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Show Number 16 was a small site that had sherds associated with it which can be identified as Zuni ancestral pottery, and can be dated to A.D. 1300-1450. Rock art was also seen at this site. One quarter mile further on is a multi-roomed site. At #17, one quarter mile further, was located another site with St. Johns polychrome and a prehistoric fieldhouse. Just after #17 more lithic and potsherd scattering was noted by the reconnaissance party. Pottery was scattered, in fact, all along this long escarpment, and near the mound that signified another ruin at #18. Number 19 was a very large prehistoric artifact scatter, with some pottery dating to A.D. 900, some earlier. Another quarter mile and the route passed another extensive mound. Crossing an arroyo this author discovered a fire pit exposed in the cut. Upon further examination the group discovered a pithouse or subterranean kiva wall exposed. At #20 Mr. Kallestewa explained another change in the route necessitated by erosion. Formerly the trail went along the river, but it was washed out before 1970. This is the west end of the petroglyph field. Several thousand petroglyphs in hundreds of panels are located on boulders and cliff faces along the north escarpment of the Zuni River Valley for a distance of more than four miles between #11 and #20. From #20 the pilgrims aim straight along an old road, now a swale, aiming for houses and a windmill that can be seen in the distance. The trail has now passed out of a constricted canyon and into a broader valley. The pilgrims skirt the edge of wiUows growing along the edge of the river, eventually reaching #21, the site where the pilgrims camp on the third night while returning from Kolhu/wala:wa. Extensive evidence of the Zunis' past camps can be seen scattered - 160 - |
