146 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
is curious to find that at Tusayan the decorative treatment of the finish- 
ing wash has been carried farther than at Zuni. The use of a darker 
band of color about the base of a whitewashed room has already been 
noticed in the description of a Tusayan interior. On many of the 
outer walls of upper stories the whitewash has been stopped within 
a foot of the coping, the unwhitened portion of the walls at the top hav- 
ing the effect of a frieze. Ina second story house of Mashongnayi, that 
had been carefully whitewashed, additional decorative effect was pro- 
duced by tinting a broad band about the base of the wall with an appli- 
cation of bright pinkish clay, which was also carried around the door- 
way as an enframing band, as in the case of the Zuni door above de- 
seribed. The angles on each side, at the junction of the broad base 
band with the narrower doorway border, were filled in witha design of 
alternating pink and white squares. This doorway is illustrated in 
FKig. 36. Farther north, on the same terrace, the jamb of a whitewashed 
Fie. 36. Wall decorations in Mashongnavi executed in pink on a white ground. 
doorway was decorated with the design shown on the right hand side 
of Fig. 36, executed also in pink clay. This design closely resembles ¢ 
pattern that is commonly embroidered upon the large white “ kachina,” 
or ceremonial blankets. It is not known whether the device is here 
regarded as having any special significance. The pink clay in which 
these designs have been executed has in Sichumovi been used for the 
coating of an entire house front. 
In addition to the above-mentioned uses of stone and earth in the 
masonry of house walls, the pueblo builders have employed both these 
materials in a more primitive manner in building the walls of corrals 
and gardens, and for other purposes. The small terraced gardens of 
Zuni, located on the borders of the village on the southwest and 
southeast sides, close to the river bank, are each surrounded by walls 
24 or 3 feet high, of very light construction, the average thickness not 
exceeding 6 or 8 inches. These rude walls are built of small, irregu- 
larly rounded lumps of adobe, formed by hand, and coarsely plastered 
with mud. When the crops are gathered in the fall the walls are broken 
down in places to facilitate access to the inclosures, so that they require 
repairing at each planting season. Aside from this they are so frail as 
to require frequent repairs throughout the period of their use. This 
method of building walls was adopted because it was the readiest and 
