Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Mark Daniels, Photographer. Cliff Dwellings, Pueblo Canyon, Sierra Ancha, Apache Trail, CLIFF HOUSES FEWKES. 423 yields nothing. Man then consumes an accumulated supply of it was *hat the cliff-house farmers retired to their caves, inwhich they had stored their corn, seeking whatever comfort was pos-sible. Thus the cliff house (pi. 3) became the winter residence ofthe farmer. In the warm summer he could live in primitive brushlodges near his farm, but in winter he retired to his winter home inthe cliffs,
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Mark Daniels, Photographer. Cliff Dwellings, Pueblo Canyon, Sierra Ancha, Apache Trail, CLIFF HOUSES FEWKES. 423 yields nothing. Man then consumes an accumulated supply of it was *hat the cliff-house farmers retired to their caves, inwhich they had stored their corn, seeking whatever comfort was pos-sible. Thus the cliff house (pi. 3) became the winter residence ofthe farmer. In the warm summer he could live in primitive brushlodges near his farm, but in winter he retired to his winter home inthe cliffs, where, with abundant food at hand, it was possible forhim to devote himself to improvements in his arts and the construc-tion of better habitations; but above all, feeling the capriciousness ofnature, upon which his future crops depended, and haunted by a fearthat the gods would not be propitious in the coming year, he per-formed a ceaseless round of ceremonies to appease or control them. Various theories have been propounded to explain why extensivecommunity houses with elaborate ceremonial rooms were built incliffs. We are told that they were constructed in i
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