100 THE CLIFF RUINS OF CANYON DE CHELLY — [ets. ann.16 
remains. The inclosure of the kivas is a suggestive feature, which 
will be discussed later, as will also the square shaft shown on the plan 
as attached to the principal kiva. 
It will be noticed that in several places where bowlders occur within 
the limits of the settlement they have been incorporated into the walls 
and form part of them. In two places they have altered the direction 
of walls and produced irregularities in the plan. Elsewhere the face 


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Fic. 7—Ground plan of a ruin in Canyon del Muerto. 
of a rock has been prolonged by a wall carried out to continue it, as 
in the front wall of the principal kiva apartment. This apartment 
appears to have been entered from the west through a passageway. 
This is an anomalous feature and suggests modernness. 
Figure 7 is a ground plan of another ruin in Del Muerto. There 
is a slight cove or bay in the cliff at the point where the ruin occurs, 
and the ground, which is on the level of the bottom lands, is strewn 

Fic. 8—Ground plan of a ruin in Tseonitsosi canyon. 
with large bowlders, as in the example last described. But few 
remains of walls are now observable, and there are traces of only 
one kiva. This was situated near the outer edge of the settlement. 
The wall lines are irregular and the disposition and size of the bowl- 
ders are such that it is improbable that this site was ever occupied by 
a large cluster of rooms. On the left of the plan will be seen a small 
room or storage cist still intact. At the point marked > in the center 
