Tour the National Museum's South East Range After the First Fifty Years

300 feet diameter, 75 feet depth.

There are two classes of models, one representing geological structure and the other the ancient ruins of southwestern Colorado and portions of adjacent territories. One of the latter class represents a two-story cliff house of the Rio Mancos of Colorado. It is built in the crevice of the rock, 800 feet above the valley, in an almost inaccessible situation.

Another model represents the ruins of a double-walled tower, a form of building that seems to have been common among the ancient inhabitants of the region. There are also models of a cave-dwelling of the Rio de Chelly of northeastern Arizona, one representing the ruins and the other their ideal restoration.

The geological and topographical models are as follows: Two of the Elk Mountains, one of them being divided into sections, showing the internal structure of the range, and the other showing only the topography and geology, the latter represented by colors.

Return to start of the South East Range of the National Museum in 1886