MINDELEFF] OTHER RUINS IN CANYON DEL MUERTO 141 
from the top of a slope of loose rock and débris about 300 yards to the 
southward, or up the canyon. 
Figure 42 is a ground plan of a small ruin in Del Muerto in which 
the usual preponderance of rectangular rooms is illustrated. The site 
was restricted, but there is an apparent attempt to carry out the usual 
arrangement of a row of rooms against the cliff, with a kiva in front. 
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Fie. 43—Ground plan of a small ruin. 
Probably only three of the rooms shown were used as habitations. The 
plan of the kiva, which occurs in the center, was somewhat marred by 
a large bowlder, which must have projected into it, but apparently no 
attempt was made to dress off the projecting point. 
Figure 43 is the plan of a ruin located on a more open site. Only a 
few walls now remain, but there is no doubt that at one time more of 

Fic. 44—Plan of a ruin with enrved inclosing wall. 
the site was covered than now appears. There are remains of two, 
and perhaps of three, circular kivas. 
Figure 44 shows a ruin in which the plan is somewhat more elabo- 
rated. There are remains of several well-defined rooms, and two kivas 
are still fairly well preserved. The ledge is narrow and the rooms are 
stretched along it, with kivas at either end. That on the east was 
