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feature not exceptional in Mesa Verde ruins. The part of the wall 

 still standing has no external opening. Before its partial destruction 

 this wall extended to the wall of an adjoining room. 



The inclosure formed by this wall, which is exceptionally well 

 built, was probably used as a granary, and the part destroyed no 

 doubt contained a passageway. Similarly constructed walls, which 

 occur frequently in the cliff-dwellings of northern Arizona, are also 

 found elsewhere on the Mesa Verde as mentioned by Nordenskiold. 

 They may be the counterparts of the olla-like granaries built in 

 front of living rooms of the cliff-dwellings of the Sierra Madre in 

 Chihuahua. 



On the ledge above the eastern end of Oak-tree House are walls 

 of a house, practically inaccessible, but readily seen from below. I 

 have made no special studies of this portion of the ruin, as I have 

 not entered it. As seen from the opposite side of Fewkes canon it 

 appears to be a building of considerable size. 



The question naturally arises, Since an upper and a lower building 

 are present in many of the Mesa Verde cliff-houses, what is the 

 relation of the two? As a rule the ceremonial rooms in the lower 

 are found generally on top of the talus, where the cave is deeper 

 and the available space greater. The scant evidence available seems 

 to indicate that the walls of the large rooms or upper houses are as 

 a rule of poorer masonry and are not accompanied with kivas; but 

 there are exceptions to both cases. I am inclined to believe that the 

 more inaccessible ledge houses were used for storage rather than for 

 habitation, and were constructed practically at the same time as the 

 larger buildings on top of the talus. 



PAINTED HOUSE 



Continuing along the trail west of Oak-tree House the visitor 

 reaches a ruin different from it and quite unlike any cliff-dwelling 

 in the Mesa Verde National Park yet described. This ruin, called 

 Painted House, like Oak-tree House is composed of an upper and a 

 lower section, shown in the accompanying plate VI, a, b. The chief 

 peculiarity of this structure is the absence of round rooms, or kivas, 

 and the presence of massive walled rooms at each end of an extended 

 open space, one side of which is formed by the wall of the cliff. This 

 peculiar feature of the lower building is not true of the upper or ledge 

 house, which leads to the belief that the latter was the less important, 

 the lower building being the main structure. 



Painted House has been referred to as an elongated court with 

 massive buildings attached at each end. One side of this court, 



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