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Kо̄kanâya

the civil buildings. The houses in the former
style seem to have had a courtyard, with
high quadrated wall, in front or at the side.
This is entered by a doorway with
ornamented lintel and similar doorways
but smaller opened upon it from the house.
The decoration of these door lintels is generally
of simplest moulded character with discs
and symbols variously disposed - there
is here a fine array of these symbolic
discs and several squeezes of them were made.

King's House. The other type of house is well
represented by a beautiful structure near the
centre of the town to the east. This is called
by the peasants the "house of the King."
It is not a large house measuring only 30ft.
front. Only the 2 story colonnade and front
wall are standing. The colonnade is 9ft. 3.
deep from face of columns to wall. There are
3 piers, of rectangular section, ^ 5ft. apart, ^ on the ground story
between end walls returned 3.ft 7. The cap is 2ft high.