CHAPTER VI.. Houses of the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico.

HOUSES OF THE SEDENTARY INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO.

Improved character of houses--The defensive principle incorporated in their plan of the Houses--Their joint tenement character--Two or more stories high--Improved apparel, pottery, and fabrics--Pueblo of Santo Domingo; of adobe bricks--Built in terraced town--Ground story closed--Terraces reached by ladders--Rooms entered through trap-doors in ceilings--Pueblo of Zunyi--Ceiling--Water-jars and hand mill--Moki pueblo--Room in same--Ceiling like that at Zunyi-- Pueblo of Taos--Estufas for holding councils--Size of adobes--Of doorways--Window-openings and trap-doorways--Present governmental organization--Room in pueblo--Fire-places and chimneys of modern introduction--Present ownership and inheritance of property--Village Indians have declined since their discovery--Sun worship--The Montezuma religion--Seclusion from religious motives.