812 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



Ruin No. 2. — Two hundred 3^ards southwest of No. 1 is a small rec- 

 tangular ruin (Plate 40) facing a little south of east, the mound higher 

 on the west. The stone is gray Triassic sandstone, brought from 

 buttes 2 miles distant, and the masonry is similar to that of No. 1. 

 The cemetery is on the east side and is small. A few^ graves exist on 

 the bank of the wash to the west. The graves are deep, the ground 

 rocky, and little pottery was placed with the dead. The ware is iden- 

 tical with that from other ruins of this group. A necklace of graded 

 pectunculus shells with carved pendants was taken out. Chalcedony 

 hammers, smoothing stones, a small mortar of red granite, and grind- 

 ing stones were picked up on the surface. A lire box was located in 

 the corner of the rectangular court. Seventy-five feet from the ruin 

 is an altar located on a sand ridge. It consists of two bowlders set 

 together near a section of fossil wood, Auricaryoxylon arizonicum 

 Knowlton, brought from the neighboring forest. One bowlder is of 

 red granite, 16 inches in diameter, and the other a spherule of dark 

 sandstone, 9 inches in diameter." 



Ruin No. 3. — Second in importance and in some ways more inter- 

 esting than the others of the group is ruin No. 3, located on a rockj^ 

 escarpment above a basin several hundred feet deep, excavated in the 

 red marl. The ruin occupies a prominent position on a level rock plat- 

 form, and the mound is better defined and stands higher than that of 

 the other villages. A few junipers grow on the edge of the (;lifl', and 

 on the mesa may be seen the Cowania, Lycium, and other plants 

 familiar around the mesas of Tusayan. The ruin is oval in general 

 outline, the north end approaches a half circle, the west side is straight, 

 the south end is rounded, while the west wall runs in a northeasterly 

 direction (Plate 41). The highest point is about 12 feet at the center 

 of the mound, and another elevation at the north end of the mound is 

 7 feet above the base. These elevations mark the location of the high- 

 est rooms of the pueblo when it was in repair. From the shape of 

 the ruins it appears that the village was pyramidal, the cross section 

 at the highest point showing nine rooms. On the northwest a portion 

 of the walls seems to have fallen e7i masse and lies buried in the ground 

 giving the appearance of a pavement. At several points the walls 

 may be traced. No detached houses or shrines were observed. The 

 rocks below the edge of the mesa were examined for pictographs with-- 

 out success. If such existed formerly they were weathered out. 



The cemeter}^ lies to the northeast of the pueblo, where the soil 

 composed of house refuse is thick. The burials were under sandstone 

 slabs, as in the other cemeteries. It must be mentioned that occa- 

 sional slabs were encountered in these ruins having circular holes 

 several inches in diameter cut through them. A remarkable discov- 

 ery was made in the cemetery of this ruin. In the midst of the burials 



«See Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March, 1902, j>. 899. 



