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their ends, penetrating the jambs a few inches, hold them securely 
in place. This door was found blocked with stones; on removing 
them the room was seen to be the repository of a quantity of 
Navaho belongings which, judging from their dilapidated condi- 
tion, had evidently been cached there for many years* Among 
the articles noted were a large basketry water bottle, a tray-shaped 
basket like those now in use by the Indians, and a number of long, 
double saddlebags of rawhide whose contents were not examined 
as it was thought best to leave the cache untouched rather than risk 
incurring the ill-will of the Navaho, with whom the party were on 
very pood terms. In the front at the right of the entrance there re- 
mains part of the foundation wall of a room. There was but little 
rubbish here, and none whatever in the rear room. On the side wall 
were four hand prints in white and, written in charcoal, “ Richard 
Wetherill and ——— Billings, 1895.” 
Caves V anp VI 
Two caves occur about 1 mile below the entrance to Marsh Pass. 
One of these, which can be seen from the road, is situated halfway 
up the side of the comb, in a break facing the valley (pl. 32, 6). 
The second was discovered in climbing to the first, and is in the 
bottom of a small wash which has at some time carried away the 
greater part of the earth floor. In one end, however, there remains 
some rubbish, which, with a much blackened ceiling, furnish evi- 
dence that it was once inhabited. The upper cave was reached by 
climbing up a steep ledge. It is a shelter about 85 feet long, 40 feet 
deep, and 20 feet high, facing the southwest. A great quantity of 
shale-like flakes from the roof cover the floor, which falls at a sharp 
angle from the back to the front, being merely a continuation of the 
steep slope by which the cave is entered. 
In the western half, near the back, a low wall can be traced, and 
in front of this part of a crescent-shaped wall, both of rather crude 
workmanship, so far as observed. In the outer half of the cave the 
tops of two stone slab cists appear above the floor. The old surface 
of the ceiling has nearly sloughed away, but wherever it remains it 
is blackened by smoke. 
Owing to lack of time, these caves were not further investigated. 
SUNFLOWER CAVE 
This cave is situated in the top of a jagged section of the comb 
almost directly back of the two caves just described (see pl. 1). It 
1 We later learned from a young Navaho that these goods had been the property of 
his father, now dead, who placed them in the cave 20 years ago. 
