46 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 65 
Ruin 6 
A morning’s work was sufficient to clear the only other house in- 
vestigated at Hagoé. It is situated three-quarters of a mile below 
Fluteplayer House, on the same side of the canyon. The cave that 
gives it shelter is hollowed from the foot of the cliff at the top of 
a rocky talus;.its outlook is east. There are but four rooms (fig. 
19), all of them much ruined. The only one containing rubbish was 
the southern of the two front chambers; this was probably a kiva, 
as it has carefully rounded corners, the walls bear several coats of 
blackened plaster, and there is a small round fire pit in the middle 
of the floor. No sipapu could be found, while the ventilator, if 
there ever had been one, has fallen away with the east wall. The 
rear stands 4 feet high, the bottom 2 feet having been cut from the 
cave formation and stuccoed up in the same manner as in the kiva 
of Ruin 4 and the round room of Ruin 5. Room 2, like the two 
back rooms, had nothing in it 
but sand and building stones; 
the doorway of one of the 
latter (No. 3) was neatly 
made, having a countersink- 
ing worked into the masonry 
to hold a door slab (pl. 12, a). 
Across the side wall of the 
cave there extends a series of 
sandal prints, stenciled in 
TiO Tp ae eee white, alternating right foot 
with left as a man would walk. 
This series, with some of the many stenciled handprints that also 
adorn the rock, are shown in plate 92. The pottery was typically 
Kayenta in style. 
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With the ruins just described our work in Monumental Valley 
was brought to a close. We desired to invéstigate a group of caves 
in the lower part of Hagoé Canyon in which, according to the 
Navaho, there are signs of ancient occupancy, but we were pre- 
vented from so doing by lack of water. It is hoped that we may 
be able to explore these caves in the near future. 
Leaving Monumental Valley, we proceeded to the east, passed a 
group of canyons which were then being investigated by Professor 
Cummings, crossed the drainage of Gypsum Wash, and camped at a 
ruin in the “South Comb” in the Laguna Creek drainage, 7 or 8 
miles below Kayenta. 
