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now are the same that were described by Alvarado on, his visit with 
Coronado’s expedition in 1540. The height of the mesa is 350 feet. 
The Acoma people are expert makers of pottery, as are also the 
Laguna Indians. 
A short distance north of Acoma is the famous Mesa Encantada 
(enchanted mesa), shown in Plate XIV, A, on which was located, 
according to the tradition of the Acomas, their prehistoric village of 
Katzimo. 
Acoma is easily reached from Laguna by a drive of 18 miles, for 
which a team and Indian driver can usually be obtained at Laguna. 
It will be found that the Indians of Acoma are rather indifferent to 
the desire of the tourist to see the sights of the place unless some 
remuneration is offered. The large church, built mainly of slabs of 
rock, is still in excellent condition, although it was built about 1699. 
The New Mexico building at the Panama-California Exposition at 
San Diego is patterned after this church, with the portico modified 
after the church at Cochiti. The population in 1902 was 566. 
small amount of irrigation, mostly by the Indians of the Acoma 
tribe, who maintain summer villages at different places. 
At Cubero, now a small Mexican village, there was formerly a 
pueblo of San Felipe Indians, who now live near Santo Domingo. 
The name Cubero is that of the Spanish governor 
Cubero. in office at the end of the seventeenth century. The 
as ion baat et. real town of Cubero, a Mexican settlement, is 8 miles 
ciatin C60 Oh visita’ . the northeast. There are many Penitentes in 
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: ese villages. About 2 miles beyond Cubero, near 
milepost 74, there is a view up the valley in which the pueblo of 
Acoma and the Mesa Encantada are situated, about 10 miles to 
the south in an air line. On both sides of the San Jose Valley are 
high walls of the Dakota and Mancos sandstones, which lie nearly 
horizontal, so that the railway rises to higher and higher beds as it 
ateo. This mountain is an isolated mass consisting 
lava (andesite) and represents an eruption of con- 
500 to 2,000 feet and a considerable area of the 
been removed, as shown in figure 20. Mount 
