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the season of 1901 give localities at McDonald's Canyon and the Pet- 

 rified Forest (see pp. 305, 314). One specimen each from Four Mile 

 and Chevlon are figured by Dr. Fewkes. ^ It must be said, however, 

 that the occurrence seems to be sporadic at the sites mentioned and that 

 the locality of greatest prevalence so far as known is at Linden. 

 There is no doubt that this ware belongs on the northern slope of the 

 White Mountains. 



SHOWLOW. 



A large ruin on the ranch of Mr. Henry Huning, at Showlow, was 

 worked by the Museum-Gates expedition for a few days beginning 

 July 12. Mr. Huning informs the writer that the ruin was examined 

 by Mr. A. F. Bandelier some j^ears ago.^ The pueblo is located on a 

 rock table a few feet above the level of Showlow Creek, which irri- 

 gates the wide and fertile valley forming part of the Huning ranch. 

 The layer of debris is thin; hence the plan of this ruin is somewhat 

 easy to make out. (Plate 21.) Much of the stone has been removed 

 for buildings, and during this process a room at the south end of the 

 pueblo was found to contain a large amount of charred corn, beans, etc. 

 The cemetery was located on the east side in front of one of the piers; 

 there were few interments, and only a small collection was secured. 



The pottery is of red and gray, the latter presenting some rather 

 good pieces, a dipper with rattle handle being noteworthy. The red 

 ware is not fine and the decoration not well executed. Rugose bowls 

 with volutes of white were frequent, though in fragmentary condition. 

 Bone awls and a worked deer femur were found. Notched flints, a stone 

 ax, an arrow smoother, scrapers, arrowheads of obsidian, and a large 

 chipped flint leaf form comprised the relics in stone. A bit of the 

 clay as rolled out by the potter in the process of coiling a vessel was 

 taken from the debris. 



The scarcity of potshards on the surface of this denuded ruin was 

 remarked, and reminded one of the absence of such relics from the Zuni 

 ruins, where the shards have been picked up by the modern potters 

 to be incorporated, after pulverization, with the clay for vessels. One 

 perfect skeleton was secured. Bones of dog, two species of rabbits, 

 turkey, and deer were collected. 



The Huning ruin is a good example of the rectangular pueblo, show- 

 ing considerable skill in laying out a village. The masonry exposed 

 during the excavations is good; the material is of blocks of Carbonifer- 

 ous sandstone. 



It seems probable that the pueblo was inhabited only for a short 

 time. The artifacts resemble those excavated at Linden, some 8 miles 

 to the northwest. 



« Report, Smithsonian Institution, 1897, pi. ii; idem, 1896, pi. xlii. 

 ^ Papers, Archaeological Institute of America, IV, Pt. 2, p. 393. 



