604 ARCH^OLOGICAL FIELD WORK IN ARIZONA IN 1897. 



of Kintiel, wliicli, from reports, I should judge would repay systematic 

 study. 



A ruin kuown by a iS^avajo name, Kinna Zinde, was photographed 

 and described several years ago by Mr. Victor Miudeleff. It lies a few 

 miles north of Kiutiel aud, I should judge, is now in about the same 

 condition as at the time of his visit. A hurried examination showed 

 that it is a small, well-preserved ruin, walls of which still rise two 

 stories high with many of the beams still in situ. An old ladder,^ or 

 rather the poles of one, with notches in which the rungs were for- 

 merly tied, has not been moved from its old place. From the scar- 

 city of pottery shards about the foundation of Kinna Zinde, it would 

 appear that the house bad not been inhabited many years when it was 

 abandoned. The base of the walls is slightly elevated above the neigh- 

 boring plain, and when seen from one side, as shown in Mindeleff's 

 photograph, the ruin resembles a round tower. The walls on the oppo- 

 site side from which his view was taken are rectangular, and there are 

 partitions in the inclosure as if this part was once divided into several 

 rooms. There are evidences of at least two stories in the iuclosures of 

 the walls. The character of the stone masonry is the same as that 

 of Kintiel, and there is no reason to doubt that it was built about the 

 same time. 



RUINS SOUTH OF HOLBROOK NEAR PINEDALB AND SNOAVFLAKE. 



A short distance east of Holbrook, Arizona, the Little Colorado Kiver 

 takes a southeasterly course, and near this turn it is joined by a tribu- 

 tiiry, which rises in the foothills of the White Mountains almost due 

 south of the junction. I was informed that there were several large 

 ruins on the banks of this tributary, which led me to extend my archaeo- 

 logical researches into this part of Arizona. 



There are evidences of former occu;>ation of the country immediately 

 about Holbrook, and several unbroken specimens of pottery and many 

 fragments of the finest ware have been collected within a mile of the 

 town. I was, however, unsuccessful in a search for ruins of any large 

 pueblo in the neighborhood, and it would appear either that the abo- 

 riginal dwellings in this locality were very small, temporary halting 

 ])laces of migratory clans, or constructed of such perishable material 

 that it has left no commensurate mounds to mark their former presence. 



Evidences of occupation by Indians were obtained from the top of 

 Woodruff Butte, that prominent mountain of pyramidal shape which 

 is visible from Holbrook in a southerly direction. Two beautiful stone 

 pendants, in the form of birds, and an ancient pipe of white stone, with 

 numerous turquoise and shell beads, were found on top of this butte by 

 Mr. Webb, of Pinedale. Other objects of Indian manufacture are 



'This ladder was mentioned by Mr. F. H. Gushing, who visited Kinua Zinde several 

 years ago. 



