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with the upper half of the tower. The floor between the stories has 
been burned away, and the floor of the lower room has been dis- 
turbed by relic hunters. 
The fourth group of rooms is situated in a large crevice high 
above sections 1 and 2. Just north of the first cluster of rooms is a 
considerable space almost closed in front by a huge block of stone. 
In the dust and refuse which partially fill it several burials were 
made. Previous visitors had looted the graves, but part of one 
skeleton remained in the walled pit in which it had been interred, 
and bones of others were scattered about. It would appear that the 
first despoilers found many specimens, for large fragments of beau- 
tiful pottery, parts of a basket, some bits of feather cloth, and part 
of a split-willow burial mat were picked up among the trash. 
In the northwest corner of the oval kiva was the greater part of 
a splendid water jar, a restoration of which is shown in plate 43. 
Upon a sloping rock in front of the first group of chambers a 
human hand and a few other pictographs are pecked into the smooth 
surface. These are figured by Nordenskidld.2. Although there are 
in Johnson Canyon rock surfaces which offered excellent oppor- 
tunities for the execution of pictographs, these are the only ones 
observed. In many places there are grooves and depressions caused 
by the grinding of axes and awls, but pictographs are notably few. 
Ruin No. 8—In a deep cove close-grown with majestic spruces, 
almost directly across the canyon from Ruin No. 5, Ruin No. 8 is 
situated. It is small and presents only one feature worthy of men- 
tion. The walls of one room are built of poles set upright, bound 
together with osiers, and thickly coated with adobe plaster. This is 
a very unusual method of construction in cliff-dwellings of the Mesa 
Verde, but in northeastern Arizona it is common.’ It is of particular 
interest here, since, as I shall show later, the walls of the houses on 
the mesas were built almost entirely in this manner. 
Tf there are any ruins of note in the main gorge below the mouth 
of Lion Canyon, our party failed to find them.* 
ARTIFACTS 
POTTERY 
Structure.—The pottery from Johnson Canyon is of three types— 
coil ware, plain smooth ware, and decorated smooth ware. It 
1One of the ruins in this canyon was the site of the phenomenal find made by the 
Wetherills and described by Nordenski6ld, op. cit., pp. 46—47. 
=Tbid pla xx, 2: 
*Fewkes, Bull. 50, Bur. Amer. Ethn., ‘p. 14. 
4In September, 1915, Mr. N. C. Nelson and the writer found a ruin containing over 40 
rooms and 8 kivas at the head of a long but shallow canyon parallel to and west of 
Lion Canyon. 
