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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME INDIAN HOMES.
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mode of life of their inhabitants. Massed together and built of adobes of rock laid in mud-mortar, and reared in tiers or terraces of from two to three or more stories high, they admirably fulfill
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Fig. 4.—Terrace Houses in the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico.
the triple purpose of a durable architecture, a communistic plan of living, and as a fortress in the event of an attack from outside marauders.