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when tlie former Hospital had served as an Indian school. Among 

 them were a slate pencil, boys' shoes, and fragments of knitted stock- 

 ing fabric, small black felt hats, and the like. 



Latrine No. 2 was a somewhat larger pit than the other excavated, 

 and had been dug to a depth of approximately 6 feet below the sur- 

 rounding surface. This pit measured 14 feet 5 inches in length (east- 

 west) and 5 feet in width (north-south) . The pit had also penetrated 

 to subsurface gravels, and in this case the earth walls had been shored 

 with planks set on end (pi. 48, h). This crib work, though almost 

 completely decomposed, appeared to have been of 1-inch stock, of 

 random width as great as 9 inches, and had doubtless originally been 

 secured to the privy at the upper ends of the planks. It is possible 

 that the building may, in part, have been made of adobe brick, since 

 adobe bricks and adobe mud were seen near the edges of the pit at 

 the surface, apparently in original position. These bricks may^^iow- 

 ever, have been merely banked against the building. 



Objects found in excavating Latrine No. 2 showed quite clearly that 

 the pit had been in use at an earlier period than the other, and during 

 the military period. Several military objects were obtained, with 

 fragments of men's shoes, fabrics, and personal possessions. This pit 

 was doubtless intended for the use of the Hospital personnel and pa- 

 tients, and several Hospital Department, patent medicine, and drug 

 bottles of glass were obtained there, as well as the base of an older 

 type of glass whiskey flask. 



The fill in neither of these pits revealed anything significant, in 

 structure or composition. In both instances, lime had been used from 

 time to time while the pits were open, and gravel and waste soil, in- 

 cluding some fine lignite, had also been used to fill the pits. 



OBJECTS RECOVERED 



In the following account of objects recovered in excavations at the 

 site of Fort Stevenson, intended chiefly as a descriptive report, the 

 objects have been grouped as far as possible according to logical rela- 

 tionships, rather than according to the nature of the materials of 

 which they were made. It has not always been possible, however, to 

 achieve a completely satisfactory arrangement of such a large and 

 miscellaneous group of materials. Many objects obtained had served 

 more than one purpose and have relationships other than those of 

 the most important or obvious. Where several relationships have been 

 observed, in different directions, these have been mentioned. 



The various uses to which the site of Fort Stevenson had been put — 

 military, Indian school, and agricultural — merge imperceptibly into 

 one another, and many of the objects described here have no clear-cut 

 provenience. Several kinds of military objects obtained are obviously 

 derived from the period of the military use of the post, just as the few 



