. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . 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 nopec
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . 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 in the Black falls cluster, and one whichbears evidence of having been inhabited for a considerable time, liesabout 35 miles northeast of Flagstaff and about 8 miles from theLittle Colorado. This structure is built on a ridge of sandstoneextending in a northeast-southwest direction, and consists of twolarge buildings of moderate elevation (plates Xii-xvi, figure 6). Oneach side the ridge slopes gradually to a depression, the talus on the. Flo. T. Plan of section A, ruin A, group B. east covering a series of rooms, while on the west side, where theslope is more abrupt, no rooms were discovered. The ruin is dividedinto two sections connected by rows of one-story rooms, the walls ofwhich have fallen. Remains of a great number of roof and floorbeams are still scattered throughout the debris. These beams arelarger than those in any other ruin of the same size known to theauthor. It is difficult to detei-mine the original number of rooms in the firstsection of this ruin, as the tops of the walls have fallen, filling thechambers with debris. How manj^ basal rooms were buried in thetalus of fallen walls at the base of the mesa on the eastern side couldnot be discovered. Room A of this section (see figure 7) is elevatedon a rocky base about 10 feet high. The chamber is small, and itswalls have fallen on two sides. The debris has
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