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TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS 



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front of the first section. There are isolated rooms in this inclosure, 

 and a depression which may have been a reservoir. This ruin, like 

 many others, consisted of dwellintrs and a fort for protection. There 

 are instructive pictograjjhs on the rocks near by. 



At the base of the mesa on which the last-mentioned ruin stands 

 is a ruin of red sandstone with five rooms and a foundation of 

 unusual shape. A huge rock, culiical in form, has fallen a few yards 

 from its former j)osition in tlie bluff. Ruin L is built on the top of this 

 detached block, and its fairly well preserved walls are separated 



Fig. 6. Section a, ruin A, group B. 



from the bluff on all sides by a wide crevice. From a distance the 

 ruin appears to be perched on the bluff, but closer observation shows 

 its separation from the latter by an impassable natural moat. 



This is an oblong ruin rising from the side of a deep, narrow 

 canyon, with walls consisting of alternating courses of large and 

 small blocks of red sandstone. Some of the walls have fallen, but 

 sections fully 10 feet high still remain in place. There are evidences 

 of five rooms, each two stories high, but most of the chambers are 



