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Marks of fire and soot were all over it and it was suggested by the 
Indians that it was used to make the “tissue paper’”’ bread, or ‘‘ buwa 
yave.”” Next to the plate was a meal bin which was in very bad 
condition. The whole floor of the room was very greasy and it must 
have been used a long time for a cooking room. 
WEAVING ROOM 
The floor of room 2, location 6, was of unusual interest and gave 
us a clue to its use. There are 11 holes in a row in about the 
center of the room. They are not evenly spaced, as can be seen 
from the illustration. (Pl. 4,D.) At the western end of the row is 
a depression 127 mm. wide and 49 to 75 mm. deep. This room I 
believe to have been a weaving room, and the holes in the floor were 
for the purpose of setting up the loom. ‘The depression at the west- 
ern end of the row was for the purpose of depositing weaving tools, 
yarn, etc. There were no remains of upright parts of the loom in 
any of the holes, and the room contained nothing but the débris of 
the fallen walls. - 
Room 23, location 10, may have been a grinding room, as there 
were three metates init. These were not in bins but scattered about 
the room. This was the largest number of metates found in any one 
room. There were only a few metates found in the whole ruin, 
although manos, or handstones, were abundant. One informant 
from Santa Clara, a man of 60 years or more, said that in his youth 
it was the custom to have rooms set aside for grinding and that 
the women gathered there and ground the meal, while the men sang 
the mealing songs. Each woman would bring her own corn and 
mano, and the gatherings partook somewhat of the nature of a social 
gathering. 
FOUNDATIONS 
Upon my first visit to the ruin I was surprised to see, in certain 
locations which will be described in this section, large numbers of 
bowlders set on end in rows, and with other rows running off at 
right angles from them. These we later found to be foundation 
stones, which had been exposed by the washing away of the walls 
above them. At all points of the excavation we found that the rows 
of stone constituted the foundations and they were all placed alike. 
(Pl. 5) 
The northern row of rooms of plaza No. 2 is entirely washed out, 
leaving only the foundation stones in situ, and affording an excellent 
example of the placing of these stones. (PI. 5.) At a distance of 
12 m. west of the base of the round tower we made an excavation 
1.1 m. in depth, to determine whether there were any more floors 
or walls beneath the present surface, and found only the native soil. 
At a point 7:5 m. and at another point 14 m. northeast from this exca- 
