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Title: Casa Grande Ruin
Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 289-318

Author: Cosmos Mindeleff

Release Date: January 10, 2006 [EBook #17487]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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CASA GRANDE RUIN

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COSMOS MINDELEFF

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CONTENTS

Introduction 295
Location and character 295
History and literature 295
Description 298
The Casa Grande group 298
Casa Grande ruin 306
State of preservation 306
Dimensions 307
Detailed description 309
Openings 314
Conclusions 318

ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate LI. Map of Casa Grande group 298
LII. Ground plan of Casa Grande ruin 302
LIII. General view of Casa Grande ruin 305
LIV. Standing wall near Casa Grande 307
LV. Western front of Casa Grande ruin 309
LVI. Interior wall of Casa Grande ruin 310
LVII. Blocked opening in western wall 312
LVIII. Square opening in southern room 314
LIX. Remains of lintel 317
LX. Circular opening in northern room 319

Fig. 328. Map of large mound 301
329. Map of hollow mound 304
330. Elevations of walls, middle room 315