NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD 27 



Bonitian ax- work, to the amazement of many observers, equaled 

 that of a course, cross-cut steel saw (pi. 61, left). Stone axes from 

 Pueblo Bonito are notoriously crude and few in number, but the Late 

 Bonitians in some unaccountable manner were capable of trimming 

 and placing their larger beams with an exactness that suggests prior 

 measurement. Old Bonitian timbers frequently extended several feet 

 through a wall, as in Rooms 302 and 304, but Late Bonitian timbers 

 that did so, as in 227, are few in number and may indicate no more 

 than an unwillingness to shorten a salvaged log. 



In Old Bonitian homes pine ceiling poles of uniform diameter and 

 spit juniper shakes probably evidence Late Bonitian reconstruction. 

 Hatchways were present in both Old Bonitian and Late Bonitian 

 ceilings, usually in the southeast corner. 



Doors. — There is no door in the rear wall of Old Bonito and only 

 7, so far as we know, that once opened courtward from its ground- 

 floor living-rooms. Those in Rooms 28 and 83 were provided with 

 masonry steps to court level ; the other five may be improvisations, 

 cut through the old walls after later rooms were built in front of 306, 

 307, 323, 325, and 326. 



Wherever we found them. Old Bonitian doors were more or less 

 oval, approximately 22 inches in maximum width by 30 inches high, 

 with mud-padded jambs rounding off top and bottom, and a sill height 

 varying from 12 inches in Room 32 to 4 feet 9 inches at the north 

 end of Room 325 (pi. 14, left). Late Bonitian doors, in contrast, 

 are neatly regular with low sills and lintel poles of uniform diame- 

 ter lashed together above the jambs and often extending to, or part 

 way to, the walls on either side (pi. 14, right). 



Many Late Bonitian doors shown partly blocked on our ground 

 plan (fig. 2) probably were not blocked at all but had been left open 

 for convenient passage during construction and were filled in later to 

 the desired sill height. Hence the appearance of partial blocking seen 

 in some of our illustrations. Among others, doorways in Rooms 

 246B, 247, and 291 are silled with dressed pine boards ; those in 227 

 and 228B, with inverted Old Bonitian tabular metates instead of the 

 customary sandstone slab. 



Storeroom doors were fitted from the outside with slabs leaning 

 against secondary lintels and jambs (pi. 13, left). All secondary 

 lintels we noted at Pueblo Bonito were filled in above with masonry ; 

 none stood free for support of a cold-weather blanket, as described 

 by Bourke (1884, p. 134) and Mindeleff (1891, p. 182) in Hopi and 

 Zuni homes of the past century. 



