XXXVIII ANNUAL REPOBT OF THE DIRECTOR 



point of rendezvous for a projected party to Oraibe, one of the 

 Moki towns. Here it was deemed advisable that he alone 

 should make a visit of reconnaissance to Oraibe. Proceed- 

 ing thither, a severe snow storm compelled him to seek shelter 

 at Wolpi, where he had the good fortune to meet a visiting 

 Oraibe chief, with whom lie consulted and negotiated, after- 

 wards, in accordance with authority, making him the messenger 

 of his arrangements for trading with the tribe in question. He 

 then returned to Keam's Canon. 



Pending the arrival of goods at Moki, he returned across 

 country to Zuni, a measure rendered necessary on account 

 of his relations to the tribe and one enabling him to observe 

 more minutely than on former occasions the annual sun cere- 

 monial. 



En route he discovered two ruins, apparently before unvis- 

 ited, both, according to Zuni tradition, belonging to the Hle- 

 e-ta-kwe, or the northwestern migration of the Pear, Crane, 

 Frog, Deer, Yellow- wood, and other gentes of the ancestral 

 Pueblo. One of these was the outlying structure of K'in 'i 

 K'el, called by the Navajo Z'inni j'ihne, and by the Zuni, 

 He-sho-ta-pathl-taie. In this remarkable nun he discovered 

 peculiarities worthy of note. It is a two-story building, almost 

 intact, most of the floor of the second story, the roof, lintels, 

 &c, being in a good state of preservation, built of selected red 

 sandstone slabs around the base and over the summit of a 

 huge outcropping bowlder. It is situated in the mouth of 

 one of the arms of a canon called by the Zuni K'in 'i K'el, 

 25 miles northwest of the station of Navajo Springs, on the 

 Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. In the ground room of this 

 structure, leaning against a trap opening in the floor of the 

 second story, he found the poles of a primitive ladder, notched 

 with stone instruments at regular intervals on the correspond- 

 ing sides. To the lower portion of these poles was bound 

 with yucca fiber a much decayed round, still complete but 

 too much decayed to be disturbed. In the rooms of the 

 second story he observed features indicating the relationship 

 of the building to the ruin of K'in 'i K'el, and thus, in a 

 measure, confirming the Zuni tradition. 



