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Room 15 may be identified as a storeroom from the absence of 

 smoke stains on its inner walls and from the presence of grooves 

 on its outer door jambs. Within the room, solid cliff sandstone slopes 

 rather sharply downward toward the east corner, which was filled 

 to provide a limited floor area. A rock ledge averaging 12 inches 

 (0.31 m.) wide extends along the northwest wall base. 



The roof is supported by a single beam seated 8 or 10 inches from 

 the cliff and by three pairs of smaller timbers lying butt ends oppo- 

 site. Upon these are five pairs of cross poles, covered with layers 

 of willows and cedar bark. One peg protrudes from the southeast 

 wall; five, from the northeast. A 17 by 24 inch (0.43 by 0.61 m.) 

 door opens through the southwest wall 16 inches (0.41 m.) above 

 the floor; two broad pieces of split cedar form its lintel. In the 

 sloping sandstone beneath this door are five pecked steps. 



On the northeast side a hole, approximately 20 inches in diameter 

 and obviously of fortuitous origin, was repaired in 1917. In addi- 

 tion, the walls were recapped and holes in the roof mended. 



Room 16 lies against the cliff, between room 15 and court 24. Its 

 northeast and southwest walls are of masonry, but its southeast wall, 

 now missing, was undoubtedly of wattle. Although the rock floor 

 next the cliff had been worked down somewhat, it remains slightly 

 higher than the front, filled portion. The east side of a low, narrow 

 ledge at the base of the northwest, or cliff, wall was leveled with 

 masonry to form a shelf. Smoke stains appear on the floor and at 

 the base of all three walls. 



Th(5 roof had burned, but one charred beam end remains in the 

 northeast wall next the cliff, and three notches, pecked for beam 

 rests, appear in the southwest wall. Above these, charred timbers 

 protrude from room 15; the northeast wall masonry extends 18 

 inches (0.45 m.) above the roof level of room 16. 



Room 17 is a possible storeroom situated between rooms 18 and 

 41; in front of and below rooms 15 and 16. Cliff forms its lower 

 northwest side ; its southeast wall is of wattle — posts supporting up- 

 right willows, bound at intervals by horizontal withes either singly 

 or in pairs, and the whole plastered with adobe. (PL 9, A.) Smoke 

 stains are not perceptible. 



Excepting a small section in the west quarter the floor is artificial 

 and rests upon 19 inches (0.48 m.) of debris covering an earlier 

 surface. No plaster appears on the southeast wall below the upper 

 floor, although its willows and posts extend to the lower. In the 

 north corner a 9 by 12 inch (0.22 by 0.31 m.) shelf was made by 

 leveling a small rock ledge with adobe. Above this shelf, next the 

 northeast wall, is a recess measuring 8 by 12 by 5 inches (0.20 by 0.31 

 by 0.13 m.) deep. In the west corner pecked steps lead up the slop- 

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