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Title: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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s stone is readily affected by weathering, which accountsfor the crumbled condition of exposed walls although Kokopnyamais much more recent than many ruins of the Southwest whose walls,excellently preserved, are constructed of more durable stone.^ Clayused for mortar was dug from shale beds within the Mesa Verdesandstone formation, and occurs in quantities under the mesa rim. Of the rooms we opened all vary somewhat in size (fig. 27). Thenormal thickness of walls is about 12 inches, though walls 24 ormore inches in thickness are not unusual where strengthening mea-sures were found necessary. No orderly arrangement of blockswas found, both large and small stones being used at random; norwas any attempt at coursing apparent in those walls examined. Thegranular surface of the walls was protected by coats of natural, yellow-clay plaster—as is common today among the Hopi. Plastering seems *22nd Ann. Rep., Bur. Anier. Ethnol., 1904, p. 134. 98 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS \0L. 82
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NO. II PUEBI.O RUIXS IN ARIZONA IIAURV AND IIARGRAVE 99 to have been confined to the interiors of rooms at Kokopnyama, how-ever, and though some Hopi dwelHngs with plastered exteriors arefound, they are few—the practice having l)een introduced into this 5i5^ 0/ Rooms Rooms Length Width Depth Door Cache Firepit Mealing bin R-2 !II 9 82 Yes R-3 69 67 Yes R-6 66 5 2 R-7 7 I 4 8 R-8 7 46 10 5654 R-9 84 6966 5 R-io 1086 6 I Yes R-ioa 86 6 I Yes R-ii 6 10 66 4 3 Yes Yes Yes R-13 66 46 Yes R-i3a ? ? 56 Extends under R- II R-14 II 412 9 928 R-15 9 i9 7 2 R-16 6 II 3 10 R-17 8 8 R-18 10 96 Yes Yes R-9a 8 8 R-21 5 5 R-22 n 7 9 Yes R-25 14 7 68 6 i Fig. 27. region within recent years. Decoration of walls with painted designs,or with incised drawings was not found, though incised stones werefound detached from the walls. Both methods of decoration havebeen found at Kawaioku, a nearby ruin occupied at the same time as TOO SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 82 Kokopnyama, where Hough reco

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