302 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



SHUMWAY. 



Near the town of Shumway, 40 miles south of Holbrook, on the 

 banks of Silver Creek, a ruin of some importance was hastily exam- 

 ined while the party was on the way north from Showlow. The ruin 

 consists of a long house group, two rooms deep, and a parallel house 

 group having a wing at right angles at one end, and between these 

 groups is a plaza (Plate 22). The rear house mass forms a high mound 

 of debris from the two stories of this part. The cemetery lies in a 

 sand bank near the walls of the front row of the houses, facing the 

 creek. The graves had been rifled the summer before by a " pottery 

 digger," who sold his ill-gotten gains at Holbrook. It is presumed 

 that the specimen's are in a collection purchased at Holbrook in 1901 

 by the Free Museum of Science and Art of Philadelphia. A number 

 of fragments, sufficient to show the quality and character of the pot- 

 tery, were picked up on the excavations. The pottery is fine yellow 

 and red, and the decoration is like that of the ancient Hopi pottery. 

 The fragments show that symbolic designs were common on the inte- 

 rior of the bowls. 



LITTLE COLORADO VALLEY. 



MCDONALDS CANYON — SCORSE RANCH — CANYON BUTTE — ADAMANA — METATE — WOOD- 

 RUFF — MILKY HOLLOW — STONE AXE — SMALL SITES NEAR STONE AXE. 



McDonalds canyon. 



On the day of my arrival at Holbrook some Mexicans brought in 

 58 pieces of excellent pottery from ruins 22 miles southwest of that 

 place, in McDonalds Canyon. (See general map.) It was ascertained 

 that there were a number of ruins perhaps worthy of examination 

 in the locality whence the specimens came. Hiring a small force of 

 laborers and getting together a camping outfit, on May 4 we camped 

 by the ruins, 11 miles from nearest water. 



McDonalds Canyon is the name for quite a scope of country among 

 the ascending Carboniferous ridges flanking the White Mountain Pla- 

 teau. The dry wash leading into the Little Colorado, bet\\een Hol- 

 brook and St. Joseph, which heads back in the mountains, has numerous 

 branches, so that the country is broken by canyons of no great depth, 

 sometimes expanding into wide, level barrancas, becoming in wet sea- 

 sons lakes. The ridges, deeply covered with yellow sand and clothed 

 with junipers, present a most desolate aspect. The environment is 

 hostile as to food and water, as the party experienced. In the seasons^ 

 when rain falls, water is impounded in the natural tanks, but does not 

 last long under the extreme evaporation at this altitude — 5,400 feet. 

 In one case a stone wall had been thrown across a canyon for the pur- 

 pose of impounding water, a piece of engineering rare in this portion 



