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its elegant form, high polish, and vaiying shades of red, like a ripe 

 apple. A small vase decorated with spirals in white (Plate 29. fig. 2) 

 is also an attractive object. With the red ware may be classed bowls 

 of rugose ware with polished black interior (Plates 27 and 28, figs. 1 

 and 2) and^a geometrical decoration in white over the rough exterior. 

 The design reminds one of those on basketry and, taken with the rugose 

 surface, is suggestive of the origin of this type of ware. A number 

 of rough cooking pots of coiled ware, usually rather small, are in the 

 collection from these ruins. 



The only bit of relief modeling noticed is a small fragment bearing 

 a rudely formed human foot. 



It was noticed that worked stone axes and hammers are absent from 

 the McDonalds Canyon ruins, their place being filled by spalled 

 quartzite bowlders and cylindrical battering hammers of quartzite 

 and jasper. One bowlder of natural form has two finger holes pecked 

 on opposite sides. Pottery polishing stones, chert arrowheads, and 

 knives are somewhat common. Flat metates and manos were present. 



A pectunculus shell carved in the shape of a frog and bearing evi- 

 dence of having been once incrusted with mosaic was found. Such 

 specimens are rare. .Dr. Fewkes figures an incrusted shell frog from 

 Chaves Pass" and a plain carving from Chevlon.^ A few beads of 

 shell or stone were collected at McDonalds Canyon. 



Some awls and a wedge-shaped object comprise the worked bone 

 secured in these ruins. 



No remains of textile were observed. The house refuse shows bones 

 of turkey and deer few in number. Charred corn was also taken out 

 of the excavations. 



Pahos and fetishes, except the stones found under a house corner, 

 were not seen. 



The crania nearly all show the flattening of the occiput so common 

 in the Pueblo region. From the somatological series procured at 

 McDonalds Canyon it will be possible to make a contribution to the 

 affiliations of the inhabitants of these pueblos. 



In September, after the close of the Museum-Gates expedition, the 

 writer spent some time in examining and mapping two groups of 

 undescribed ruins north of Holbrook on the Le Roux and Cotton- 

 wood washes at the Scorse Ranch and near Biddahoochee, respectively. 



Le Roux Wash extends southwest from the Navajo Reserve, near 

 the New Mexico line, about 100 miles to the Little Colorado at Hol- 

 brook, Arizona. There are two branches, one called Pueblo Colorado 

 Wash, heading on the 8,000-foot contour near Zilh Tusayan Butte, and 

 the other heading northeast of Old Fort Defiance. The valley is wide 

 and sandy, and on account of the large drainage area the water from 



« Report, Smithsonian Institution, 1896, p. 529. ^ Idem^ p. 535, 



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