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Figure 49 shows a common type of ruin in this elass. The original 
structure appears to have contained one or two good rooms, which by 
subsequent additions have been divided into several. These later 
additions may have been made by the Navaho, who used the building 
material on the ground; at any rate the structure is now merely a 
eluster of storage cists. 
One of the most extensive ruins of the cliff-outlook type situated in 
Canyon del Muerto is shown in figure 50, The plan shows at least eight 

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Fic. 49—Plan of clitf room with partitions. 
rooms stretched along the cliff at the top of the talus. Figure 51 shows 
five rooms arranged in a cluster. One of these is still complete, the 
walls extending to the overhanging rock above which formed the roof. 
It will be noticed that the front room was set back far enough to allow 
access to the central room through a doorway in the corner. This was 
a convenience, rather than a necessity, for many of the rooms in ruins 
of this class were entered only through other rooms or through the roof, 
and a direct opening to the outer air was not considered a necessity; 
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Fie. 50—Plan of a large cliff outlook in Canyon del Muerto. 
probably because these rooms in the cliff, which have been termed out- 
looks, were not in any sense watch towers, but rather places of abode 
during the harvest season, where the workers in the field lived when 
not actually employed in labor, and where the fields under cultivation 
could always be kept in view—an arrangement quite as necessary and 
quite as extensively practiced now as it was formerly. 
Figure 52 shows a cluster of rooms in the little canyon called Tseoni- 
tsosi. This is another Casa Blanca, or White House, and, oddly enough, 
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