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rise a few inches above the surface. From the opposite side a rough 
wall, 1 foot 6 inches high, built of irregular stones, extends nearly 
halfway across the front. There are remains of a small storage 
room on a ledge at the extreme rear. The cave is absolutely dry 
and the roof is heavily coated with the smoke of many fires. 
The first work here was the opening of a test hole back of the 
small room at the front. This was done with a trowel, the only im- 
plement available at the moment. Rubbish was found just below 
the surface sand, and at a depth of 1 foot a flat stone was encoun- 
tered, which proved to be one of two slabs covering what was sup- 
posed to be a large corrugated pot with a broken rim. On remoy- 
ing one of the stones there was disclosed the edge of a wooden “ sun- 
flower” and several cone-shaped objects coated with pitch; these 
were partly covered with sand which had filtered in (pl. 33,0). 
Further investigation was deferred to the following day when, 
with proper equipment, the work of excavating the cave was com- 
menced by clearing away the rubbish from about the pot. The 
latter was found to be the upper half of a large, bottomless, cor- 
rugated olla placed rim down in a hole dug in the hardpan floor of 
the cave. This hole had been lined at the bottom and on the sides 
with cedar bark, forming a nest for the jar. The contents proved to 
consist of 26 painted wooden “ sunflowers,” 25 varnished cone-shaped 
wooden objects, one carved and painted wooden bird, and two pieces 
of tanned skin, cut and painted to represent “ sunflowers.” <All these 
objects had been placed in the pot with great care, first the two 
skin “ flowers,” the larger at the bottom nearly closing the neck of 
the jar; the bird lay back down on these; the wooden “ flowers” 
and cones were so arranged about the sides and center of the pot as 
to make the best use of the very limited space. A petal was missing 
from each of two “ flowers,” otherwise the specimens were in the 
most perfect condition and appeared as fresh and clean as if 
made yesterday. 
The exact location of the find with reference to the room and 
to the side wall of the cave is shown in the plan (fig. 34), and a 
more detailed description of the objects themselves will be found 
in Section II (pls. 60, 61). 
The front wall and a portion of the side wall of the room at the 
right of the entrance had fallen down a steep slope, 6 to 8 feet 
high, leading up to the cave. On clearing away the débris at the 
top of this slope, the foundations of the room were.found to have 
been Jaid on an old, much-used, and very hard floor which itself 
rested on hardpan. In the room a second floor had been built over 
an accumulation of rubbish 6 or 8 inches deep (fig. 35). This 
floor was paved with thin slabs of stone leveled off and mudded in 
