Preliminary report on a visit to the Navaho National Monument, Arizona

The report recounts an archaeological reconnaissance of cliff-dwelling ruins in northern Arizona, documenting approaches to a national monument and providing detailed descriptions of major cliff houses and smaller sites. It examines architectural features such as kiva roof construction, room arrangements, pictographs, and building scaffolds, and inventories pottery, stone implements, and a distinctive cliff-dwellers cradle while including plans and photographic illustrations. The author relates Hopi oral traditions that link particular clans to these ruins, assesses cultural continuities with inhabited pueblos, and closes with recommendations for careful excavation, repair, and further study to clarify prehistoric settlement patterns and migrations.