The clusters here are, as a rule,
smaller than those of Zu?i, as there is much less space available in the
vicinity of the springs. At one point on the west side of the first
mesa, a few miles above Walpi, a copious spring serves to irrigate quite
an extensive series of small garden patches distributed over lower
slopes.
[Footnote 10: Fifth Ann. Rept. Arch. Inst. Am., p. 92.]
[Illustration: Fig. 110. Gardens of Zu?i.]
[Illustration: Plate CVI. Sealed openings in a detached house of
Nutria.]
At several points around Zu?i, usually at a greater distance than the
terrace gardens, are fields of much larger area inclosed in a similar
manner. Their inclosure was simply to secure them against the
depredations of stray burros, so numerous about the village. When the
crops are gathered in the autumn, several breaches are made in the low
wall and the burros are allowed to luxuriate on the remains. Pl. LIX
indicates the position of the large cluster of garden patches on the
southeastern side of Zu?i. Fig. 110, taken from photographs made in
1873, shows several of these small gardens with their growing crops and
a large field of corn beyond. The workmanship of the garden walls as
contrasted with that of the house masonry has been already described and
is illustrated in Pl. XC.
"KISI" CONSTRUCTION.
Lightly constructed shelters for the use of those in charge of fields
were probably a constant accompaniment of pueblo horticulture.
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