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very heavy metates of black and a roughly worked stone image were 

 discovered here. (Final Report, pt. n, 411.) 



No. 13. Sacrificial cave. — In the northern slope of Mount Graham 

 is a large cave descending into the earth abruptly by a series of off- 

 sets in volcanic rock. It is difficult to penetrate, but in some parts 

 the rocks have been smoothed by contact with the bodies of messen- 

 gers bearing offerings. Doctor Fewkes says, in reference to this cave : ° 



There were bushels of prayer sticks on the floor, and a few fragments of 

 basketry rewarded the search. The fragments of basketry were made with a 

 technique similar to that of the basket placques of the Middle mesa. The 

 prayer sticks were painted red at their extremities, about the size of a pen- 

 holder. This cave, called Adams's cave, has been rarely visited since its dis- 

 covery by Mr. B. B. Adams, of Solomonsville, but will well repay a visit by an 

 archeologist. There is little doubt that there are other similar caves on the 

 northern side of the Graham mountains which have not been entered by white 

 men. 



No. 14- Pueblo. — Not far from Old Camp Grant is a ruin which 

 may be that identified by Bandelier as Chichiltic-calli, " red house." 

 seen by Coronado in the year 1540. Coronado was much disappointed 

 to find that Chichiltic-calli — 



of which so much had been told was nothing but a ruined house without roof, 

 which, however, appeared to have been fortified. It could be seen that this 

 house, built of red earth, was the work of people who were civilized and had 

 come from afar. . . . The name Chichilticale. was formerly given to this 

 place, because the priests found in the vicinity a house that had been inhabited 

 for a long time by a people that came from Cibola. The soil of that region is 

 red. The house was large, and appeared to have served as a fortress. It 

 seems it was anciently destroyed by the inhabitants. 6 ' 



Bandelier says that the Sobaipuri had their villages within a short 

 distance of Aravaipa creek, and inclines to the belief that " red house " 

 was a village of this stock. Casa Grande, near Florence, he contends, 

 does not fulfill the conditions. 



The National Museum has from the ruins at Camp Grant a col- 

 lection of shell ornaments, arrow 7 points, and other relics, donated 

 some years ago by Chris. Nelson (cat. no. 198, 315-326). 



No. 15. Pueblos. — Surg. R. T. Burr, U. S. Army, has described 

 ruins in White River canyon, Cochise county, Ariz., 35 miles south 

 of Camp Bowie. (See Smithsonian Report for 1879, 333-334.) The 

 ruins are of the checkerboard type, with walls of adobe and core 

 of bowlders. Rings 3 feet in diameter floored with flat stones exist 

 in the ruins. 



Little is known of the ruins of Cochise county, which extends from 

 the southern border of Graham county to the Mexican line, beyond 

 the existence of small sites on the San Pedro between Benson and 



» Twenty-second Report of Bureau of American Ethnology, pt. 1, 177-178. 

 "Cibola, 160-162, quoted by Bandelier, Final Report, pt. n, 408. 



