MORGAN] RUINS OF PUEBLO CHETTRO KETTLE. 161 
apartments in the first story, some of which are unusually large, being 
about thirteen by eighteen feet, and with fifty-three rooms in the second 
story, and twenty-nine in the third, contain an aggregate of one hundred 
and fifty-five rooms. It would accommodate from eight hundred to one 
thousand Indians. 
To complete the representation of the architectural design of these 
‘‘oreat houses of stone,” the annexed elevation is given, Fig.32. Itis arestora- 
tion of the Pueblo of- Hungo Pavie, made by Mr. Kern, who accompanied 
General Simpson as draughtsman, and copied from his engraving. ‘The 
walls of the cation are seen in the background of engraving. We may 
recognize in this edifice, as it seems to the author, a very satisfactory 
- reproduction of the so-called palaces of Montezuma, which, like this, were 
constructed on three sides of a court which opened on a street or causeway, 
and in the terraced form. From the light which this architecture throws 
upon that of the Aztecs, which was cotemporary, it appears extremely 
probable that these famous palaces, considered as exclusive residences of 
an Indian potentate, are purely fictitious; and that, on the contrary, they 
were neither more nor less than great communal or joint-tenement houses 
of the aboriginal American model, and with common Indians crowding all 
their apartments. From what is now known of the necessary constitution 
of society among the Village Indians, it scarcely admits of a doubt that 
the great house in which he lived was occupied on equal terms by many 
other families in common with his own, all the individuals of which were 
joint proprietors of the establishment which their own hands had constructed. 
Two miles further down, and upon the north side of the canon, near the 
bluff, are the ruins of the Pueblo of Chettro Kettle, or the Rain Pueblo, 
Fig. 83. The main building and the wings face the court, from which alone 
they are entered, and from which the several stories recede outward. In- 
cluding the court, this great edifice has an exterior development of one 
thousand three hundred feet. The exterior wall of the main building 
measures four hundred and fifty-two feet in length, and the longest of the 
wings two hundred and twenty feet. These measurements are according 
to General Simpson. 
From these measurements some impression may be formed of the 
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