tse-i-ya-kin

Updated: June 26, 2025

The characteristics of the class are: A site more or less difficult of access generally an elaborate ground plan, although sometimes they consist of only a few rooms and the invariable presence of the kiva or estufa, here always circular in form. The largest ruin of this class occurs in Del Muerto, and is known as Mummy Cave ruin. It is called by the Navajo Tse-i-ya-kin.

Cosmos Mindeleff - 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