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and used for the storage of corn. The roofs of both these rooms are 
now on the ground level. The covered room nearest the cliff, shown on 
the plan, has been divided into two small compartments by a wall 
through the middle; access to each of these is obtained by a framed 
trapdoor in the roof about a foot square. This dividing wall is prob- 
ably of Navaho origin, as the separate rooms formed by it are too small 
for habitation and the masonry is very rough. <A short distance to 
the north along the cliff there is a Navaho house, roughly rectangular 
in plan, which was constructed of stone obtained from this site. The 
masonry of the ruin presents a very good face, not due to chinking, 
however, which was but slightly practiced, but to the careful selection 
of material. Some of the stones show surface pecking. 
About 300 feet above or southeast of this ruin there are the remains 
of two small rooms which were placed against the cliff. They are of 
the same general character as those described, and doubtless formed 
part of the same settlement. Between the two occurs a curious feature. 
A large slab of rock, 280 feet Jong and not more than 12 feet thick at 
any point, has split off from the cliff and dropped down to the ground, 
where it remains on edge. This slab is triangular in elevation and 
about 50 feet high at the apex. Between it and the clitf, in the upper 


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Fic. 4—Granary in the rocks, counected with a rnin. 
part, there is a space from 2 to 24 feet wide. This is easily accessible 
from the north, on the edge of the slab, and can be reached from the 
southern end, but with much difficulty. Figure 4 shows this feature 
and its relation to the ruin. There is no doubt that this was a granary 
or huge storage bin, and probably the two rooms on the south were 
placed there to guard that end; the northern end, of more easy access, 
being protected by the village itself. It was well adapted to this pur- 
pose—a fact that the Navaho have not been slow to appreciate. They 
have constructed small bins near the northern end, shown on the plan, 
and beyond this timbers have been wedged in so as to furnish a means 
of closing the cleft. In the cleft itself cross walls have been con- 
structed, dividing it into several compartments. The interior forms a 
convenient dry, airy space, and at the time it was visited the floor was 
covered with a litter of cornhusks. 
Almost directly opposite this ruin, on the other side of the canyon, 
are the remains of a village that might properly be called a cave 
village. At this point a large rock stands out from the cliff and in it 
there is a cavity shaped almost like a quarter sphere. Its greatest 
diameter is 45 feet and its height about 20 feet. The bottom land here 
is 10 or 12 feet above the stream bed and slopes up gradually toward 
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