208 PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE. 
These oblique openings occur not only in the larger clusters of houses 
Nos. 1 and 4, but also in the more openly planned portions of the vil- 
lage, though they do not occur either at Acoma or in the Tusayan vil- 
lages. They afford an interesting example of the transfer and continu- 
ance in use of a constructional device developed in one place by unusual 
conditions to a new field in which it was uncalled for, being less efficient 
and more difficult of introduction than the devices in ordinary use. 
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Fig. 100. Typical sections of Zuni oblique openings. 
FURNITURE. 
The pueblo Indian has little household furniture, in the sense in which 
the term is commonly employed; but his home contains certain features 
which are more or less closely embodied in the house construction and 
which answers the purpose. The suspended pole that serves as a clothes 
rack for ordinary wearing apparel, extra blankets, robes, ete., has already 
been described in treating of interiors. Religious costumes and cere- 
monial paraphernalia are more carefully provided for, and are stored 
away in some hidden corner of the dark storerooms. 
The small wall niches, which are formed by closing a window with a 
thin filling-in wall, and which answer the purpose of cupboards or recep- 
