148 THE CLIFF RUINS OF CANYON DE CHELLY _ [tH.ayy.16 
by 10 feet. If the room was used solely as a habitation, there was no 
necessity for the back wall, as the side walls continue back to the eliff. 
Including the little cove on the left, there are seven Navaho burial 
places on this site. 
Plate Lu shows an outlook in the lower part of De Chelly, at the 
point marked 6 on the map. The lower part of the cliff here flares 
out slightly, form- 
ing a sharp slope; 
where it meets the 
vertical rock there 
Le ES is a small bench on 
Z F dddddd which the ruin is 
situated. It is ap- 
parently inaccessi- 
ble, but close examination shows a long series of hand and foot holes 
extending up a cleft in the rock, and forming an easy ascent. The 
site commands a good outlook over the bottom lands. 
The ruin consists of three rectangular rooms arranged side by side 
against the cliff, and a kind of curved addition on the east. Figure 56 
is a ground plan. The walls are still standing from a foot to 4 feet 
high, and produce the impression of being unfinished; although care- 
fully chinked, they were neither plastered nor rubbed down. The two 
western rooms were built first, and the eastern wall extends through the 
front. East of these rooms there is a small rectangular chamber, and 
east of this again a low curved wall forming a little chamber or cist of 
irregular form (not shown in the plan). The front wall was extended 
beyond this and brought in again to the cliff on a curve, forming another 
small cist of irregular shape. This and the little chamber west of it 
were doubtless used for storage. They resemble in plan Navaho cists, 
but the masonry, which is exactly like the other walls here, will not 
permit the hypothesis of Navaho construction. Except for some slight 
traces in the northwest corner of the west room, there are no smoke 
stains about, nor are there any picto- 
eraphs on the cliff walls. The western 
room was pierced by a window open- 
ing which was subsequently filled up, 
possibly by the Navaho, who have five 
burial cists here. 
Figure 57 is the plan of a small out-  py¢.57—Plan of cliff outlook No. 14, in 
look which occurs at the point marked Canyon de Chelly. 
14 on the map. Opposite the mouth of Del Muerto there is an ele- 
vated rocky area of considerable extent, perhaps 50 feet above the 
bottom, but shelving off around the edges. Near the cliff this is cov- 
ered by sand dunes and piles of broken rock; farther out there is a 
more level area covered thinly with sand and soil, and here there is 
a large ruin of the old obliterated type already described (pageé 93). 

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Fic. 56—Ground plan of a cliff outlook. 

