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terrace above the river and are built in connection with a square 

 kiva, like those which are found on Blue river some 25 miles south of 

 Luna valley. 



Two other anomalous ruins of great interest have been discovered in 

 Luna valley. The site of one of these shows on its smooth surface no 

 trace of its former occupancy except small fragments of brown pot- 

 tery. It has been found, however, that the ruin consists of a number of 

 circular semisubterranean houses. This ruin covers many acres and is 

 apparently of great antiquity. Another remarkable ruin is found in 

 the canyon east of Luna, where numerous walls, mounds of stone, and 

 like evidences of human labor exist, but the site does not contain any 

 fragments of pottery or flint which invariably were found in ruins 

 heretofore examined. 



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Sketch of location of ruins near Luna, N. Mex. : a, b, c, &, e, rectangular slone 

 pueblos ; f, village of pit-houses. 



Ruins are reported on the high mountains at the source of the San 

 Francisco river, and there is said to be on Mount Thomas a sand altar 

 containing man} 7 beads of different colors. From the elevated region 

 to the west the Indians obtained abundance of copper carbonate 

 which they used as a pigment. 



No. 66. Village site. — Three hundred yards west of the store at 

 Luna is a large tract of almost level land, lying above and below the 

 main high level ditch and west of a small " wash " separating the store 

 from the Thompson house. Many acres of this land are covered with 

 fragments of coarse, brown, undecorated pottery, among which occurs 

 rarely a fragment of cream-color ware with waved or linear decora- 



■ The Pueblo Indians to this day deposit offerings in shrines on the summits of high 

 mountains, and beads are the customary sacrifice. 



