Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . his paper with which it may be connected. Aside from the actual labor of excavation, there was but little workexpended on the Verde cavate lodges. The interiors were never plastered, so far as the writer could determine. Figure291 shows the planof one of the principal sets of rooms, which occurs at the point markedDon the map, plate xxv; and plate xxxn is an interior view of theprincipal room, drawn from a flashlight photograph. This set of roomswas excavated in a pointof the cliff and extends complet
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . his paper with which it may be connected. Aside from the actual labor of excavation, there was but little workexpended on the Verde cavate lodges. The interiors were never plastered, so far as the writer could determine. Figure291 shows the planof one of the principal sets of rooms, which occurs at the point markedDon the map, plate xxv; and plate xxxn is an interior view of theprincipal room, drawn from a flashlight photograph. This set of roomswas excavated in a pointof the cliff and extends completely through itas shown on the general plan, plate xxv. The entrance was from thewest by a short passageway opening into a cove extending back some13 |.;tii If) 22i; ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. | EIIl. ANN. 13 10 feet from the face of the cliff. The first room entered measures lbfeet in length by 10 feet in width. On the floor of this room a struc-ture resembling the piki or paper bread oven of the Tusayan Indians,was found constructed partly of fragments of old and broken Fig. 291. 0*-Plan of cavate lodges, group D At the southern end of the room there is a cubby-hole about a foot indiameter, excavated at the floor level. At the eastern end of the roomthere is a passageway about 2k feet long leading into a smaller roughlycircular room, measuring 7i feet in its longest diameter, and this in
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