158 THE CLIFF RUINS OF CANYON DE CHELLY [ETH. ANN. 16 
used by the former dwellers in the canyon can not now be determined; 
it seems probable that some of them were. 
Plate Lyi shows a characteristic site in the lower part of the can- 
yon. It occurs at the point marked 8 on the map, and is now quite 























































Fic. 66—Site apparently very difficult of access. 
difficult of approach, owing to the wearing away or weathering of a 
long line of foot-holes in the sloping rock, but formerly access was 
easy enough. It is now marked by a cluster of Navaho burial cists. 
Figure 66 shows an example that oecurs in De Chelly, about 8 miles 
