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over with red adobe, indicating repair and reoccupancy of the 
room after the fire. The whole kiva indeed has a patched and 
mended appearance and was evidently in use for a long time. 
Several kivas with banquettes and therefore of more conventional 
construction can be made out in the front part of the ruin; none, 
however, has the six-pilaster arrangement of the northern San 
Juan region. 
SEASON OF 1915 
The party provisioned, as in 1914, at Kayenta and proceeded at 
once to Marsh Pass, where work was commenced in Kinboko (“ House 
Canyon”), a deep, narrow gorge that enters the pass from the west 
just above Ruin A (see pls. 1 and 26). Camp was pitched high up 
on the rocks at the mouth of the canyon, drinking water being pro- 
cured from potholes in the sandstone ledges. 
Cave L 
Cave I was discovered and partially prospected during the last 
days of the 1914 season. It hes in the south wall of Kinboko, 
about a quarter of a mile above its mouth. The cave is 50 feet above 
the canyon bed, and is roughly 160 feet wide by 60 feet deep 
(fig. 28). The entrance is flanked on either side by great dunes of 
sand, between which there is a steep-banked arroyo formed by storm 
drainage falling from the cliffs above. The edges of the arroyo and 
the tops of the dunes are thickly overgrown with a tangle of wild 
gooseberry and other deciduous bushes. 
Within the line of shelter (indicated on the plan by a dotted 
line) the cave floor rises in a steep slope of sand and broken rock 
to a sort of rear platform or bench, which itself rises, though 
much more gently, to its junction with the back wall of the cave. 
The continuity of the rear bench is broken at its middle by a 
group of large, rough blocks of sandstone fallen from the roof. 
Some of these have evidently lain in their present positions for a 
very long time; others, which show smoking on their under sides, 
have evidently dropped since the ancient inhabitants built their fires 
in the cave. The sloughing off of the ceiling is still going on; 
many parts of the roof are now in a precarious condition, particu- 
larly over the large rocks and along the eastern edge of the rear 
bench. One morning, indeed, just as the party was turning out 
of the canyon to climb up to the works several big scales crashed 
down on the upper bank. For this reason digging was not. at- 
tempted under that spot, nor in one or two other places where inspec- 
tion of the roof disclosed loosening fragments. 
