49 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (BULL. 65 
A trench cut into the deposit at almost any part of the cave gives 
the cross section shown in figure 16. The top layer just under the 
sheep dung consists of dirt and hight, dry rubbish—corn husks, reeds, 
cedar bark, string, bits of feather and fur cloth, together with many 
sherds of corrugated, black-and-white, and red-and-yellow wares, 
all of the Kayenta style. Below this to the cave floor is a thick 
stratum of earth, containing a great deal of wood ash and charcoal, 
many animal bones, flint chips, and bone implements. Most, if not 
all, of the perishable objects in this stratum have disappeared through 
decay. The potsherds are radically different from those above; we 
found none coiled or indented, but instead a coarse, plain, black 
ware that showed either no coiling or a few broad, flat coils about 
the necks of vessels. With it was much black-and-white ware of sur- 
prisingly good quality and elaborately ornamented, but entirely dif- 
ferent in all respects from that of 
Sas ee Sheepdung. Kayenta. (See pls. 63, b—A, 64, ¢.) 
TES NUN EER Sc J F2 EDS, 
pane Ses, ee Roe In some places this stratification is 
(yee Cpe rubbish. vague; in others, notably in the 
Lio LE 55 NL front part of the cave, it is well 
atu Ashes. defined and further accentuated by 
ue the intercalation of a thin layer of 
clean blown sand topped by 1 to 2 
inches of unmixed ashes. 
Lower The difference in culture is also 
2a on: seen in the house structures. There 
are four chambers built about the 
periphery of the cave (walls in- 
Caveearth. (icated on the map in solid black), 
Bedrock. the masonry of which is» inne 
ct tale ee a ORO respect different from that usually 
deposit in Ruin 5. ; = § 
found in the normal Kayenta cliff- 
dwellings; this means that it is made of rough blocks and slabs 
of sandstone laid up with much adobe mortar, the interstices liber- 
ally spalled with-smaller bits of stone. These four rooms are all 
set on the solid rock. Their rear walls and roofs were provided 
by the cave itself. The seven other rooms (light walls on the plan) 
differ from these very radically. They occur in two groups of three 
each, with one room lying by itself. One group is set well out toward 
the front of the cave at a place where the floor slopes up rather 
steeply. Its three units are oval in shape, or, perhaps more cor- 
rectly, rectangular with rounded corners. Their walls are now 
much broken down, but enough is preserved to show that they had 
been semisubterranean chambers whose rear or uphill ends were 
completely sunk into the cave deposit, while the front or downhill 
parts were perhaps exposed to one-half or two-thirds of their height. 
