30 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
Many specimens were found in Painted Kiva House, 
among which may be mentioned pottery, stone implements, 
metates, axes and celts, bone needles, fabrics, sandals, and 
problematic wooden objects. Several ears of corn with ker- 
nels intact, seeds of squash and pumpkin, and abundant 
cornstalks and shucks left no doubt of the food of the inhabi- 
tants. A fragment of the so-called paper bread called by 
the Hopi piki, possibly over 500 years old, found at the 
bottom of an Oak-tree House kiva, allays any doubt on 
this point. 
Future field work on the Mesa Verde ought to be especially 
directed to the study of the relation of the Earth Lodge 
culture and that of the pueblo, in which is included the cliff 
dwellings and pueblos on top of the mesa. Both are char- 
acterized by distinctive pottery as well as architecture, 
although the essential features of the former are not very 
well known. Aztec and the Chaco ruins have local differ- 
ences from the Mesa Verde, but it is not known which area 
first lost its population. Both populations flourished at 
about the same time, and it is believed the cliff dwellings on 
the Mesa Verde were older than the community houses of 
the Chaco Canyon. 
In May, 1921, the chief resumed his work on the Mesa 
Verde, remaining there until the close of the fiscal year. 
During this time he completed the excavation of Far View 
House, and protected with a cement groat the tops of about 
two-thirds of all the walls of rooms. 
About 385 feet north of Far View House, on higher land, 
in about the center of the cluster of 16 mounds that are 
included in the Mummy Lake group, the excavation of a 
most interesting building wholly buried under fallen walls 
was begun. Enough work was done to show that it is a 
remarkable type of building, consisting of a central circular 
tower with several subterranean rooms or kivas on the south 
side, overlooking a large cemetery. It has all the appear- 
ance of a necropolis of the cluster, and important results 
await its final excavation. Unfortunately work on_ this 
mound had to be suspended at the close of the fiscal year. 
