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deep, and is roofed with sticks covered with clay. The base of th^ 

 entrance and passageway is level with the kiva floor, and is of clay 

 (pi. 26). This short passageway — if it may be so termed — is built into 

 the masonry wall of the kiva and connects with a circular airshaft 6 

 inches in diameter that extends upward at right angles to the passage- 

 way. The airshaft is a hole running vertically through the middle of 

 the wall from the ventilator passageway to the remaining top of the 

 wall, which is 3 feet above the floor of the kiva. The airshaft is strik- 



b'lG. 35. — Plan of Kiva R-23. 



Kiva R-23 is the only kiva excavated in wliich the ventilator is on the north side. In 

 this instance the entire passageway and airshaft are within the north wall. From among 

 the coals in the firepit a datable specimen g'ives the year 14 16 A. D. 



ingly like an ordinary flue. In a small midden-fill on top of the roof 

 clay were sherds of Jeddito black-on-yellow and Sikyatki polychrome. 

 Further investigations of conditions concerning this kiva might 

 determine it to be the rear of an abandoned kiva remodeled for cere- 

 monial purposes, or another type of kiva used contemporaneously 

 with the Hopi type. It is possible that the northeast and southwest 

 walls can be followed along their bases for a sufficient distance to 

 settle this question. It should be remembered, however, that the 

 principal object of our limited excavations was search for beam speci- 



