Fig. 60—Three-room outlook in Canyon del Muerto.
| Fig. 61—Plan of a two-room outlook. |
Figure 61 is a ground plan of an example containing two rooms, which occurs below the large ruin described before (No. [31], [page 119]), and figure 62 shows an example with one room, obscured and built over with Navaho cists. This site is located in the upper part of the canyon, on top of the talus, about 100 feet above the stream, and commands an outlook over several areas of bottom land on both sides. The walls are built about 10 feet high, and are composed of medium-size stones laid in courses and carefully chinked with small spalls. The southwestern corner of the room is broken down, but the eastern wall is still standing, and shows a well-finished opening on that side. There are several Navaho burial cists on this site.
Fig. 62—Plan of outlook and burial cists, No. [64].
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Fig. 63—Plan of rectangular room No. 45. |
Figure 63 is the plan of a type of ruin which is rather anomalous in the canyon. It occurs at the point marked [45] on the map, and occupies a small flat area almost on top of the talus 300 feet or more
above the stream bed. It is just below the ruin described and illustrated on [page 144] ([figure 48]), and hardly 20 feet distant from it, and yet it does not appear to have been connected with it. It consists of a single large room, 20 feet long by 11½ feet wide outside, and the site commands an extensive prospect over bottom lands on both sides of the canyon, and above, but the only opening in the wall on that side is a little peephole 6 inches square and 2 feet from the ground. This is sufficient, however, to command nearly the whole outlook. There is a doorway on the eastern side, one side of which, fairly well finished, remains. There was apparently no other opening, unless one existed on the western side, where, in the center, the wall is broken down to within 2 feet of the ground. Along the western side of the room, at the present ground surface, there are remains of a bench about a foot wide; the eastern side is covered above this level.