. Bulletin. Ethnology. 70 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 65 lowing year, we will describe the finds made on this occasion with those of the 1915 season. NOCKITO Our homeward route from Kayenta led down Lagima Creek to the " Cornfields," a Navaho settlement with a large acreage of pros- perous-looking corn. Some 2 miles south of the fields on the western side of the creek there is a large surface ruin built on a series of sandstone knolls; the gray rock of which the walls were constructed must have been carried nearly half a mile from the top of a low mesa to the east. The site i
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 70 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 65 lowing year, we will describe the finds made on this occasion with those of the 1915 season. NOCKITO Our homeward route from Kayenta led down Lagima Creek to the " Cornfields," a Navaho settlement with a large acreage of pros- perous-looking corn. Some 2 miles south of the fields on the western side of the creek there is a large surface ruin built on a series of sandstone knolls; the gray rock of which the walls were constructed must have been carried nearly half a mile from the top of a low mesa to the east. The site is little more than a jumble of fallen blocks, with a bit of protruding wall here and there. Quantities of potsherds, apparently representing a mixture of the Kayenta and northern San Juan styles, are to be found below the Fig. 20.—Looniloop hole cut in sandstone ledge. A few yards north of the houses there is a bare sandstone ledge pitted with numbers of tool-sharpening grooves; there are also two interesting series of holes pecked into the rock. The first consists of a cylindrical excavation 12 inches in diameter and 15 inches deep; running northeast by east from this is a row of five small holes in perfect alignment and exactly 15 inches apart. Their shape is difficult to describe, but, as the illustration (fig. 20) shows, they doubtless served as sockets for wooden crosspieces, which, like the loops observed in the floors of several kivas, held the lower bar of a loom. The second set, 20 feet southwest of these, consists of a long oval hole with two small depressions in its bottom. In the line of its long axis and 22 inches from either end there is a hole 3 inches in diameter and 2 inches deep. We have no hint as to the probable use of this 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
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