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hole, and the othor, wliicli was broken, liad a hole in the middle and 

 a round notcli on tlie broken edge, as tliongh there had once been a 

 jjerforation at that place. 



Rum 3 



Ruin -2" of the Honiolobi group, unlike ruin 1, is situated on top 

 of a hill with a wide outlook. This is a much larger ruin than 1, and 

 the walls standing above ground are in a better state of preservation. 

 No very e.\tensive excavations were undertaken in this ruin, but a 

 few graves were found some distance from the walls near the foot of 

 the hill on which the pueblo was built. Several graves were indi- 

 cated by upright slabs of stone set on edge in the soil, and from them 

 a dozen or nujre mortuary vessels were excavated. The pottery was 

 like that of ruin 1 in general character, yellow and browii ware pre- 

 dominating. 



From the great size of this ruin the author suspects that if it were 

 carefully excavated a rich collection might be found, but work upon 

 it would be difficult, as it is situated quite a distance from water, 

 and there are other practical difficulties, .some of which, however, 

 might be easily overcome. 



A number of bowls were found on the sides of the mesa on which 

 this ruin stands, but these appear to indicate isolated burials; the 

 cemetery was not discovered, and consecjuently the number of mor- 

 tuary objects from the i-uin was small. 



RriN :! 



Ruin 3 of the Honiolobi group is very small, and is situated so near 

 the present l)ed of the river that a portion of it has been worn away 

 by the water. 



One of the most interesting features of this ruin is the use of blocks 

 of adobe instead of stone in some of the partitions of the rooms. The 

 situation of this ancient dwelling was sucli that stone was not easily 

 obtained, and consequently, as so often happens elsewhere in the 

 Southwest, adobe was utilized as a building material. 



Farther down th<» Little C'olorailo tlie author found in tlie ruins on 

 the plains which border the river indications that the ancient houses 

 were made of adobe alone, a fact readily explained by the absence of 

 suitable stone on the site of the habitations. 



Xo other ancient Tusaj-an pueblo where adobe was used for the 

 construction of houses is known, and for the most part to-day the 

 building nuitcrial is rock from the formation most convenient to 

 the pueblo.'' 



"This ruin, like ruin 1, was called Homolobi, and it is probable that the name is applied at the 



present time to the whole cluster of ruins near "Winslow. As different phratries ai"e reputed 

 to have lived in this neigrhborhood. it may be possible to connect the several ruins with indi- 

 vidual families. 

 6 There are adobe walls built out from the old missiuu at Awatobi. 



