[Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Lumholtz]@TWC D-Link bookUnknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) CHAPTER IV 4/45
From traces of walls still remaining on it, we may infer that a second story had been built toward the centre of the cave, though this could only have been five feet high.
These traces of walls on the roof further prove the important fact that this second story had been built in terrace-fashion, receding about four feet back from the front of the ground story. The cave had evidently been occupied for a very long time, the houses showing many alterations and additions, and on the walls I counted as many as twelve coatings of plaster and whitewash.
The conventional design of the ear of corn is well preserved in every doorway.
Rude scrawlings of soot and water cover nearly all the front walls, mixed here and there with a few traces of red ochre.
There are meander designs, lightning, and drawings of cows and horses; but the latter were doubtless put on after the walls were demolished, and their general appearance denotes recentness. Several of the cyclopean riffles lead from the cave cliff to the stream. The houses here, as well as in all other caves we examined, were built entirely of a powdery substance, the decomposed material of the cave itself.
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