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BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



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The soil is deep and rich, having been formed by an accumulation of 

 house refuse, now mostly disintegrated, reaching to a depth of 6 feet 

 at some points. The roots of large juniper trees have penetrated the 

 soil and disrupted many of the interments. Well to the rear of the 

 cemetery is the ruin of a large square kiva like the one near Foot 

 creek, described in no. 49. In front of the kiva the house refuse 

 is deep and contains many fragments of pottery, but no interments 

 had been made in this portion of the site. The cemetery con- 

 tained many burial walls, a feature which seems to be common in 

 this region. About 4 feet beneath the surface on the north side of 

 the cemetery was found a metate set up on a base of stones, neatly 

 plastered on the exterior, and surrounded with a rim of clay. (PI. in.) 



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A hand stone accompanied the metate, and it is presumed that the 

 apparatus was connected with mortuary rites. The majority of the 

 interments were at full length, and i«n nearly every case objects of 

 pottery, stone, and shell were deposited with the dead. In the spaces 

 between the houses and 'also in many of the rooms there were inter- 

 ments. 



In the immediate neighborhood of the Blue ruin are a number of 

 small sites, several of them lying on the slope north of Centrefire 

 creek, and others on the east and west sides of the river below the 

 village. 



Extensive excavations were carried on here by the Museum-Gates 

 expedition of 1905, through the courtesy of Mr. Charles B. Martin, 



