SCAFFOLD IN SAND CANYON

One of the cliffs bordering Sand Canyon has an inaccessible cave in

which is an artificial platform or lookout shown in plate 7, _a_.

Although this structure is not as well preserved as the scaffold in

the neighborhood of Scaffold House in Laguna (Sosi) Canyon, on the

Navaho National Monument, it seems to have had a similar purpose. It

is constructed of logs reaching from one side of the cave to the other

supporting a floor of flat stones and adobe. Its elevated situation

would necessitate for entrance either holes cut in the cliffs or

ladders.

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