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rendered it impossible to verify this story. There is every reason to 

 believe that a ruin crowns a low, block-shaped butte (Plate 67, fig. 1) 

 some miles to the west of the ruins just described. At the base of 

 this butte, near a Navaho corral, the cemetery has been excavated (Plate 

 67, lig. 2). The ware is yellow, red, and gray and not of the tiner 

 class. 



Some few miles down the wash, on the southeast front of a large 

 butte, are two ruins with a spring in a gulch between them. They also 

 show ancient Hopi ware and were rifled several years ago. 



The remaining member of this group is a small site containing six 

 rooms, lying one-half mile south of the first butte on the Holbrook and 

 Keams Canyon road. 



As a result of the researches in this locality the writer was able to 

 identify the specimens in the Scorse collection at Holbrook, procured 

 by Juan Baca. In view of the interest attaching to the group of 

 ancient Hopi pueblos examined for the first time, the purchase of these 

 excellent museum specimens was recommended, and they were acquired 

 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



While the typical yellow ware characteristic of Tusayan makes up 

 the bulk of the collection, there are several other kinds of ware that 

 give the ruins additional interest as probably denoting the union 

 of clans of differing culture. The yellow ware of Biddahoochee 

 resembles that of Homolobi, collected by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes and 

 the writer." It has fine, homogeneous paste, varying in shade from 

 cream color to orange. One specimen (see Plate 72, fig. 2) is of bright 

 lemon color. It is necessary to class the earth color and salmon color 

 ware with the yellow. The decoration is in dark brown, red brown, 

 and light brown. The designs are geometric, of great variety and bold- 

 ness, as though not far removed from the original naturalistic concepts. 

 Symbolism like that of the potter}^ found near Walpi is rare. Brief 

 symbols are the arrow, feather, lightning, birds, corn, and the butterfly, 

 a number of which will be noted in the plates of illustrations. 



The forms of yellow ware are bowls, cups, vases, and dippers, the 

 latter often with animal handles. 



Four typical yellow bowls are shown on Plates 68 and 69. Plate 68, 

 fig. 1, is of fine, clear, yellow paste, and the design incorporates several 

 bird forms. The second figure is also of fine yellow paste; the design 

 in red brown, apparently incorporates snakes or lightning. 



Another bowl (Plate 69, fig. 1) of ocher yellow has a geometric 

 design in hachure and solid color, which is unusual in this locality. 

 The remaining bowl (Plate 69, fig. 2), which is also of ocher yellow, 

 has a geometric design in two sections. In the open area between the 

 sections are two fl3^ing arrows. 



« In a forthcoming Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



