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Preliminary report on a visit to the Navaho National Monument, Arizona

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Jesse Walter Fewkes
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The report recounts an archaeological reconnaissance of cliff-dwelling ruins in northern Arizona, documenting approaches to a national monument and providing detailed descriptions of major cliff houses and smaller sites. It examines architectural features such as kiva roof construction, room arrangements, pictographs, and building scaffolds, and inventories pottery, stone implements, and a distinctive cliff-dwellers cradle while including plans and photographic illustrations. The author relates Hopi oral traditions that link particular clans to these ruins, assesses cultural continuities with inhabited pueblos, and closes with recommendations for careful excavation, repair, and further study to clarify prehistoric settlement patterns and migrations.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate 1. Kitsiel Frontispiece
2. Inscription House 1
3. Wukóki ruin at Black Falls 2
4. Ruin A, southwest of Marsh pass 4
5. Ruin B, at Marsh pass 7
6. View into Laguna canyon from Marsh pass 9
7. Swallows Nest 10
8. Betatakin—general view 13
9. Betatakin—western end 14
10. Ground plan of Betatakin 14
11. Betatakin—central part 17
12. Pictographs at Betatakin 18
13. Ground plan of Kitsiel (Keet Seel) ruin 21
14. Diagrams showing kiva roof construction 23
15. Pottery from Navaho National Monument 24
16. Pottery from Navaho National Monument 26
17. Pottery and stone implements from Navaho National Monument 28
18. Pottery from Navaho National Monument 30
19. Cliff-dwellers cradle—front 32
20. Cliff-dwellers cradle—rear 32
21. Cliff-dwellers cradle—side 32
22. Sketch map of the Navaho National Monument 34
Figure 1. Scaffold of Scaffold House 18
2. Ground plan of Trickling-spring House 22
3. Design on cliff-dwellers cradle 29

BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY

BULLETIN 50 PLATE 2

INSCRIPTION HOUSE

(From a photograph by William B. Douglass.)