Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . CAVATE LODGE STORAGE CISTS. 221 particularly in point of size, it is difficult to draw a line betweensmall rooms and large storage cists, but including the latter thereare two hundred rooms on the main level, divided into seventy-fourdistinct and separate sets. These sets comprise from one to fourteenrooms each. On the upper level there are fifty-six rooms, divided intotwenty-four sets, making a total of two hundred and fifty-six nearly as cau be determined by the extent of these
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . CAVATE LODGE STORAGE CISTS. 221 particularly in point of size, it is difficult to draw a line betweensmall rooms and large storage cists, but including the latter thereare two hundred rooms on the main level, divided into seventy-fourdistinct and separate sets. These sets comprise from one to fourteenrooms each. On the upper level there are fifty-six rooms, divided intotwenty-four sets, making a total of two hundred and fifty-six nearly as cau be determined by the extent of these ruins the pop-ulation of the settlement was probably between one hundred and fiftyand two hundred persons. There is great variety in the rooms, both in size and a rule each set or cluster of rooms consists of a large apartment,entered by a narrow passageway from the face of the bluff, and anumber of smaller rooms connected with it by narrow doorways orshort passages and having no outlet except through the large FIG. 290.—Walled storage cist. As a rule two or more of these smaller back rooms are attached tothe main apartment, and sometimes the back rooms have still smallerrooms attached to them. In several cases there are three rooms in aseries or row extending back into the rock, and in one instance (at thepoint marked E on the map, plate XXV) there are four such rooms, allof good size. Attached to the main apartment, and sometimes also to the backrooms, there are usually a number of storage cists, differing from thesmaller looms of the cluster only in size. These cists or cubby holesrange in size from a font to 5 feet in diameter, and arc nearly alwaysOn a level Of the floor, although in sonic instances they extend below it. 222 ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. [ Storage cists are also sometimes excavated in the exterior walls ofthe cliffs, and occasionally they are partly excavated and partly in-closed by a rough, semicircular wall. A
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