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the kiva, is indicated on an adjacent large bowlder, the side of which 
has been pecked down and vertically grooved to conform to the 
round shape of the ascending shaft. In front of the ventilator lies 
what was apparently some form of deflector. It is now a mere adobe 
ridge 14 inches long by 3 inches high, carefully finished off and so 
smoked that it seems unlikely that there was ever any structure built 
over it. It may perhaps have served as a support or a rest for some 
sort of movable screen; the floor between it and the ventilator, how- 
ever, is so much broken that it cannot be seen whether or not there 
was ever a groove or a series of holes to receive the lower end of such 
a contrivance. 
The fire pit, directly behind this peculiar “ deflector,” is remarkably 
symmetrical and is neatly coped about with adobe. Behind the fire 
pit the floor of hard-packed adobe ends, the rear half being supplied 
by the bedrock itself, made smooth by pecking away the protu- 
berances and filling up the hollows with clay. The sipapu, a round 
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hoie 8 inches wide and 3? inches deep, is sunk into the solid rock 
(fig. 21, a); 24 inches from it we noticed, while brushing off the 
floor, a faint ring in the plaster, and, on cutting around it, opened 
up a sealed sipapu (0) of finer construction and greater depth than 
the other. It was filled with clean sand, plugged with adobe, and 
then plastered over. We do not hesitate to call it a sipapu, because 
it lies exactly in the normal position of that ceremonial opening, ~ 
back of the fire pit and on the line drawn from it through the center 
of the ventilator opening. Why it should have been closed and a 
second one made so close beside it is a mystery. 
There are three other holes in the kiva floor—e, a shallow depres- 
sion near the wall, pecked out, perhaps, for a pot rest; d, an excava- 
tion 2 inches deep, 4 inches in diameter, less carefully shaped than 
the sipapu; ¢, containing a loop of braided yucca anchored in the 
adobe floor by means of a cross-stick and so placed that the top of 
the loop was just below the floor level (fig. 22). The underside 
