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 96
all ofwhich are blocked up on the inside with stone and mortar.. . . In front of several were piles of stones, which they(his men) had worked out from the doorways, and underthe lintels were holes, through which we were able tocrawl inside; and here we found ourselves in apartmentsfinished with… … HOUSES OF AMERICAN ABORIGINES. 69 twenty feet long and ten feet deep, which being thus filledup made the whole building a solid mass. And thestrangest feature was that the filling up of the apartmentsmust have been simultaneous with the erection of thebuildings; for as the filling in rose above the…
Indians · Architecture, Domestic
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