. Bulletin. Ethnology. HOLMES ] ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES PART I 217 mountain roads was an extremely rough one. While at the mines we were the guests of Sefior Amador, owner of the hacienda on which the Mountain of the Knives is situated. The lower slopes of the mountain are covered with open pine forest, in places over- grown with tall grass and on the steeper parts with underbrush. Everywhere are scattered fragments of obsidian, and groups of irregular mounds, alternating Avith depressions and pits, extend indefinitely up the foivst-covoi-ed ridge. The pits and depressions. Fig. 93. Ob
. Bulletin. Ethnology. HOLMES ] ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES PART I 217 mountain roads was an extremely rough one. While at the mines we were the guests of Sefior Amador, owner of the hacienda on which the Mountain of the Knives is situated. The lower slopes of the mountain are covered with open pine forest, in places over- grown with tall grass and on the steeper parts with underbrush. Everywhere are scattered fragments of obsidian, and groups of irregular mounds, alternating Avith depressions and pits, extend indefinitely up the foivst-covoi-ed ridge. The pits and depressions. Fig. 93. Obsidian worlifr« iu California. From a lay tigure model, life size, prepared by the author. mark the sites of the ancient excavations, while the hillocks are the heaps and ridges of debris thrown out from them. The enterprising peoples of the valleys below must have operated the mines vigorously for centuries to have thus The Fittings workcd over hundreds of acres of the mountain side. The deep pittings and heavy ridges of excavated debris are practically continuous over an area of a mile or two in length, with a width reaching in places possibly to a fourth of a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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