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large for them to accommodate. Their general appearance suggests 

 granaries, forts, castles, or some communal use ; possibly they were 

 religious buildings. Like certain towers, they are sometimes too 

 shut in by surrounding cliffs to serve as lookouts ; they are accom- 

 panied by cliff-dwellings which show evidences of habitation. Evi- 

 dently these large buildings with several rooms without kivas not 



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Fig. 133. — Great House, Holly Canyon. Photograph liy T. G. Lemmon. 



only belong to a specialized architectural type but also, to a localized 

 one. This type is different from the pure pueblo type, mainly in 

 the absence of terraces and central, circular kivas surrounded by 

 rectangular rooms ; it resembles buildings like Casa Grande. When 

 towers are united to a building of the pure pueblo type, as shown in 

 Hovenweep house of the Square Tower (Ruin) Canyon, we have a 

 building made up of two united types, the most complicated form 

 of pueblo architecture. 



