchway provided 
with a ladder, are ordinarily used only for purposes of storage. Even 
their roofs are largely utilized for the temporary storage of many house- 
hold articles, and in the autumn, after the harvests have been gathered, 
the terraces and copings are often covered with drying peaches, and the 
peculiar long strips into which pumpkins and squashes have been cut 
to facilitate their desiccation for winter use. Among other things the 
household supply of wood is sometimes piled up at one end of this ter- 
race, but more commonly the natives have so many other uses for this 
space that the sticks of fuel are piled up on a rude projecting skeleton 
of poles, supported on one side by two upright forked sticks set into 
the ground, and on the other resting upon the stone coping of the wall, 
as illustrated in Fig. 19. At other times poles are laid across a re- 
Kia. 19. A Tusayan wood rack. 
entering angle of a house and used as a wood rack, without any sup- 
port from the ground. At the autumn season not only is the available 
space of the first terrace fully utilized, but every projecting beam or 
stick is covered with strings of drying meat or squashes, and many 
long poles are extended between convenient points to do temporary 
