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showing that chambers had also been burrowed out at this height. 

 The steps therefore may have been made in order to reach this upper 

 tier of rooms; for it appeared to me that the paintings were more 

 recent than the cave village, as they are partially painted over walls 

 of former artificial cells, the coating of which had fallen off before 

 the pictographs were placed on them. '^ Most of the cave dwellings 

 are found on the west side of the Cueva Pintada. Some of them have 

 two tiers; and there are also traces of foundations in front of the cliff, 

 showing that houses had been built against the wall. Of the extent 

 of this cave village it is difficult to judge, but enough is left to indicate 

 that it may have contained a few hundred people." 



No. 21^. Hadtse. — "Near the foot of the Sierra San IMiguel lie the 

 ruins of the pueblo shown on plate i, figure 13. It stands on a 

 bald eminence, from which, as from the Potrero de las Vacas, an exten- 

 sive view is obtained in all directions except the west and north. The 

 village consisted of five separate buildings disposed around an open 

 square and its population must have been at least two hundred souls. 

 I saw two estufas outside of the square, one of which measured seven, 

 the other thirteen meters in diameter (23 and 42 feet). Fifty meters 

 southeast of the ruin lie the remains of a large artificial tank. The 

 pottery is mostly coarsely glazed, older kinds being rare. This 

 pueblo the Queres of Cochiti call Ha-a-tze (earth), which seems to be 

 its original name." . 



No. 25. Stone. Lions of Potrero de los Idolos. — " On the open space 

 are the remains of two images of panthers, similar to those on the 

 Potrero de las Vacas. One of them is completely destroyed by treas- 

 ure hunters, who loosened both from the rock by a blast of powder, 

 and then heaved the ponderous rocks out by means of crowbars. 

 After breaking one of the figures to pieces, they satisfied themselves 

 that nothing was buried underneath. 



"The other image, although somewhat mutilated, is still in a better 

 condition than the images on the Potrero de las Vacas, as the rock 

 out of which it is carved is much harder and hais consequently resisted 

 atmospheric erosion far better. Its size is very nearly that of the two 

 figures formerly described. 



' ' The imperfections of the sculpture are very apparent ; were it not 

 for the statements of the Indians, who positively assert that the inten- 

 tion of the makers was to represent a puma, it would be considered to 

 be a gigantic lizard. Still, there can be no doubt that it is Mo-katsh, 

 the panther fetich of the Shya-yak (or hunters) of some Queres tribe. 

 There are also the remains of a stone enclosure similar to that on the 

 Potrero de las Vacas; and a stone post still erect measures 1.32 m. 



a 1 was inlormed that in lormer times, whenever a pueblo was abandoned, it was customary to paint 

 a series of such symbols in some secluded spot near the site of the village. Whether this is true or 

 not 1 do not know. 



