Fig. 1211.—Dwelling. Moki.
Fig. 1211 shows different representations of Moki houses copied from a petroglyph at Oakley Springs, Arizona.
Prof. Cyrus Thomas, in A Study of the Manuscript Troano, Contrib. N. A. Ethn., Vol. V, p. 128, gives the following description of Fig. 1212:
Fig. 1212.—Dwelling. Maya.
The side wall in Fig. 1212 appears to be composed of blocks of some kind placed one upon another, probably of stone, each bearing the Muluc character. The character at the top of the wall with a cross in it, somewhat resembling that in the symbol for Ezanab, is very common in these figures. This probably marks the end of the beam which was placed on the wall to support the roof. The curved line running from this to the top portion probably represents the rafter; the slender thread-like lines (yellow in the original) the straw or grass with which the roof was thatched.
The checkered part may represent a matting of reeds or brushwood on which the straw was placed.
Fig. 1213.—House. Egyptian.
Champollion (h) gives the Egyptian characters for house, reproduced in Fig. 1213.