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A detailed architectural and ethnographic survey documents traditional histories, ruins, and occupied villages in the Tusayan and Cibola regions, providing measured plans, site descriptions, and many illustrations. It compares building techniques and ritual spaces, especially kivas, across settlements, and analyzes masonry, roofs, openings, ladders, ovens, corrals, and garden enclosures. The work records construction methods, interior arrangements, ownership and ceremonial uses, and offers an architectural nomenclature and typologies to explain variations between sites, concluding with systematic remarks and extensive plates, figures, and indices for reference.
Bureau of Ethnology articles rarely included artist credits, but some of the drawings are signed:
Henry Hobart Nichols (1869-1962) was one of the Smithsonian’s stable of artists. These drawings would have been some of his earliest work. The “fil.” in one signature distinguishes him from his father, the engraver H. Hobart Nichols (1838-1886), whose signature also appears in at least one Bureau of Ethnology publication.