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body was found against the wall and curved around the corner with 

 the head against the east wall, though facing west. The bones were 

 so well preserved that the skeleton was removed for later study. 

 Between the skeleton and the roof were two sandstone slabs in a 

 vertical position, across which the skeleton lay. The slabs appeared 

 to be part of the fallen roof support, rather than those of a burial 

 cist. In a horizontal position on top of the skeleton lay a flat, oval 

 stone I foot wide, and i foot 8 inches long upon which was a crushed 

 corrugated olla. The skeleton was found 4 feet 5 inches below the 

 top of the excavation in alternating layers of sand and human excre- 

 ment, overlaid by about 2 feet 6 inches of adobe. The kiva at this 

 point was filled with rocks that were once a part of adjacent dwelling 

 rooms. 



ARTIFACTS 



With the exception of the beads and flint point found with burial 

 number 3, the only artifacts found came from the midden. Among 

 these discards were three types of stone axes ; single and double 

 groove encircling the head, and three-quarter groove. Manos were 

 of two types : oval with two flat sides, and triangular. Similar grinding 

 stones are in use among the Hopi today, each type serving a different 

 purpose. Metates of fine-grained stone, of which three were found, 

 are used with the triangular manos to produce the finest meal. Ham- 

 merstones, pottery polishing stones, pot lids worked from thin sand- 

 stone tablets, a pestle, wedge, an " arrowshaft straightener," two 

 stone mauls, and a triangular piece of sandstone grooved at two 

 corners and weighing about four pounds, were also found. 



KIVA KT-II 



A depression just southeast of KT-I proved on excavation to be 

 a second kiva, which we designated KT-II (fig. 25 and pi. 21, fig. 2). 

 The two ceremonial chambers are not exactly in line, however, since 

 the southwest corner of the platform in KT-I is only 12 feet from the 

 northwest corner of KT-II, while the southeast corner of the platform 

 is 15 feet from the northeast corner of KT-II. This difference in- 

 dicates that the kivas, though facing the southwest, varied as to the 

 number of degrees, a condition frequently noted in structures of 

 this type. The interval between the kivas was not examined, but 

 from its size and position it is thought to contain a room. 



In comparing the kivas only minor differences were noted. They are 

 of the same type and approximately the same size, though KT-II 



