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Only the buried lower parts of the brush walls remain, the tops 
having been burned off even with the ground level. The two lower 
ones just back of the kivas are simple affairs, composed of oak brush 
and twigs broken from the bushes and stuck into the floor of the 
cave. Their height is now about 1 foot and from the size of the 
twigs could never have been more than 3 feet. The leaves on the 
brush, though of course dry, are still green. The upper wall is more 
pretentious; it is made of pairs of stakes set 2 feet apart (2 inches be- 
tween the stakes in the pairs) and filled with bundles of grass, 
cedar bark, and oak brush, all laid horizontally and tied in at inter- 
vals with yucca leaves. These walls were not mudded up as were 
the true “ wattle-and-daub” constructions of other regions, but were 
reinforced and backed on their upper sides with stone slabs. (See 
fig. 4.) 
Although the débris of occupancy in this ruin was neither exten- 
sive nor deep, several interesting finds were made. A considerable 
number of light objects were found in Kiva I, a few in Kiva IT; the 
majority of the specimens, however, were taken from the open ter- 
raced spaces in the body of the cave. Pottery vessels were here dis- 
covered as follows: At a, figure 3, lying below the light accumulation 
of rubbish and covered with a flat piece of sandstone, was a small red 
jar about half full of squash seeds and kernels of corn, most perfectly 
preserved and appearing as fresh as if harvested within the year. 
This was probably a seed-cache (see pl. 34, ¢). At b, ¢, and d, respec- 
tively, were found three large gray-ware ollas, each one empty and 
covered with a sandstone slab; at ¢ and f were large jars of black-and- 
white ware, also covered with rough stone lids. All these vessels were 
so sunk in holes pecked into the-soft, shaly cave floor that their tops 
were just level with the ancient living surface. All of them were 
cracked or otherwise damaged, crudely mended with gum and rein- 
forced with ligatures of yucca string, and finally set in the floor, 
doubtless for use as storage vessels.t The little red jar had clearly 
been overlooked at the time of the abandonment, but the larger pieces, 
too frail for transportation, had evidently been emptied of their con- 
tents and deliberately left behind. At g, just outside one of the 
rooms and beneath 8 inches of closely packed rubbish, lay a cap of 
yucca yarn. (See pl. 34, a.) 
Orner Sires AT SAYODNEECHEE 
Mound.—A third of a mile below Ruin 2 a small side-canyon 
enters from the east. In it lies a one-room cliff-house and a mound 
of the same type as the one noticed near Ruin 1. (See fig. 1.) The 
1 See section 2 for description of these jars (pl. 53). 
