94 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
The positions of the few excavations made are indicated on the plan 
(Pl. Lxtit). Our facilities for such work were most meager, and what- 
ever results were secured were reached at no great distance from the 
surface. One of these excavations, illustrated in Pl. Gc, will be described 
at greater length in Chapter Iv. 
PLANS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF INHABITED VILLAGES. 
NUTRIA. 
Nutria is the smallest of the three farming pueblos of Zuni, and is 
located about 23 miles by trail northeast from Zuni at the head of 
Nutria valley. The water supply at this point is abundant, and fur- 
nishes a running stream largely utilized in irrigating fields in the vicinity. 
Most of the village is compactly arranged, as may be seen from the 
plan (PI. Lxvit and Fig. 17), but a few small clusters of late construc- 
tion, containing two or three rooms each, are situated toward the east 
at quite a distance from the principal group. It is now occupied solely 
as a farming pueblo during the planting and harvesting season. 
The outline of this small pueblo differs greatly from those of most of 
the Cibolan villages. The village (Pl. Lxvi11), particularly in its north- 
ernmost cluster, somewhat approximates the form of the ancient pueblo 
of Kin-tiel (Pl. Lxi1), and has apparently been built on the remains of 
an older village of somewhat corresponding form, as indicated by its 
curved outer wall. Fragments of careftuly constructed masonry of the 
ancient type, contrasting noticeably with the surrounding modern con- 
struction, afford additional evidence of this. The ancient village must 
have been provided originally with ceremonial rooms or kivas, but no 
traces of such rooms are now to be found. 
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Iie. 17. Nutria, plan; small diagram, old wall. 
At the close of the harvest, when the season of feasts and ceremonials 
begins, lasting through most of the winter, the occupants of these farm- 
