THE scores of honeycombed cliffs, hundreds of stone houses, and thousands of cliff dwellings in and near the Pajarito Park section of the Jemez Forest Reserve, afford a field that would give the most zealous archaeologist months of unbounded pleasure and valuable returns for the time spent there. It is not the ruins as an entirety, however, that give me the most pleasure, although my months of continual riding in the discharge of my Forest' Service work, almost continually in sight of some ruin, have only made me more enthusiastic in regard to the region; but it is the unusual and unknown points which arouse in me the greatest continual interest.
The district south of the Frijoles Cation is almost unknown, and Mr. Bandelier and other archaeologists who have been there have by no means exhausted the interest of this remote and not easily traversed region. There are large ruins and scores of points of interest that so far as I know have never even been mentioned.
In this region (which contains the famous painted cave, PLATE VIII, and stone lions) is situated a large white bear, carved from the fairly soft stone (Fig. 1). This animal is certainly as plainly seen as the stone lions and, except for the fact that the head has been broken off and lies on the ground near, is in a state of excellent preservation. The figure was evidently at first well shaped and is even now in such condition that it cannot be mistaken. It is situated in the bottom of a small, almost hidden cation, and was discovered by the photographer Craycraft of Santa Fe, who took the photographs reproduced here. I have seen the animal from