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thick below it. The interior was plastered with a number of successive 
coats, probably four or five in all; but although the wall is still stand- 
ing to a height cf 4 feet or more above the bench, there are gaps on the 
eastern and western sides which render it impossible to say whether 
doorways were there or not. The eastern break exposes the western 
side of the inclosing wall, which is smoothly finished as though there 
were originally a recess here. There are rectangular inclosing walls 
on the east and south; the northern side was formed by the cliff against 
which the kiva rests, while on the west there are no traces of an inclos- 
ing wall. The triangular spaces formed by the inclosing walls on the 
northeast and southeast sides of the kiva were not filled up in the cus- 
tomary manner, but appear to have been preserved as storerooms. 
The southeastern space was connected with the kiva by a narrow door- 
way, Shown in the plan, and another doorway, completely sealed, led 
from this space into the room adjoining on the east. The latter doorway 
had not been used for a long time prior to the abandonment of the ruin, 

Fic. 27—Ground plan of a small village, ruin No. 16. 
and its opening into the rectangular room was carefully concealed from 
that side by several successive coats of plaster. 
On the south side of the kiva and outside the rectangular wall is 
a square buttress or chimney-like construction, 4 by 3 feet, inclosing a 
shaft 10 by 5 inches. This feature will be discussed in another place. 
It was added after the wall was completed, and embedded in it, about 
a foot from the ground, is a heavy beam about 5 inches in diameter. 
Plate LI, which shows the whole front of the village, will make this 
feature clear. The beam projects from the kiva wall at or under the 
floor level, and seems to have no reference to the shaft, which is, how- 
ever, Shouldered to accommodate it. Similar beams project from the 
walls to the east, about 5 inches above the bed rock. 
In the room east of the kiva no doorway was found. The walls are 
still intact to a minimum height of 6 feet from the floor, except in the 
southeast corner, where they are 5 feet. The opening described, which 
occurs in the southwest corner of the room, was 4 feet from the floor; 
and in the southeast corner, where the wall is broken down, there now 
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