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lowing year, we will describe the finds made on this occasion with 
those of the 1915 season. 
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Our homeward route from Kayenta led down Laguna Creek to 
the “ Cornfields,” a Navaho settlement with a large acreage of pros- 
perous-looking corn. Some 2 miles south of the fields on the western 
side of the creek there is a large surface ruin built on a series of 
sandstone knolls; the gray rock of which the walls were constructed 
must have been carried nearly half a mile from the top of a low 
mesa to the east. The site is little more than a jumble of fallen 
blocks, with a bit of protruding wall here and there. Quantities of 
potsherds, apparently representing a mixture of the Kayenta and 
northern San Juan styles, are to be found below the ruins. 
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Iie. 26.—Loom-loop hole cut in sandstone ledge. 
A few yards north of the houses there is a bare sandstone ledge 
pitted with numbers of tool-sharpening grooves; there are also two 
interesting series of holes pecked into the rock. The first consists — 
of a cylindrical excavation 12 inches in diameter and 15 inches deep; 
running northeast by east from this is a row of five small holes in 
perfect alignment and exactly 15 inches apart. Their shape is 
difficult to describe, but, as the illustration (fig. 26) shows, they 
doubtless served as sockets for wooden crosspieces, which, like the 
loops observed in the floors of several kivas, held the lower bar of 
a loom. The second set, 20 feet southwest of these, consists of a long 
oval hole with two small depressions in its bottom. In the line of 
its long axis and 22 inches from either end there is a hole 3 inches 
in diameter and 2 inches deep. We have no hint as to the probable 
use of this arrangement. 
