the family, but the men help with the lifting of timbers, and now-a-days often lay up the masonry if desired; th

ext, the door is located by placing a bowl of food on each side of where it is to be. Likewise particles of food, mixed with salt, are sprinkled along the lines upon which the walls are to stand. The women bring water, clay, and earth, and mix a mud mortar, which is used sparingly between the layers of stone. Walls are from eight to eighteen inches thick and seven or eight f

nserted in one of the central roof beams. No home is complete without this, for it is the soul of the

of breath feathers from the mid-rafter of the little house he had rented for the

the women proceed to plaster the interior, to which, when it is dry, a coat of white gypsum is applied (all with strokes of the bare hands), giving the room a clean, fresh appearance. In one corner of t

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built against two-story buildings, the roof of the low building making the porch or roof-garden for the second-story room l

gives a feast for all members of her clan who have helped in the

e of them have iron bedsteads. Even now, however, there are many homes, perhaps they are still in the majority, where the family sits in the middle of the floor and eats from a common bowl and pile of piki (th

by color and laid up in neat piles, red, yellow, white, blue, black, and mottled,