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identify Room 92 as a Late Bonitian installation. Both walls have 

 since fallen but that at the southwest, "solid and exceedingly well 

 made" (ibid., p. 300), a foot thick and of superb second-type masonry, 

 was built upon a log — the log seen at upper right in Pepper's figure 

 127 — while that on the opposite side, the northeast, was double-thick. 

 As Pepper (ibid., p. 299) describes it, this Room 92 northeast wall 

 consists of 26 inches of unplastered late masonry abutting the 16-inch- 

 thick wall of Old Bonitian Room M, a total of 3^ feet, and thus 

 duplicates its ground-floor counterpart, between 97 and Zb (ibid., 

 p. 305). 



This northeast wall offers another challenge to my classification 

 of Pueblo Bonito masonry, for although I consider both upper and 

 lower as of second-type construction the former is second-type on a 

 larger scale and consists of large dressed blocks of friable sandstone 

 chinked with larger-than-usual tablets of laminate sandstone (pi. 21, 

 upper). In the lower room (97 or Za), however, the stonework is 

 less easily defined and appears from Pepper's figure 128 to include 

 chance fragments of both laminate and friable sandstone, that is, a 

 Late Bonitian job with salvaged materials. 



Our interest in Rooms 91 and 92 is not limited to architecture. 

 Both were provided with midfloor fireplaces and hatchways to the 

 rooms below, fixtures normally found only in living rooms. But, in 

 addition, quantities of foodstuffs had been stored in Room 92: "a 

 great deal of corn . . . bean bushes . . . and masses of beans . . . 

 still green; corn on the cob; and beans in the pod" (Pepper, 1920, 

 p. 298) — a substantial representation of an average Pueblo harvest. 

 Corn in the ear was also found stored in ground-floor Room 5 to- 

 gether with pinyon nuts, burned when fire destroyed the ceiling (ibid., 

 p. 46). Wild grass seed and other plant fruits were also gathered 

 and stored for winter use. 



We may be reasonably certain that our Old Bonitians ate rabbits 

 and rodents, as Pueblo Indians always have done, but doubt remains 

 in the case of turkeys and dogs. Pepper (ibid., p. 56) reports the 

 breastbones of nine turkeys recovered from debris in Room 100. He 

 also reports dog skulls or skeletons in eight or more separate rooms 

 and the Society's expeditions recovered still more (Judd, 1954, p. 65). 

 Within the historic period, Pueblo tribes generally have respected 

 a taboo against eating dog, bear, fish, and fowl, and I prefer to 

 believe their ancestors did too. 



It was the presence of foodstuffs stored in Rooms 2, 5, 6, and 92 

 as much as the eight Old Bonitian burial rooms and the relative shal- 



