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the chimney was used to carry fresh air down it to the 

 altar and the smoke went up through the entrance in the 

 roof. 



In the plastered floor are usually found two rows of 

 willow staples inserted, apparently on which to fasten 

 baskets or curtains for some unknown use in the cere- 

 monial of the priests or people. 



The people were divided into klans and each klan had 

 its kiva, and from these kivas the dancers, painted and 

 ornamented, emerged on their festal days. 



Miss Dissete, connected with the Indian school services, 

 says of the present Pueblo Indians, "that they are al- 

 ways getting ready for a dance, having a dance, or get- 

 ting over a dance." 



Dear old Bandelier, in his Delight Makers, laid the 

 scene of his novel nearly four hundred years ago in this 

 very canon, and the ruins that he reported in his imag- 

 ination are the same ones that resound with the voices of 

 the old and young archaeologists of 1911. 



We can well suspect that these kivas were the dark 

 scenes of political plotting of the various parties in these 

 little republics in the old days. 



In the cave dwellings the religious turn of these people 

 is evidenced by the receptacle for the "prayer meal"; a 

 hole in the wall large enough to hold about a half a gallon 

 of the meal, kept the sacred offering always ready for 

 use ; and a pinch of the meal cast north, south, east, and 

 west, then up and down, reached the six cardinal points 

 and the god would be sure to take notice. 



In a ceremonial smoke, the smoke was likewise puffed 

 in these six directions. 



The whole region is referred to as the Pajarito and 

 each separate canon and mesa had its dwellings. 



Rough, inartistic drawings of the sun, snakes, men, and 

 other figures adorn the rocks and caves. A rather com- 



