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set in position in one of the smaller rooms indicates that this particu- 
lar inclosure served as a milling room. 
Two squarish rooms, with lateral doorways and a deflector or wall 
before them, are identified as kihus. One of these has a platform or 
floor connecting the 
rn ee base of the venti- 
Sg ee ee lator and the door- 
= way. . The deflector 
——- is free from the kihu 
walls at both ends. 
The walls of a 
room with a deflec- 
tor which opens into 
the plaza are very 
much blackened 
with smoke. No 
circular subterra- 
nean room was ob- 
served. There are 
several well-pre- 
served hatchways 
in the roofs, show- 
ing that entrances 
of this kind were 
common in addi- 
are tion to lateral en- 
a trances with well- 
: preserved sills and 
~ lintels. One or two 
a of the small win- 
Fic. 2. Ground plan of Trickling-spring House. dows in the outer 
A, B, C, rooms; D, D, deflectors; LE, doorway; H, H, hatchways; walls have a down- 
M, metate; P, plaza; RF, R, rock fragments. ward slant, as if to 
afford a better view of visitors approaching from below. One of 
these old doorways was closed with masonry, constructed possibly 
when the room was deserted. There are no signs of vandalism in 
this ruin.® 
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CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF RUINS 
The existence of recessesand of refuse heaps back of the buildings 
in caves is characteristic of Mesa Verde cliff-dwellings. In the cliff- 
houses of the Canyon de Chelly and Marsh Pass regions they rarely 
ea the house walls being built against the rear wall of the cave, 
a Ppaliine-saras House is not located on the accompanying map and, so far as could be ascertained, 
had not been visited by archeologists previously to the writer’s visit. A young Navaho guided the 
writer to it a short time before he left the region. 
