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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



[Bull. 189 



39C0I 



House 4. X5 



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shapod pit 



^ Poslhole 

 (^S) Cedar timber 



Proboble position 

 of roof beams 



Map 13. — House 4, excavation 5. 



may have resulted from a reconstruction in which the old posts were 

 removed and new postholes dug beside the old ones. 



Four bell-shaped pits were in the house floor and another was just 

 outside the house wall line. All of them were quite large, and two 

 of them, Features 94 and 96, intersected at their bases. Four small, 

 basin-shaped pits were in the house floor and another intersected the 

 wall line. One large irregular pit. Feature 97, was in the house floor ; 

 this pit predates the house, since one of the center posts was intrusive 

 into it. This fact is relevant to the problem of cultural succession at 



