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were as in the other rooms. The plastering turned up about 

 the posts showed that this work had been done after the roof 

 had been placed over the structure. This room furnished 

 grinders and several bone implements — scrapers and fleshers 

 — made from the shoulder-blade of the buffalo and deer and 

 antelope. The wall posts were rotted in the ground, and not 

 burnt as in the other rooms, nor were the bone implements 

 partly burned, as was the case with those in the other rooms. 

 In this room, also, was found part of a musical instrument, a 

 flute or flageolet, made from the wing bone of a large bird; 

 also a bone implement with a serrated edge. 



"In room IV fewer implements were found than was to be 

 expected, for few marks of fire were visible. Owing to this, 

 the room was in better condition for articles to have been pre- 

 served. It is just possible that the fire started on the south 

 side, giving the occupants a chance to save most of their be- 

 longings from this room. Several scrapers, knives, also the 

 small arrow points on plate I, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 12, 16, 17, 18, 

 19, 20, all of which are fine examples of workmanship, were 

 found. 



"Room V was the smallest in the building, being only ten by 

 fourteen feet in size. It had well-plastered walls and floor, a 

 fireplace seventeen by twenty-two inches in size, a large quan- 

 tity of corn, arrow-heads, grinders, scrapers, pottery, etc. 

 Close by the fireplace there was a hole in the floor covered by a 

 flat stone that had been undisturbed. At its bottom was found 

 half of a clam shell, which had been sawed lengthwise with a 

 toothed saw, the tooth marks being very plainly apparent. In 

 the northwest corner was a small oven, nine inches in width 

 and sixteen in depth, excavated from the wall of the. room and 

 plastered throughout. It contained three or four inches of 

 wood ashes in the bottom. In this were also found three oval 

 and one square adobe bricks, about ten by fourteen inches in 

 size, flattened above and rounded below. They may have been 

 used in the baking of tortillas. 



"Room VI was ten feet five inches in width by thirteen feet 

 and eight inches in length. The level floor had been plastered, 

 as also the fireplace, wh'ch was eighteen by twenty-six inches 

 in size. There was a narrow partition between this room and 

 room V, and since no indications of a ladder were found here 

 it is possible that the two rooms had been connected. Several 



«-Univ. Sci BulL, Vol. V, No. 2. 



