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mud.  The roofs were made of cedar joists covered with mud, and the entrance to the rooms was from the top.  Two rooms only were connected by a doorway.  The cedar joists had been cut with stone tools.  The fragile articles on the floors were in fragments, owing to the destruction of the roofs and walls by fire, and there was an accumulation of ashes and clay with impressions of grass, poles, and sticks.  Below the floors were found human skeletons with pottery and other articles.  The bodies seem to have been interred without regard to the points of the compass, and in some graves the clay vessels, etc., were placed near the head, in others near the head and sides.  The people formerly inhabiting this building obtained their supply of water from the Rio Verde, as shown by still existing ditches, in some places 5 feet deep.  The Pimas have a tradition, that they drove the people from this country into New Mexico.

Collection from stone ruins near the Pima Agency: A stone mortar, a small stone-carving in the shape of a bird, digging-tools, grooved axes, arrow-shaft straighteners, an incised stone, and a turquoise pendant; 18 specimens.

"These ruins" says Mr. Palmer, "consist of small houses, of one or more rooms, and do not form a village, but are scattered.  The walls are built in the same manner as the Rio Verde building.  Remains of cisterns are still