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of loaf-shaped adobes strengthened with sticks. On ac- 

 count of the size and great interest of these ruins, it is 

 recommended that the area covered thereby be included in 

 the Navaho National Monument and the ruins permanently 

 preserved, and that either Betatakin or Kitsiel be exca- 

 vated, repaired, and made a " type ruin " of this culture 

 area. Along the road to Flagstaff from West Canyon, 

 Doctor Fewkes observed several ruins and learned of many 

 others ascribed to the ancient Hopi. He visited the Hopi 

 pueblo of Moenkopi, near Tuba, and obtained considerable 

 new ethnological matei-ial from an old priest of that village 

 regarding legends of the clans that formerly lived in north- 

 ern Arizona. He learned also of a cliff, or rock, covered 

 with pictographs of Hopi origin, at Willow Spring, not far 

 from Tuba, the figures of which shed light on Hopi clan 

 migration legends. 



Returning to Flagstaff, Doctor Fewkes reoutfitted in 

 order to conduct investigations of the ruins near Black 

 Falls of the Little Colorado River, especially the one called 

 Wukoki, reputed to have been the last habitation of the 

 Snake clans of the Hopi in their stubborn migration before 

 they finally settled near the East Mesa. A little more than 

 a month was spent at these ruins, during which time ex- 

 tensive excavations were made in numerous subterranean 

 rooms, or pit- dwellings, a new type of habitations found 

 at the bases of many of the large ruined pueblos on the 

 Little Colorado. Incidentally several other pueblo ruins, 

 hitherto imknown, with accompanying reservoir's and 

 shrines, were observed. The excavations at Wukoki 

 yielded about 1,800 specimens, consisting of painted pot- 

 tery, beautiful shell ornaments, stone implements, bas- 

 ketry, wooden objects, cane " cloud blowers," prayer 

 sticks, a prayer-stick box, an idol, and other objects. The 

 results of the excavations at Wukoki will be incorporated 

 in a forthcoming bulletin on Antiquities of the Little Colo- 

 rado Basin. 



On the completion of his work at the Black Falls ruins. 

 Doctor Fewkes returned to Washington in September and 



