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 94
he cap, the superincumbent mass held theceiling in its place, the weight resting on the side walls. The cross section (Fig. 22) shows the relations of thewalls to the ceiling and the mass of the masonry above.Once constructed over a core, with the masonry abovein place, the removal of the core… … 68 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. low eminence are three independent structures, the secondwithin and above the first, and the third within and abovethe second, presenting in the distance the appearance ofa single quadrangular edifice in three receding stories(Fig. 23). But each stands on a separate…
Indians · Architecture, Domestic
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