234 ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. [eth.ann.13 



At the point marked G on the map there is an elaborate group of 

 chambers, consisting of two groups joined together and comprising 

 altogether eight rooms. This is shown in plan in figure 298. The rock 

 composing the front of the main room of the southern grouj) has recently 

 fallen, making a i>ile of debris about 4 feet high. The room originally 

 measured about 12 by 22 feet. Its eastern side is occupied by a pas- 

 sageway leading into an adjoining chamber and by two shallow, 

 roughly semicircular coves, apparently the remains of former small 

 rooms. Along the northern wall of the room there are two little nooks 

 at the floor level, and along the southern wall there are four, one of 

 them (shown on the plan) being dug out like a pit. The roof of the 

 room was about 6 feet above the floor. 



The passageway near the eastern side is 4i feet long, and is 3J feet 

 wide — an unusual width. It opens into a roughly circular room, 8 feet 

 in diameter, but with a roof only 3i feet above the floor. Along the 

 northeastern side of this room there are three small pockets opening on 

 the floor level. On the southern side of the room there is a wide open- 

 ing into a small attached room, roughly oblong in shape and measur- 

 ing about G^ by 4i feet. Along the southern wall of this little room 

 there are two small pockets, and at the southwestern corner the rock 

 has been cleared out to form a low cavity in the shape of a half dome. 

 In the northwestern corner of the room there is another wide passage 

 to a small room attached to the main room. This passage is now care- 

 fully sealed on its southern side with a slab of stone, plastered neatly 

 so as to be hardly perceptible from the southern side. The room into 

 which this passage opens on the north is attached to the northeastern 

 corner of the main apartment by a narrow passage, Ih feet wide and a 

 foot long. It is roughly circular in shape, about C feet in diameter, and 

 is the only chamber in the southei'n group which has no pockets or 

 cubby-holes. Of these pockets there are no fewer than twelve in the 

 southern group. Near the northern corner of the main room thei'e is a 

 doorway leading into a cove, which in turn opens into the main room 

 of the northern group. 



The main room of the northern group is set back about 9 feet from the 

 face of the bluff, but is entered by a passageway about 3 feet long, the 

 remainder of the distance consisting of a cove in the cliff. The 

 room is 22 feet long and 13 feet wide and its roof is 6i feet above 

 the floor. In the southwestern corner there is a small pocket in the 

 wall, and in the northwestern corner two others, all on the floor level. 

 In the eastern side, however, there is a cubby-hole nearly 2 feet in 

 diameter and about 2 feet above the floor. This is a rare feature. The 

 soixtherii end of the room opens into a kind of cove, raised 2 feet above 

 the floor of the main room, and opening at its southern end into the 

 main room of the southern group. In the floor of this cove there is a 

 circular pit about 18 inches in diameter (marked in the plan, figure 298). 

 Although resembling the fire holes already described, the position of 



