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SMITHSOXIAX i:XPr.()KATIONS, Jg22 



97. 



plateau, like the llopi, .smoked cereniuniallv. Moreover the forms 

 of the prehistoric pipes (fig. 93) thus used differ materially from 

 those of modern pueblos, in size and shape, although a few formerly 

 used by the Hopi have much in common with them. 



The walls of the kiva show structural variations from a standard 

 Alesa Verde kiva. There were eight instead of six small mural pilas- 

 ters, an addition of two to the usual number ; evidently the roof of 

 this subterranean chamber was vaulted and as its size was large it 

 needed more than the regulation number of supports for the roof 



Fig. 95. — Interior of Pipe Shrine Mouse looking southwest across the 

 central kiva. (Photograph by W. R. Rowland. Durango, Colorado.) 



beams. Although the means of entrance to the room is unknown 

 there was prol^ably a hatchway in the roof, but no sign of a ladder 

 was discovered and no vertical logs to support rafters were seen. 



The stones and plastering of the inner walls of the kiva indicate 

 everv where a great conflagration ; the beams of the roof had com- 

 pleteh- disappeared, and the color of the adobe covering of the walls 

 was a Ijright brick-red. The kiva measured about 24 feet in di- 

 ameter and was about the same depth. Its roof served as the floor 

 of a court surrounded l)v one-storied rooms. There was no large 

 banquette on its south side (fig. 95) as almost universally occurs in 

 a regular Mesa Verde kiva. A conspicuous slab of rock set in the 



