NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA — HAURY AND HARGRAVE III 



The northeast wall was lo feet 4 inches long as contrasted to 11 feet 

 2 inches for the southwest wall. The same lack of consistency was 

 found in the length of the northwest wall and the corresponding width 

 of the kiva between the walls of the platform face. The height of 

 the kiva could not be determined, though those corners with less evi- 

 dence of erosion are the northwest and southwest, which are 6 feet 10 

 inches, and 6 feet 2 inches respectively from the kiva floor to the top 

 of the remaining walls. The vertical side of the platform is of 

 masonry and extends to the side walls, but on account of the weathered 

 condition it could not be determined whether there were offsets be- 

 tween the platform and walls. 



In the northwest wall are two plaster-lined caches. The first of 

 these is 7 inches from the northwest corner, and on the same level 

 as the base of the cache and floor of the kiva. The height of the cache 

 from the floor to the middle of the top, which is an arc, is 2 feet 7 

 inches. The depths and widths at the top and bottom differ. The 

 bottom is 18 inches wide, the top 11 inches at the floor level, the depth 

 15 inches, while the top is oval and slopes downward toward the 

 rear and base of the cache. An unusual arrangement in this cache is 

 a shelf, 17 inches above the floor, composed of three cross sticks of 

 split juniper about i inch in diameter upon which rest two sandstone 

 slabs, one upon the other, the thickness of the shelf being about 3 

 inches. On the floor of the cache was found a large piece of gypsum. 

 The second cache is at the opposite end of the northwest wall, 2 feet 

 10 inches from the southwest corner. It is D-shaped with the flat side 

 at the bottom, which is 8 inches above the floor of the kiva. The cache 

 is 6 inches wide, 5 inches high, and 8 inches deep. Within the cache 

 was a quantity of red paint. 



The floor of the kiva was paved with sandstone slabs, except be- 

 tween the deflector and the ventilator, where it was of clay; many of 

 the flagstones were smeared with red paint. The writer has never 

 heard of kiva floors being painted, and from the quantity of red 

 paint found in the cache, he leans to the belief that possibly the sand- 

 stone flags of the floor were used for powdering the lump paint. 

 Along the northeast side of the floor, and 18 inches from the northeast 

 wall, was found the usual line of holes drilled into the stones of the 

 floor. These holes were four in number, each with a diameter of 2^ 

 inches, and averaging 17 inches from center to center. On the south- 

 west side was another line, also of four holes, i foot 3 inches from 

 the southwest wall ; i foot 5 inches from center to center ; and aver- 

 aging 2 inches in diameter. These holes on the southwest side were 



