KIDDER-GUERNSEY ] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA Ta 
The walls are roughly made and irregular both in line and plumb, 
but are covered with many layers of plaster. There are no niches. 
The regular kiva features present are the ventilator, fire pit, and 
probably a sipapu. No fire screen is in place, but there were found, 
at the spot where it should have been, ten or twelve rough stakes 
whose lower ends showed that they once had been driven 3 or 4 
inches into the earth. They may have formed the basis of an 
adobe-covered screen. The floor at that point was too much broken, 
however, to add any evidence. The ventilator passage could not 
be cleared without destroying the wall under which it ran; its 
entrance is 1 foot wide, 14 inches high. The fire pit is rectangular, 
its slab coping rising 2 inches 
above the floor; in it and in a 
bed between it and the venti- 
lator were the usual white 
ashes. Hole a, diameter 3 
inches (fig. 27), was sealed 
up flush with the floor; on 
cutting out the adobe plug, it 
proved to have smooth sides 
running down. 2 inches, but 
no bottom other than soft 
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i482 10 inches, was noticed because 
it was sealed with gray adobe, 
contrasting in color with the 
reddish floor; this adobe was 
filled with small breast 
feathers of the turkey. The 
hole itself has irregular, un- 
smoothed sides and no _ bot- 
tom; probably it was a 
patched-up break in the floor. No other apertures occurred that 
could be considered as sipapus. On each side of the fire is an 
alignment of five holes containing yucca loops. There are also two 
odd loopholes between the lines and the fire pit. 
In the back or north wall of the kiva, 2 feet 2 inches above 
the floor, isan aperture 1 foot wide by 18 inches high; it opens into 
a tunnel of the same size running toward the back of the cave. 
Time forbade following it to its termination. Eight or nine feet to 
the rear a round vertical shaft 1 foot in diameter emerges from the 
rubbish by the side of a room; it is possible that it and the passage 
out of the kiva may have had some connection. Posts are set ver- 
tically in the wall as shown; they have been burned down flush 
with the masonry on their in-room sides and have been plastered 
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