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canyons could hardly fail to be entrapped. The trap is an excavation 

 in the rock which could have been made only with great difficulty, as 

 the cap of tufa is here quite hard. The pit is bottle-shaped, except 

 that the mouth is oblong. It is 15 feet deep and about 8 feet in diam- 

 eter at the bottom. The mouth of the pit is about six feet in length 

 by four in breadth. This trap has been used in modern times by the 

 San Ildefonso Indians. 



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No. 15. Tshirege{Tewa,, "a bird;" Spanish, pajarito, ''small bird "). — 

 This great ruin is situated on a low bluff on the north side of the Paja- 

 rito about six miles west of the Rio Grande. It is on the northern 

 edge of the great Mesa del Pajarito, described in connection with 

 Navawi. The possibilities for agriculture in this vicinity were 

 considerable during the time when the country was adequately 

 watered. 



Tshirege was the largest pueblo in the Pajarito district, and with 

 the extensive cliff-village clustered about it, the largest aboriginal 

 settlement, ancient or modern, in the Pueblo region of which the 

 writer has personal knowledge, with the exception of Zuni. The ruin 

 shows a ground-plan of upward of 600 rooms (fig. 10). Mr K. M. 

 Chapman has prepared in water cqlor a restoration of the pueblo with 

 a small portion of the tributary cliff -village ; a photograph of this is 

 shown in plate iii, a. This is believed to be quite true to history. 

 Plate VII, & is a map of the entire mesa top on which this ruin is situ- 

 ated and illustrates the development of a typical pueblo of the pre- 



