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Pueblo ruin on the Potrero en el Medio [28:64]. Bandelier says of 

 this: 



I have not ascended to its summit [of Potrero en el Medio [28:64]], but 

 know on good authority that on it stand the ruins of two buildings.' In regard 

 to the pueblo on the Potrero de en el Medio I was unable to secure any tradition, 

 but the Cochiti Indians "supposed" that it was formerly a Queres [Keresan] 

 village.^ 



Pueblo ruin on Quemada Mesa [28:67]. 



At a distance of 12 miles from the pueblo [Cochiti [28:77]], a partly wooded 

 ridge [Quemada Mesa [28:67]] traverses it [Queraado Canyon [28:66]], and 

 on the summit of this ridge, called Potrero de la Canada Quemada, lies the ruin 

 of which figure 16 of Plate i [of Bandelier's Final Report, ii, 1892] gives the 

 shape and relative size. It stands on a bare space near the eastern brink of the 

 abrupt slope, protected on the west by woods. The view from there is almost 

 boundless to the south, where the Sierra de los Ladroues [29:122] and the 

 Magdalena Mountains [Unmapped] are distinctly visible . . . There is no 

 water on the Potrero, and I was at a loss to find tillable soil. Still this is no proof 

 that the Indians who dwelt there did not have their little fields in some nook 

 or corner, either at the foot or on the summit of the ridge. This Pueblo, with 

 the one near San Antonio [29:unlocated] in the Picos valley, is the most com- 

 pact specimen of the one-house t>pe whicli I have ever seen. There even appears 

 to be no entrance to the small courtyard in the middle. North of this court- 

 yard the cells are eight deep; south there are -9 rows from west to east, and 16 

 transversely, the whole number of rooms on the first floor being 296, and their 

 average size about 2.7 by 3.6 meters (9 by 11 J feet) ' . . . Nut far from this ruin 

 isasmall artificial tank largeenougli for the demands of apopulation which prob- 

 ably did not much exceed three hundred, judging from the capacity of the larg- 

 est house at Taos. The artificial objects are the same as on the other Potreros, 

 butglazed pottery is very scarce, as the bulk of the potsherds belong to the black 

 and wliite and to the corrugated varieties. Considerable moss-agate and flint, 

 and some obsidian, was noticed. The Cochiti Indians, and also those of Santo 

 Domingo, told me that this was the abode of tlie latter branch of the Queres 

 [Keresan] tribe in times long prior to the Spanish era, and that the Santo 

 Domingo Indians moved from here to the east side of the Rio Grande, where 

 they were living in the sixteenth century, and live to-day . . . The ancient 

 character of the potsherds on the Potrero Quemado attracts attention. After 

 diligent search I did not find more than two or three small pieces of the 

 coarsely glazed kind, but the corrugated, and especially the white (or gray) 

 decorated with black lines, were abundant, resembling the pottery found in 

 connection with the small houses and some of the cave villages. If the Santo 

 Domingo branch of the Queres [Keresan] inhabited the Potrero Quemailo 

 [28:67] in former times, the question arises whether they emigrated from the 

 Eito [28:6] as a separate band, or moved off jointly with the Cochiti and San 

 Felipe clusters, seceding from these at one or the other of the stations between 

 the Potrero Quemado [28:67] and the Rito de los Frijoles [28:6]. There is 

 such a marked difference between the pottery on the former and that at the 

 other ruins of Queres [Keresan] villages north of it (the small houses excepted ) 

 that we might conjecture that the separation took place at the Rito [28:6] before 

 the jieople there had begun to manufacture the coarsely glazed variety. The 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. n, p. 182. 2 n,id., p. 184. s Ibid., pp. 182-83.' 



