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more closely resembled the fragile-walled dwellings of the Pima and 

 Papago. The walls of the habitations were made of upright logs, 

 chinked and plastered with clay or a natural cement (caliche), the 

 base being protected by rows of stones. These walls have fallen, but 

 the stumps of the logs, generally charred, and the rows of stones 

 still remain, while a few feet below the surface the floor is generally 



Fig. 73. — Pictographs at Pictured Rocks near Brockman's Mill. 

 Photograph by J. W. Fewkes. 



well preserved. The roof was flat and held up by one or more 

 vertical logs in the middle of the room. The inner walls of the 

 room were smoothly polished and apparently sometimes painted. 

 The different families composing the population of each village were 

 not apparently crowded into terraced communal dwellings several 

 stories high, but lived in rancherias composed of several one-storied 

 isolated houses. 



