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No further mention of these ruins is known to the author until the 

 deseriptiou Ity \'iotor Mindeleff, in his very important account of 

 Tusayan and Cibolan architecture, published in the Eighth Annual 

 Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Fortunately* for science, Mr Cosmos Mindeleff camped at Kintiel 

 ruin before its destruction and made excellent photographs and plans 

 of the ruiu. He likewise conducted limited excavations, which were 

 later recorded in a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Recognizing, on his arrival at Kintiel, that it would be impossible to 

 add much to what had been recorded in regard to a ruin so mutilated 

 as Kintiel now is, the author naturally sought to learn what he could 

 from excavations. The results were somewhat disappointing, and, 

 as compared with the collections made at other ruins, only a few 

 specimens were obtained from this large pueblo. 



There is one feature in the architecture of the walls of Kintiel which 

 seems worthy of special notice, a feature which Xoi-deuskiold recog- 

 nized in Me.sa Verde ruins, and which the author has de.scribed in 

 the round house near Montzeimer's ranch,* viz, the difference in size 

 of the building stones in the walls and foundations. The largest stones 

 occur at the base, or in the lower courses, the smaller in the more 

 elevated jjortions of the walls. This arrangement has a wide distri- 

 bution in other parts of the Southwest. 



The nearest point on the i-ailroad to Kintiel is the station Navajo, 

 from which there is a good road to the ruin. This road j)asses in sight 

 of several small mounds with indications of former houses, and not 

 fai' from Navajo station there are several ruins, some of considerable 

 size, but all in a poor state of preservation. All of these are here 

 referred to Zuiifi rather than Hopi clans, for the fragments of pottery 

 which were collected on them resemble the pottery of ancient Zuiii 

 ruins. 



The exact lines of demarcation between ancient ZuSi and Hopi ruined 

 I^ueblos will probably' be impossible to find, mainlj^ because there is 

 little doubt that the distinctive features between Zuiii and Walpi, so 

 marked in modern times, did not exist in ancient times. Clans from 

 certain rmeblos now in ruins in this region sought union with the 

 population of Zuni; others went to modern Tusayan and were incorpo- 

 rated into the population of the villages there. Other families drifted 

 out of Zuiii and founded pueblos of their om'u or halted in their migra- 

 tion from Cibola to Tusayan and erecte<l pueblos which were aban- 

 doned after a few j'ears or generations. 



Kintiel may be classified as a circular ruin (see plate Llil). This 

 form is unlike that of anj' Tu.saj'an ruin, with possibly the exception 

 of the two mounds called Kiikiitcomo, above Sikyatki. Round ruins 

 ai'e foreigia to the Hopi country and are absent from all the portion 

 of Arizona south of the i^resent inhabited pueblos of the Hopi reser- 



a Journal of American Etbnology and Archseolo^, t. 1, 1891, p. 12T. 



