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flector is a slab of stone a little more than an inch thick, the upper 
parts of which were broken off and could not be found. Near it, 
let into the floor, was a flat piece of granitic rock, very smooth and 
somewhat hollowed out on the upper surface, as if by use as a shal- 
low mortar. The fire pit is square, an unusual shape, coped with 
stone slabs and, as always, full of white ashes. Directly behind it 
is a well-made hole, 10 inches in diameter, 8 inches deep, rather 
larger than most sipapus; another hole near it is more nearly of 
the conventional size, 3} inches in diameter. Close by the wall, just 
below where the long banquette joins the deep southeastern one, is 
a third depression eee Ki 
in the floor; it is vig ee ee 
oval, 64 inches fos aay Beas 
wide, 11 inches 
long, and 3 inches 
deep. The roof has 
been completely 
destroyed by fire. 
The only artifacts 
found in the kiva 
were half of a red- 
and-yellow bowl, a 
bone awl (fig.51,/), 
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the sandy slopes Iig. 25.—Plan and section of kiva in Marsh Pass. 
below and usually to the east and south of the house clusters. 
These slopes have suffered a considerable amount of denuda- 
tion, so that a number of the cemeteries appear to have been 
completely washed away. Others are now being denuded, so that 
exposed skeletons and single bones may be found after every heavy 
rain at half a dozen places between the mouth of Sagi Canyon and 
Ruin A. Much pottery has undoubtedly been brought to light in this 
way, picked up by the Navaho and sold to traders,1 but no regular 
digging by either whites or Indians has apparently ever been done. 
1 We consider it probable that a number of the pieces in the Keam collection, now in 
the Peabody Museum, were brought in by the Indians from this vicinity. Keam’s post, 
in Keams Canyon in the Hopi country, was, at the time this collection was made, the 
nearest store to Marsh Pass. 
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