MORGAN.] HOUSES OF THE MARICOPAS AND MOHAYVES. oul 
The first two tribes, although their antecedent history is little known, 
seem to be in a transitional stage from the Lower to the Middle Status of 
barbarism, having passed into the horticultural and sedentary condition 
without being far enough advanced to imitate their near neighbors in the 
use of adobe brick and of stone in their houses. They seem to be existing 
examples of that ever-recurring advancement of ruder tribes in past ages, 
through which the Village Indians of the pueblo type were constantly 
replenished from the more barbarous tribes. The present Taos Indians are 
another example. 
It is made reasonably plain, I think, from the facts stated, that in the 
Upper Status of savagery, and also in the Lower Status of barbarism, the 
Indian household was formed of a number of families of gentile kin; that 
they practiced communism in living in the household, and that this principle 
found expression in their house architecture and predetermined its character. 
