﻿NO. 5 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, \<J22 II5 



enlarge this report to undue proportions. An implement hitherto 

 undescribed (fig. iii) is made of a fossil bivalve shell with two 

 grooves for arrow polishing. This object is ornamental as the outer 

 surface of the shell valves give it an artistic look. 



In order to protect them from the weather, the tops of the walls 

 of rooms in Pipe Shrine House, One Clan House, Far View Tower 

 and the kivas of the same were covered with a cement grout. The 

 walls of Far View House were treated in the same way and it is 

 to be hoped that these ruins will not need additional protection from 

 the elements for several years to come. 



At the close of his season's work on the IVIesa Verde National 

 Park, Dr. Fewkes visited Cool Spring House (fig. 112), a large un- 

 described ruin on Cajon Alesa, in Utah, about 10 miles west of the 

 junction of jNIcElmo and Yellow Jacket canyons. Cool Spring House, 

 like Cannon Ball Ruin, is situated about the head of a canyon 

 and consists of several more or less isolated rooms. It takes its 

 name from a fine spring below the mesa rim. This ruin is situated 

 so far from white settlers that its walls are at present in no danger 

 of l^eing mutilated, but there is danger that the neighboring towers 

 will soon be torn down, if not protected. As it is proposed that Cool 

 Spring House be added to the towers in Sc^uare Tower Canyon and 

 Holly Canvon to form the proposed Hovenweep National Monu- 

 ment, it would be most unfortunate if these three groups of ruins 

 should be allowed to be destroyed by vandals. 



OBSERVATIONS AMONG THE ANCIENT INDIAN MONUMENTS 

 OE SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA 



In the spring of 1922, the Bureau of American Juhnology dis- 

 patched a special investigator. Dr. T. T. Waterman, to examine the 

 remains of native villages in southeastern Alaska. A number of these 

 interesting old settlements were scrutinized, in the company of native 

 informants. There is much of interest in and al)out these old-time 

 villages, though signs of Indian occupancy are rapidly vanishing. 

 The principal objects of remark are the totem-poles, for which this 

 part of America is celel)rated. Every village site shows a number 

 of these columns, though some have fallen, some have been cut down 

 with axes, and some have been hauled away bodily as curiosities, 

 sometimes to distant cities. In spite of the fact that they are carved 

 out of nothing more enduring than wood (usually yellow cedar) 

 some of them are of such tremendous size and solidity that they have 

 stood for many generations. Here and there on the old village-sites. 



