10 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
All of the houses proved to be of the semisubterranean 
single-room variety, rectangular or slightly oval in shape, 
averaging about 15 feet in length by about 10 feet in width. 
They were excavated 2% to 3 feet deep and found to be 
lined with large slabs of stone, the whole covered with a 
pole, brush, and plaster superstructure supported on four 
poles in the interior of the house. In practically all cases 
there was a small opening to the south, possibly a door. 
Many of the features of these houses are similar to those 
which are found in, and considered characteristic of, the 
highly developed kivas or ceremonial rooms of the com- 
munal dwellings of later periods. The storage cists were 
small oval or circular pits about 2% feet deep, lined with 
stone slabs. Houses and storage cists were grouped about 
the kiva, which is the first of its type to be excavated in the 
Southwest. The front of the banquette and the wall of the 
kiva were made of large slabs of stone; the latter were 
covered with a thick coating of adobe plaster. 
Potsherds and other objects of the material culture of 
the builders of this slab-house village are scarce. The 
fragments of pottery found, however, are of the type which 
in southwestern archeology has been given the term “‘ post- 
Basket Maker.’’? Doctor Roberts believes them to be from 
a late phase of the post-Basket Maker culture, probably the 
end of the period and just prior to the beginning of the 
pre-Puebloan stage. 
Fourteen burials were found and only three had accom- 
panying mortuary offerings. The latter was, in each case, 
a bowl. Unfortunately the skeletons were in such a poor 
state of preservation that in all but three instances their 
removal was out of the question. None of the skulls was 
deformed, a typical Pueblo trait, and all were dolichoce- 
phals or ‘‘longheads.’’ A detailed map was made. 
SPECIAL RESEARCHES 
The research in Indian music was conducted in a wider 
field during the past year than in any year preceding. In 
July, 1926, Miss Frances Densmore, collaborator in Indian 
