NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD 65 



FOREIGN ROOMS IN PUEBLO BONITO 



Elsewhere I have attempted to solve the puzzle of the extraordi- 

 nary assemblage of Late Bonitian pottery that Pepper found on the 

 floor of Old Bonitian Room 28, but I gave scant attention at the time 

 to several vessels recovered just inside Room 32 (Judd, 1954, pp. 

 22-27). At least four of those vessels (Pepper, 1920, figs. 47-49) 

 came from the Mesa Verde country, and their presence in an Old 

 Bonitian burial room raises a question as to the authorship of certain 

 nearby dwellings whose stonework does not conform to any local 

 pattern. 



North of Pepper's four burial rooms is a narrow row of east-west 

 2-story houses the masonry of which, as illustrated, is neither Old 

 Bonitian nor Late Bonitian. I know less about this particular area 

 than is desirable at the moment because our observations hereabout 

 are all second-story observations and we had to reconcile them as 

 best we could with Hyde's ground-floor measurements (in Pepper, 

 1920, pp. 353-358). 



Pepper (ibid., p. 180) describes the end walls of Room 36, for 

 example, as "merely partitions" and his figure 80 provides confirma- 

 tion. Although the lower part of the one illustrated appears to be at 

 home in Pueblo Bonito, or nearly so, the part above ceiling level con- 

 sists of unsystematic stonework that may be only a veneer but, never- 

 theless, is very non-Chaco in appearance. And the same may be said 

 of the walls in Room 37, adjoining, as I judge from figure 81. It 

 is my guess, and only a guess, that these second-story partitions 

 are the work of masons foreign to Chaco Canyon but using salvaged 

 local building materials. 



The east wall of Room 61 is described (ibid., p. 222) as "built of 

 large dressed stones ... no chinking" while the south side "was 

 buit around upright stakes." Opposite this south-side wall, at the left 

 of the semioval door into Room 6, a wooden loop protruded from the 

 plaster as a means of holding a door slab in place. Although the 

 only one of its kind reported from Pueblo Bonito, this sort of door 

 fastener is relatively common in clifif-dwellings of southwestern 

 Colorado and southeastern Utah. Two such loops, each fitted with a 

 spatulate wedge found in the sand below, barred access to a wicker- 

 work granary in White Canyon that I photographed in 1907 and 

 which was later illustrated by Dr. Byron Cummings (1910, p. 23) 

 as more or less typical of those in the Kayenta country. 



The Mesa Verde pottery from Room 32, the two small mugs from 



