FEUKEsl VISIT TO SANDIA RUINS NEAR HOLBEOOK 19 



permanent home in tin' National Mnseum. Some of tliese objects are 

 very old, and show a mingling of Pueblo and Christian symbolism 

 which is highl}^ instructive, but in the rapid extinction of old manners 

 and customs they are being reijlaced by more modern objects, and 

 will soon disappear complete!}". Their preservation might well occupy 

 the attention not only of the ethnologist but also of the historian. 



Although the visit to Pueblo Sandia was a short one, of the nature 

 of a rec(»nnaissance, it was full of interest. For some unknown reason 

 this pueblo seems to have been overlooked by most ethnological 

 students of the pueblos, but to one interested in the Hopi Indians, 

 Sandia presents many highly instructive problems. It is peopled by 

 descendants of the people of Payiipki, now a ruin on the Middle 

 me.sa, and no doubt the Sandians have legends of the former home of 

 their ancestors in Tusayan." 



Sandia has a large kiva, not unlike those in other Rio Grande 

 pueblos, where old rites are undoubtedly still perpetuated. It would 

 be interesting to know something of the nature of these ceremonies, 

 in order to compare them with those of the Tusayan ritual. 



The author hoped that he would be able to find some ruins in the 

 immediate neighborhood of Ilolbrook, Arizona, and he visited the 

 mesa north of the town with that thought in mind; but he was 

 disappointed, although evidences of temporary camps and a fewpicto- 

 graphs were discovered. He heard, however, of ruins at Carrizo, and 

 saw a few beautiful specimens of stone objects from that locality. 

 The trip from Xavajo Springs to Zuni failed to reveal any consider- 

 able ruins along that trail, but the examination was a superficial one. 

 Tliere are several large ruins not far from the Xavajo railroad station, 

 which were not examined.'' 



There are small ruins on some of the hills of the bad lands of the pet- 

 rified forests'" near Holbrook. One or two of these are of consider- 

 able size, and many objects indicative of former visitants or occupants 

 were found on the ground about them. The author succeeded in dis- 

 covering a single grave in one of the mounds, and excavated from it 

 a few fragments of pottery, Init these objects did not occnr in suffi- 

 cient quantities to justify extended work. Xot far from Adamana 

 station, on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, there is a large ruin on 

 a hill, which visitors to the petrified forest have no doubt noticed. 

 This ruin is of considerable size, and proinises a rich yield of 

 areheological material should reasonable excavations be made out- 

 side its walls. 



o On a map by Menchero the site of Payiipki is called *' Mesa de las Tiguas." indicating that it 

 was peopled by Tiwas. Some of the Hopis say that relatives of the Asa clan once lived there. 



*>Some of these rains were specially studied in the summer of 1897. and will be described later 

 in an account of the operations of that year. 



(•This remarkable collection of fossil trees is about 1.5 miles from Holbrook. and may be called 

 one of the wonders of Arizona. There are in reality three petrified forests, or three places where 

 the bad lands are eroded sufficiently to lay bare the huge fossil trees which they cover. The 

 signs of former habitation observed in the section nearest Holbrook show comparatively late 

 occupation. 



