ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD WORK IN ARIZONA IN 1897. G03 



number of interments at this point were by no means so large as the size 

 of the pueblo led me to suspect tbey should have been. 



The pottery exhumed from the cemeteries at Kintiel was A^ery differ- 

 ent from that of any ruin yet explored near the Hopi pueblos, and 

 resembled very closely in character and ornamentation, ceramic ware 

 faom the ruins near Zui5i, which evidence substantiates the claim of the 

 Zuiiis, that Kintiel was constructed by one of their clans or phratries. 

 A large proportion of the pottery belongs to the group called white, 

 with black decoration, and there were representatives of the group of 

 red ware, but the yellow ware, so characteristic of Tusay an, appears to 

 be almost wholly absent. The pottery, as a rule, is coarsely made, and 

 the decoration, as a general thing, simple. It is more closely related 

 to the Cliff House pottery of the San Juan Eiver on the north and 

 Tulerosa Ruins to the south than to that of any ancient ruin from Moki 

 southward. 



One needs but make a superficial comparison of the pottery of Kin- 

 tiel with that of Sikyatki, or other Hopi ruins, to see how inferior it is 

 in character and decoration. This is true in more general comparisons, 

 for, with the exception of white pottery with black-line decoration, the 

 ancient Hopi ceramic ware is superior to any other in our Southwest. 

 The accompanying plates indicate the general character of the pictog- 

 raphy of Kintiel. 



A cairn, filled with stones and rock concretions, was found southeast 

 of the ruin Kintiel, not far from its outer wall. Of the many strange 

 shapes which the stones in this cairn assumed the most striking were 

 three stone fetiches, carved to resemble animals. There were likewise 

 a number of stone balls, some spherical, others of ovoid and cylindrical 

 shapes. A small, flat, oval stone disk was likewise found in this col- 

 lection. 



In digging out the spring, from which no dou-bt the ancient j)eople 

 of Kintiel derived their water supply, the resident trader found stone 

 steps still used in descending to the water. The spring had been walled 

 in, and was protected from hostile invasion by its position inside the 

 old pueblo. 



Taylor Spring is situated about 7 miles north of Navajo,^ on the road 

 from that station to Kintiel, and near it there are two small ruins. These 

 ancient habitations are both reduced to low mounds, one of which is 

 circular, the other rectangular; but neither shows any signs of walls 

 standing above the surface of the ground. The former mound lies a 

 few hundred feet north of the spring; the latter about a quarter of a 

 mile oft' the road in the same direction. Both of these ruins are prom- 

 ising places for study, but I was obliged to pass them by with only a 

 cursory examination. 



There are ext;ensive ruins near Tanner Spring, about 20 miles west 



' In the immediate neighborliood of Navajo Springs there are sevex'al ruius, some 

 of considerable size. 



