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tirely disappeared with the exception of a small north section sup- 

 porting the artificial platform adjoining room 122, at the foot of 

 the steps leading to room 73 and beyond. Upon the seatings they 

 formerly covered we partially reconstructed this retaining v/all and 

 those adjacent. 



Room 71. Although no masonry remained at the time of our work, 

 the former presence of this room, on the lower cliff terrace east 

 of room To, is well evidenced by the series of steps pecked for sup- 

 port of its north wall. These steps may be noted on the upper edge 

 of a slight break in the sloping cave floor; they extend thence, east- 

 wardly toward the cliff edge. Below the break mentioned the native 

 rock had been battered away to mark the floor level. 



Room 72. Not shown on Douglass's plan. 



RooTYix 73 is a small storeroom built midway of the old step series 

 leading from room 122 to the upper east end of the cave. (Most of 

 these steps were enlarged and deepened in 1917.) The east, west, and 

 south walls are of masonry; the north side is an acclivity, about 2 

 feet high, on which a number of horizontally pecked steps may repre- 

 sent footings for former masonry. But these steps continue to the 

 west of room 73, along the crest of the same slanting ledge. 



Abutting the outer southwest corner of the storeroom a short re- 

 taining wall supports a platform, partially made with debris, at a 

 turn in the old trail. Fires had burned on this platform. A crack 

 in the north, or cliff, side had been enlarged \y^ pecking and con- 

 tinued, in snakelike fashion, downward toward the floor. 



Construction of room 73 caused annoyance to some of the villagers, 

 since it formed an obstacle on their much-traveled trail between the 

 east and west house groups. Those most deeply irritated thereafter 

 used another step series at the very top of the sloping sandstone; 

 the others soon made a new path close on the north side of the 

 granary. 



In clearing room 73 we found numerous corn cobs and a small 

 circular basket. (PL 42, 1.) Also, a stone ax was discovered in a 

 recess created by removal of a stone from the lower south wall. 



Room 7J{.. The former presence of this room is evidenced by a 

 fragment of masonry at the northeast corner; by the battered cliff 

 at the floor level and by pecked grooves on which the north and 

 south walls were erected. 



Room 76 lies east of room 74, in the lower northeast portion of 

 the cave. Most of its west wall still stands and the lower half of 

 this bears traces of plaster. The north side, now missing, stood upon 

 a well-marked groove; the south wall, also missing, had been 

 built on the verjr edge of the cliff. Of the east wall a small section 

 found in position rested upon several inches of loose household 

 rubbish. 



