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ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. 



lErH. ANN. 13 



10 feet from the face of tlie clitt'. The first room entered mea.sures 16 

 feet iu length by 10 feet in width. On the floor of this room a struc- 

 ture resembling the piki or paper bread oven of the Tusayau Indians, 

 was found constructed partly of fragments of old and broken metates. 



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FiQ. 291.— Plan of cavate lodges, group D 



At the southern end of the room there is a cubby-hole about a foot in 

 diameter, excavated at the floor level. At the eastern end of the room 

 there is a passageway about 2.\ feet long leading into a smaller roughly 

 circular room, measuring 7i feet in its longest diameter, and this in 



