﻿PIT 
  HOUSES 
  — 
  JUDD. 
  

  

  403 
  

  

  course 
  of 
  uncounted 
  centuries 
  these 
  intrusive 
  sherds 
  may 
  well 
  have 
  

   shifted 
  along 
  with 
  the 
  blown 
  sand 
  and 
  lodged 
  on 
  the 
  flat 
  area 
  above 
  

   the 
  pit. 
  

  

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  Fig. 
  2. 
  — 
  Pit 
  House 
  No. 
  2, 
  Chaco 
  Canyon. 
  

  

  PIT 
  HOUSE 
  NO. 
  2. 
  

  

  A 
  second 
  Chaco 
  Canyon 
  pit 
  house 
  (fig. 
  2; 
  pi. 
  2, 
  figs. 
  1 
  and 
  2; 
  

   pi. 
  3, 
  fig. 
  1) 
  which, 
  happily, 
  affords 
  a 
  much 
  clearer 
  estimate 
  than 
  

   that 
  just 
  described 
  of 
  the 
  degree 
  of 
  cultural 
  advancement 
  reached 
  by 
  

   its 
  builders, 
  was 
  brought 
  to 
  the 
  writer's 
  attention 
  by 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  

   Navajo 
  friends 
  early 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1922. 
  This 
  second 
  ruin 
  stands 
  

  

  