. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . the pueblo was abandoned. An illustrated account of this winter solstice ceremony may he found in the AmericanAnthropologist, March andi^pril, IHils. •2H TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PlKBLO RUINS Tlie workmen penetrated to the lower floor, and found that theIjueblo was two stories high at this point. The rooms were hirge andthe beams of the flooring were well f)reserved. The floors of the roomswere large, flat stones; the lower chamljers were uicelj- i)aved. Thewalls were made of stone masonry, n
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . the pueblo was abandoned. An illustrated account of this winter solstice ceremony may he found in the AmericanAnthropologist, March andi^pril, IHils. •2H TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PlKBLO RUINS Tlie workmen penetrated to the lower floor, and found that theIjueblo was two stories high at this point. The rooms were hirge andthe beams of the flooring were well f)reserved. The floors of the roomswere large, flat stones; the lower chamljers were uicelj- i)aved. Thewalls were made of stone masonry, nicely plastered, and in someinstances blackened by smoke. In one of the largest of these roomsthe floor .stones were in two cases found to be perforated by roundholes about the size of a sipapu in modern kivas. slabs arein many respects similar to those found in graves outside the walls ofthe pueblo. Two human skulls, one of which indicated an old person, andseveral human bones were found on the floor of chambers in thenortheast part of the ruin, and were supposed to represent intramural. /nodfiiy. O -a o6 O Ruin 1, Homolobi. burials. No pottery, however, was found in the vicinity of theseskeletons, which fact would seem to indicate that they were notburied with customary mortuary offerings. Continued work on the side of the ruin toward the river revealedthe fact that this part had been worn away by the overflow of thestream, and a section had been cut through it in digging an irrigatingditch which formerly supplied the plains around Sunset with water. The osteological collection from Homolobi was very large. Earlyin his excavations the author was surprised at the number of animalbones which were thrown out by the workmen, especially after theyhad penetrated to some distance below the surface. There appearsno better explanation for the existence of these bones than that thej-were remains of animals domesticated or used as food. These l)oneswere carefully gathered, and
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