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resting against the flare of the neck. The space above these was filled 
with clay. Within was about a quart of fine dust not derived from 
any organic material; hence the reason for sealing the jar is difficult 
to imagine. The transportation of these large pots down the pre- 
cipitous cliff and back to camp at Mancos Spring was no small under- 
taking, asa slight blow would have reduced them to fragments. One 
was tied in a gunny sack and the other in a shirt, and after much labor 
they were deposited safe at camp. 
Ruin No. 7.—Ruin No. 7 is in a deep pocketlike cavern less than a 
quarter of a mile up the canyon from the ruin just described. The 
building consists of four groups of rooms somewhat separated from 
one another. The first to be reached on approaching the ruin from 
the south contains six rooms, which have been formed by walling up 
and partitioning off a deep crevice. The walls, which are intact, 
reach up to the rock. 
Eighty feet farther north is the central and most important part 
of the ruin. In this are seven rectangular rooms and two kivas. As 
may be seen in plate 37, 6, one room is in the second story, the walls 
reaching to the top of the cave. The floor dividing the stories has 
fallen. A short distance below the top of the walls four stout beams 
are set into the masonry, forming a square slightly smaller than the 
room itself. Some object seems to have been suspended from these 
beams, but there is nothing to indicate what this may have been. 
The kiva which appears in the foreground is nearly filled with 
débris; this was not excavated. The inclosure between the kiva and 
the two-storied part of the ruin is of exceptional interest, as it is a 
rectangular room which in many features resembles a kiva. The 
corners were filled to a height of about 3 feet with masonry, giving 
the room an oval instead of a rectangular form. Against the outside 
of the east wall a buttress of masonry was constructed, into which 
the horizontal opening extends and through which the ventilator 
shaft rises. The deflector, a slab of stone, had been broken down, 
but the fire pit was in the usual position. No sipapu was observed, 
but as the floor was much broken, it may once have been present. 
There is no trace of banquettes or pilasters, unless the tops of the 
triangles of masonry in the corners served as banquettes. The entire 
south wall and considerable sections of those on the east and west 
had fallen, so it was impossible to determine all the features of this 
singular apartment. This is the only instance observed in any of 
the ruins in Johnson Canyon in which a kiva differed from the one 
in Eagle Nest House in any but minor details. 
The third section of the ruin is about 100 feet farther along the 
cliff, where the latter has swung eastward toward the main canyon 
(pl. 37, a). It consists of a two-story tower, the cliff forming the 
rear wall, and a series of three rooms extending eastward in line 
