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of historic date was afforded by the finding of cow and sheep bones in the rubbish.

The hogan-like structures are built in every case within the enclosing defensive walls, close to the stone houses. They are much decayed, but all show the same general features, being circular in ground plan, eight to ten feet in diameter, and made of cedar logs set in the ground and meeting at the top tipi-style (fig. 18). They seem to have been covered with sod or earth, and to have been entered by short, low pas- sageways of stone roofed with split cedar. From the condition of their beams they ap- pear to be contemporaneous with the stone houses.

The pottery of all three ruins is alike.

rr^t,. jt, , FIG. 19. Rim-shapes,

Three wares are represented in the sherd

painted ware bowls.

collection :

1. Blackware.

2. Thick two and three-color painted ware.

3. Thin three-color painted ware.

i. BLACKWARE

The fragments are all of large ollas with widely flaring, unthick- ened rims. The exterior surfaces of most sherds have been textured by scraping while still soft with a rough object (corncob?) which has left series of fine parallel striations. The ware is thin; average thickness one-eighth inches. No sherd shows any trace of corru- gation.

2. THICK TWO AND THREE-COLOR PAINTED WARE

This pottery is not distinguishable, in the sherds at least, from the "modern painted" war^ of the Pecos and Tano countries in central New Mexico. 1 The vessels represented are all bowls, most of- which have high, recurved rims (fig. 19, a). All surfaces are nicely smoothed. Decorated portions have thick yellowish and

1 See Nelson, American Anthropologist, N.S., vol. xvm, p. 176; and Kidder, ibid., vol. xix, p. 330.

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