MINDELEFF] DECORATION OF KIVAS 181 
In the principal kiva in Mummy Cave ruin, however, there is a 
painted band on the front of the bench which appears to be really an 
attempt at decoration. Over the white there is a band 4 or 5 inches 
wide, consisting of a meander done in red. This is shown in figure 75, 
and in detail in figure 76. The design is similar to that used today. 
Its importance arises not so much from this as from the fact that it is 
difficult to regard this as other than ornamentation, and the Pueblo 
architect had not yet reached the stage of ornamented construction. 
The ruins in the Mancos canyon and the Mesa Verde country obviously 
represent a later stage in development than those in De Chelly, yet 
nowhere in that region do we find the counterpart of the decoration 
in Mummy Cave kiva. Bands with points occur, sometimes on walls 
of rectangular rooms. One such is illustrated By Chapin,! who also 
shows a variety of the meander, treated, however, as a pictograph and 

Fic. 77—Pictographs in Canyon de Chelly. 
without reference to its decorative value. Similar bands are shown also 
by Nordenskiéld,? but always with three points, instead of four, which 
were done in red. Figure 77 shows some pictographs somewhat resem- 
bling the Mancos examples. These occur at the point marked 1 on the 
map, in connection with a small storage cist already described. 
No kiva has been found in De Chelly with a roof in place. Nearly 
all of them are inelosed in reetangular chambers, and it seems more 
than probable that the roofing of the kiva was simply the roofing of 
the inclosing chamber. As a rule the inclosing rectangular walls were 
erected at the same time as the kiva proper, and the outside of the 
inner circular wall was not finished at all. In a few instances the space 
! Land of the Clitf Dwellers, illustration, pp. 143, 152. 
2Clitt Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, figs. 6, 7, 76, 77, and 78. 
