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Show EVERYDAY LIFE IN PUEBLO BONITO Photograph by O. C. Havens THE PUEBLO BONITIANS' PUNY EFFORT TO BRACE A MIGHTY CLIFF This seemingly precariously balanced mass of rock stands just above Pueblo Bonito. The Bonitians naively erected sticks and stones to hold back its 100,000 tons of solid rock that threatened to topple upon their village (see text, page 260). mills have been inherited from remote antiquity. They were utilized alike by cliff-dwellers, occupying caves in the sheer-walled canyons of the Colorado drainage, and by equally ancient peoples who erected huge clay houses on the flat, cactus-covered plains of the Gila. Indeed, with but slight variation, they were, and still are, used by the Indian populations throughout Mexico, Central America, and the countries below the Isthmus of Panama. What traveler south of the Rio Grande has not heard the rhythmic sound of the tortilla-maker echoing on the clear, cool air at daybreak ? So in Pueblo Bonito a daily task for the daughters of every household was the preparation of the allotted ration of maize. Metates were brushed with a bunch of grass; the corn was shelled and crushed to a degree of fineness dictated by the particular use for which it was intended. And while precious yellow kernels were being crunched between the milling stones, black-eyed maidens shyly gossiped of promising village swains or sang such |