124 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 68 



One of the most instructive buildings in the Square Tower group 

 (fig. 131) is Unit Type House, a pueblo having a single centrally 

 placed kiva, identical with the kivas of Far \'iew House, compactly 

 surrounded by rectangular rooms, rendering them subterranean and 

 imparting to the ruin a square form (fig. 132). This kiva is charac- 

 teristic of the pure type of pueblo, whose close likeness to Far \'iew 

 House shows the identity of architectural forms among the pre- 

 historic people of the Mesa Verde and McElmo. 



r V. 







Fig. 129. — Model of Hovenweep Castle. 



The clifif-dwellings in Square Tower Canyon are small ; one of 

 these was constructed in the eroded cave' of a fallen rock, part of 

 which arches over the walls, forming a roof. There is a small 

 chamber in a cave under the two large buildings called the " Twin 

 Towers." The largest clilT-house in this canyon is situated at its 

 head, but unfortunately its walls are now considerably demolished. 



Great House, one of the buildings in the Holly Canyon group 

 (figs. 133, 134), about a mile east of Keeley Camp, has the highest 

 walls in these great houses. Five large buildings cluster around 



