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Updated: July 26, 2025
As a variant we have walls composed of stones of fairly uniform size, laid with the best face out and with the interstices chinked with small spalls. The chinking is carried to such an extent in some places, as in the Chaco ruins, that the walls present the effect of a mosaic composed of small spalls.
The masonry is good, and was composed of larger stones than usual, carefully chinked with spalls, the work being well done. There were but 10 rooms on the ground, in addition to one circular kiva; some of these rooms are too small for habitation, and one of them appears to have been a rectangular kiva.
It will be noticed that chinking, both with mud and with spalls, was extensively practiced and seems here to have been an essential part of the construction. In this example it could have no relation to the finish of the wall, for the wall was not finished. Much of the masonry in the canyon is of the type described, but examples differ widely in degree of finish and in material selected.
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