NO. 17 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I916 



ture, published by the JUireau of Ameriean Ethnology. Doctor 

 h>wkes found the architectural features of this ruin essentially the 

 same as when visited by Mindeleff. The ground-plan of Fire House 

 is exceptional in being circular, while that of Sikyatki appears to 

 be rectangular. ( )n the very threshold of the investigation this 

 radical ditTerence in form seemed to disprove the legend, but it is 

 by no means disastrous to a theory of relationshi]) of the two ruins. 

 On the rim of the East Mesa, above Sikyatki, there stand two con- 

 spicuous conical mounds, which legends always associate with the 

 village in the foothills. They are remains of the only circular pueblo 



Fig. 80. — Northwest angle of Far View House. Dr. Fewkes in the 

 foreground. Photograph by E. E. Higley. 



ruins in the Hopi country, and were probably constructed by relatives 

 of the emigrants from Fire House before they built the larger 

 rectangular village at the foot of the ]\Iesa. 



The round form of Fire House has a still more important sig;nifi- 

 cance, for it corroborates the Hopi legends that their ancestors came 

 from some place near jeniez, a pueblo situated in or near a zone of 

 round ruins extending' from southern Utah to the Zuni River. 



The pottery of Vne House is more instructive than its architecture, 

 for its symbolism is the same as that characteristic of the zone of 

 circular ruins. Its rude character and simple conventionalized 

 figures, as compared with the tine specimens from Sikyatki, add 



