A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola

A Study of Pueblo Architecture:
Tusayan and
by Victor
Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff

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Title: A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth
Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office,
Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
Author: Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff
Illustrator: Henry Hobart Nichols
Release Date: November 17, 2006 [EBook #19856]
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* * * * *
A STUDY
of
PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE:
Tusayan And Cibola.
by
Victor Mindeleff.
* * * * *
CONTENTS.
Introduction 13

CHAPTER I.
--Traditionary history of Tusayan 16 Explanatory 16 Summary of
traditions 16 List of traditionary gentes 38 Supplementary legend 40
CHAPTER II.
--Ruins and inhabited villages of Tusayan 42 Physical features of the
province 42 Methods of survey 44 Plans and description of ruins 45
Walpi ruins 46 Old Mashongnavi 47 Shitaimuvi 48 Awatubi 49 Horn
House 50 Small ruin near Horn House 51 Bat House 52 Mishiptonga
52 Moen-kopi 53 Ruins on the Oraibi wash 54 Kwaituki 56 Tebugkihu,
or Fire House 57 Chukubi 59 Payupki 59 Plans and descriptions of
inhabited villages 61 Hano 61 Sichumovi 62 Walpi 63 Mashongnavi 66
Shupaulovi 71 Shumopavi 73 Oraibi 76 Moen-kopi 77
CHAPTER III.
--Ruins and inhabited villages of Cibola 80 Physical features of the
province 80 Plans and descriptions of ruins 80 Hawikuh 80
Ketchipauan 81 Chalowe 83 Hampassawan 84 K'iakima 85 Matsaki 86
Pinawa 86 Halona 88 Tâaaiyalana ruins 89 Kin-tiel and Kinna-Zinde
91 Plans and descriptions of inhabited villages 94 Nutria 94 Pescado 95
Ojo Caliente 96 Zuñi 97
CHAPTER IV.
--Architecture of Tusayan and Cibola compared by constructional
details 100 Introduction 100 Housebuilding 100 Rites and methods 100
Localization of gentes 104 Interior arrangement 108 Kivas in Tusayan
111 General use of kivas by pueblo builders 111 Origin of the name
111 Antiquity of the kiva 111 Excavation of the kiva 112 Access 113
Masonry 114 Orientation 115 The ancient form of kiva 116 Native
explanations of position 117 Methods of kiva building and rites 118
Typical plans 118 Work by women 129 Consecration 129 Various uses
of kivas 130 Kiva ownership 133 Motives for building a kiva 134
Significance of structural plan 135 Typical measurements 136 List of

Tusayan Kivas 136 Details of Tusayan and Cibola construction 137
Walls 137 Roofs and floors 148 Wall copings and roof drains 151
Ladders and steps 156 Cooking pits and ovens 162 Oven-shaped
structures 167 Fireplaces and chimneys 167 Gateways and covered
passages 180 Doors 182 Windows 194 Roof openings 201 Furniture
208 Corrals and gardens; eagle cages 214 "Kisi" construction 217
Architectural nomenclature 220
Concluding remarks 223

ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page. Plate I. Map of the provinces of Tusayan and Cibola 12 II. Old
Mashongnavi, plan 14 III. General view of Awatubi 16 IV. Awatubi
(Talla-Hogan), plan 18 V. Standing walls of Awatubi 20 VI. Adobe
fragment in Awatubi 22 VII. Horn House ruin, plan 24 VIII. Bat House
26 IX. Mishiptonga (Jeditoh) 28 X. A small ruin near Moen-kopi 30 XI.
Masonry on the outer wall of the Fire-House, detail 32 XII. Chukubi,
plan 34 XIII. Payupki, plan 36 XIV. General view of Payupki 38 XV.
Standing walls of Payupki 40 XVI. Plan of Hano 42 XVII. View of
Hano 44 XVIII. Plan of Sichumovi 46 XIX. View of Sichumovi 48 XX.
Plan of Walpi 50 XXI. View of Walpi 52 XXII. South passageway of
Walpi 54 XXIII. Houses built over irregular sites, Walpi 56 XXIV.
Dance rock and kiva, Walpi 58 XXV. Foot trail to Walpi 60 XXVI.
Mashongnavi, plan 62 XXVII. Mashongnavi with Shupaulovi in
distance 64 XXVIII. Back wall of a Mashongnavi house-row 66 XXIX.
West side of a principal row