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Several sandals, jar rests, and pieces of matting, besides the frag- 
ments of two pottery bowls (pl. 42, a, c) were gathered up among 
the fallen stones, a condition indicating that had there been previous 
visitors to the cave, they were not in search of relics. The red bowl 
(pl. 42, a) is of particular interest because it so closely resembles 
the one found by Nordenskidld in Spring House. 
At least four burials had been made beneath the shelving rocks 
which litter the floor of the cave.* These had been pawed out by 
animals, and whatever offerings had been placed with them were 
scattered and destroyed. In one was found the front of a feather- 
cloth jacket, part of which is shown in plate 49, a 
In the kiva, at the eastern end of the building, were the fragments 
of a strangely shaped vessel (pl. 41, 6, c) and a small water bottle 
(pl. 40, 6), as well as several bone implements. In a rat’s nest, under 
a great slab of stone which had fallen from the cliff into the northern 
side of the kiva, were sections of rush matting evidently taken from 
a large mat cut to pieces by the rodents. (PI. 49, 6.) 
The easternmost of the three kivas, at the western end of the cave, 
had been dismantled and used as a dumping place. The floor was 
covered to a depth of 18 inches with house sweepings, turkey drop- 
pings, innumerable bits of string, knotted strips of yucca leaves, 
feathers, and fragments of pottery. In one of the banquettes were a 
few fragments of the red bowl mentioned above. In the next kiva 
a beautiful bowl was found (pl. 42, 0), but seepage had destroyed 
any perishable objects which the room may have contained. Because 
of dampness the fourth kiva was not disturbed. 
The kivas present no unusual features, so I shall not describe 
them, letting the one in Eagle Nest House stand as a type for all 
those in Johnson Canyon. 
2. IN LION CANYON 
Eagle Nest House—Ahbout three-quarters of a mile below Ruin 
No. 3 Johnson Canyon is joined from the north by a short and very 
rugged tributary known locally as Lion Canyon. At the junction 
the canyons are 500 feet deep. Where the west wall of Lion Can- 
von rounds off and merges into the north wall of Johnson Canyon 
the rim rock forms a high arch, which shelters a cave of consider- 
able proportions. Some 60 feet from the bottom a shelf crosses the 
rear wall of the cave. It is 20 feet wide at the east end, becoming 
gradually narrower toward the west until it runs out against the 
per pendicular cliff. Upon the shelf stands Eagle Nest House. No 
ruin in the Mesa Verde presents a more picturesque and majestic 
1 The Cliff-dwellers of the Mesa Verde, pl. xxxIII and p. 84. 
2? Nordenskiéld mentions such burials (op. cit., pp. 46, 47). 
