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is indicated by the enormous beds of débris of occupancy which 
encumber the slope below the houses and choke up all those spaces 
in the rear of the cave not actually covered by rooms. 
Unfortunately the pothunters of the nineties did extensive dig- 
ging at this site. They completely trenched over a zone of burials 
that once extended all along the front of the cave on the lower 
slopes. They also did some pitting and room clearing in the rear, 
but this apparently was not carried to any great depth; the work, 
however, was done so long ago that the holes have to some extent 
filled up and reexcavation would be necessary to determine where 
disturbance has taken place. In spite of the moisture in parts of 
the site and in spite of vandalism, the Waterfall Ruin would splen- 
didly repay careful excavation, for there is still left a great deal of 
untouched dry rubbish (what little we cleared was extraordinarily 
rich in textiles and wooden implements) ; it contains at least seven 
kivas, and probably ten or a dozen; and, moreover, we believe, 
though without any definite evidence beyond bits of fallen wall and 
a few potsherds, that under the cliff-house there will be found the 
remains of a large settlement of the “ Fluteplayer” or Slab-house 
type. 
We spent a day and a half here, tested the rubbish beds, exca- 
vated one kiva, and examined a small surface ruin on a rock near 
the waterfall. This surface ruin appears to have been contempo- 
raneous with the last occupancy of the cliff-house. Behind one of 
its broken walls we found a wooden doll somewhat rotted, which we 
took to be ancient, but which the Navaho in the valley said had 
been made and deposited there many years before by their own 
people. We also photographed or copied a number of pictographs, 
some painted on the walls of the cave, some pecked on near-by rock 
surfaces.* 
The kiva that we excavated is in the eastern part of the building, 
well toward the front. There are rooms on each side of it and 
behind it, but whether or not they actually touch the kiva, we did 
not determine; we do not think they do. The chamber itself is sunk 
well into the ground and was probably entirely subterranean. In 
shape it is a lopsided square with rounded corners (fig. 27). While 
the wall at one place stands to a height of 6 feet 10 inches, there 
are visible no sockets or rests for roof beams. We found the place 
nearly full of débris, the upper 3 feet of which was stone, adobe 
lumps, and trash thrown in by pothunters who had excavated in 
the rear. Below this was the ancient deposit of light rubbish, as 
corn husks, twigs, bits of cotton cloth, broken wooden imple- 
ments, etc.; the floor was covered with an inch or so of clean sand. 
+ Sée pls. “90; ¢F fs OWN Tes (94 ad. 
