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Room 39 is a dwelling, between rooms 41 and 37. Its northwest 

 wall is formed by the face of a cliff terrace, surmounted by room 25 ; 

 a fragment of northeast masonry remains at the north. The south- 

 east wall, of wattle construction, was plastered all over; successive 

 plaster layers show on the lower half of the northwest and southwest 

 walls. Wliile the north half of the floor is of native rock, the re- 

 mainder consists of a debris fill surfaced with adobe. A protruding 

 rock mass on the southwest side had been worked down 5 inches to 

 the general floor level. Through the middle southeast wall a door 

 gave access to passage 40, which in turn connects with court 37. 



A narrow ledge lies at the base of the northwest, or cliff, side; 

 on this ledge, in the north corner and abutting the northeast wall, 

 stands a masonry column, 12 inches square, that probably once 

 reached to the ceiling. The lower half of this column is plastered; 

 its southeast face is smoked. On the same rock ledge and abutting 

 the southwest side of the column is a masonry shelf, 8 inches 

 (0.20 m.) wide by 2 feet 3 inches (0.68 m.) long. An adobe-rimmed 

 fireplace, the north side of which lies 3 feet 5 inches (1.04 m.) from 

 the middle southeast wall, had been partially destroyed with caving 

 of the east quarter of the floor. Both firescreen and door-sill were 

 lost at the same time. 



Pecked into the rock floor at an average distance of 17 inches 

 (0.43 m.) from the cliff are four loom anchor holes averaging 2^2 

 inches (0.06 m.) in diameter. The westernmost of these lies 2 feet 

 8 inches (0.81 m.) from the southwest wall; the second, 16 inches 

 (0.40) from the first; the third, 16 inches from the second and 16 

 inches from the northwest wall; the fourth, unfinished, lies 8^ 

 inches (0.21 m.) from the third and 19 inches (0.48 m.) from the 

 cliff. Another incomplete hole is noted on the north side, between 

 the third and fourth. Hole No. 1 contained a %-inch stick em- 

 bedded 1 inch below the room floor ; hole No. 2 held two quarter-inch 

 sticks, placed one upon the other, with the uppermost li/4 inches 

 (0.031 m.) below the floor; hole No. 3 contained a single stick. Each 

 anchor rested in an undercut at one side of a vertical groove (fig. 3) ; 

 each had been introduced through the groove into the undercut, 

 after which both groove and socket were packed with adobe mud. 

 At some later time all five holes were filled with mud ; their presence 

 was disclosed by the difference in color between this adobe filling and 

 the sandstone. From the uniformly discolored floor here we infer 

 the loom anchors were in disuse long before abandonment of the 

 room. 



Room 40, a passageway about 21 feet (6.4 m.) long, furnished 

 access from court 37 to rooms 39 and 41 and the roof of room 22. 

 At its west end the alley is 18 inches (0.45 m.) wide; between rooms 



