X(>. I ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS FEWKES 9 



CHIN LEE CLIFF HOUSES 



Along southern tributaries of Chin Lee Valley there are instructive 

 cliff houses that have escaped the attention of archeologists. Judging 

 from his map, some of these may have been visited by Dr. Prudden 

 for he gives a figure of one of the two cliff ruins (pi. 2, fig. a), in the 

 Chin Lee, about 40 miles from Chin Lee postoffice. Their state of 

 preservation and the character of their sites may be judged from 

 the accompanying illustrations. These ruins were not visited, the 

 photographs (pi. 2, figs, a-c) having been presented by a Navaho 

 Indian, George H. Hoater, who made the pictures but did not know 

 the name of the ruin or of the canyon. There are other ruins in the 

 Chin Lee canyons, of which information is quite meager. 



RUINS NEAR GALLUP, NEW MEXICO 



The geographical position of the country about Gallup renders it 

 a very important area in the study of the migration of aboriginal 

 peoples in the Southwest. It lies midway between the Rio Grande on 

 the east and the Little Colorado on the west, and between the San Juan 

 on the north and the Zufii on the south. In their intercommunication, 

 the trails of migration in prehistoric times must have crossed this 

 region, and as this migration was marked by successive stages where 

 buildings were constructed we should expect here to find remains of 

 former migratory peoples. Ruins in the vicinity of Gallup have 

 been so much neglected by students that our knowledge of this region 

 is very fragmentary. To remedy this condition the author made a 

 few trips in this vicinity with Mr. Sanderson and Mr. Bruce Draper, 

 local students, who furnished important aid. A number of pueblo 

 sites and small cliff houses within a few miles of the city were visited 

 and superficially examined, but no intensive work was done upon 

 them. The ruins mentioned below are only a few of those in this 

 region that could be brought to light by systematic scientific explora- 

 tion. From his examination of them, it is the author's impression that 

 the majority were inhabited by ancestors of clans now domiciled 

 in Zurii. 



ZUNI HILL RUINS 



This extensive ruin (pi. 3, a, c) , 6 miles south from Zuni station 

 ^on the Santa Fe railroad, and about 1 1 miles from Gallup, lies almost 

 directly opposite a conspicuous pinnacle of Wingate sandstone called 

 the Navaho Church. Its site is a low ridge extending north and south 

 for several hundred yards. None of the walls rise above the mounds 



