ould be made livab

le again. And so, in a remote section in the lower end of Frijoles, the Indians again went to work in a group of rooms high above the floor of the Canyon. They were a quarter-mile from the ruins of the Long House and Puwige which were in open sight. Like true cliff dwellers in prehistoric times they rebuilt old homes into new ones. Rooms were cleaned out. The old roof structures were removed from the inside. Loose building stones

• were removed from th
• e broken-down walls. And the cave rooms above were al
• so cleaned out. Indian men again cut
• pine timbe
• rs for roof poles with crude stone axes. They
• 6 foot/16 gauge shear
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• rebuilt walls and laid the poles over the tops. Indian women mixed mudÑgoo
• d hard Tewa mud. They
• brought in clay
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• from nearby arroyosor
• from the Rio Grande and raised their talus houses two stories high. Some of the caves, after a hundred years, had erod