NO. I ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS FEWKES II 



near larger dwellings. It was probably a storeroom, although possi 

 bly a retreat where priests retired to pray for rain, as was once the 

 custom among the Hopi. The people to whom this house belonged 

 probably dwelt near their farms a short distance from the base of the 

 cliff. There is a similar room known to have been constructed by 

 Navahos a few feet off the road from Gallup to Crown Point, which 

 is still used for a granary, indicating the probable use of the small 

 building here described. 



RUINS NEAR BLACK DIAMOND RANCH 



Black Diamond Ranch is 13 miles north of Hosta Butte. Mr. Bruce 

 Draper, who owns the ranch, pointed out near the mouth of a neigh- 



FIG. 4. Spherical bowl, Black Diamond Ranch. 7^ by 5 inches. 



boring canyon several comparatively large ruins. In one of the 

 largest of these (pi. 3, b) near the ranch house, no walls are visible 

 above ground, but the surface presents abundant evidence of a buried 

 ruin. In one corner of this ruin (pi. 3, b) Mr. Bruce dug out a small 

 room which has good plastered walls, several feet high, and found 

 decorative bowls, some of which are here figured (figs. 4, 5). About 

 50 feet south of this ruin, a low mound suggests a cemetery, and about 

 the same distance still farther south, a depression on the surface indi 

 cates a circular subterranean room or reservoir. 



Following up this canyon nearly to its head, there is a small ruin 

 hardly worth mentioning save for a spiral incised pictograph 3 feet in 

 diameter identical with the snake symbols widely distributed through 

 out the Southwest. 



