FEWKEs] RUINS NEAR WINS].OW 23 



strated that this was oue of the richest fields in Arizona for archeo- 

 logical work, although previous to this visit not a single specimen liad 

 been described fi-om the i-egion. 



. It was also the author's desire to see Iiow the ruins of the Little 

 Colorado south of Tusayau were connected with those on the banks 

 of its tributarj-, the Zufii river, higher up the watershed. For that 

 purpose he examined somewliat in detail a ruin opposite the station 

 Hardy, on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, near where Chevlon 

 creek empties into the Little Colorado river. This ruin will be called 

 in this report the Chevlon i-uiii. Its Ilopi name is Cakwabaiyaki. 



Tile objects exhumed from (he cemeteries of the Chevlon ruin have 

 close likenesses to those of ancient Zuni ruins, as well as to those of 

 Homolobi, which is claimed by the Hopis. A logical inteipretation of 

 these resemblances would seem to be that the culture differentiation 

 of the two peoples was not as wide in ancient times as it is at present. 

 The inhabitants of the villages of the Little Colorado and its tribu- 

 tary, the Zuni river, were formerly closely related, and, ]io doubt, 

 when these villages were deserted, some of the clans went to Zufii and 

 others to the Hopi pueblos. In subsequent times greater differentia- 

 tion took place, which led to the present conditions. 



It was also desirable to push the examination of the ruins of this 

 drainage area as far .south as possible, for wliich reason two ruins in 

 Chaves pass, about :iO miles south of Winslow, were investigated. 

 This was the southern limit of field work in 1890, and in the last 

 month of the summer the author followed the trail north to connect 

 the Homolobi ruins with those of the Hopi reservation. 



We have good evidences from historical and legendary sources that 

 there were inhabited jnieblos ])etween Zuiii and Awatobi as late as 

 the middle of the seventeenth century. One of the.se, that of the 

 Cipias (Tcipij-a, according to the Hopis), is distinctly mentioned as 

 west and south of Zuiii. It is not probal)le that all clans of tlie Patki 

 people had whollj' deserted Homolobi in tlic sixteenth century, and 

 they may have been dwelling there as late as 1700. It is as yet an 

 unanswered question whether anj- one of the ruins which were exca- 

 vated in 1896 is Tcipij'a, which, according to the Hopis, the Znnis 

 declare was midway between Awatobi and Zuiii. 



THE HOMOLOBI GROUP 

 LOCATIOX 



There are four ruins near Winslow, which may be called the Homo- 

 lobi groui) and are provisionally numbered 1, -2, 3, and 4. Of these, 

 ruin 1, true Homolobi, yielded the best archeological results, and was 

 nearest to the town, being about 3 miles away. More excavations 

 were attempted at that place than at all the others. The ruin num- 

 bered 2 is about three miles farther down the river and more distant 



