. Bulletin. Ethnology. 222 CAWASUMSEUCK CAYOOSH CREEK [b. a. SECTION OF ROCK SHELTER of danger and for the performance of re- ligious rites. In numerous cases deposits of sacriticial offerings are found, and tlie walls are covered with symbolic or other paintings or engravings. The Zufli em- ploy caverns as shrines and as depositories for images of their gods and the painted bones of animals, and caves have an impor- tant place in the genesis myths of many tribes. Burial in caves was common, and chambers of various depths from the sur- face were used. Pits and crevices in the rocks were al
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 222 CAWASUMSEUCK CAYOOSH CREEK [b. a. SECTION OF ROCK SHELTER of danger and for the performance of re- ligious rites. In numerous cases deposits of sacriticial offerings are found, and tlie walls are covered with symbolic or other paintings or engravings. The Zufli em- ploy caverns as shrines and as depositories for images of their gods and the painted bones of animals, and caves have an impor- tant place in the genesis myths of many tribes. Burial in caves was common, and chambers of various depths from the sur- face were used. Pits and crevices in the rocks were also repositories for the dead. Far better adapted to man's use as dwellings than the deep caves are the rock recesses or shelters which owe their origin not to the action of underground waters, but to undercutting by the waters of the sea or lakes and ordinary streams or to disintegration of portions of steep rock faces aided by wind action. These recesses often have somewhat level floors and arched roofs, formed by hard layers of rock, which ex- pand toward the front, thus form- ing roomy and well-lighted dwelling places. They are no- where so numer- ous as in the plateau region of the Colo- rado and Rio Grande valleys, where the well-exposed rock faces in a multitude of cases are deeply undercut by the gnaw- ing agencies of disintegration aided by the winds. In this region man was not content with the natural shelters so abundantly furnished, but the recesses were enlarged, and in places where the rock was massive and easily worked great numbers of chambers were excavated for dwellings. See Archeology, Antiquity, Cliff-dwellings. Consult Andrews in 11th Rep. Pea- body Mus., 1878; Dall (1) in Cont. N. A. EthnoL, I, 1877, (2) in Smithson. Cont., XXII, 1878; Haywood, Nat. and Aborig. Hist. Tenn., 1823; Holmes in Am. An- Ill, no. 3, 1890; Jones in Smith- son. Cont., XXII, 1876; Mercer (1) in Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, pt 2, 1896; (2) in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, XXXIV,
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