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all of them, but in a broad belt, leaving the natural yellowish-gray 
color of the plastering in a narrow band above and a broad band below 
it. Moreover, the principal opening of the larger room was specially 
treated; in the application of the whitewash a narrow border or frame of 
the natural color was left surrounding it. The attempt to apply deco- 


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Fic. 53—Ground plan of a ruin in Tseonitsosi canyon. 
ration not utilitarian in character is rare among the ruins here. It 
implies either a late period in the occupancy of this region, or an oecu- 
pancy of the site by a people who had practiced this method of house- 
building longer or under more favorable conditions than the others. 

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Fic. 54—Plan of rooms against a convex cliff. 
Figure 54 shows an arrangement of rooms along a narrow ledge 
at the top of the talus, where the cliff wall is not coved or concave, but 
convex. Some of these little rooms may have been used only for stor- 
age. but others were undoubtedly habitations. Figure 55 shows an 

Fic. 55—Small ruin with curved wall. 
example in which the back wall is curved, as though it was either built 
over an old kiva or an attempt was made to convert arectangular room 
into a kiva. There were originally three rooms in the cluster, only one 
of which remains, but that one is of unusual size, measuring about 15 
