NO. 2 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I918 



T7 



of exactly the same mode of life as Pueblos. l<'or instance, the 

 cliff-dwellinos of the X'erde N'alley. a tributary of the Salt River in 

 southern Arizona, are different structurally from those of the San 

 Juan Basin in Colorado and L'tah. Some of these aberrant cliff- 

 houses, thus far little known, Init i)leading" for investi5j,ation, are 

 situated in Tonto I'.asin near the Apache trail, Arizona. The char- 

 acter of the environment in this region appears in the view up Fish 

 Creek (fig. 85), a rugged canyon, the mouth of which is visible to 

 travelers on the road to Roosevelt Dam. 



AaJP*" J 



Fig. 88. — Interior cliff dwelling, Cherry Creek, Sierra Ancha, Apache Trail, 

 Arizona. Photograph by Mark Daniels. 



By courtesy of Air. Mark Daniels, photographs showing cliff- 

 dwellings of the Sierra Ancha Mountains in southern Arizona are 

 here reproduced (figs. 86 to 87). Although these buildings are 

 situated in cliff's they have only a distant likeness structurally to 

 those of the Mesa \'erde Xational Park in southwestern Colorado. 

 The principal difference from the latter is the absence of circular 

 ceremonial rooms or kivas. They may be said to re])resent the cliff- 

 dwelling ])hase of a house building culture that reached its highest 

 develo])ment in so-called com])ounds near the (lila which are unlike 



