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Kokopnyama, where Hough records a wall elaborately decorated in 

 color/ and the writer found geometric designs scratched upon the wall 

 plaster of a kiva. 



DOORS 



We found only seven doors, a surprising fact considering the 

 number of rooms opened. But when it is realized that until a few 

 years ago practically all entrances to first floor rooms of historic Hopi 

 pueblos were made through the roof, this condition will be understood. 

 Even today in Oraibi, the oldest inhabited Hopi village, many rooms 

 now partly buried by accumulations of sand and debris are still en- 

 tered in this manner. There is hardly a room, either above or below 

 ground, in Oraibi or villages on the Second Mesa, that at some time 



Doorways 



Fig. 28. 



the writer has not been permitted to enter. It was observed that in 

 old dwellings on the ground floor which have for years been used 

 for storage, entrance was usually made through the ceiling. The 

 doorways at Kokopnyama were square to rectangular, or T-shaped. 

 Dimensions in all vary (fig. 28). Lintels were either of split juniper 

 sticks about i4 inches in diameter set in adobe mortar, or of sand- 

 stone slabs. 



CACHES 



Caches used both for domestic and ceremonial purposes were found 

 and the interiors of all were plastered. In some caches, corners were 

 rounded with plaster and sometimes emphasized until the cache was 



* Archeological Field-Work in Northeastern Arizona. The Museum-Gates 

 Expedition of 1901. Ann. Rep., U. S. Nat. Mus., 1901, pp. 279-358. 



