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portion of the outline is distinguished by a curious series of curves, re- 
sembling portions of Nutria and Pescado, but intersecting in an un- 
usual manner. 
The Ojo Caliente road passes between the main ruin and the stand- 
ing room above described. The remnants of the fallen masonry are so 
few and so promiscuously scattered over this area that the continuity 
of remains can not be fully traced. 
HALONA. 
An ancient pueblo called Halona is said to have belonged to the Cibolan 
group, and to have been inhabited at the time of the conquest. It oceu- 
pied a portion of the site upon which the present pueblo of Zuni stands. 
A part of this pueblo was built on the opposite side of the river, where 
the remains of walls were encountered at a slight depth below the surface 
of the ground in excavating for the foundations of Mr. Cushing’s 
house. At that time only scattered remains of masonry were met with, 
and they furnished but little indication of details of plan or arrange- 
ment. Later—during the summer of 1888—Mr. Cushing made exten- 
sive additions to his house on the south side of the river, and in exea- 
vating for the foundations laid bare a number of small rooms. Excava- 
tion was continued until December of that year, when a large part of 
the ancient village had been exposed. Pl. Lvu, from a photograph, 
illustrates a portion of these remains as seen from the southwest corner 
of Zuni. The view was taken in the morning during a light fall of 
snow which, lightly covering the tops of the walls left standing in the 
excavations, sharply defined their outlines against the shadows of the 
rooms. 
It seems impossible to restore the entire outline of the portion of Ha- 
lona that has served as a nucleus for modern Zuni from such data as can 
be procured, At several points of the present village, however, vestiges 
of the old pueblo can be identified. Doubtless if access could be ob- 
tained to all the innermost rooms of the pueblo some of them would 
show traces of ancient methods of construction sufficient, at least, to 
admit of a restoration of the general form of the ancient pueblo. At 
the time the village was surveyed such examination was not practica- 
ble. The portion of the old pueblo serving as a nucleus for later con- 
struction would probably be found under houses Nos. 1 and 4, forming 
practically one mass of rooms. Strangers and outsiders are not ad- 
mitted to these innermost rooms. Outcrops in the small cluster No. 2 
indicate by their position a continuous wall of the old pueblo, probably 
the external one. Portions of the ancient outer wall are probably in- 
corporated into the west side of cluster No. 1. On the north side of 
cluster No. 2 (see Pl. LXxv1) may be seen a buttress-like projection 
whose construction of small tabular stones strongly contrasts with the 
character of the surrounding walls, and indicates that it is a fragment 
of the ancient pueblo. This projecting buttress answers no purpose 
whatever in its present position. 
