. Bulletin. Ethnology. ^^J^^-~^^ J:. \Mi~ EXCAVATED DWELLINGS IN CLIFFS OF VERDE VALLEY, ARIZONA. (c. mindeleff) or more chaml^ers, approximately rectan- gular or roundish in outline, adapted to the needs of the occupants. The floor is often below the level of the threshold, and both floors and walls are sometimes plastered, and, in cases, a simple orna- mental dado in one or more colors is car- ried aroun<l some of the principal rooms. Frequently crude fireplaces occur near the entrance, sometimes provided with smoke vents; and numerous niches, al- coves, and storage places are excavated a
. Bulletin. Ethnology. ^^J^^-~^^ J:. \Mi~ EXCAVATED DWELLINGS IN CLIFFS OF VERDE VALLEY, ARIZONA. (c. mindeleff) or more chaml^ers, approximately rectan- gular or roundish in outline, adapted to the needs of the occupants. The floor is often below the level of the threshold, and both floors and walls are sometimes plastered, and, in cases, a simple orna- mental dado in one or more colors is car- ried aroun<l some of the principal rooms. Frequently crude fireplaces occur near the entrance, sometimes provided with smoke vents; and numerous niches, al- coves, and storage places are excavated at convenient points. In front of the ex- cavated rooms, porches were sometimes built of poles, brush, and stones, holes cut in the cliff wall furnishing the pos- terior support for roof and floor beams. These cavate dwellings are most numer- ous on the E. side of the Jeinez plateau, facing the Rio Grande, where almost every northern escarpment of the mesas between the mountains and the river is honeycombed with them (Bandelier, Hewett, Mindeleff). They are also nu- merous along the Rio San Juan and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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