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Show 636 " A. Yes, that was a ruin of the old Indians, up on the cliff near by. " Q. About where is that located? " A. That was opposite the mouth of Dirty Devil River; but there were others all the way down." R. 1532- 1533. [ Complainant's Exhibit no. 14]. Other ruins were seen all the way down on the walls of the river. There were storage caves in many places where they used to store corn, in sort of bins up under the cliffs. R. 1533. These were not the same Indians that live in the vicinity at the present time, but were a tribe called by the Piutes, " Shinumos," and were the so- called cliff- dwellers. These same Indians may exist in some of the tribes today, as the Hopis are still cliff- dwellers, and the fact that these particular Indians lived in the cliffs did not indicate that they were different from the other Indians, simply that they had chosen these places for defense. R. 1534. |
