Red ware is relatively abundant; but if sherds red on one side and white
on the other had been counted as of the latter color, the proportions would
have been exactly reversed. Nineteen of the one hundred and sixty pieces.
reckoned as red are yellow overpainted with a streaky dark maroon; twenty-
four are black or gray on the opposite side, sixty-five white; and only
fifty-two red on both sides. Even these were possibly sometimes given a.
white slip before the red-burning wash of yellow ocher was applied.

White sherds include some with the pure lustreless crumbly slip of Cliff-
Dweller vessels; others ranging from white through cream to yellowish,
polished like modern ware, and in some cases probably fragments of pat-
terned jars; while a fair proportion seem to be without true slip, and of a
gray which but for its light shade would have been reckoned as dull or
"black."

Decorated ware, with few exceptions, might be modern. Black on white
fragments are about as numerous as black and red on white; but many may
be from three-colored vessels. The same is probably true of some of the
red on white sherds, but others appear to have been painted in these two
colors. Some glossiness appears in a few dark green or brown patterns;
but the luster is thin.

This ruin is visible from the Gallup road, an eighth of a mile west of
which it follows the outline of a small hill. The distance from Zuñi was said
to be five miles. I estimate it at three and one half. There is a living spring
near by, still known by the name of the ancient town; and a long wash,
which the road follows for a distance, must carry water below ground,
since it supports a cottonwood in fair condition. The levels along this
stream bed would suffice for some patches of corn; but the farms of the
settlement must in the main have been in Zuñi Valley a couple of miles away.
The ruin is perhaps a mile to a mile and a half distant from site X, about in
line with it and the Black Rock school.

Wimmayawa could have housed two or three hundred people. Its
east and west, and north and south walls, conform to the lines of the hill
on which it is situated, though less closely than at cramped little Kolliwa.
Defensibility and water led to the selection of the spot for habitation.

Most of the walls that are first visible, are recent corrals, probably fol-
lowing old foundations almost throughout, but with the inner walls removed
to build up the enclosure. One of the corrals is in splendid condition, and
its entire interior is level with sheep dung. In one place the loose, unmor-
tared corral rests visibly on an old wall. The difference is striking, but

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