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The whole cave is well lighted and free from moisture. The floor 
was covered with fine, clean sand, built up by eddying winds into a 
low drift near the middle of the rear room (pl. 31, @). In the 
western side and front of the outer compartment a quantity of 
ashes and charcoal, only partly covered by sand, gave evidence of 
relatively recent fires. On a smooth section of the rear wall of this 
room are a number of pictographs, square-shouldered human figures 
in white paint, handprints in red, and curious geometrical designs 
also in red (see pl. 97, a) ; a number of Navaho drawings in charcoal 
are on the same wall. The lower parts of some of the square-shoul- 
dered figures were covered by sand that had accumulated on the 
old floor level. The remains of fires, the smoked ceiling, and the 
pictographs were the only signs of occupancy to be seen on entering 
the cave, the smooth sand floor giving no hint of the existence of a 
number of interesting cists and objects which its complete excavation 
yielded. ‘The surface sand was found to have an average depth of 
§ inches; under it a floor level of packed rubbish and dirt could be 
traced throughout, except where there occurred cists or other things 
to break its continuity. Rubbish in varying quantities extended to 
a depth of 3 to 4 feet, sometimes showing other strata that probably 
marked earlier floor levels. 
The western half of the outer room contained a group of six well- 
built slab cists, nearly uniform in size and shape (fig. 32, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 
6, 8,9). Their average dimensions were 4 feet 6 inches long, 2 feet 6 
inches wide, 18 inches deep; five were just below the upper old floor 
level; Cist 6 differed from the others in having a dome-shaped roof 
built of small sticks overlaid with cedar bark, corn husks, and oak 
leaves, the whole held in place by small stones. All these cists were 
lined with grass or shredded bark. South of and in front of this group, 
and from 18 inches to 2 feet deeper, much loose grass was found in 
which were five nest-like bunches of grass, each holding either a rude 
yucca net filled with grass or bark, or a cedar-bark bag. About the 
sides of the lowest of these nests or beds (Cist F) had been placed 
stones the size of paving blocks, possibly to hold back the loose sand. 
West of Cist F was a bowl-shaped fire hole; it was 2 feet in diameter 
and 16 inches deep, measured from the surface; the bottom was filled 
with coarse charcoal. <A layer of grass ran under this pit, separated 
from it by 6 inches of clean sand. A small space, perhaps 5 feet 
across, on the upper old floor level between Cist F and the fire hole 
was mudded over with a 2-inch layer of adobe. The situation here 
was somewhat confusing. The whole area containing the grass and 
nests being filled with loose blown sand, it could not be determined 
whether the grass nests occupied individual holes or whether they 
were arranged about the sides and bottom of a large basin-shaped 
depression excavated in the cave floor. Conditions about the fire 
