66 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. -] 2. 



lenses, forniino- low mounds at 300 yards from the pneblo. is con- 

 sidered somewhat remarkable. 



The artifacts consist of flint implements, stone axes, bone imple- 

 ments, and the usual variety of small objects. Of pottery, red and 

 gray preponderate ; also found are pure yellow ( Hopi type ) ; black 

 outlined with white on strong red ( Chevelon type) ; obscure yellow 

 gray on brown with b'.ack designs (Gila type); and green glaze 

 design on white (Rio Grande type). Analysis of the shards from 

 the 20 excavations made show that the great ruin and the neighboring 

 members of the group may be differentiated on the basis of the 

 pottery fragments. 



ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTICxATIONS IN UTAH AND ARIZONA 

 Early in May, 1919, provision was made by the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology for continuation of an archeological reconnoissance 

 of northwestern Arizona, inaugurated several years ago, but inter- 

 rupted by the recent world war. As in previous years, the work was 

 directly in charge of Neil M. Judd, curator of American archeology. 

 United States National Museum. Plans for an extensive survey of 

 the arid regions immediately north of the Rio Colorado were neces- 

 sarily abandoned because of the exceptionally dry season. Mr. Judd 

 then proceeded to Cottonwood Canyon near Kanab, Utah, where, in 

 19x5, he had hastily examined several shallow caves containing pre- 

 historic remains. 



As unforeseen conditions prevented completion of the recon- 

 noissance originally contemplated, so unexpected difficvilties also 

 handicapi)ed the Cottonwood Canyon investigations. Work con- 

 tinued during two weeks only, but in this short period twelve or more 

 caves were visited and five of them were examined with considerable 

 care. Most of the standing walls in these caves (fig. 68) were of the 

 customary stone and mortar construction, but others were found in 

 which adobe had been utilized almost exclusively. .\ third type of 

 architecture was that in which the walls were formed of upright posts, 

 bound together with horizontal willows and plastered over with adobe 

 mud. In such dwellings the heavy roof was ordinarily supported by 

 larger posts, placed as part of the wall or entirely within it. In these 

 ruins ( fig. 69) and in the remains of other houses which had preceded 

 them, sandstone slabs were invariably utilized for the inner base of 

 the walls, the remainder being either of stone and mud or wattled 

 construction. .Mthough dwellings of the three types a1)ove mentioned 



