FEWKES] 



EXCAVATIONS AT CASA GRANDE), ARIZONA 



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In sight of the Adamsville cluster, a mile to the west, rises a large 

 mound of the same general character as a compound, which is espe- 

 cially instructive because of the remains of sections of the original 

 surrounding wall 1 which are still standing (figure 121). This wall 

 (plate xxxv, b) is five feet high and is identical in kind of material 

 and mode of construction with the surrounding wall of Compound A 

 of the Casa Grande group. It consists of two sections, both on the 

 east side and about forty feet apart, the larger, situated twenty-five 

 feet from the southeast corner, being seventeen feet long. The length 

 of the east wall is one hundred and seventy-four feet, that of the 



Fig. 121. — Ground plan of Compound between Adamsville and Casa Grande 



west one hundred and sixty-nine feet. The south wall of the en- 

 closed building is about fifty feet from the south wall of the com- 

 pound. 



The famous Casa Blanca, or White House, 2 situated about twenty- 

 five miles west of Casa Grande, is one of the most extensive ruins 

 in this part of the Gila valley. The largest mound of this cluster 

 was formerly surrounded by a wall within which were two or three 



1 If the fragments of standing wall in this ruin are not soon protected they 

 will fall to the ground. 



2 Casa Blanca is called by the Pimas Tcoktatai civana a vaki (The House of 

 Chief Black Sinew). The adjacent settlement may be the "Sutaquison" of 

 early Spanish authors. 



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