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plete without some reference to them. One of the most important 

 objects is the desiccated body of an infant wrapped in coarse cotton 

 cloth, allusion to which has already been made. This bundle was 

 inclosed in three small cotton kilts which were later washed and 

 found to be "as good as new." At the foot of the infant was a desic- 

 cated parrot (?), some of the brilliant plumage of which is still to be 

 seen. This bird has a prayer stick tied to one leg, which makes 

 reasonable the belief that it was^a ceremonial object. Another inter- 

 esting specimen in the Doney collection is the dried body of a dog, 

 which was found in one of the deep clefts in the rock near one of the 

 ruins. This dog has a head similar to that found by the writer in 

 the Chaves pass ruin. There are also several fragments of beauti- 

 ful cotton cloth and netting. Some of the specimens are embroidered, 

 others are painted with circles and other geometric designs. A heavy 

 wooden club, several planting sticks, and other wooden objects are to 

 be seen in Mr Doney's collection. There are also many cigarette 

 canes, some with woven handles, as well as seeds of cotton, squash, 

 gourd, and corn, and many objects of shell, as tinklers, ornaments, 

 rings, and bracelets. One of the best Haliotis shells the author has 

 ever seen from a ruin ^yas found in one of the graves. 



There are also many large turquoise ornaments, some an inch or an 

 inch and a half square. The many metates are made of lava, and 

 are deeplj' worn, as if from long use. A copper bell from a grave 

 near ruin a is a remarkable specimen. It has the same form as the 

 bells f i-om Arizona ruins, which the author has elsewhere described, but 

 on one side are ridges indicating eyes, nose, and mouth, apparently 

 made of strips of metal soldered or brazed to the surface. It is not 

 bolievod that this bell was the product of the former occupants of 

 these now ruined structures; more probablj' it was obtained by them 

 through barter. 



RUIN B 



Across the depression north of ruin A, beyond the reservoir and on 

 top of a mesa, there is a rectangular ruin consisting of two sections 

 connected by low, parallel walls, which inclose a rectangular plaza. 

 It appears that each section was composed of two single-story rooms. 

 No beams or other evidences of roofing are now visible, but a consider- 

 able quantity of masonry has fallen into the inclosures. From the 

 base of the mesa to the ruin an old trail can be traced by I'ows of 

 stones on the eastern side, and on the same side there are likewise 

 remnants of rooms. Graves were found among the rocks at the base 

 of the mesa. 



RUIN c 



About half a mile north of ruin a of grouj) B there is a fortified mesa 

 with several rooms, some of which had two stories. The surface of 

 this mesa is flat, the rim is round, the sides are perpendicular, but 



