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of the grooves which surround it. These grooves, shaped some- 

 what like a U, slope toward the closed end. This part was 

 filled with ashes, suggesting that the use of the oven was for 

 the baking of pottery. Near the east end was a large hole, 

 twelve inches in diameter and eighteen inches in depth, cov- 

 ered with a flat rock. It contained nothing save fine dust. 



"The walls and floors were nicely plastered. The plastering 

 gave no indications of finger marks, but seemed to have been 

 smoothed off with some instrument. Stones that might havv- 

 answered such uses were found in the rooms. In this room 

 was found a small pipe, decorated with horizontal markings. 

 Here also were found a needle or awl for the sewing of hides, 

 several arrow-heads, fragments of pottery, and bone needles. 

 The remains of two posts, about eighteen inches apart, were 

 found in the northeast corner, evidently for the uprights of a 

 ladder for ingress and egress. Similar holes in like positions 

 were found in the other rooms. There were no indications of 

 doors or other openings in any of the rooms. The roof was evi- 

 dently made of willow poles or brush covered with adobe, as 

 large quantities of the latter show impressions of twigs. 



"Room II was sixteen feet and four inches in width by eigh- 

 teen feet six inches in length, and had both wall and floor 

 plastered. The fireplace was two feet by one foot seven inches 

 in size, and close by it was a hole twelve inches in diameter. 

 On the east end there was a bench, as in room I, four feet two 

 inches in width, and on the north side one two feet in width, 

 while on the other two sides the width was but twelve inches, 

 but raised to about ten inches in height. Close to the fireplace 

 was found a grooved stone maul, ribs with marks of a saw 

 upon them, arrow points, pottery, bone and stone scrapers, and 

 a small pipe. On the ledge at the east end was found the half 

 of an iron ax or wedge. The iron of course is much rusted, 

 and the tool appears to have been split longitudinally and 

 transversely by some mishap. It had a groove near the head, 

 instead of an eye, for the attachment of the handle, after the 

 manner of the stone axes of the aborigines. This room con- 

 tained more charred corn than did any of the others. 



"Room III was fourteen by thirteen feet in size, with plas- 

 tered walls and floor, the corners rounded at the east end 

 and square at the west. It had a fireplace eighteen inches by 

 twenty-four, and a raised dais four feet wide at the west end. 

 The holes for the posts supporting the roof and for the ladder 



