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broken up here and there by ancient diggings, but they could be 
determined with certainty in many places. No difference in culture 
was ascertainable, the potsherds and other artifacts being of the 
same character from all depths. 
The first objects were found just inside the outer retaining wall 
of the lower terrace, where there were uncovered three large cor- 
rugated ollas, their tops on the lower living surface. They were 
not covered, and contained nothing but earth (pl. 16, a). Three 
feet from them, and a little farther in from the wall, were two 
others, their tops on the upper level, covered with rough stone 
slabs, one having a piece of rush matting between the lip of the jar 
and the lid (pl. 16, 6). Both were empty. A sixth vessel of the 
same type, also empty, was found still farther to the rear; the levels 
were vague at this point, so that its vertical position could not be 
determined. It was harnessed with yucca leaves, and its bottom, 
from which a piece had been lost, was strengthened with a coil 
of feather-cloth string. The seventh and last of this fine series 
of corrugated jars was the largest. Its top seemed to lie a little 
below the second-floor level. A sandstone lid covered it, and 
inside was a yucca ring-basket half full of shelled corn. In the 
bottom of the vessel were shriveled remains of flesh, apparently 
dried rabbit meat, judging from the shreds of fur adhering to them. 
At a, figure 20, on the upper level was found a small yucca ring- 
basket, also containing pieces of meat. Almost directly below it, on or 
just beneath the lower floor level, was a worn-out basket of the same 
make, but much larger, flatter, and more loosely woven.t Besides 
these large objects there were recovered a number of yucca sandals 
of all kinds of weaves;-many pieces of rush matting: implements 
of wood, such as awls, arrow foreshafts, fire-drill sticks, and agri- 
cultural tools; fabrics of yucca and cotton thread, and potsherds 
in considerable abundance. 
The permanent fixtures, so to speak, of this terrace consisted of 
“turkey nests” and fire pits. The “turkey nests” are shown on the 
plan at ¢, ¢, figure 20.. In making them, a hollow had been scooped out 
of the rubbish and neatly faced with adobe until it was about a foot in 
diameter and 8 inches deep. In and about each of these “nests” 
was found much more than the usual amount of droppings and 
feathers; there was no inclosing fence such as was noticed at Ruin 4. 
Three fire pits were found, all sunk in excavations made in the rub- 
bish, and all built of slabs set on’edge and so plastered together as 
to form roughly boxlike inclosures. Each one was paved with 
slabs, open at the top and partly full of wood ashes. The largest, 
a four-sided structure, was 2 feet square and 2 feet deep; the small- 
2 Probably a winnowing or sifting basket; see pl. 43, ¢, 
