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influence was fonnd in the ruin. Although it may have been inhab- 

 ited since the discovery of Arizona, there is no evidence that Spaniard 

 or American ever visited it while inhabited. 



Thei-e is a clo.se resemblance between Kintiel, as it was ten years ago, 

 and the Pueblo Bouito and other great houses of tlie Chaco canyon, 

 and from its general appearance as compared with these the author 

 believes that it is of about the same age. 



There is a Xavaho tradition that at least one of the Chaco ruins was 

 built bj- Zuiii clans, which would indicate a reason for the similarity in 

 the construction of Kintiel or Pueblo Grande and its namesake in 

 the above canj-on." Kintiel also resembles architecturallj' the well- 

 preserved Zuili ruins at Archeotekopa, which is described elsewhere,* 

 but we need much more information about these interesting ruins, 

 especially about their pottery and the Zufii legends concerning them, 

 before it is jpossible to form any trustworthy conclusions. 



Kintiel is situated on the Leroux wash,*^ which flows north of 

 Holbrook, and turning south empties into the Little Colorado west 

 of the town. The wagon road goes from llolbrook past the X ranch 

 np the wash to the ruin of Kintiel. There is a ruin of some size at 

 Tanner's spring, from which place the author has seen several fine 

 specimens of pottery. As these fragments closely resemble the Kin- 

 tiel pottery, it is ijrobable that the ruins belonged to the same or 

 to closely related people. 



There is also a ruin of some size near Hnlibell's store, at the Pueblo 

 Granado, about the same distance north of Kintiel that iSrava.jo sta- 

 tion is south of it. Pottery from this ruin is ancient, much older 

 than that from Kintiel. West of this ruin, at Eighteen-mile spring, 

 there is a circular ruin which must also be referred to the Zuiii belt. 

 The author has been told that there is a Spanish inscription of the 

 seventeenth century not far from this spring, but he has never seeia it. 



The number of rooms at Kintiel would lead to the belief that the 

 population was lai-ge, certainly reaching into the hundreds. There 

 were evidentlj- several clans living there, and at the lowest estimate 

 we are justified in believing that 300 people foimd shelter within its 

 walls. Probablj- the population was nearer 500 souls, or about the 

 same number that formerly lived at Sikyatki. 



A small stone inclosure, apparently a shrine, was found a few feet 

 from the outer wall of Kintiel, on the south side. Its contents were 

 carefuUj' gathered together and added to the collection. The objects 

 found in this inclosure consisted of a number of curiously formed 

 stones and concretions, anj^ one of which might, from its odd shape, be 

 regarded as a fetish. Several of these stones were rudelj' worked into 



"The name Kintiel, or Broad House, is applied by the Navahos to at least two circular pueblo 

 ruins in tbe Southwest. One of these is in the Chaco canyon, and is said also to have been con- 

 structed by the Zunis. 



I> Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeolo^, v. 1, 1891, p. 122. 



•^ Named from the famous guide and trapper Leroux, whose knowledge of the Southwest was 

 of such great value to early explorations in this region. 



