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maize and other foodstuffs. When exposed by our excavations onij 

 sections of the north and west walls remained, and both these were 

 covered by blown sand which had settled about the roots of trees. 

 Pecked grooves identified both the east and south wall positions. 

 Behind the north wall a debris fill marked the cross-cave trail here- 

 tofore mentioned. In the middle floor were three broken, slab- 

 line mealing bins from which the milling stones had been removed. 



In our work of repair we restored the lower walls of this room, 

 rebuilt the grinding bins, and fitted them with metates recovered 

 from other portions of the ruin. (PI. 23, A.) 



Rooms 118-119. Built upon the lowermost terrace and adjoining 

 room 55 on the east was a room approximately 15 feet (4.57 m.) 

 long, subsequently divided by a wattled partition. The fairly level, 

 unworked ledge surface formed a floor several feet above that in 

 room 55. The south and upper north walls had wholly disappeared. 

 Incorporated in the north end of the east side is a projecting block 

 of masonry, 21 inches (0.53 m.) long by 10 inches (0.25 m.) wide, 

 the purpose of which remains unknown. When inhabited, the two 

 rooms were doubtless connected by a door through the dividing, 

 wattled wall. 



Room IW is situated in the lower, middle front of the cave be- 

 tween rooms 119 and 121. Portions of its north and west walls stand 

 at the northwest corner; below these fragments the sloping sand- 

 stone has been slightly reduced. The room floor, however, was doubt- 

 less lower than this pecked area, and must have rested on a fill sup- 

 ported by the now missing south wall. 



Room, 121, a large dwelling, adjoins the west side of 2-story house 

 No. 66. (PI. 9, B.) The west and part of the south walls were 

 missing; at the north, on the next higher terrace edge, masonry 

 which we replaced in 1917 separated this structure from room 117. 



In the southeast corner is a subfloor, masonry-walled fireplace 

 measuring 3 feet 4 inches (1.01 m.) north and south by 22 inches 

 (0.56 m.). Its west side had slumped with collapse of the south- 

 west quarter of the dwelling. West of this fireplace the room floor 

 had rested on a deep debris fill; sloping cliff, worked down in the 

 northeast corner, occupies the north half of the room. Between 

 the base of this terrace face and the fireplace and 16 inches (0.40 m.) 

 from the east wall is a pothole pecked into the solid rock. It mea- 

 sures 10% inches (0.26 m.) in diameter by 12 inches (0.31 m.) deep. 

 In this hole we found the earthenware colander illustrated in Plate 

 46, 1, a charred hairbrush (pi. 39, 1), and a short mano. A door 

 blocked with rude masonry formerly connected this dwelling with 

 the storage chamber below room 66. 

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