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ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS FEWKES 



is well preserved and closely follows the contour of the low ridge 

 on which it stands. The masonry is fairly good, but the floors of the 

 rooms are buried under a thick deposit of sheep droppings, solidly 

 packed, showing that the enclosures have been used secondarily as 

 corrals for these domesticated animals. The partition walls of the 

 rooms end on the vertical wall of the precipice, the face of the 

 precipice serving as their rear wall. It thus happens that there is no 

 recess between the back of the rooms and the rear of the cave, as 

 commonly found in cliff dwellings. Circular rooms are absent in 

 the upper part of this ruin, and kivas, if any, must be sought buried 



FIG. 2. Ground plan of cliff ruin in Nashlini Canyon. 



under the accumulated debris of the lower part. The front wall of 

 the upper house measures 64 feet, and can be traced throughout its 

 whole extent. At one end of the ruin there are four narrow rooms 

 separated by partitions, each containing a grinding bin, where maize 

 (corn) was reduced to meal. The remaining rooms are roofless, 

 plastered, and evidently used as dwellings. In the lower series of 

 rooms, buried beneath a mass of fallen rocks, are circular depressions, 

 which may be ceremonial rooms ; but no excavations were made in 

 these depressions and their significance is unknown. 



Another cliff house, a few miles farther up in the canyon, is almost 

 hidden in an inaccessible recess of the cliff, but so high that it was not 

 visited. 



