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They resemble in plan Navaho cists, but the masonry, which is exactly like the other walls here, will not permit the hypothesis of Navaho construction.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

The structures within the kiva, shown on the ground plan, are Navaho burial cists.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

Three of the cists have long been in ruins and broken down; the one on the east is but a few years old.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

These cists were found at Ballas both in “stairway” tombs and in open Neolithic graves.

From El Kab by Quibell, James Edward

He next classifies the various monuments on which the sculptures have been observed, as standing-stones, cromlechs, stones in chambered tumuli, and stones in sepulchral cists.

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John