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Ranch in northeastern Arizona, and in the St. Johns region extending 

 south of Znfii, New Mexico. Presumably the rugose vessels with 

 kaolin decoration centralized at Showlow and Linden belong to a sepa- 

 rate class more limited in distribution. A small red vase with finger 

 sockets (Plate 36, rig. 1) is noteworthy as is a specimen ornamented 

 with concentric marks made with the finger nail (Plate 36, fig. 3). 

 The handled vases (Piute 36, figs. 4 and 5) in red resemble similar 

 gray forms. One of these is covered with red slip over gray paste. 

 Great taste was displayed in coiling. (Plate 36, fig. 2.) 



Some stone hammers grooved for the reception of a handle and a 

 few basalt axes of good form and elegant finish (Plate 37, figs. 1 and 2), 

 are in the collection. The implements of chert are leaf -shape knives, 

 arrowheads, and drills. There are mortars with pestles of coarse 

 sandstone and lava. (Plate 37, fig. 3.) A well-worked stone ball and 

 two tubular pipes of lava (Plate 52, figs. 1 and 2) were taken from 

 these ruins. But one object of shell, a valve of a clam, is included 

 in the collection. 



The pottery from Le Roux Wash has a crude appearance, due to 

 lack of finish and skill in decoration. Without doubt there was an 

 attempt to execute forms of some complexity and difficulty, but the 

 result is rarely praiseworthy. 



CANYON BUTTE. 



This group of four ruins lies close to the northern escarpment of 

 the chief basin of the Petrified Forest, at the source of a wash flowing 

 southwest and entering the Little Colorado at Woodruff (see map, 

 Plate 38). The country is high and rolling, sloping west and south 

 from the rim of the Puerco Valley, which stands about 2 miles north 

 of the ruins. The ridges are of tinted Triassic marls covered with 

 wind-drifted sand, and sometimes sandstone ledges bearing a few- 

 stunted junipers crop out. 



On May 9, when camp was made on the ruins, the country was well 

 giassed and numerous desert plants had sprung up after seasonable 

 rains, but no water was to be had nearer than the well in the wash at 

 the "Jim Camp," in the Petrified Forest, about 2^ miles away. There 

 are no springs in this region, the water sinking quickly and flowing 

 in underground streams. 



It is probable that the people inhabiting these pueblos in former 

 times impounded water in tanks in the marl which underlies this region. 

 Sagebrush is the only available firewood, the few junipers being inac- 

 cessible along the rocky mesa sides. 



In great contrast with the basins of the Petrified Forest the neigh- 

 borhood of the ruins shows few evidences of erosion; hence the pueblos 

 have been little disturbed and appear as low. weed-grown mounds strewn 



