FEWKES] ANTIQUITIES OF MESA VEKDE NATIONAL PAEK 55 



rior diameter of the kiva is 12 feet. The numbers of pilasters is 6: 

 their average breadth is a little more than 2 feet, and the intervals 

 between them averages 3 feet 6 inches. 



The deflector is a stone slab 3 feet wide and 2 feet high. The dis- 

 tance from the flue to the deflector is 2 feet; from the deflector to 

 the fire-hole 11 inches. The diameter of the fire-hole is 2 feet, its 

 depth 18 inches. The sipapii is 2 feet 8 inches from the fire-hole; its 

 diameter is 2 inches, and its de^Dth 4 inches. There are 4 mural 

 niches. 



This kiva is situated in the terrace below that last mentioned, that is, 

 in the second terrace, and was wholly buried when excavations began. 

 The roofs of rooms 30 and 31 overlooked this kiva, their floors being 

 on the same level as the kiva roof. 



Kiva H (pi. 18) measures 8 feet from the floor to the top of the 

 wall, and 6 feet from the floor to the top of the pilasters. The height 

 of the banquette is 4 feet G inches. The diameter of the kiva is 11 

 feet 6 inches. 



The deflector is a curved stone wall joining the kiva wall on each 

 side of the flue." It is built of stone, 7 feet G inches high. 10 inches 

 wide, and 20 inches high. The deflector is 1 foot G inches from the 

 flue and 15 inches from the fire-hole. The diameter of the fire-hole 

 is 2 feet and its depth 1 foot. 



The sipapii is situated 2 feet from the fire-hole • it is 3 inches in 

 diameter and 4 inches deep. 



There are 2 mnral niches. Exceptional features of this kiva are the 

 curved deflector and the opening into a small room at the northwestern 

 corner. Instead of extending straight from the kiva to the vertical 

 ventilator, the flue turns at a right angle midway in its course. The 

 ventilator is built at one corner of the kiva wall. As this kiva lies 

 deep below the base of the round tower, a fine view of these several 

 characteristics may be obtained from that point. 



KIVA I 



Wlien work began there was no indication of the walls of this 

 kiva, except a fragment of one which at first was supposed to In-long 

 to a small secular room. The kiva had been filled with debris by 

 those Avho had dug into the upper rooms, and a large hole" was 

 broken through the high western wall of kiva L, through which to 

 throw debris. The removal of this accumulation was a work of 



" A similar deflector is recorded by Mr. Morley as existing in tlie Cannonball ruin, and is 

 figured by Nordenskiold from tlie Mesa Verde. 



'> This entrance in tlie wall appears in all photographs of this portion of Cliff Palace. 



