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"A third ruin, situated nearly a mile farther down the gorge in a 

 grove of pine trees, formed an L, with a rude stone inclosure on its 

 north side, and connected with it is a small estufa. It is quite as 

 much decayed as the large polygon, and the potsherds covering its 

 surface are similar." 



A^o. 22. Puehlo of the YapasJii and the Stone Lions. ^ — "It requires 

 several hours of steady walking to reach the upper end of the Potrero 

 de las Vacas. ... To the right of the trail yawns the deep chasm 

 of the Canada Honda, from which every word spoken on the brink 

 re-echoes with wonderful distinctness. Toward the eastern end of the 

 Potrero the forests begin to thin out and an open space extends until 

 within half a mile of the rocky pedestal of the San Miguel Mountains. 

 On this open space stands the ruined pueblo shown on Plate i, figure 

 11." [In this bulletin pi. ix, &.] 



''Like all other pueblos of this region it is built of blocks of pumice 

 or tufa, nearly rectangular, but now much worn. I counted 280 cells 

 on the ground floor and the average size of 126 of them proved to be 

 4.3 by 2.7 meters (14 by 9 feet). Six estufas are visible; four inside 

 the courtyard formed by the houses and two outside. The courtyard 

 is open to the southeast and the whole forms practically a one-house 

 pueblo, the buildings of which were at least two stories in height and 

 in some places three and perhaps four. To the southeast of the ruin 

 on the edge of the woods stand the remains of an artificial tank. The 

 population of this village can not have fallen short of five hundred 

 souls." ... 



''The name of Pueblo of the Yap-a-shi has been applied to the ruin, 

 but its proper name is still unknown to me, as the designation current 

 among the people of Cochiti, Tityi Ha-nat Ka-ma Tze-shum-a, signi- 

 fying literally ' the old houses above in the north,' with the addition of 

 Mo-katsh Zaitsh, or 'where the panthers lie extended,' is subsequent to 

 the abandonment of the village. This name refers to the lifesize 

 images of pumas or American panthers (also called mountain lions), 

 which lie a few hundred yards west of the ruin in low woods near the 

 foot of the cliffs called 'Potrero de la Cuesta Colorado.'" [See pi. 

 X, a of this bulletin.] . , . 



"These remarkable stone objects are cut out of the tufa which con- 

 stitutes the surface rock of the Potrero de las Vacas." . . 



"The figures attached to the rock are two in number, and lie side by 

 side, representing the animals as crouching with tails extended, and 

 their heads pointing to the east. They are much disfigured, especially 

 the heads. ^ Still the natural agencies to which the images have been 

 exposed in the open air have rounded the edges of the (originally very 



a Final Report, part ii, p. 150. 



6 The act of vandalism was perpetrated by shepherds. 



