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Heading: Author: Curtis, Edward S. Title: The Terraced Houses of Zuñi Place Published: Cambridge, MA Publisher:Suffolk Engraving Company Date Published: 1903 Description: Photogravure on Japanese vellum. Image: 29x40 cm (11½x15¾”); sheet: 45.3x55.5 cm (17¾x21¾”). Original photogravure, being plate 562 from Portfolio 17 of Curtis‘ massive The North American Indian. Portfolio 17 included: The Tewa. The Zuñi. ”In the early eighties one of the house-groups of Zuni rose to a height of six well-defined stories. In 1903, when the photograph here reproduced was made, there were five stories. In 1910 a single apartment was four stories from the ground, but in 1919 this room was demolished. Note the bottomless pots forming chimneys, the wooden drain piercing the coping, the hemispherical oven of Spanish provenience on a roof.”