Even in mud-plastered Zu?i, many outcrops of
these thin, tabular wedges protrude from the partly eroded mudcoating
of a wall and indicate the presence of this kind of stone masonry.
An example is illustrated in Fig. 34, a tower-like projection at the
northeast corner of house No. 2.
[Illustration: Fig. 34. Stone wedges of Zu?i masonry exposed in
rain-washed wall.]
[Illustration: Fig. 35. An unplastered house wall in Ojo Caliente.]
[Illustration: Plate LXVII. Nutria, plan.]
In the Tusayan house illustrated in Pl. LXXXIV, the construction of
which was observed at Oraibi, the interstices between the large stones
that formed the body of the wall, containing but small quantities of mud
mortar, were filled in or plugged with small fragments of stone, which,
after being partly embedded in the mud of the joint, were driven in with
unhafted stone hammers, producing a fairly even face of masonry,
afterward gone over with mud plastering of the consistency of modeling
clay, applied a handful at a time. Piled up on the ground near the new
house at convenient points for the builders may be seen examples of the
larger wall stones, indicating the marked tabular character of the
pueblo masons' material. The narrow edges of similar stones are visible
in the unplastered portions of the house wall, which also illustrates
the relative proportion of chinking stones. This latter, however, is a
variable feature. Pl. XV affords a clear illustration of the proportion
of these small stones in the old masonry of Payupki; while in Pl.
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