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floor of 3d, and the rounded front edge of the 3d platform, were all 

 repaired by the National Park Service in 1926. 



Room 91 is the second story of Room 3 (p. 297) ; Room 92 adjoins 

 91 on the north [NE] (p. 298) as the second story of 3a, which 

 latter was subsequently cleared and renumbered 97 (p. 304). To- 

 gether, these four rooms, 3, 3a (97), 91, and 92, are among the most 

 instructive in Old Bonito. They reflect its beginning and echo its 

 end. If Pepper's published descriptions are sometimes puzzling it 

 is usually because his first- and second-story observations are inter- 

 mixed. 



Room 3, for example, with its thickly plastered heavily smoked 

 walls, is described as probably a square kiva on account of its slab- 

 sided fireplace, upright deflector, and presumed subfloor passageway 

 to the outside (Pepper, 1920, p. 40, 298). However, duplicated 

 descriptions provide evidence that figure 9 is not the "interior of 

 Room 3" as stated but that of second-story Room 91. If the reported 

 "passageway" had an external opening we saw no trace of it while 

 clearing the narrow terrace overlooking Kiva R ; neither did we ob- 

 serve trace of the four large 12-inch beams that "protruded fully 8 

 feet beyond the wall" of 91. 



Room 92, adjoining 91, is the second story of Room 3a which was 

 not excavated in 1896 when it was first entered but later when it was 

 renumbered and described as Room 97. The original southeast side 

 of 97 (or 3a) was of post-and-mud construction and continued as 

 such into Room 3. Pepper's illustrations of 97 (1920, figs. 127, 128) 

 together with his descriptions of upright sticks and posts at the 

 southwest end of Room 28, as seen from 57 (ibid., p. 219), indi- 

 cate that the original post-and-mud southeast walls of 3 and 3a 

 turned northwest between 3a and 28 before Late Bonitian architects 

 introduced their concealing stonework on the northeast side of 3a 

 (97) and built second-story Rooms 91 and 92. 



Room 92, like 91, had a central fireplace which Pepper (ibid., 

 p. 299) describes as shallow and rimmed with adobe. Its thin clay 

 bottom, seen in unpublished negative No. 304, was spread directly 

 upon layers of cedarbark and close-lying pine poles — a fire hazard 

 not recognized by the occupants — that formed both the floor of 

 Room 92 and the ceiling of the room below, 3a (or 97). A closed 

 hatchway pierced the floor at its south, or southeast, corner. 



The same unpublished negative (No. 304) also shows a narrow- 

 stemmed, T-shaped door in the Old Bonitian northwest wall and, to 

 right and left, the second-type northeast and southwest walls that 



