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A r o. £6'. Pueblo. — This ruin is located on the bluff overlooking the 

 town hospital of Clifton, Ariz. Rough volcanic rocks almost cover 

 the site, and among them the rooms were built without attempt at 

 orderly arrangement. Some of the dwellings were formed by pick- 

 ing out loose masses of lava from a small area and piling them up 

 around the sides to build the walls. 



The pottery is chiefly brown, and consists of bowls with fillet rims 

 and vessels with coiled or rugose surfaces. Some excavation has 

 been attempted here by citizens of Clifton. At the foot of the bluff 

 on which the ruin is located petroglyphs representing the sun, serpent, 

 water, and other objects, have been pecked on a smooth rock face. 



No. 27. Pueblo. — Opposite 

 the Potter ranch, 2\ miles 

 northeast of Clifton, the low 

 mounds of a ruin may be seen 

 occupying a point overlook- 

 ing the San Francisco, whose 

 valley here contains many 

 acres of fertile land. Exca- 

 vations undertaken by sev- 

 eral persons have brought to 

 light a few artifacts which 

 are similar to those found 

 in the ruin at Clifton. The 

 metates on this site are of the 

 usual oblong shape, and some 

 of the pottery shards fur- 

 nish examples of excellent 

 coiling. 



No. 28. Pueblo.— Two and 

 one-half miles above no. 27, 

 and approximately the same 

 size, is a ruin located on a 

 mesa, across which at the rear 

 of the pueblo runs a dry-laid stone wall. It is reported that crema- 

 tion burials have b§en unearthed on this site. 



No. 29. Pueblo. — At the junction of the Blue and San Francisco 

 rivers, 1G miles above Clifton, there is a ruin lying one-eighth of a 

 mile west of Carpenter post-office. It consists of rectangular rooms 

 forming one large house group and several small ones irregularly 

 arranged on the level summit of a bluff. There are two shrines on 

 the edge of the bluff, which is walled in several places. The ceme- 

 tery has numerous dry walls in the ground, and these structures are 

 evidently not the foundations of houses. The burials were made 

 among these walls and the bodies were laid out full length. The 



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Fig. 10. Plan of ruin no. 29, mouth of Blue river. 



