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charcoal, and remains of charred posts. (Fig. 6.) Adjoining was 

 a smaller fireplace having a smooth hearth and a bottom slab in 

 form of a tablet with rounded corners and edge, probably a baking 

 slab. (PI. 33.) Beyond the smaller fireplace lay a great mass of 

 burnt roof clay, rendering it evident, in connection with the charred 

 beams, that the pit structure was destroyed by fire. On the floor of 

 this pit lay two metates, a grooved maul, and other stone implements, 

 as well as fragments of pottery. 



Pit No. 6. — Sixty-six feet north of pit No. 2 a pit was cleared. 



In it were found a number of regu- 

 larly worked and irregular metates, 

 and near them hand stones, stone ham- 

 mers, and fragments of rough pottery. 

 The hearth in this pit was formed of 

 many stones of equal size laid as pave- 

 ment on the floor of the house, and 

 upon the hearth was a layer of gray 

 wood nshe,^. 



Pit No. 7. — This pit contained the 

 customary metates, hand stones, etc. 

 At the floor level on the east side is a 

 hole 3 feet deep. A cache of bright yellow paint was discovered under 

 the earth-bench, and a small lot of obsidian nodules was found hidden 

 in a hole in the wall. There were many animal bones, fragments of 

 pottery, and chips of hard stone. A mass of chips fallen from the 

 stone-workers' hands were found in a little heap. A pottery spindle- 

 whorl and two bone awls were taken out. The pit was 4 feet deep 

 and 14 feet in diameter. 



Great dance pit. — Southeast of pit No. 2, 108 feet, is a circular 

 concavity 84 feet in diameter and 5 feet deep. (PI. 34.) It adjoins 



Fig. 6.— Ground plan of fike tit. 



Fig. 



-Section of great dance pit. 



the bank of a former channel of the small permanent watercourse 

 east of the village site. The margin of the pit fades off into the 

 general land level, but is eroded slightly on the north and east. A 

 pine tree 9 feet in circumference stands on the south rim, and re- 

 mains of dead trees cover the northeast section of the rim. The 

 earth in the pit is hard-packed loam containing fragments of char- 

 coal. In exploring this pit a trench was cut from the center to the 

 circumference on an east-and-west line, following the bottom contour 

 as shown by the unmodified earth. (Fig. 7.) Beginning at the edge 



