126 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
sipapuh is at much greater distance than usual from the katchina re- 
cess. It is also quite exceptional in that the plug is let into an orifice 
in one of the paving stones, as shown on the plan, instead of into a 
cottonwood plank. Some of the paving stones forming the floor of this 
kiva are quite regular in shape and of unusual dimensions, one of them 
being nearly 5 feet long and 2 feet wide. The gray polish of long con- 
tinued use imparts to these stones an appearance of great hardness. 
The ceiling plan of this kiva (Fig. 26) shows a single specimen of Span- 
ish beam at the extreme north end of the roof. It also shows a forked 
“vioa” or ceiling beam, which is quite unusual. 
This kiva is better plastered than the mungkiva and shows in places 
evidences of many successive coats. The general rule of applying the 
interior plastering of the kiva on a base of masonry has been violated 
in this example. The north end and part of the adjoining sides have 
been brought to an even face by fillmg in the inequalities of the exea- 
vation with reeds which are applied in a vertical position and are held 
in place by long, slender, horizontal rods, forming a rude matting or 
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wattling. The rods are fastened to the rocky wall at favorable points 
by means of small prongs of some hard wood, and the whole of the 
primitive lathing is then thickly plastered with adobe mud. Mr. 
Stephen found the Ponobi kiva of Oraibi treated in the same manner. 
The walls are lined with a reed lathing over which mud is plastered. 
The reed used is the Bakabi (Phragmites communis) whose stalks vary 
from a quarter of an inch to three-quarters of an inch in diameter. In 
this instance the reeds are also laid vertically, but they are applied to 
the ordinary mud-laid kiva wall and not directly to the sides of the 
natural excavation. The vertical laths are bound in place by hori- 
zontal reeds laid upon them 1 or 2 feet apart. The horizontal reeds 
