Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . M1NDELEFF CAVATE LODGE GROUND PLANS. 231 In the eastern side of the circular room last described there is astorage cist about 3 feet wide aud 2 feet deep. No fire-pit was seenin this cluster, although if the principal apartment were carefullycleaned out it is not improbable that one might be found. A cluster of rooms somewhat resembling the last described is shownin plan in figure 29(5. This cluster occurs at the point marked B on themap. The main room is set back 5£ feet from the face of the bluff,wh
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . M1NDELEFF CAVATE LODGE GROUND PLANS. 231 In the eastern side of the circular room last described there is astorage cist about 3 feet wide aud 2 feet deep. No fire-pit was seenin this cluster, although if the principal apartment were carefullycleaned out it is not improbable that one might be found. A cluster of rooms somewhat resembling the last described is shownin plan in figure 29(5. This cluster occurs at the point marked B on themap. The main room is set back 5£ feet from the face of the bluff,which is vertical at this point, and is oblong in shape, measuring 19£by Hi feet. Its roof is lh feet above the floor in the center of theroom. Attached to its southern end by a passage only a foot in lengthis a small room or storage cist about 5 feet in diameter. At its north-eastern corner there is another room or cist similar in shape, about 7feet in diameter, and reached by a passage 2 feet long. This small N. DoorwAY. £/v Trance. .Fig. 296.—rian of cavate lodges, group B. room is also connected with a long room east of the main apartment bya passage, the southern end of which was carefully sealed up andplastered, making a kind of niche of the northern end. At the south-eastern corner of the room there is a small niche about 2 feet in diam-eter on the level of the floor. The eastern side of the main room is not closed, but opens directlyinto an oblong chamber of irregular size with (lie roof nearly 2 feetlower and the floor a foot higher than the main room. This step in diefloor is shown by the line between the rooms on the ground plan. Thesecond >-oom is about 0 feet wide and 20 feet long, its southern endrounding out slightly so as to form an almost circular chamber. Near 232 ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. [ETM. ANN. 13 the center of its eastern side there is a passageway 2£ feet long leadinginto a circular chamber 10i feet in diameter and with its floor on th
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