A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola is Victor Mindeleff’s pioneering survey of the building traditions of the Hopi and Zuni peoples of the American Southwest, prepared for the Bureau of Ethnology in the 1880s. Based on careful fieldwork, it documents the construction, planning, and evolution of multi-storied pueblo dwellings, their materials, and their relationship to landscape and life.
The report combines measured drawings, plans, and ethnographic observation, making it a foundational text in the study of Native American architecture. Mindeleff treats the pueblos as sophisticated responses to environment and community. Read with awareness of its nineteenth-century framing, it remains a valuable and detailed record of indigenous building practices and the villages of Tusayan and Cibola.