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length, etched on the rock by peckmg with a stone implement. The 

 principal cemetery of the village was located in the southwest corner 

 of the court and many of the excavated rooms in the cliff walls served 

 as burial vaults. 



The cliff-village along the side of the mesa, shown by restoration in 

 plate III, a, was the most extensive group of pueblo-like cliff -dwellings 

 of the kind of which the author has any knowledge. The cluster 

 extends along the cliff for three-quarters of a mile and represents 

 accessions from many small pueblos. Tshirege is said to have been 

 the last of all the villages of Pajarito park to be abandoned. A 

 limited supply of water can still be obtained at almost any season at 

 the spring in the arroyo a quarter of a mile away, and during wet sea- 

 sons the Pajarito carries a little water past this point. The remains 

 of a small reservoir (pi. iii, a) are to 



be seen on the mesa top a few yards i **!^ "XH^rT^ 



north of the main ruin. |f'^^ W****'''^^' i^^^^ 



No. 16. — This is a small ruin con- IS-t " '^M 



sisting of a single quadrangle situated ■t'-'-f^ ^^ T'f 



about three miles west of Tsliirege, .Ml..d-,-i---^^'-'--^—>-^i-<M 



iust south of the abandoned Buckman . ^Oi'Viljii^S??;^^^;^^^ ^^^^^ 



. V- - i _■ s'i"- l-"i'-i--^'- ■ ' "^.'"■■■, ■ -.-r-'^..-;;r.\-i-^Si.''!;;> 



sawmill road. It belongs to the older f^v^-;"— ---': ^^ -;i 

 class of ruins and presents no features Ik^H^ jiist^r i^*! '^M 



of especial interest. A short distance • El^i!^,, -M^!!$0i'-. : ,:^^M 

 to the west is a game pit, similar to •s^I'^l'^I^'w^'W ^PTC" ^'i/i ^' 

 the one at Navawi. „ ,o r. ,, , , .' ,, 



Fig. 12.— Ground plan of rum no. 17. 



No. 17. — In the midst of a beauti- 

 fid open park, about three miles southeast of the abandoned saw- 

 mill, is an important ruin (fig. 12) consisting of three compact con- 

 nected rectangles. No walls are visible above the debris, but on 

 clearing away the loose stone, well-preserved plastered walls eight 

 feet in height are disclosed. Numerous small clan houses are. scat- 

 tered about near by. A few yards to the east is the hollow of a large 

 kiva in which a fine pine tree is growing (pi. viii, h). Not far from 

 this ruin are the remains of a large circular inclosure built of blocks 

 of tufa set on edge, doubtless an ancient shrine. (PL xi, c.) 



No. 18. — Less than a mile west of no. 17 on a high pomt at the con- 

 fluence of two very deep gorges is the best-preserved ruin in this 

 region (pi. ix, a). The walls stand in places eight feet above the 

 debris. Great pine trees are growing within the rooms. There is 

 every evidence that these mesas have been forested since the abandon- 

 ment of the pueblos (pi. viii, a, h; pi. ix, a). This ruin is almost 

 inaccessible, except from the west. It is not less than 800 feet above 

 the waters of the Rito del Bravo, which it overlooks. The ground 

 plan (fig. 13) is very irregular. 



