KIDDER-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 89 
Between Cist 14 and the side wall (fig. 32, ¢) three or more pecks 
of shelled corn were found carefully cached in a pit 3 feet 8 inches 
deep and 2 feet in diameter dug in the hardpan. The cache was 
covered with: first a layer of fine grass; then coarse grass and a 
cedar-bark cradle; the whole weighted down by a flat slab of stone. 
The top had been used for a fire hole, judging from a quantity of 
ashes and charcoal found 9 inches below the surface and directly 
over the stone slab. 
Back of Cist 12 and on a level with its roof was uncovered a 
shallow, carelessly built cist (fig. 832, No. 15), which in general resem- 
bled the six long cists in the outer room and, lke them, was lined at 
the bottom with bark (pl. 31, 6, upper right). Irregular flat stones 
had been used in its construction, and no care had been exercised to 
make good joints. Its dimensions were 4 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 
10 inches. The small cists indicated on the plan in this room were 
like the small ones in the outer chamber. 
Two vessels were taken from this part of the cave. One, a small 
black jar, was found at } (fig. 32); 1n it was a little gourd-shaped 
ladle of red ware; the pot had no cover and was filled with sand. 
The second vessel was near Cist 16, at ¢ (fig. 32) ; its mouth had been 
sealed with a bunch of moss held in place by a-thin flat stone. It 
contained a gourd-shaped ladle of yellow ware. Both were buried in 
the surface sand. (See pl. 58, ad.) 
To sum up the finds made in Cave II: The purpose or use of the 
large cists and grass nests can be only a matter of conjecture, but 
it seems reasonable to suppose that they served as sleeping bins 
or bedding places, since as regards exposure they are situated in 
the most livable part of the cave, a fact attested to by the later 
visitors who built their fires here. As to whether the cists and the 
objects found in them were the work of the Cliff-dwellers or of 
the Basket Makers, there may be some question, but it should be 
noted that aside from the three large sherds, two or three frag- 
ments of black-and-white ware, and the two black pots, all from 
the surface sand, nothing found here was in any way typical of 
the Cliff-dweller culture. This seems all the more significant when 
it is remembered that the talus-in front is covered with small blocks 
of stone perfectly suited to the construction of cliff-houses, and that 
with very little labor the cave could have been transformed into a 
desirable living place. 
It seems possible that in early times there may have been some 
surface indication that would have served to distinguish a purely 
domiciliary cave such as this one from one used for burial; for 
there were no traces here of such disturbance as was found in Cave I, 
though this cave could hardly have escaped the notice of the in- 
