NO. 12 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I917 



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After concluding- his work in Navaho National ^Monument, Mr. 

 Judd proceeded to Salt Lake City, as field director of an archeo- 

 logical expedition organized jointly by the University of Utah 

 and the Smithsonian Institution. Excavations were undertaken at 

 Parag-onah, in Iron County, where a mound approximately 200 feet 

 square was razed to expose the ancient habitations it covered. The 

 results obtained supplement the previous investigations of Mr. Judd 

 in western Utah, as reported in earlier numbers of this series.' A 

 large number of adobe dwellings, arranged in an irregular square, 

 and three kivas or circular ceremonial rooms were uncovered and 

 carefully studied. As observed during the two preceding years, 



Fig. 87. — Approximately tlie same view as fig. 86, after the house walls 

 had been exposed. The walls were made of adobe, Ijuilt up in irregular 

 layers ; the roofs were of poles, covered with willows, grass, and mud. 

 The flat, white areas represent different levels of occupancy. 



numerous temporary shelters had been erected by the aborigines in 

 the open courts between their houses ; other similar huts were con- 

 structed at higher levels as the accumulations of the court increased 

 in depth. An extensive collection of prehistoric artifacts, recovered 

 during' the course of the excavations, has been divided between the 

 University of Utah and the Smithsonian Institution. 



During his latest work in southwestern Utah, Mr. Judd was 

 assisted by Mr. A. A. Kerr, as representative of the University. 



'Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 66, No. 3, 191 5, pp. 64-71; \'ol. 66, No. 17, 

 1916, pp. 103-108. 



