JEANCON ] EXCAVATIONS IN THE CHAMA VALLEY 1D 
contain charcoal, parched corn, and the bones of small mammals and fowls which 
had, doubtless, been placed therein at the funeral feast; and the remaining earth to 
the surface contained nothing but pieces of charcoal. Not a vestige of clothing, no 
ornaments, implements, or weapons were found near the corpse, and apparently 
no receptacle had been employed to contain it. By carefully digging away the 
surrounding earth with our knives, we were fortunate enough to secure every bone 
belonging to this skeleton, and it has arrived in Washington in good order, and is 
now in the Army Medical Museum. 
A further search in both arroyos revealed more bodies similarly buried, and we 
secured several skeletons, but in some cases the crania were wanting. Three or four 
skeletons of children were also discovered, but the bones were in such fragile con- 
dition as to crumble on exposure to the air, consequently we were unable to preserve 
them.’® 
Fia. 38.—Exterior and interior decoration on bowl accompanying burial No. 3. 
SUMMARY 
From all indications found in the excavation, Po-shu was a pre- 
Spanish village. As has been stated heretofore, there was absolutely 
nothing of a Spanish nature found in the ruin. 
From traditional evidence the people who originally inhabited the 
village came from some country north of them. The following tradi- 
tion obtained at Santa Clara and San Juan is of interest as bearing 
on the first settlmg of the whole Chama region: 
Long time ago all the people live in the Sipapu or lake under the ground. Then 
one time they come out on the earth. After while it got very cold, lots of snow and 
ice and the people had to go away. They began to gosouth. All of them did not 
go at the same time, but lots went together [in great waves]. We were a long time 
coming down to this country ; sometimes we stop long time in one place, but all the 
time it was still too cold for us to stay, so we come on. After while some people get 
to what you call Mesa Verde, in Colorado. [The Tewa have place names for many 
of the localities around Mesa Verde. This information was corroborated by J. P. 
Harrington. ] 
18 H.C. Yarrow, Notice of a ruined pueblo and an ancient burial place in the valley of the Rio Chama- 
Rept. U.S. Geog Surv. w. of 100th meridian, vol. vi, Archeology, p. 364, Washington, 1879 
