MINDELEFF.] SEALED OPENINGS. 199 
Tusayans, in a like manner, live in rude summer shelters close to their 
fields. Such absence from the home pueblo often lasts for a month or 
more at atime. The work of closing the opening is done sometimes in 
the roughest manner, but examples are seen in which carefully laid 
masonry has been used. Thelatteris sometimesplastered. Occasionally 
the sealing is done with a thin slab of sandstone, somewhat larger than 
the opening, held in place with mud plastering, or propped from the 
inside after the manner of the “stone close” previously described. Fig. 
2 illustrates specimens of sealed openings in the village of Hano of 
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Fia. 92. Sealed openings in Tusayan. 
the Tusayan group. The upper window is closed with a single large 
slab and a few small chinking stones at one side. The masonry used 
in closing the lower opening is scarcely distinguishable from that of the 
adjoining walls. Pl. cy illustrates a similar treatment of an opening 
in a detached house of Nutria, whose occupants had returned to the 
home pueblo of Zuni at the close of the harvesting season. The door- 
way in this case is only partly closed, leaving a window-like aperture at 
