198 ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. [eth.ann.13 



necessarily Increase the space occupied by it, while a family consisting 

 of sons, no matter how many they may be, will become extinct, so far 

 as regards its home in the village. It is no uncommon thing to see in 

 the villages of today several rooms in course of erection while there are 

 a dozen or more rooms within a few steps abandoned and going to decay. 

 Long occupancy, therefore, produces much the same effect on a ground 

 plan of a village as a large population, or a rapidly growing one, except 

 that in the former case irregularity in the arrangement of rooms will 

 be more pronounced. 



It will be noticed that the size of rooms is more varied in the south- 

 western and southern clusters than in the remaining portions of the 

 \illage. In the southwestern cluster rooms measuring 8 feet by 18 

 or 20 are not uncommon. These occur principally in the central and 

 southwestern part of the cluster, while in the northern and northeastern 

 part the rooms are uncommonly large, one of them measuring about 40 

 feet in length by nearly 15 feet in width and presenting a floor area of 

 600 square feet. Kooms approaching this size are more common, how- 

 ever, in the northern and northwestern clusters. In these latter clusters 

 long narrow rooms are the exception and a number of almost square 

 ones are seen. The smallest room in the village is in the center of the 

 southern cluster, on the highest ground within the area covered by the 

 ruin; it measures 6 feet by 10, with a floor area of OO square feet, as 

 opposed to the 600 square feet of the largest room. This small room 

 was probably at one time a small open space between two projecting 

 rooms, such as are often seen in the inhabited pueblos. Later the room 

 on the south was built and the front of the space was walled up in order 

 to make a -rectangular area, thus forming the small room shown on 

 the ground plan. The maximum length of any room is about 40 feet, 

 the maximum width attained is about 20 feet, and in a general way 

 it may be stated that the average size of the rooms is considerably 

 larger than that of the rooms in the northern ruins. 



From the regularity in distribution of the d6bris now on the ground, 

 it appears that the rooms of the northwestern and northern clusters, 

 including the eastern part of the village, were almost uniformly one 

 story in height, and most of the rooms in the other clusters were also 

 limited in height to a single story. The only places on the ground 

 plan where rooms of two stories might have existed are the northern 

 and central parts of the south wes fern and southern clusters, and per- 

 haps the southern side of the northern cluster ; the last, however, being 

 very doubtful. 



In the scarcity of detached rooms or small clusters the plan of this 

 village strongly resembles the ground plan of Zuni. Only three 

 detached rooms are seen in the plan. One of these, situated in the 

 main or central court, has already been referred to as probably the 

 remains of a kiva or sacred chamber. Another single room occurs 

 outside of the village, near its southwestern corner. This was prob- 

 ably a dwelling room, for a kiva would hardly be located in this place. 



