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Grinding slab metate at the Lost City with numerous holes
Transcribed Notes: Notes on photo sleeve Los City, Nevada. Holes and stones were used to grind grains, etc. (Credit: W.A. Davis); 'Gypsum Cave, bedrock mortars near cave' - W.A. Davis
View from the back side of the restorations looking south toward the approaching water.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Lost City restorations and rising Lake Mead (1939)"
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Pithouse in the Lost City restorations undermined by rising Lake Mead water.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "(1939) Seeping water from rising Lake Mead undermines pit and dwellings."