160 HOUSES AND HOUSE-LIFE OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES. 
The Pueblo of Una Vida, Fig. 31, seems to have been in process of con- 
struction, and designed, when completed, to have been one of the largest in , 
the valley. The main building is two hundred and fifty feet in length, and 
the wing two hundred feet. It requires for its completion a considerable 
extension of the main building, and the addition of another wing. If this 
supposition is tenable, it serves to show that these great houses were of 
slow construction, by the process of addition and extension from time to 
time, with the increase of the people in numbers. Upon this theory of 
construction, the first row of the main building on the court side would 
first be completed one story high, and covered with a flat roof; after which, 
by adding one parallel wall with partition walls at intervals, as many more 
apartments would be obtained; and by a third and fourth parallel wall, 
with partitions, twice as many more. The second row was carried up two 
stories, the third three, and the fourth four; the successive stories reced- 
ing from the court side in the form of great steps or terraces, one above 
the other. The wings would be commenced and completed in the same 
manner. Further than this, it seems evident, from the present condition of 
the structure, that the main building was to be considerably extended, with 
a second wing like the first to fill out the original design and produce a 
symmetrical edifice. If these inferences are warranted, the interesting 
conclusion is reached that these Indian architects commenced their great 
houses upon a definite plan, which was to be realized in its completeness 
after years and perhaps generations had passed away. Like the pueblo 
last named, it is built of tabular pieces of sandstone, and is two miles and 
a half lower down in: the canon. 
The highest portions of the wall still standing in this pueblo are fifteen 
feet in height, twenty-five feet in Wegé-gi, and thirty feet in Hungo Pavie. 
The Pueblo of Hungo Pavie or Crooked Nose, Fig. 31, is situated one 
mile further down in the canon, upon the north side, and quite near the bor- 
dering walls. In exterior development, including the court, it is eight hun- 
dred and seventy-two feet, of which the back wall measures three hundred, 
and the side walls or wings one hundred and forty-four feet each. It is of 
medium size, but symmetrical, and larger than any single aboriginal struct- 
ure in Central America in ground dimensions. There are seventy-three 
