Zuni Indian Pueblo Wall Coping, Oven And Peppers New Mexico 1891 Print Photographer John K Hillers. 

John K. Hillers began making photographs while exploring the terrain around the Colorado River in 1871 with the Geological Survey. Hillers spent his entire career as a government photographer. At the Bureau of Ethnology Hillers spent almost twenty years exploring the Indian Territories, California, the Southwest, and the Southeast, eventually producing a sensitive record of Native Americans and their way of life. 

125 year old original print from Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-87, Washington Government Printing Office 1891

A STUDY OF PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE: TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA. BY VICTOR MINDELEFF.

 "The protective agency of these coping stones is well illustrated in plate XCVII, which shows the destructive effect of rain at a point where an open joint has admitted enough water to bare the masonry of the cornice face, eating through its coating of adobe, while at the firmly closed joint toward the left there has been no erosive action. The much larger proportion of projecting copings or cornices in Zuñi, as compared with Tusayan, is undoubtedly attributable to the universal smoothing of the walls with adobe, and to the more general use of this perishable medium in this village, and the consequent necessity for protecting the walls. The efficiency of this means of protecting the wall against the wear of weather is seen in the preservation of external whitewashing for several feet below such a cornice on the face of the walls. At the pueblo of Acoma a similar extensive use of projecting cornices is met with, particularly on the third story walls. Here again it is due to the use of adobe, which has been more frequently employed in the finish of the higher and newer portions of the village than in the lower terraces. As a rule these overhanging copings occur principally on the southern exposures of the buildings and on the terraced sides of house rows. When walls rise to the height of several stories directly from the ground, such as the back walls of house rows, they are not usually provided with this feature but are capped with flush copings."

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