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device (Fig. 4). The rough boulders outside were 

 covered with figures, not ungraceful, generally a 

 female form in a curved position, sometimes 

 with a sort of chignon, decorated with two long 

 feathers pointing forwards. This figure was 

 sometimes doubled, and a particularly fine 

 one was inside one of the houses (Fig. 5). Odd 



FIG. 5. Female figures cut on the boulders. 



corners of the rock were filled up with these designs 

 (Fig. 6). There was also a block with a rather 

 deeply carved sort of owl's face inside one house. 

 Outside one house were the deep marks of tool 

 grinding. 



" Some houses had two entrances on the same 

 side, and sometimes a middle partition. I found 

 no implements, but had no means of digging. 

 I saw a few obsidian chips, and have no doubt 

 there is much to find here. 



" Mr. Cooper gave me a broken stone fish-hook 



and an old wooden idol. 



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