NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA — HAURY AND HARGRAVE IO9 



the deflector and parallel with it is a pit 12 inches long, 7^ inches 

 wide, and 10 inches deep, the bottom of which forms the second 

 level of the firepit. This deeper part is filled with ashes, but its 

 exact function is not known. 



A second firepit 6^ inches from the one described (pis. 23, fig. 2, and 

 24, fig. i) is 12 inches square and 13 inches deep. There is nothing 

 unusual about this pit, which was clay lined with hand rounded cor- 

 ners, and in line with the first firepit, the deflector, and ventilator. 

 Like the first firepit it was fitted with a sandstone cover, and was 

 filled with wood ashes. The top is level with the floor. 



Near the center of the platform is the entrance to the ventilator, 

 which is 14 inches square. Over the top, and sustaining the weight 

 of the platform floor is a lintel of sandstone slabs set in mortar. The 

 bottom of the lintel is a single slab, upon which are two shorter slabs, 

 placed end to end. From the platform to the bottom of the lintel is 

 7 inches. The length of the passageway is not known since it is partly 

 eroded near the southeast wall; it probably extended through the 

 platform as in the kivas at Kin Tiel. The length of the part remaining 

 is 3 feet 2 inches. For 7 inches back from the entrance, the floor of 

 the passageway is formed of a sandstone slab ; but at a point 5 inches 

 from the entrance there is an upright slab 11 inches high, behind 

 which were found several lumps of red paint, two manos covered 

 with paint, two hammerstones, half of a Jeddito yellow bowl con- 

 taining fragments of small bones, and a piece of chert, all of which 

 were on the sandstone floor which extended about 6 inches beyond the 

 upright slab. Covering these artifacts and reaching to the top of the 

 upright slab was an unsmoothed floor of clay that gradually sloped 

 upward and back to the end of the passageway. Between the level of 

 the upright slab and the roof of the passageway was a distance of 

 6 inches. Though it could not be definitely determined that the up- 

 right slab with the clay behind it was a step reducing the height 

 of the passageway, as found in the kivas at Kin Tiel, still there is a 

 remarkable similarity both in principle and execution. The presence 

 of l)ie artifacts behind the slab and beneath the clay floor might, 

 however, indicate that the slab or " step," was at one time farther 

 back in the passageway — at the end of the sandstone floor possibly — 

 if there was an abrupt change in the floor level. Owing to erosion, 

 conditions near the rear of the passageway were unfavorable for ac- 

 curate notations. The floor of the platform was broken over the 

 passageway by the fallen roof of the kiva, but enough of the passage- 

 way roof remained intact to show the order of construction, which was 



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