The Tarahumare rarely locks his house on leaving it, but he is ever careful to fasten the door of his storehouse securely, and to break open a store-house sealed up in the manner described is considered the most heinous crime known to the tribe.

Mexicans have committed it and have had to pay for it with their lives.
The most common kind of store-house is from four to six feet high, round, and built of stones and mud, with a roof of pine boards, weighed down with earth and stones.

Other store-houses of similar size are square and built of boards with corners interlocked.

They, too, are covered with boards.

These diminutive buildings are often seen inside of caves; or else they are erected in places difficult of access, on tops of boulders, for instance.