. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ger section inclose three well-preservedrooms, and still vise to a height of about 8 feet. Five feet above thebase the red sandstone blocks of which the walls are built arereplaced by a course of stone of lighter color, which forms a horizon-tal band around the ruin. The second section consists of a low,rough wall built along the edge of the cliff, inclosing a level space in 46 TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS front of the first section. There are isolated rooms in this inclosure,and a depress
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ger section inclose three well-preservedrooms, and still vise to a height of about 8 feet. Five feet above thebase the red sandstone blocks of which the walls are built arereplaced by a course of stone of lighter color, which forms a horizon-tal band around the ruin. The second section consists of a low,rough wall built along the edge of the cliff, inclosing a level space in 46 TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS front of the first section. There are isolated rooms in this inclosure,and a depression wliich may have been a reservoir. This ruin, likemany others, consisted of dwellings and a fort for protection. Thereare instructive pictographs on the rocks near by. At the base of the mesa on which the last-mentioned ruin standsis a ruin of red sandstone with five rooms and a foundation ofunusual shape. A huge rock, cubical in form, has fallen a few yardsfrom its former position in the bluff. Ruin L is built on the top of thisdetached block, and its fairly well preserved walls are separated. Fig. 6. Section A, ruin A, group b. from the bluff on all sides by a wide crevice. From a distance theruin appears to be jjerched on the bluff, but closer observation showsits separation from the latter by an impassable natural moat. This is an oblong ruin rising from the side of a deep, narrowcanyon, with walls consisting of alternating courses of large andsmall blocks of red sandstone. Some of the walls have fallen, butsections fully 10 feet high still remain in place. There are evidencesof five rooms, each two stories high, but most of the chambers are FEWKES] BLACK FALLS RUINS 47 filled with fallen stones. The cemeteiy of this pueblo lies west ofthe ruin, where there are also remains of walls. Small ruins may be seen near the road from group A to group B,a few miles to the left. Their walls are in good condition, but nopeculiar features were observed. The largest of all the ruins
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