60 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 65 
No sign of flooring could be found in excavating kiva 1, but that 
it once did have an adobe floor some 2 feet above bedrock in front 
and connecting with the bedrock at the back seems to be shown by 
smoke marks on the side walls. The room is identified as a possible 
kiva because of the bench at the rear, the multiple layers of plaster 
still adhering to parts of the masonry, and the presence of two - 
small, carefully made holes (3 inches in diameter by 3 inches deep; 
2 inches in diameter by 2 inches deep, respectively) cut into the 
bedrock at the rear. These little holes suggest sipapus very strongly. 
They may have been covered by the adobe floor, the level of which 
can not be exactly made out at this spot; but, on the other hand, the 
bedrock itself may have formed the floor at this point, in which case 
they would have been exposed. Toward the center of the room was 
a bed of white ashes and part of the underpinning of a circular 
adobe structure, all that remained of the fire pit. 
Kiva 2, adjoining this room on the west, is comparatively much 
better preserved, most of its hard-packed adobe floor being still 
intact. In shape kiva 2 is roughly rectangular with rounded cor- 
ners; 1t measures 12 feet east and west, and was presumably about 
10 feet across from north to south. There is no bench. The walls 
still retain much of their plaster; at one spot eight heavily smoked 
layers could be counted. The fire pit is circular, slightly raised, and 
coped as usual with adobe; it was full of clear, white ashes. Directly 
south and east of it there lay on the broken floor a compacted mass 
of adobe and fragments of sandstone, possibly the remains of a fire 
screen. There are four slabs of sandstone laid flat and cemented flush 
with the floor; their upper surfaces are well smoothed as if by long 
use. Three of them were taken up in excavation; the fourth, left in 
situ, can be seen in plate 21, a. The same photograph also shows eight 
small holes sunk into the adobe. As a, figure 24,is a plain, cylindrical 
cavity, occupying approximately the prescribed position for the 
sipapu, it is provisionally identified assuch. The other seven holes are 
arranged in two parallel alignments, one on each side of the fire pit; 
the western range has four, the eastern three holes. They have 
neatly rounded edges, and vary from 14 to 3 inches in diameter. All 
but one contained loops resembling that found in the kiva of Olla 
House. These loops are made of bent twigs, except in a single case; 
where a doubled yucca string is employed. As all were left in posi- 
tion, the method of anchoring could not be observed, but 1t was, per- 
haps, by means of a crosspiece, as in Olla House (fig. 22). It will 
be noticed that the holes in each series are in almost exact align- 
ment. Whether or not a fourth hole existed at the south end of 
the eastern series could not be determined because of the bad con- 
dition of the floor. There can be little doubt that these series of 
loop holders served as attachments for the lower bars of looms. 
