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A study of the houses of the American aborigines; with suggestions for the exploration of the ruins in New Mexico, Arizona, the valley of the San Juan, and in Yucatan and Central America, under the auspices of the Archæological institute (1880)

Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 · Cambridge [Mass.] · leaf 83

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joint-tenementhouses were erected. Besides these, there were smallbuildings, having a special purpose, erected on platformsstill higher. A natural elevation was selected when prac-ticable ; the top was levelled or raised by artificial means;the sides made rectangular and sloping, and faced withdry… … • HOUSES OF AMERICAN ABORIGINES. 6l The Governors House is symmetrical in structure, threehundred and twenty-two feet long, thirty-six feet wide,and thirty feet high, consisting of but one story. Eachapartment has a peculiar triangular ceiling of stone.It has no windows but eleven doorways in…

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