110 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
is divided midway of its length by a similar buttress. This buttress 
supports a heavy girder, thus admitting of the use of two tiers of floor 
beams to span the whole length of the room. The fireplace and chim- 
ney are similar to those described, as is also the single compartment 
for mealing stones. In this case, however, this portion of the room is 
quite large, and the row of mealing stones is built at right angles to its 
back wall and not parallel with it. 
The right-hand portion of the room is provided with a long, straight 
pole suspended from the roof beams. This is a common feature in both 
Tusayan and Zuni. The pole is used for the suspension of the house- 
hold stock of blankets and other garments. The windows of this house 
are small, and two of them, in the right-hand division of the room, have 
been roughly sealed up with masonry. 
Pl. LXxxvrt illustrates a typical Zuni interior. In this instance the 
example happens to be rather larger than the average room. It will 
be noticed that this apartment has many features in common with that 
at Tusayan last described. The pole upon which blankets are sus- 
pended is here incorporated into the original construction of the house, 
its two ends being deeply embedded in the masonry of the wall. The 
entire floor is paved with slabs of much more regular form than any 
used at Tusayan. The Zuni have access to building stone which is of 
a much better grade than is available in Tusayan. 
This room is furnished with long, raised benches of masonry along the 
sides, a feature much more common at Zuni than at Tusayan. Usually 
such benches extend along the whole length of a wall, but here the pro- 
jection is interrupted on one side by the fireplace and chimney, and on 
the left it terminates abruptly near the beginning of a tier of mealing 
stones, in order to afford floor space for the women who grind. The 
metates are arranged in the usual manner, three in a row, but there is 
an additional detached section placed at right angles to the main series. 
The sill of the doorway by which this room communicates with an ad- 
joining one is raised about 18 inches above the floor, and is provided 
with a rudely mortised door in a single panel. Alongside is a small 
hole through which the occupant can prop the door on the inside of the 
communicating room. The subsequent sealing of the small hand-hole 
with mud effectually closes the house against intrusion. The unusual 
height of this door sill from the floor has necessitated the construction 
of a small step, which is built of masonry and covered with a single 
slab of stone. All the doors of Zuni are more or less raised above the 
ground or floor, though seldom to the extent shown in the present 
example. This room has no external door and can be directly entered 
only by means of the hatechway and ladder shown in the drawing. At 
one time this room was probably bounded by outer walls and was pro- 
vided with both door and windows, though now no evideuce of the door 
remains, and the windows have become niches in the wall utilized for 
the reception of the small odds and ends of a Zuni household. The 
