More striking than these stacks, and quite characteristic of the Otomi country, were the queer corn-bins or granaries called by the Aztec name _cincalote_.

They rose in all directions like great square columns.

The floor of boards was slightly raised from the ground by stones, and measured some 4 or 5 feet on a side; from its corners rose 4 poles, sometimes to the height of 20 feet; these were connected at the top and held firm by ropes.

The sides of the bin were built up of a cobwork of slender staves laid horizontally.

The vertical bin thus formed was filled with ears of corn roofed about with a light thatch or shingled roof.