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Show ORIGIN AND HISTORY feet wide at the eastern end before it opens into the court. known to southwest haere ayy) IAING r exist corner OF FIRST INHABITANTS 19 but enlarging to double that width A narrow passage, 13 feet wide, not until excavations were begun, was of the court, thus segregating the cleared at the ‘South House’ of the quadrangle from the other four sides. It is probable, however, that this latter was a covered passage. It is possible that excavation will disclose other entrances to the court, but none is now visible. A low oblong mound, its longest diameter about 150 feet in length, lies just outside the main entrance. This has the appearance of neither a general refuse heap nor cemetery, though it occupies the usual position of the latter. It is composed mainly of the refuse produced by the dressing of the stone for the building. A long narrow mound of similar character almost touches the southeast corner of the pueblo. ‘‘One subterranean sanctuary, or kiva, is found just against the outer wall of the east house, and another somewhat larger lies 165 feet slightly north of east of this one. The largest kiva on the mesa top, one apparently about 36 feet in diameter, lies 60 feet west of the southwest corner of the quadrangle. The kivas were all excavated in the rock, there being almost no covering of soil at this place. Others are found on the ledge of the cliff below, and still others in the talus. ‘The ruins of an ancient reservoir lie 120 feet west of the pueblo. It is oblong in form, its short diameter being about 75 feet, and the long diameter, 130 feet. The embankment is made of stone and earth, the opening being on the west. It could not have been fed from any living source, and could have been useful only for impounding such surface water as would be conducted to it through the small draw to the west. The supply of potable water for the pueblo must have been At derived from what is now the dry arroyo south of the mesa. one point a meagre supply can still be obtained by the opening of a spring in the sand, but here, as on all parts of this plateau, a much more plentiful supply than that now existing would be absolutely essential to the maintenance of such large settlements as once ex- An evidence of such supply is to be seen in the isted at Pu-yé. irrigation canal which may be traced for nearly two miles along the This ditch heads above the mesa south side of the Pu-yé arroyo. toward the mountain, and must have been used to conduct surface |
