[52] A good figure of these cavate rooms is given by Holmes, op. cit. Comparing the photograph with his figure it appears that their surrounding shale has worn away somewhat in the last four decades.
[53] Tenth Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. (Hayden Survey) for 1876, p. 414, 1879.
[54] The use of these objects as heirlooms in the Antelope altar of the Hopi supports the tradition of the Snake people that their ancestors brought them from the San Juan.
[55] Temples of Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent Sun God, are circular buildings like towers.
[56] The likeness of the Mesa Verde cliff-houses to the pueblos of Chaco Canyon was long ago suggested by Nordenskiöld. The excavation of Far View House proved that suggestion to be true.
[57] This subject is treated at length in my report on Casa Grande in the Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
[58] These acculturation modifications due to Hispanic influences in modern pueblos are too well marked to need more than a mention.
[59] The author uses the words “pure type” instead of “unit type” as a general term to denote “one-unit types,” “two-unit types,” “three-unit types,” etc.
[60] Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol. viii, no. 1, 1906.
[61] Fourteenth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 1, p. 523. This village is spoken of as “lately destroyed;” in other words it was a ruin in 1540.