NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA HAURY AND IIARGRAVE 5I 



with the fire-place and the ventilator opening, and also because of its 

 low height, its function as a deflector must be regarded as doubtful. 



Ventilator. — The ventilator shaft connects with the room through 

 an opening in the front of the platform. This opening, a foot square 

 at the floor level, is located 7 feet from the northeast corner (fig. 12, g; 

 pi. 17, fig. 2). Leaning against the platform immediately north of 

 the vent was a squared slab which fitted the opening. The duct passes 

 under the platform at an angle ; it is stone-lined and its floor rises 

 slightly to pass under the east wall of the chamber. While two wooden 

 beams (fig. 12, h) supported the wall at this point, there was no indi- 

 cation that the platform slabs above the passage had been similarly 

 supported. As already mentioned, the east wall at about this point 

 had fallen away, making it impossible to determine whether or not 

 the shaft continued vertically to the surface. 



Sub-floor depository. — ^Situated between the problematical de- 

 flector and the platform is a rectangular hole (fig. 12, /) measuring 

 10 by 6 inches by 13 inches in depth. The sides are formed of rock 

 slabs which protrude slightly above the floor. This pit was filled with 

 black earth. 



Floor perforations. — Six holes pecked through the floor flags 

 (fig. 12, i) may next be mentioned. When the first one was dis- 

 covered, west of the fire-pit and in alignment with the usual kiva 

 features, it was considered to be the sipapu. Later, however, five other 

 similar openings were exposed, leaving some doubt as to the presence 

 of a true sipapu. The first opening west of the fire-pit is i foot 

 10 inches away and the second a foot from the west wall. Both are 

 i^ inches in diameter. The two pairs to the north and the south are 

 about equidistant from the center of the kiva but not equally spaced. 

 Ahhough not in alignment, as in Hopi kivas, it is not improbable that 

 these holes once served as loom anchors. A seventh opening, plugged 

 with a chipped stone (fig. 12, /), was found in the southern part of 

 the room. The depth of these holes could not be determined. 



The presence of two rounded stones in the floor (fig. 12, k), one on 

 either side of the deflector, must also be recorded. They are somewhat 

 thicker than the average floor flags and of a different material. Their 

 significance, if any, is not known. 



Roof. — The positions of a few sizable timbers lying across the 

 kiva platform, indicate that the principal roof supports spanned the 

 chamber across the short dimension, as would be expected. Further 

 details could not be learned although numerous sections of branches 

 a few inches in diameter were presumably fragments of cross pieces. 



Relation to living rooms. — Exploratory tests into contiguous rooms, 

 two to the east and one to the west, revealed the fact that the kiva 



