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The original roof beams (fig. 53) of these two kivas are ahnost 

 wholly intact. Considering how few kiva roofs on the mesa have 

 survived destruction in the lapse of time, especial care was exercised 



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Fig. 50. — View of Square Tower House from the 

 west, before excavation and repair. Photograph by 

 Fred Jeep. 



to preserve these and to indicate their mode of construction, and a 

 model (fig. 54) has been made, photographs of which, in successive 

 stages of construction, are given (figs. 54. 55). A good understand- 



