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evidence to the theory that characteristic old Hopi pottery is a 

 speciahzed type distinct from all others in the Southwest. 



After having- visited Fire House, Doctor Fewke^ continued his 

 investigations eastward from this place, still searching for archeolog- 

 ical evidence of a possihle trail of migration along which people may 

 have left habitations in their travels before they built Fire House. 

 He failed to discover any large pueblo ruins that can be attributed 

 to the Fire clans, although he found many ruins scattered in the 

 extensive interval between the site of b'ire House and the next 



Fu;. 87. — Mummv Lake, Mesa Verde National Park. 

 Photograph l)y Mrs. C. R. Miller. 



cluster of large ruins, or those of the Chaco can\on. The general 

 character of these ruins does not resemble but is closely related 

 to that of the ancient ruins in the Zufii valley. A numljer of 

 representative specimens of pottery collected in these same ruins, 

 especially whole pieces from I Mack Diamond ranch, were l)rought 

 to Washington, and were found to resemble those from Kintiel, a ruin 

 situated 25 miles north of Navaho Springs. Kintiel was shown by 

 Gushing to be a Zui'ii ruin, and from his knowledge of Zuni tradi- 

 tions he was able to enumerate the clans that once inhal)ited it. 



After Doctor Fewkes examined, photograi)hed, and roughly sur- 

 veyed several of the ruins between Fire House and Crown point 



