Identifier: newmexicolandofd00jamerich (find matches)
Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: New Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : The Page company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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uncon-sciousness, as they flew down that terrible and breathlesstrail. Let us study the houses of these pleasant-faced, soft-voiced, gentle and hospitable people. Doors and win-dows have been placed in first story rooms, now, and theyare dwelling places instead of storage rooms and cellars.Yet most of the people follow the ways of the old andlive in the rooms on the second and third stories. Thequaintest little steps lead from the one to the other, builtupon the dividing walls, and here and there one findschimneys made by a convenient adaptation of ollas, thebottoms knocked out, piled, half a dozen of them, oneabove another and cemented together. In harvest timethe roofs are covered with spread out fruit, vegetables,grains, etc., for drying, before they are removed to thestore-rooms below. Here and there, in hidden corners,are bee-hive-like ovens, by the side of which are greatpiles of cedar wood, and interesting it is to see the busyhousewives at their cooking and baking. The fire is
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Acoma, the City of the Cliffs 131 made in the oven and allowed to burn down to the hottestkind of coals. These are then scraped out, the oven floorhastily swept or mopped out, and the bread or meat to bebaked thrust inside. Then a slab of rock is placed as adoor and its edges plastered with mud so that no heat orvapours can escape. When the food is taken out no chefin the well-equipped kitchen of a modern hotel can findfault with the way the oven has performed its functions.The corn-grinding troughs are inside the houses. Insquare compartments like boxes on the floor, the slabs ofbasic rock are laid at an angle. Three, four, six of theseboxes form a continuous series across one end of theroom. Kneeling before these, the grinding stone slopingas does a washboard in a tub, the woman picks up a nar-row slab of similar rock, which, holding in both hands,she moves up and down upon the fixed and larger slab inthe trough or box. Between these two rocks the grain isthrown, the upper side of t

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