NO. 12 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I9I7 



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After concluding;" his work in Xavaho Xational Monument. Mr. 

 Judd proceeded to Salt Lake City, as field director of an archeo- 

 logical expedition organized jointly by the University of Utah 

 and the Smithsonian Institution. Excavations were undertaken at 

 F'araijonah. in Iron County, where a mound approximately 200 feet 

 square was razed to expose the ancient habitations it covered. The 

 results obtained supplement the previous investigations of Mr. judd 

 in western Utah, as reported in earlier numbers of this series.' A 

 large number of adobe dwellings, arranged in an irregular square, 

 and three kivas or circular ceremonial rooms were uncovered and 

 carefully stuflied. As observed during the two preceding years, 



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Fig. 87. — .\])])r(i.xiinalely the .•^anie view as h;^'. 86, after tlie liouse walls 

 had been exi)osed. The wall.= were made of adobe, built up in irregular 

 layers; the roofs were of poles, covered with willows, grass, and mud. 

 The flat, white areas reiircsent different levels of occu]irmc\'. 



ntnner()U> ten]porar\- shelters had l)cen erected 1)\ the alxirigines in 

 the ofjeii courts between their hcjuses ; other similar huts were con- 

 structed at higher levels as the accumulations of the court increased 

 in flepth. .\n extensive collection of ])rehistoric arti tacts, reco\ered 

 during the course of the excavations, has been divided between the 

 University of Utah and the Smithsonian institution. 



During hi> latest work in soulhw (.•stern I tab, Mr. \ui\<\ was 

 assisted by Mr. .\. .\. Kerr, as rc]ires(,-ntati\c (if thr Cnixersity. 



' Smitlisoniaii Misc. Coll., \<il. <)(), No. ,?. 11)15, jip. fq 71 : \ ni. 00. .Wi. 17, 

 if>i6, i)p. 10.V08. 



