Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 84.—Pits and fractured stone at the so-called Spanish diggings in Fig. 85.—Fractured stone surrounding the aboriginal quarries known as the? Spanish diggings in Wyoming. Canyon, investigating a number of caves which contain evidencesof prehistoric occupancy. In one of these were several circularrooms, the walls of which had been constructed with masses of ?JO SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS \0L. 66 adobe, reenforced by buncbes of rabbit-brusb or the young twigs ofsage. On the rear wall of this same
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 84.—Pits and fractured stone at the so-called Spanish diggings in Fig. 85.—Fractured stone surrounding the aboriginal quarries known as the? Spanish diggings in Wyoming. Canyon, investigating a number of caves which contain evidencesof prehistoric occupancy. In one of these were several circularrooms, the walls of which had been constructed with masses of ?JO SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS \0L. 66 adobe, reenforced by buncbes of rabbit-brusb or the young twigs ofsage. On the rear wall of this same cave were many representationsof mythological beings, painted in red, white, brown, and yellow. Another cave in this canyon contained the rtiins of four uncon-nected cliff-houses and a subterranean kiva measuring 14 feet indiameter. The fact that the four houses of this small cliff-villagewere entirely detached is quite novel and may lead to extensive revi-sion in prevailing theories regarding the origin of the great communalhouses built by prehistoric peoples south and east of the Rio Colorado. Several caves in Cave Canyon are now flooded wit
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