150 THE CLIFF RUINS OF CANYON DE CHELLY — [£tH. ayy.16 
ruin near the mouth of Del Muerto. It was a single room, situated on 
a ledge perhaps 30 or 40 feet above the bottom land which it overlooked 
and of easy ac- 
cess. This is the 
most common 
type of outlook or 
cliff ruin, and it 
might almost be 
said that they 
number hun- 
dreds, sometimes 
consisting of one 
room alone, some- 
times of two or 
even three. The 
general appearance of these outlooks is shown in figure 60, which 
shows an example containing three rooms. 
Figure 61 is a ground plan of an example containing two rooms, 
which occurs below the large ruin described before (No. 31, page 119), 
and figure 62 shows an example with one room, obscured and built over 
with Navaho cists. This site is located in the upper part of the canyon, 
on top of the talus, 
about 100 feet 
above the stream, 
and commands an 
outlook over sey- 
eralareasof bottom 
land on both sides. 
The walls are built 
about 10 feet high, Fic. 61—Plan of a two-room outlook. 
and are composed of medium-size stones laid in courses and carefully 
chinked with small spalls. The southwestern corner of the room is 
broken down, but the eastern wall is still standing, and shows a well- 
finished opening on that side. There are several Navaho burial cists 
on this site. 
Figure 63 is the plan of a type of ruin which is rather anomalous in 


Fic. 60—Three-room outlook in Canyon del Muerto, 

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Fic. 62—Plan of outlook and burial cists, No. 64. 
the canyon. It occurs at the point marked 45 on the map, and occu- 
pies a small flat area almost on top of the talus 300 feet or more 
