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notched trunks of cedar trees or from poles to which rundles were 

 tied bv willows and withes of squaw bush. Ladders of the second 





Fig. 85. — In the foreground may be seen the walls of three superposed 

 dwellings in the great mound at Paragonah. The ancient builders appar- 

 ently leveled the walls of a house which had collapsed and, without remov- 

 ing the wrccka'je, l;uilt a new structure above the remains of the f<jrmer. 





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Fig. 86. — The great mound at Paragonah, as viewed from the nurth, at the 

 lieginning of excavations. 



type are frefjuently found in clift'-dwellini^s of the San juan drainage 

 and part of one was exposed by the recent excavations at Betatakin. 



