MODERN PUEBLOS. / •> 



method has i)r()bably been adopted from the Mexicans 

 who also make use of it. 



Acoma is built of rubble and clay. A village in the 

 same situation as the present one and probably the one 

 described by several of Coronado's party, was partly 

 burned in 1599. The village was not destroyed during 

 the rebellion a century later, and the walls now in use 

 may be the same as those seen in 1540, repaired and 

 in part rebuilt from time to time. 



While Zuiii is built mostly of adobe, the cornices 

 frequently have several courses of flat stones. 



The Hopi houses are built of stone poorly dressed 

 and poorly laid as compared with the best prehistoric 

 masonry. Mindeleff , who published a splendid account 

 of Pueblo architecture, observed w^omen building a 

 detached house with the help of one man who lifted 

 the timbers into place. While the men are said to 

 build the walls sometimes, the w^omen are always ex- 

 pected to do the plastering. The ceilings are made in 

 the prehistoric fashion with ceiling beams, cross poles, 

 brush, and clay spread over all and tramped down. 

 The floors are sometimes paved with large flat stones. -^ 

 The w^alls inside are generally whitened with gypsum 

 and sometim.es ornamented by leaving unwhitened 

 bands above and below. The fireplaces situated in oqe 

 corner of the room are provided with hoods w^hich 

 receive the smoke and communicate with chimneys 

 which are generally topped with a pot or two from which 

 the bottom has been broken. In another cornei* of the 

 room is generally found the three-sectioned milling 



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