18 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



scrapers, of bone and flint, together with grinders, etc., were 

 found here. 



"Room VII, thirteen feet square, differed from all others in 

 having no fireplace or plastered walls. Numerous bones of 

 bison, deer, antelope, coyote, badger, etc., were discovered in 

 this room. The only relics were bone and flint scrapers. Prob- 

 ably the room had been used as a sort of storehouse, and not 

 for human dwelling. 



"The pottery found was in part composed of plaster of Paris, 

 possibly obtained from the crystals of selenite scattered over 

 the chalk exposures in the vicinity. A number of ribs were 

 found which had been smoothed at one end into a sort of spat- 

 ula, and had probably been used in the making of pottery or in 

 the plastering of the building. Coiled as well as smooth pot- 

 tery was found, but only a single piece that showed evidence 

 of decoration. Some of this pottery has been submitted to 

 Professor Hewitt, of Las Vegas, N. M., who has given much 

 attention to the work of the Pueblo Indians. He was of the 

 opinion that all this pottery had been introduced from New 

 Mexico, and had not been made in the vicinity of the building 

 or village. Probably this is the furthest east that such pottery 

 has yet been found. In one of the rooms were found several 

 squash seeds ; some between two pieces of pottery, in good con- 

 dition, others much decayed." 



In the above account by Doctor Williston, he very graph- 

 ically described the locality, surroundings and natural re- 

 sources in the immediate vicinity of the ruins, which he had 

 visited in 1896, but unfortunately was unable then thoroughly 

 to investigate. He also gave a number of important quota- 

 tions from the works of Hubert Bancroft, an eminent writer 

 on Arizona and New Mexico. These works treat largely of the 

 early history of the Spanish in America, and contain important 

 data relative to the position of the pueblo known as Quartelejo, 

 and the condition under which this isolated post was first built 

 and peopled. From the above-named works it appears that 

 about 1650 a band of Taos Indians fled to the plains and for- 

 tified a place called Quartelejo. In the papers of the Archaso- 

 logical Institute of America, American series V, Hemenway 

 Archaeological Expedition, A. F. Bandelier, page 181, says: 

 "In 1704 the Indians of the pueblo of the Picuries abandoned 

 their village in northern New Mexico and fled to the plains, 

 where they established themselves at a place called El Quar- 



