Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . CLIFF HOUSES—FEWKES. 425 In a somewhat similar way in the modern circular kivas still usedby the^Rio Grande Pueblos the roof has not the complicated structureof the pure type of the Mesa Verde, but as in those of the NavajoMonument we are unable to say whether it has resulted from anarrested degenerate development. In the Mesa Verde we find a fewexamples of flat-roofed kivas, but only a sporadic example of thevaulted roof or prehistoric form occurs outside the basin of theupper San Juan. The elaborate construction of the Me
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . CLIFF HOUSES—FEWKES. 425 In a somewhat similar way in the modern circular kivas still usedby the^Rio Grande Pueblos the roof has not the complicated structureof the pure type of the Mesa Verde, but as in those of the NavajoMonument we are unable to say whether it has resulted from anarrested degenerate development. In the Mesa Verde we find a fewexamples of flat-roofed kivas, but only a sporadic example of thevaulted roof or prehistoric form occurs outside the basin of theupper San Juan. The elaborate construction of the Mesa Verde kiva is thus adoptedto distinguish one culture area of the Southwest, and wherever wefind it we may be reasonably sure that the people who made it wereakin. A typical cliff dwelling of the southern type occurs on the upperSalt River, a tributary of the Gila, situated not far from RooseveltDam, and is shown in plate 6. This ruin, sadly in need of excavationand repair, is, however, protected by the Government and quite easilyaccessible from the Apache Trail
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