wn over its ruins today. Its walls are down now and its rooms are
almost completely filled in with debris. This particular group of, Indians preferred to have their dwelling close to water and they erected it with stone-and mud mortar. This is all that is known of this isolated settlement. It is quite possible that the most popular dwelling places in Frijoles Canyon were the dwellings at the Long H
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ouse, so well protected by the sheer vertical cliff wall. These could have been over-crowded. Indians might have cared little about living in other sections of the cliff. It might have been that some of the cliff dwellers had experienced terrible slides when hundreds of tons of loose rock and boulders came tumbling down on their little houses, crushing them like pasteboard boxes and burying the occupants alive. All the man-power in the northern part of the Pajarito Plateau could never have rescued their kin who might have been caught in these
cave homes. Those ro
- cks had rolled from the toEMRTC
- p to stay and there they remain today. One wonders what stories those buri
- ed caves holdÑif, by chance, the skeletons of the occupants
- are still there. Indians perhaps have died s
- cratching at the boulders which covered the entr
- Mr. Brad Bohlingances to their caves or te
- aring their hair a, Research Engineer, nd cl
- utching their throats as they suffocat
ed and fell ext
- ended on the hard plaster floors in their rooms. Those caves have never been
- opened. It is easy to see that the valley floor coul
d have been
- more popular as
- a dwelling plac
e than sections of the c
tible to slides tha
n the Long House. A part of
the main population built and lived in a large terraced community
apartment h
ouse known as "Puwige
" or "pueblo
w
here the women sc
raped the bottoms o
f the pottery, ve
ssels clean." This is the famou
s ruin known the
world over. It has been featured in the National Geographic Magazine and many other publications. Puwige never existed during the very early occupation of the Canyon. Its initial wall stones were not laid until the beginning of the Great Period. Any Indian family might have erected a few rooms near the little riverÑc
