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Show 270 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Stiff A THREE-STORY CLIFF DWELLING IN (SEE TEXT, PAGE 2 6 4) of a small animal, containing a pipe and smoking materials, and a number of bone implements. A basket lay beneath the head, another was inverted over it, and a blanket made of cords wrapped with strips of rabbit skin enveloped the entire frame. Evidently, when animate, the shrunken body had been that of an important personage in the ancient community. EARS OF CORN THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD As we trenched upward, following the rock, which sloped at an angle of 45 degrees, we cut through various cribbings of stones, logs, and brush built as retain-insr walls to hold back the refuse and thus Photograph by Edwin L. Wisherd MUMMY CAVE increase the area of the cave floor. Eventually we came to a large series of storage bins. These were rude inclosures o f irregular form from two to six feet in diameter a n d of varying depth. Large, thin slabs of stone set on edge composed the walls, the joints of w h i c h were sealed with mud made tough with shredded bark, reed leaves, or corn-husks. The roofs of only two were in place. Resting upon t he tops of the slabs in each case was a juglike neck of adobe reinforced with sticks. The covers were slabs of stone worked down to nearly c i r c u l ar form. In one of the storage c y s t s there were 700 ears of corn, which, although thousands of years o 1 d. w e r e as bright and fresh as if recently gathered. In another there was a heap of slender gourds of t h e kind from which bottles and dippers were made, and in a third a quantity of seeds of a variety which the Navajo still grind as a substitute for flour. As the rubbish resulting from occupation accumulated in the cave, the cysts farthest down the slope were allowed to become filled with it, and contained, naturally enough, many discarded objects. In such places we found hundreds of cloth sandals, many of them handsomely ornamented both in colors and raised weaving; baskets, arrows, knives, agricultural implements, and a variety of minor objects too numerous for individual mention. In the center of each cluster of storage cysts there was a dwelling chamber, a rudely circular structure 12 to 25 feet in |