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lion in brown pigment. The surface of the site gives no indication 

 of habitation nor are any building stones to be seen. (Fig. 23, /.) 



In cutting the main ditch a number of years ago a skeleton, accom- 

 panied with rude pottery, was found here. It was ascertained by the 

 Museum-Gates expedition of 1005, through test excavations and a 

 close examination of the ground, that this site was once occupied by 

 circular subterranean houses, nearly all superficial traces of which 

 have disappeared, the soil having been slowly leveled by natural 

 agencies. It is believed that the ruin is very old and that it antedates 

 the stone pueblos of this region. Two other ruins of this character 

 lie about 5 miles north of Luna, at the Funderburg and Stevens 

 cienagas. (See nos. 74, 75.) 



No. 67. Pueblo. — This pueblo is located one-half mile northwest 

 of the store at Luna, on a rocky point back of the Thompson pasture. 



It is a rectangular stone pueblo, 

 with very little debris surround- 

 ingit. (Fig. 23, e.) 



Xo. 68. Pueblo.— One - half 

 mile southwest of Luna, among 

 the pines on the rocky second 

 terrace above the San Francisco 

 river, is a pueblo measuring 120 

 feet north and south and 125 

 feet east and west. The w T est 

 end consists of an L-shape 

 courtyard, bounded by rooms of 

 large size built around a circu- 

 lar depression. Nothing reward- 

 ed excavation here, and from 

 appearances the ruin was not 

 long inhabited. 



No. 69. Pueblo. — One mile west of Luna on the first terrace above 

 the San Francisco river, on land of Charles Adair, there is a rectangu- 

 lar stone pueblo in extreme decay. The cemetery is on the southwest 

 side of the pueblo and the burials are in very hard ground. 



No. 70. Pueblo. — Two miles west of Luna on the Old Adair place 

 there is a large stone-built pueblo, situated on the second terrace 

 above the San Francisco river. (Fig. 23, a.) The house plans 

 are almost indistinguishable under the great mass of debris of decayed 

 walls, but the exterior stepped (polygonal) outline may be traced. 

 The ruin measures 180 feet east and west, and 110 feet north and 

 south ; the west half of the pueblo is solidly built. 



The northeast section has a kiva 30 feet square with an entrance, 

 on either side of which is a room, and adjoining this kiva is a circu- 

 lar depression 30 feet in diameter. In front of these depressions lies 



•..,,■;■■ ;$ kiva 5 :, 



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Ian of ruin C, one-half mile southwest of 

 Luna, N. Mex. 



