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Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin1281941smit (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G. P. O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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292 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (Boll. 128 pit, consists of a few horizontal stones laid in much adobe; layers or courses are 4 inches to 6 inches thick, each rounded on top; adobe in wall is reinforced with chopped grass and sticks or long fibers running horizontally; highest point now standing is 7 feet 3 inches above floor. Door: Southeastern side, bottom being about ground level; sides are rounded ends of wall; width, 3 feet 7 inches, slab under door stands 2 feet 1% inches above floor. No fireplace, but fire had been in middle of floor. Unburned adobe limips with pole impres- sions suggest horizontal pole-and-adobe roof. An adjoining circular house, C, 8 feet 6 inches outside diameter, was built probably before A. Floor, 1 foot 11 inches below floor of A, Wall is similar to A, having a slab-lined base and small number of stones in much adobe above. Door, east side, was 2 feet wide, with
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Figure 32.—Sketch map of cave, site 2, Molly's Nipple Canyon. A, B, C, Circular houses; D, rock with rubbed depressions; E, sandstone blacks, roughly outlining a circle. horizontal slab sill 4 feet 6 inches above floor, or 1 foot 6 inches above slabs. Walls of C, which was not completely excavated, did not show above cave floor previous to excavation. These houses are probably of the period of the late Paria gray and Basket Maker black-on-gray pottery, although few sherds to date them were found. A Tusayan black-on-red pitcher (flg. 41) within 1 foot of the floor of house A, together with the beginnings of masonry in the upper walls suggests influence from Tusayan, Pueblo II, not yet fully implanted locally; in short, a transition to the local masonry house period. It is by no means impossible, however, that some of the slab structures at the out-of-door sites described above had waUs like these, for such waUs are very perishable. Wetherill (1934) found some slab structures which had slab-lined floors and possibly crude masonry walls, in the Zion National Park region. Were the site 2 houses subject to erosion, only a ring of slabs would remain. RECTANGULAR MASONRY HOUSES In the latest building style masonry was used in rectangular, 1-room houses. Foundations of walls show that rectangular sand-

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