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ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. 



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numerous standing walls, some with a height of over 10 feet, no perfect 

 example of a door or window opening was found. It is probable that the 

 methods employed were similar or analogous to those used today by 

 the Hopi, and that the wooden lintel and stone jamb was the stand- 

 ard type. 



In the cavate lodges window openings are not found; there is but 

 oneopening, the doorway, and this isof apronouiieed ami peculiar type. 



Fig. 302. — Bowlders id footway, cavate lodges 



As a rule these doorways are wider at the top than at the bottom and 

 there are no corners, the opening roughly approximating the shape of a 

 pear with the smaller end downward. The upper part of the opening 

 consists always of the naked rock, but the lower part is generally 



