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lo (fi‘e dwellings mist ‘ruve been excavated ‘r'y urcheclocints,
.xsre found evidenoes ‘shh‘u tl't‘e caves were ooo 'ed jaroxi ately
mac n c., by the first agrioultuml indinns o. the south
ere were motor trips in the morning and in t e afternoon
to Le principal cliff dwellings, lea ‘73,- a n r r nicer. ”he visi-
tors use; their own cars.
Cliff i' see, e largest, lies under the roof of an enor-
mans cove, whose opening is won: non feet long and so to 100
.et firm: the floor to me roof. n. is several hundred feet a‘hove
Le notion of the canyon. We entire cave was filled our, meson y
structures or rooms, cstimated at 200. Early or tile upper stories
have rancid.

Ho. {1'7 '30. 92‘.

The most prom . '1‘, "it: c‘oux'e is ound Tower, lastlted at the left
ce be: of t“: V)llage 1n yholos 97 and Qi . It is :- remarkable
ALece of war}; when one Consifiers i‘zze tools and labor with which
each scone was. faced and laid. 'mis tower, yrohahly, was a look
out, judging from its locatir r and the presence of small roles in
its walls t‘nru which one car: SEE far down the Canyon. Another
prominent structure in Square “awer, l£c1zted at the ri {it center

of the village . photos m and no. It is four stories l ah with
the walls rescr ng in the roof or me cave. me inside walls or
up_er stories are painted red and white wiLL various patterns
in line work.
Circular walls 'i mom of the dwellinfts form sacred rooms
or kivas. There are '5 of these kivas. It is ziurfiosed that e ».
was used by a, clan and that each clan had its own group of lavlng
rooms and a granny. 1.15M ms admittcfi 1.0 the rooms uvru smell
reccangular openings. Access to the: rooms was trru larger rect-
angular Onenin'zs with the lnwer half more narrow t‘mzn He upwer.
1': ex yle of m is is in the extreme ri in min in nronos and
near its top. The ranger ‘en‘Ld us that t e Warner: laid fl‘e stone
work, and in fact tended to all manual marl: Mile the men acted
as instructors and attended their sacret cere‘mmials in the
kivas.

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