ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY 
Ruins of a Community House, Puye, New Mexico 
waiting to be studied. Among them all, 
however, none are more picturesque and 
none more worthy of attention than the 
Pueblos, the primitive house-builders of 
the Southwest, who still inhabit their 
several-storied communal dwellings as 
in the days of the first Spanish conquis- 
tadores. These dwellings, blending in 
color with the desert from which they 
are constructed, have been modified as 
little by nearly four hundred years of 
contact with Europeans as have the 
inhabitants. 
There are still left nearly ten thou¬ 
sand of these Indians, and they inhabit 
some thirty “pueblos” 0 r towns, every¬ 
where picturesque, primitive, and rich 
in lore and ceremony. Some of the vil¬ 
lages are constructed of adobe brick, 
others of stone, and the appearance of 
those which still have houses of several 
stories is imposing. The very features 
of the people and all their actions and 
surroundings breathe of old, conserva¬ 
tive Indian life of times long gone by. 
One still hears the old languages and 
dialects fluently spoken in all their pris¬ 
tine richness of vocabulary, and even 
when Spanish is spoken to the visitor 
it is the pronunciation of the conquista- 
dores and colonists of long ago. 
The Pueblos are, moreover, a very 
likable and human people, intelligent 
and kind-hearted. Some individuals 
among them are able to appreciate the 
student’s attitude as to the desirability 
of making a record of the Indian life 
for use in the remote future when not 
only they but the white man also shall 
have materially changed and advanced. 
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