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flooring, this tower is four stories high. The inner plastering of 

 the lowest story is painted white with a dado colored red ; its roof is 

 likewise well preserved. 



A room near the western end, (fig. 57) of the ruin has doors and 

 windows closed with secondary masonry, and in the rubbish, half 

 filling the neighboring kivas, human bones were found, indicating 



Fig. 57. — Western end of Square Tower House, excavated and 

 repaired. Photograph by Fewkes. 



that the western end of the ruin was deserted and used for mortuary 

 purposes before the remainder of the ruin was abandoned. 



There is no archeological evidence that the tribes to the east, north, 

 and west of the clifi:' dwellers and stone house builders of the Pueblo 

 area were stone masons. On the south of the area, in the valley of 

 the Gila, Santa Cruz, and San Pedro, looking toward Mexico, the 

 ancients built their houses of earth and logs, and while the prehistoric 

 buildings on the southern tributaries of the San Juan resemble those 



