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kivas, resulting in the complete destruction of the southeast wall and 

 part of the flooring on that side. The northeast and southwest walls 

 were also partly destroyed at the southeast ends, so that complete 

 measurements could not be taken. The remaining portions of these 

 two walls are 8 feet 2 inches, and 7 feet 10 inches respectively. The 

 northwest is complete, though badly bowed from the weight of the 

 debris on the outside, and is 10 feet 3 inches long. With the tops of 

 the walls weathered, the ceiling height of the kiva could not be de- 

 termined, though it is known to have been more than 4 feet 9 inches 

 as determined from the present height of the walls in the northwest 

 corner. In the northwest wall, 3 feet 6 inches from the northwest 

 corner of the room, is a D-shaped cache 2 feet high, i inch above the 

 floor. The cache is 7 inches wide, 6 inches high, and 5 inches deep. 

 In the floor of the kiva, 3 feet 6 inches from the northeast wall, i foot 

 3 inches from, and parallel to the northeast wall, are four clay-plugged 

 holes, 2 inches in diameter, and averaging i foot 5 inches from center 

 to center. Three feet 9 inches from the northwest wall, and 3 feet 8 

 inches from the northeast wall is the sandstone deflector, i^ inches 

 thick, and 18 inches wide. The height of the deflector is not known 

 since the deflector was broken off 9 inches above the floor, nor could 

 the missing top be found. 



One foot 7 inches from the deflector and near the center of the 

 kiva is a firepit of plastered sandstone slabs, with slightly rounded 

 corners (pi. 26, fig. i ) . The northwest side of the pit is 10 inches long, 

 the northeast side is 12 inches; the other two sides correspond in 

 length to their opposites. The depth is 21 inches. Between the deflec- 

 tor and the northeast wall is another firepit which lacks the regularity 

 of the former. The southeast corner of the pit is 6 inches from the de- 

 flector as contrasted with 3 inches from the southwest. A better idea 

 of the shape and position may be gained by referring to figure 35. 

 The dimensions are 17 inches for the southwest side, 11 inches for the 

 northeast, 12 inches for the northwest, and 10 inches for the south- 

 east. The sides are of sandstone slabs, plastered and with slightly 

 rounded corners. For a depth of 6 inches from the top of the pits, 

 and level with the floor of the kiva, was wind-blown sand under which 

 were ashes. Lying on top of the wind-blown sand in the second fire- 

 pit were Jeddito black-on-yellow and Sikyatki polychrome sherds. 



The ventilator is not as truly aligned with the deflector or firepit 

 as in R-4 and R-24, nor does it conform specifically with other ven- 

 tilators examined in Hopi type kivas. The entrance to the ventilator 

 is in the face of the northeast wall 3 feet 6 inches from the northwest 

 wall, and was originally 8 inches wide but has been reduced in width 

 by partly filling the opening with clay. It is Q inches high, 5 inches 



