MINDELEFF. ] PANELED WOODEN DOORS. 185 
is from 34 to 4 feet. As doors are commonly elevated a foot or more 
above the ground or floor, the use of such openings does not entail 
the full degree of discomfort that the small size suggests. Doors of 
larger size, with sills raised but an inch or two above the floor or ground, 
have recently been introduced in some of the ground stories in Zuni; 
but these are very recent, and the idea has been adopted only by the 
most progressive people. 
Tig. 77. Paneled wooden doors in Hano. 
Pl. XLI shows a small paneled door, not more than a foot square, used 
as a blind to close a back window of a dwelling. Thesmallest examples 
of paneled doors are those employed for closing the small, square open- 
