Construction: wood—split cedar planks, tree trunks, and poles. Site: edge of the sea ] So far as the Aztec houses are concerned, “None of the Spanish descriptions,” asserts Morgan, “enable us to realise the exact form and structure.... But for the pueblos, occupied or in ruins, in New Mexico, and the more remarkable pueblos in ruins in Yucatan and Central America, we would know very little concerning the house architecture of the Sedentary Village Indians.”[213] Morgan believes all were joint tenements, but in this he may be mistaken, for the life of the Aztecs seems to have passed to a point somewhat higher than that of the New Mexican Amerinds, and a further development of Aztec life certainly included a further development of their house-life also. Within a day’s journey of the City of Mexico, Saville investigated some interesting ruins of an old “temple” erected, according to a tablet found there, in 1502, the signs on the tablet representing a rabbit and ten dots, or ten _tochtli_, corresponding to this date. It was built of rubble stone covered in many places inside with stone carving that had been painted.[214] There were also ornaments in stucco. The outer walls are nearly six feet thick. It is on the top of a high, cliff-like mountain difficult of access, near the Mexican town of Tepoztlan. Another splendid ruin near this is the Temple of Xochicalco. See illustrations, pages 23 and 31. [Illustration: NORTH-WEST COAST HOUSES AND TOTEM POLES Haida House _p o p_ shifting wind break over smoke hole End left open to show construction. Dotted lines give section of floor. _m_, totem pole; _c c_, bench; _b_, fireplace; _k_, smoke hole; _g g_, house posts ]