Hawikuh Pueblo Ruin (Penutian Zuni language for "gum leaves")

Zuni Ancestral Pueblo, founded in 1400 C.E., and is the place of first contact between the Pueblo World and the European World in 1539 C.E..; located about 19 kilometers (12 miles) southwest of Zuni Village. The Penutian Zuni language is unrelated to any other Puebloan language.

Elevation is 1872 meters (6142 feet) above sea level.

Materials: mortarless stone walls, wood log roof structure, with mud/clay roof.

Data for this model from:
1. Morgan, William N., 1994. ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUTHWEST, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
2.Mindeleff, Victor, and Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1891. A STUDY OF PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE: TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA,Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington,
3. Hodge, Frederick Webb; Smith, Watson; Woodbury, Richard B.; Woodbury, Nathalie F. S., 1917-1923; The Excavation of Hawikuh by Frederick Webb Hodge Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1966.