16 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY feunn. 50 
As above mentioned, there are no circular rooms or towers in 
Betatakin, although one room has a rounded corner. ‘Traces of the 
repair of doors and windows are evident, but none of these apertures 
are T-shaped. 
One of the interesting features in Betatakin and several other ruins 
in this region consists in rows of eyelets cut in the rocky side of the 
cliff evidently for the attachment of some long object. 
A cluster of small rooms isolated from those above described are 
shown in plate 9; these give a good idea of the general type of archi- 
tecture of these buildings and of the modifications or adaptations due 
to the sites on which they are erected and the vertical cliffs against 
which they are built. Three rooms set into the angle formed by 
two vertical cliff faces at right angles to each other illustrate how the 
cliff serves for rear walls and how the buildings are attached to it 
for support. The roofs of these rooms are entire and their rafters 
project beyond the upright walls. The doors and windows are, 
comparatively speaking, small and rectangular in form. . Fragments 
of walls projecting out of the ground indicate the existence of many 
rooms covered with débris. These are especially numerous at the 
end of the ruin to which the trail leads, but as most of them are 
buried an adequate idea of their arrangement can not be gained with- 
out systematic excavation. 
KaTsitEL (KEET SEEL) 
This ruin, which lies about 10 miles from Marsh pass, is a most 
interesting cliff-dwelling.* As this is the best preserved of all the 
ruins thus far discovered in the Navaho National Monument, it 
should be excavated and repaired for future visitors and students. 
Kitsiel is a large ruin, its length (estimated at 300 feet) being not 
less than that of the greatest cliff-dwelling of the Mesa Verde National 
Park. Like other ruins in the vicinity, it is not so picturesque as the 
structures of that region, lacking round towers and other features so 
attractive in Cliff Palace.2 The accompanying illustration (pl. 13) 
presents the ground plan of this ruin, the architectural features of 
which are similar to those of Betatwei 
One of the most striking features of Kitsiel is the great log, 35 feet 
long, under which the visitor passes to inspect the interior of the ruin. 
West of this log, which evidently once supported a retaining wall, the 
rooms are well preserved; east of it this wall in places has slipped 
a For the accompanying view of the ruin (pl. 1), from photographs taken by Mr. William B. Douglass, 
the writer is indebted to the General Land Office. 
b The kivas appear to be circular; one of them has the large banquette, like kiva M in Cliff Palace. No. 
pilasters for supporting roofs have yet been reported. 
