ILLUSTSATIONS IX 



The Excavation and Repaib of Betatakin 



By Neil Merton Judd 



Facing page 



1. Betatakin blends naturally with the walls of its vast cave 78 



2. Map showing the three units of Navajo National Monument 78 



8. Ground plan of Betatakin Ruin 78 



4. A. Trail scene in Segi Canyon in August, 1908. B. Approaching 



Betatakin Ruin on March 27, 1917 78 



5. A. Blanketed with snow, camp was a dismal place. B. Waiting for 



whatever the cook might provide 78 



6. A. The principal house group before excavation, as viewed from room 



75. Room 66 stands at the lower right. B. Above rooms 66 and 

 117, in the right foreground, one notes the seepage zone which 

 formerly watered diverse vegetation 78 



7. A. The door of room 6 and, on the right margin, the convex founda- 



tion of room 8. B. Rooms 3-7 and the near-by retaining wall, 



as viewed from the roof of room 20 78 



8. A. A small pole formed a secondary jamb for the door to room 18. 



B. The problematical. Unusual door in the southeast corner of 

 room 7 78 



9. A. Room 17 boasts the best preserved wattled wall in Betatakin. At 



its top is a fresh patch of adobe mud. B. Here is shown the 

 partly blocked first-story door of room 66 and the shadowed 

 fireplace in room 121 78 



10. A. Building stones were salvaged from the talus slope and passed up 



for use in wall repairs. B. Room 20, from the southwest, show- 

 ing, above the workman, a steel plate and anchor rod 78 



11. A. The northeast wall of court 24, at the left, before restoration. 



B. Two-story room 66 and near-by buildings stand at the ex- 

 treme right 78 



12. A. Wattled northeast wall of court 28, from the west. B. Navajo 



Indian repairing the wattled wall of court 24 78 



13. A. Willows, cedar bark, and sand made a new roof for room 31. 



B. Room 44, from the west ; beyond, the lower seepage zone and 

 trail 78 



14. A. Repairing the south wall of room 48. View taken from room 47. 



B. The northeast wall of court 45 ended in a channel, pecked 



in the cliff 78 



15. A. The central house cluster, from room 75. In the middle distance, 



two men stand in room 51. B. Blown sand soon settled on the 

 bared seepage zone above the main cross-cave trail 78 



16. A. The northwest wall of rooms 64-65 (which later collapsed) with 



beam holes marking the floor level of the second-story chamber. 

 B. Many Betatakin walls were erected upon sucli shallow, 

 pecked steps as these, at the southeast end of rooms 101-102 78 



17. A. Platform 58 and room 59 stand above the sloping sites of rooms 



57 and 60. B. At the right, new wall rests await reconstruction 



of rooms 60 and 64 78 



18. A. Reconstructing the northeast wall of room 60. B. The partially 



restored walls of rooms 56, 57, and 60 78 



