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terrace, judging from debris there, appear to have been habitations, 

 but no walls could be distinguished. Building stones consisting of 

 blocks of basalt are abundant. It is likely that the stone for the long 

 wall built by Mr. Lee to inclose his goat range may have been in part 

 taken from ruins. Pottery fragments are very scarce and those found 

 are of the coarsest description of red and yellow brown, the latter 

 with paste containing small pebbles resembling that of cooking ves- 

 sels from Tanner Springs, on Le Roux Wash (see Map, Plate 1). A 

 few hammers of fossil wood were seen. It is said that the numerous 

 visitors to the butte are responsible for the paucity of surface relics, 

 which is no doubt true. The conclusions as to the pottery, however, 

 were drawn from an undisturbed section at the foot of the butte in 

 the house jSLvd of Mr. Lee where several skeletons had been found. 



On the summit of Canyon Butte are' remains of stone houses, the 

 point affording an extended and agreeable view, especially over the 

 alfalfa fields of Woodruff. The small birds carved from dark-blue 

 steatite, figured by Dr. Walter Fewkes,^' were found on Woodruff 

 Butte. 



Speaking in the light of a superficial examination of these ruins, it 

 seems that they are to be classed with the garden plots so common 

 around ruins in the Southwest, and of which the gardens at Zuni and 

 Walpi are familiar modern examples. It must be said, however, that 

 the labor expended in grading and terracing on Woodruff Butte has 

 been enormous for what at present seems a futile effort.* 



MILKY HOLLOW. 



To the east of the Petrified Forest, about 9 miles, is a ruin located 

 on the edge of Milky Hollow and extending in a narrow strip along 

 the edge about three-quarters of a mile (Plate 53). The village is 

 being swept down into the Bad Lands and much of it has disappeared, 

 including the cemeteries. The houses were small and rudely built, 

 stone being ver}^ scarce. Pottery fragments are scant}^, the ware 

 coarse and undecorated, red, gray, and black in color. Stone imple- 

 ments, however, exhibiting excellent workmanship, are abundant, 

 such as metates, small, neatly-finished mortars of granite, limestone, 

 and quartzite; stone cups, scrapers, drills, stone balls, and a hoe of 

 petrified wood among the rest. Some shell ornaments were found and 

 two small lava pipes with bone stems or mouthpieces (Plate 52, fig. 3). 

 These pipes and mouthpieces were found ip place on the west side of 

 the ruin, the stems with the bowls, but not fitted in them. On adjust- 

 ing the stem it was found to fit accurately against a ridge of burnt 



« Report, Smithsonian Institution, 1897, p. 605, pi. in. 



& There is a tradition that when the Mormon eolonistc of Woodruff were putting 

 in their first dam the remains of a former dam in the Little Colorado came to light. 



