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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



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Wood Can von Ruins 



Reports were brought to the author of large ruins on the rim of 

 Wood Canyon, about 4 miles south of Yellow Jacket post office, in 

 October, 1918, when he had almost finished the season's work. Two 

 ruins of size were examined, one of which, situated in the open sage- 

 brush clearing, belongs to the village type composed of large and 

 small rectangular mounds. The other is composed of small circular 

 or semicircular buildings with a surrounding wall. The form of this 

 latter (fig. 2) would seem to place it in a subgroup or village type. 



Fig. 2. — Ground plan of Wood Canyon Ruin. 



Approach to the inclosed circular mounds was debarred by a high 

 bluff of a canyon on one side and by a low defensive curved wall (E), 

 some of the stones of which are large, almost megaliths, on the side 

 of the mesa. From fragmentary sections of the buried walls of one 

 of these circular mounds (A, B), which appear on the surface, it 

 would seem that the buildings were like towers (C, D). This is one 

 of the few known examples of circular buildings in an area protected 

 by a curved wall. In the cliffs below Wood Canyon Ruin m a cliff- 

 dwelling (G II, J) remarkable mainly in its site. 



Butte Ruin 



The so-called Butte Ruin, situated in Lost Canyon, 5 miles east of 

 Dolores, belongs to the circular type. It crowns a low elevation, 

 steep on the west side, sloping more gradually on the east, and sur- 



