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12 inches deep; a good portion of it had been broken away and 
what remained was badly shattered. EZmbedded in the outer side 
of the “cement” was a sherd of black-and-white ware which proves 
the cliff-house origin of the structure. The material used in mak- 
ing this cist is apparently the same as that employed in the con- 
struction of a fire pit in Ruin 7 (1914; see p. 53 and pl. 17). 
Cist IIT was a well-built rectangular slab bin, 21 inches long, 18 
inches wide, and 18 inches deep. It was, perhaps, a mealing place. 
Cist IV.—The outlines of this cist could be traced by a disturbed 
area showing in the face of the trench. It had originally been a 
stone enclosure, though but two of the slabs were still in place. A 
few bones from the skeleton of a child were found in its upper 
part; near the bottom were a few badly preserved bones of an adult. 
Lying on the bottom at the side nearest the back of the cave were 
two decorated bone tubes (see pl. 86, 7). Imprints of coiled basketry 
could be seen in hard lumps of the adobe filling, but nothing of the 
basket itself remained. This cist gave us the impression that it had 
been a Basket Maker burial chamber which had been pulled to 
pieces, partly emptied, and then filled in with rubbish during the 
cliff-house period. 
Two floor levels were visible through the digging in the rear of the 
cave, the complete excavation of which we were unable to make at 
this time. The rubbish contained much ashes and, in some places, 
quantities of turkey droppings. From the general digging came a 
square-toed fringed sandal (see pl. 68, 6). This is a perfectly typical 
Basket Maker specimen; its position in the cliff-house rubbish would 
seem to lend color to our theory that there had been an early Basket 
Maker occupancy of this cave, and that their remains had been dis- 
turbed and scattered about at the time of the construction of the 
cliff-house. It is possible that the spherical black jar from under 
the floor of the room is also a Basket Maker product; it is unlike 
any cliff-house pottery that we have seen. 
Of the house structures along the cliff outside the cave, there 
remain portions of the walls of four well-defined rooms and a part 
of a circular foundation that may have been a kiva. The architec- 
ture is like that of the other ruins of the district and their exca- 
vation yielded nothing unusual. The positions of these rooms and 
their dimensions are shown on the plan. 
A little below the mouth of the canyon leading to Sunflower 
Cave there is a surface ruin. Its most prominent feature is the 
foundation of a building 25 feet long and 10 feet wide, of which the 
walls stand 4 feet high. All about are fallen walls and much broken 
pottery. This structure is of the same type as Ruin A in Marsh 
Pass. 
