NO. 2 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I918 93 



The art of the chtt-houses does not appear to correspond with 

 that of the neighboring' open-air pueblos so far as pottery and some 

 other things are concerned. It is probable that the cliff-house sites 

 in this region represent the habitations of a small house people. It 

 is also possible that there were spread over the Pueblo region 

 tribes that never formed the habit of coalescing into compact pueblos. 

 Much that has been discovered substantiates this theory. 



A rather unusual evidence of the age of a pueblo was furnished 

 by a juniper 126 inches in circumference growing in the house mass 

 of a ruin near Blue House Mountain in the western portion of the 

 Apache Reservation. 



Xear Fort Apache a ruin was observed which had as a prominent 

 feature a rectangular depression 45 by 51 feet square and at present 

 5 feet deep and occupied by three large pine trees (fig. 104). This 

 great construction is believed to be a kiva and is evidently like those 

 described on the Blue River and Upper San Francisco at Luna, 

 X'ew Mexico. 



In connection with the Apache Indians with whom Dr. Hough 

 was thrown in contact during this exploration, it may be said that 

 notable changes have taken place among them since 1901. when 

 he visited them. There is little exce])t their haljitations (fig. 103) to 

 connect them with their former life, all traces of native costimie, etc., 

 having" disappeared. The Apaches are on the whole prosperous and 

 contented and have an intelligent appreciation of their duties to 

 the United States (fig. 104). 



ARCllEOLUGICAL Rl-XOXXOISS.WCE OF XCJRTHW'ESTERN 



ARIZOX.\ 



Late in .\])ri], 1918, ])r')vision was made l)y the llureau of Ameri- 

 can Fthnolog}- fnr a l)rief archeologic reconnoissance of thai little 

 known section of Arizona lying nortli of the Colorado l\i\er. and 

 Mr. Xeil M. judd. of U. .^. Xational .Museum, w.'is detailed for the 

 ])ur])Ose. 



I'roni Kanab. I 'tab, Mr. judd ])rocc'edc(l wiib pack mules on a 

 rtjiUe l\ing southeastward o\er llie nortliei-n ])ortio!i of tlu' Ixailiab 

 -Xational i-'orest to House Rfjck \ alley, thence southward across 

 Xorth. South, and Saddle canyons to [\)v Walhalla I'lateau, known 

 locally as "(Greenland."' lie e.xaniined a large number of low- 

 mounds bordering the rim of this pionioiitor\- or scattered o\c-r its 

 timbered ridi/es. 



