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ware, ornamented with incised coil decorations. In room 1, on the 

 other hand, no floor was found, but a considerable number of deer 

 bones were encountered, together with a few pieces of coil decorated 

 pottery. 



PUEBLO REMAINS NEAR CLIFF SPRING 



At a point about three miles north of Cliff Spring are the remains 

 of a very ancient pueblo, comprising eight houses, located on the top 

 of a low ridge and extending along it for about two hundred yards. 

 Owing to lack of time, it was impossible to do more than ride by and 

 inspect these remains in a very cursory manner. All showed evidences 

 of having been constructed of stone slabs laid up in mud mortar in the 

 usual Southwestern fashion, but these walls had long since fallen, so 

 that it was only possible to trace out roughly the contour of each 

 building. Three of these houses were of two rooms each, each room 

 being about ten by ten feet. These were quite clearly outlined, 

 though most of the buildings in this group were so ancient and obliter- 

 ated, that it was difficult to trace the exact form of each. 



At a point about four hundred yards southeast of this pueblo and 

 situated in a small valley, which our trail traversed, we came upon a 

 cleared field, with a considerable cairn of rocks in its center. It 

 seems very probable that this was one of the various fields cultivated 

 by the Indians, when these pueblos and cliff ruins were inhabited. 



That there are in this vicinity many other cliff ruins, rock shelters 

 and pueblos, is unquestionable. Our guides informed us that a few 

 miles to the northeast, there are side canyons of the Colorado, which 

 possess large numbers of well-preserved cliff dwellings. Also that at 

 various points to the west, both in the main canyon and in various 

 side canyons, many such ruins are present. 



INDIAN REMAINS IN SHOREWOOD 



By Alanson Skinneri^ 



Shortly after the arrival of the writer in Milwaukee, in 1919, his 

 attention was attracted to several low elevations in the brushy woods 

 along the east bank of the Milwaukee River, some ten minutes walk 

 from his residence on Bartlett Avenue near Newport Street. A casual 

 search along the east bank of the river from the Folsom Street bridge 

 northward, revealed flint chips, burnt stones, occasional arrowpoints 

 and a few potsherds on the edges of all the ravines, but more especially 

 on the warm southern exposures on the north sides of these gullies. ■ 



"Curator of Anthropology, Milwaukee Public Museum. 



