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evidence to the theory that characteristic old Hopi pottery is a 
specialized type distinct from all others in the Southwest. 
After having visited Fire House, Doctor Fewkes continued his 
investigations eastward from this place, still searching for archeolog- 
ical evidence of a possible trail of migration along which people may 
have left habitations in their travels before they built Fire House. 
He failed to discover any large pueblo ruins that can be attributed 
to the Fire clans, although he found many ruins scattered in the 
extensive interval between the site of Fire House and the next 
Fic. 87—Mummy Lake, Mesa Verde National Park. 
Photograph by Mrs. C. R. Miller. 
cluster of large ruins, or those of the Chaco canyon. The general 
character of these ruins does not resemble but is closely related 
to that of the ancient ruins in the Zuni valley. A number of 
representative specimens of pottery collected in these same ruins, 
especially whole pieces from Black Diamond ranch, were brought 
to Washington, and were found to resemble those from Kintiel, a ruin 
situated 25 miles north of Navaho Springs. lintiel was shown by 
Cushing to be a Zuni ruin, and from his knowledge of Zuni tradi- 
tions he was able to enumerate the clans that once inhabited it. 
After Doctor Fewkes examined, photographed, and roughly sur- 
veyed several of the ruins between Fire House and Crown point 
