Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-07

OF enormous central cidatei or temple
buildings Within clusters OF dwellings
IN walled incluHur,a, which On turn wcro
surrounded BY tho matched huts Of the
laborcrs Stone ana sun-dried bricks
were used aa building material, and the
main carthcn walls were formed With
In a framework OF timber and Waited
cane. thus their architecture was de-
rived. like their pottery from original
basket types. The best preserved walls
show that the houses were In lnrgc
communal blocks 300 or 400 feet long
by 200 feet wide. and possibly larger.
built three or four stories hlgh Of adobe
bricks without mlHturo uf straw, They
were situated near tho canal or its
branches. were sometimes provided
with
a SPECIAL RESERVOIR.
and In all cases had one or more pits
or ovens FOR cooking purposes. The
wallis were probably protected from cll-
matte Influences by cement OF some
kind. The cidatol structures are
thought from the thickness N the
walls and the amount OF debris TO have
been elk or seven stories hlrh. and 90
have been used IN times Of war M a
place OF refuge. In each city was also
another large public odlnce, oval In
form, forty or hfty feet In diameter and
coniccturcd 10 have been temple Of
the sun,
An the groups Of towns were Inhabit-
ed contemporancously but a succession
OF earthquakes or other phenomena
probably led 20 Wholesale migration. IN
which the houses and all they con-
tuincd were deaerted without seeming
preparation. For the posture In which
HkCletOnn are found, and from the fact
that the walls Of the buildings opened
outward In falling, and that household
utensils are discovered. it II supposed
that an earthquake led 20 the abandon
ment OF the towns.
The relics taken from the cxhumed
houses. cldntela and tonhH by the ok
plorcra, include pottery, stone nipple
ments, turquolaca and other stones held
In esteem. shells and shell ornaments,
and human and animal remains. Many
rock inscriptions have been found on
the rocks throughout central Arizona,
They are purely Of "a religious Hlgnln-
canoe, showing characteristic attitudes
of the people at certain festivals and
sacrifices. and disclosing nothing OF a
narrative or historic nature, They give
no idea of the ordinary manner of dress
or OF the textile fabrics employed, but
show the prlestly gown to have been a
long robe richly embroidered. a few
fragments
OF COTTON CLOTH
have been preserved from decay and al
80 several specimens OF hnskotry. The
aNNlANN ANNN NAMNNMNlA OF sHANMNAA AAlNAMNN
In New York has the finest collection
ot pottery yet gathered Ia these buried
communities The pottery IL largely
obtained In pyral mounds ana graves.
As many as 200 urna have been found
In a single mound. The designs are still
ia use among "a few OF the more seclud-
ed Indian tribes OF the Southwest.
The stone axes and other Implements
are particularly nice IN detail and IN
lHh. Some OF the Implements show n
degree OF ingenuity not found among
any tribe Ia the territories nowadays.
Many articles " personal adjournment
show that the mysterious race was on
tering that transition period which hor-
dera ON the metallic and the stone age.
Most OF these articles arr shells iden-
tlhed as coming from the Gulf OF Mex
lCo Some are OF metal Skllfully In
laid articles were made by these people
by FIRST coating shell with black
cement obtained from the gum dcpos-
tied by insects on
GREAsEwooD TwIGs
on the desert. and then Embedding mo-
sale fragments OF turquoia ana shells In
the mutriN thus formed After the sur
face had been rubbed down smooth
II made an ornament OF merit The
same gum from grouseWood trlgs was
made a lncqucrlng preparation Tor pre-
serving the color Of bnHkotry
Representations are found in the rock
inscriptions and in tprrucotta images
OF an animal that was undoubtedly
used as a beast OF burden. This beast