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front rooms is 12 feet long and 8 inches in diameter, burnt and cut 

 at the ends. A modern ax cut has subsequently been made near the 

 middle. Some of the walls are still plastered, the mud laid on 

 roughly bearing finger impressions. 



The lower room in the high house has a ceiling of 8 poles on two 

 beams. The filling between the poles is of rather regular lath riven 

 from cedar laid in neat order. The upper room is entered by a 

 hatchway two poles wide lined with flat stone laid up in several 

 courses. This room is in two sections without partitions, the back 

 room floor being slightly higher and covered with clay about 5 

 inches thick. Near the hatchway is an ovate fireplace of mud 15 

 inches in diameter and 24 inches over all. The grinding stones 

 remain on the floor. This room is the largest in the cliff house, has 

 no debris, and appears to be in the same condition as when it was 

 occupied (pi. 56). 



A storage room on the ground floor still contains a mass of corn 

 stalks. Other inside rooms have much debris that yields few arti- 

 facts of interest, the ruin having been searched by white visitors 

 in the past and not by the Apache, who have a superstitious dread 

 of such places. My Apache workmen, induced by duty and wages 

 to visit the ruin, afterward purged their bodies of assumed evil 

 influences by rubbing their arms and chests with sundry green herbs 

 growing nearby. Needless to say, their work in the ruin was merely 

 perfunctory. 



The artifacts recovered from the cliff house debris differ little from 

 material customarily found in such places. Slender cobs of 10-row 

 corn, husks, and stalks were frequent; squash and gourd common; 

 bows and arrows; fire sticks; cigarettes or pipes made from the 

 pedicel of the corn ear; twisted branch ties; twilled basketry of 

 yucca, not coiled ; cloth, coarse and finer ; cord, yellow and red wound 

 on a slender rod ; portion of a cord fringe skirt ; and pieces of worked 

 wood tablets comprise the list of such objects. The hafted stone 

 blade, which is a unique specimen, shown on Plate 7, was found in 

 this cliff dwelling by Mrs. B. A. Jaques of Lakeside, Ariz. 



The hafting of this blade is accomplished by splitting a section 

 of a wooden stem, placing the ends on either side of the stone blade, 

 and securing the ends tightly with a wrapping of yucca fiber. In 

 this way the blade is tightly clamped between the strips and so 

 remain to this day. This simple method of hafting is rarely seen, 

 and so far as known the specimen is unique in North America. 

 Mr. H. W. Krieger has obtained this method in Santo Domingo. 

 The finding of the hafted blade illuminates the use of the many thin 

 basalt blades found on the Blue and San Francisco Rivers.^ 



2 Bull. 87, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1914, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



