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covered by soil. This burial place yielded a far greater number of 

 skeletous aud mortuary objects than the south cemetery, possibly 

 because more extended excavations were made at that point than at 

 others where the interments were as a rule deeper. 



One of the most interesting rooms excavated at Four-Mile Euin was 

 situated on the north side, where a deep gulley had been furrowed in 

 the soil by the rains. This room was excavated to the floor, by which 

 important architectural details of construction, in common with a Hopi 

 kiva, were revealed. It measured 10 feet 5 inches by IG feet 10 inches, 

 and at one end there was a banquette 4 feet wide raised 1 foot 7 inches 

 above the main floor. The upright walls were plastered with adobe, 

 still smooth, and blackened with soot, and at intervals very much 

 decayed vertical logs were found still in place. The situation of these 

 upright supports reminded me of a similar architectural feature in the 

 construction of the buildings of Pueblo Yiejo, which are described 

 later in this report. 



The floor was paved with large flat stone slabs, nicely fitted together. 

 Several of these pavement stones were perforated by one or more per- 

 fectly round holes, sometimes beveled, an inch or two in diameter. 

 When these perforated stones were first found I was so struck with 

 their resemblance to the symbolic orifices in the floors of Tusayan 

 ceremonial rooms that 1 regarded them as such, but their number and 

 distribution, shown in the accompanying plan, would throw doubt on 

 this identification. A rectangular shrine made of four stone slabs set 

 on their edges occupied a position between the banquette and the fire- 

 place. This receptacle measured 1 foot 5 inches by 1 foot 6 inches, and 

 was about 10 inches deep. Its position and contents suggested the 

 shrine in the middle of the floor of the kiva at Awatobi, which I have 

 elsewhere^ described. 



We found in our excavations at Four-Mile Euin worked stones which 

 gave rise to considerable speculation. The first specimen was dug out 

 of the ground, a few feet from the surface, in one of the cemeteries. 

 Later another specimen was exposed in a deep gulley in the side of 

 the mounds just above the site of the burial place, and in excavating 

 the room, which has been called a kiva, five other specimens were dis- 

 covered on the floor of the room. From the relative positions of the 

 seven objects there is no doubt that the two specimens found outside the 

 room had been washed out of the chamber, and that originally all seven 

 were part of the furniture of the room. These forms were half ovoid 

 in form, with one side smooth, the curved surface carefully trimmed 

 into shape. They were of hard stone, and the work of pecking them 

 into shape bad evidently been an arduous one. Their sizes were uni- 

 formly about that of a ceremonial helmet, slightly larger than the 

 human head. On one side near the rounded pole there was a shallow 



1 Smittisonian Report for 1895. 



