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TENNESSEE. 



W. M. Linney, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, sent a dis- 

 coidal stone of unusual size (nearly 7J inches in diameter) from Eastern 

 Tennessee. A cast was taken in the National Museum. (Ace. 1G013.) 



COLORADO. 



Horace Beach, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, sent a cast of a sculp- 

 tured foot- track. The original was cut out from the rock in situ near 

 Colorado Springs. (Ace. 15633.) 



NEW MEXICO. 



J. M. Shields, Jemez, Bernalillo County, sent a clay pipe of unusual 

 form, from a ruined pueblo at Jemez Springs. (Ace. 16146.) 



ARIZONA. 



Mr. E. Palmer's collection, from ruins on the Bio Yerde, Maricopa 

 County, included leaf-shaped implements, arrow-heads, grooved axes 

 (single and double-edged), grooved mauls, hammer-stones, small and 

 large metates, paint-mortars, paint-mullers, pebbles used in forming the 

 bottom and sides of clay vessels, polishing-stones, stone digging-tools, 

 stone balls used in games, a stone ring, shell pendants and gorgets, bone 

 perforators, a wooden club, clay vessels (plain and painted), and frag- 

 ments of pottery ; 198 specimens. (Ace. 15930.) 



According to Mr. Palmer, "the ruins are situated about 60 miles 

 north of Phoenix, in a locality known as the Lower Yerde Settlement. 

 They are located on the west bank of the river on a mesa 1 25 feet high, 

 and contain 175 contiguous rooms, on an average 30 feet long, 14 feet wide, 

 and originally about 10 feet high. The floors are of clay, and the walls 

 built of irregular pieces of stone laid up with mud. The roofs were 

 made of cedar joists covered with mud, and the entrance to the rooms 

 was from the top. Two rooms only were connected by a doorway. The 

 cedar joists had been cut with stone tools. The fragile articles on the 

 floors were in fragments, owing to the destruction of the roofs and walls 

 by fire, and there was an accumulation of ashes and clay, with impres- 

 sions of grass, poles, and sticks. Below the floors were found human 

 skeletons, with pottery and other articles. The bodies seem to have 

 been interred without regard to the points of the compass, and in some 

 graves the clay vessels, &c, were placed near the head and sides. The 

 people formerly inhabiting this building obtained their supply of water 

 from the Bio Yerde, as shown by still existing ditches, in some places 

 5 feet deep. The Pimas have a tradii ion that they drove the people 

 from this country into New Mexico." 



Collection from stone ruins near the Pima Agency: A stone mortar, 

 a small stone carving in the shape of a bird, digging-tools, grooved 



