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tribute fresh air ; but in place of these a segment of the floor was 

 separated from the remainder by a low curved ridge of clay. This 

 area was a fireplace, as indicated by the large quantity of ashes and 

 burnt wood it contained, and many artifacts mixed with the ashes 

 showed that it served also as a shrine. Among other objects in it were 



Fig. 93. — Several pipes from shrine on the floor of the 

 kiva of Pipe Slirinc House. Reduced a little less than 

 one-half. 



a full dozen decorated tobacco pipes made of clay, some blackened by 

 use, others showing no signs that they had ever been smoked. Sev- 

 eral of these are figured in the accompanying illustration. There 

 were fetishes, a small black and white decorated bowl, chipped flint 

 stone knives of fine technique, and other objects. For many years 

 it had been suspected, that the ancient inhabitants of the jMesa Verde 

 clifif dwellings were smokers, but these pipes (figs. 93, 94) are the 



