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notched trunks of cedar trees or from poles to which rundles were 

 tied by willows and withes of squaw' bush. Ladders of the second 



Fig. 85. — In the foreground may be seen the walls of three superposed 

 dwellings in the great mound at Paragonah. The ancient builders appar- 

 ently leveled the walls of a house which liad collapsed and, without remov- 

 ing the wreckage, built a new structure above the remains of the former. 





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Fig. 



-The great mound at Paragonah, as viewed from the north, at the 

 beginning of excavations. 



type are frequently found in cliff-dwellings of the San Juan drainage 

 and part of one was exposed by the recent excavations at Betatakin. 



