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hole would indicate that a part of this section had been filled up 
above an old floor level while the cave was still in use. This part 
of the cave held a large accumulation of ashes and charcoal, mainly 
on the upper old floor level back of the cists and along the side wall. 
In addition to the large cists, this section contained six small cists 
of slabs, two in the grass and nest area (fig. 82, Nos. 2 and 20), two 
near the back wall (fig. 32, Nos. 10 and 11), and two in the eastern 
side of the room (fig. 32, Nos. 18 and 19). These held nothing of 
special interest and had no unusual features of construction; their 
locations and sizes are shown on the plan. Two feet from the east 
wall, at a (fig. 32), a small seed-jar-shaped coiled basket was found 
bottom up in a hole 18 inches deep, dug in the hardpan of the cave 
floor. In the basket was a small disk or plaque of coiled basketwork 
and part of a skin pouch that had contained red paint; two large 
pieces of bird skin with the feathers still on them lay at one side 
(see pl. 77). Another hole beside the large rock at the front (fig. 32, 
No. 17) held a small yucca net and part of a grass bag. These were 
covered with a thin, flat slab of stone on which red and yellow 
paint had been ground, the underside showing a thick coat of 
each. A third hole (fig. 32, No. 7) at the side of Cist 6 con- 
tained a coil of rope (see pl. 75, ¢). In the general digging back of 
Cist 6 were found three large potsherds of the same ware as that 
common about the surface ruins in the valley. They were nested 
together and lay barely covered by the surface sand well above the 
old floor. Apparently they had been used to hold or grind paint, 
one of them still showing traces of a brilliant green pigment. Near 
this spot also were found a few bones from the skeleton of a very 
young child and fragments of badly rotted woven fabric. 
_ The rear room contained three large slab cists and four smaller 
ones; the latter were like the small cists in the outer room and need 
no description. Cist 12 differed in some respects from any yet en- 
countered (pl. 31,6). It was a circular structure built of long slabs 
of stone set on end, sometimes overlapping each other, either to pro- 
vide extra strength or to close up the joints. The entire upper part 
of this structure was reinforced by an outer wall of adobe 10 inches 
thick, the edges of which, though badly crumbled, still held in place 
a number of small, flat stones, evidently set in the mud while it was 
still soft to strengthen or finish off the rim. The whole was covered 
by a roof constructed as follows (fig. 33): four log rafters, 4 to 5 
inches in diameter, were laid across the cist with their ends resting 
on the rim; as will be seen on the drawing, the end of the log nearest 
the front of the cave was set in the crotch of a thick upright stick 
standing against the inner wall. This support appeared superfluous, 
as the beam was of ample length to span the opening and of suffi- 
cient strength to support its share of the roof. A wide space from 
