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one of rectangular form. This latter, also slab-lined but with mud- 

 rounded corners, was ash-filled and contained three sandstone fire- 

 dogs in a row. 



The northeast quarter of 316 is occupied by a subfloor, masonry- 

 lined passageway, 22 inches wide by 26 inches deep, that extends 

 to and under the corner of the room and there, with an abrupt angle, 

 turns to the right and continues an undetermined distance. At its 

 abrupt angle the passageway was roofed by three 2-inch poles spread 

 fanwise from its east side. A former southwest door had been 

 blocked to leave a 10- by-13-inch ventilator at floor level, and this 

 apparently was intended to be closed by a tabular metate left leaning 

 against the nearby wall. With all doors closed, Room 316, like its 

 neighbor, could have been entered only by means of a hatchway. 



Recognition of Rooms 315 and 316 as possibly of ceremonial signifi- 

 cance raises the question as to whether these and other quadrangular 

 structures might have been adjuncts to circular subterranean kivas 

 in Old Bonitian rituals. Rooms 327 and 328 possess features parallel- 

 ing those in 315 and 316, and Pepper's description of Room 3a (97) 

 certainly sets it apart from purely secular buildings. Our Room 309 

 likewise possesses fixtures foreign to local living quarters but 309 is 

 a Late Bonitian chamber. 



As previously stated, 327 is a one-story Old Bonitian room on 

 the west side of the West Court. Its rear wall is the exterior of 

 Old Bonitian 325, a living room ; its south side is a combination of 

 small posts spaced 4-5 inches apart, packed between with adobe mud, 

 and surfaced with more mud (pi. 20, lower). The north and east 

 sides of Room 327 include a facing of rather crude, typeless stone- 

 work that was added, apparently, just to support the second-type 

 Late Bonitian walls built above. All four sides were repeatedly 

 plastered and as often sooted. Both north and south walls abut the 

 thickly plastered exterior of Room 325 and thus evidence their later 

 construction. 



The ceiling of Room 327 rested upon a single beam, its west 

 end seated in a former Room 325 ventilator and the opposite end 

 supported by a 6-inch post. Pine poles of uniform diameter lay 

 upon the beam and a layer of chico brush upon the poles. In the 

 northeast corner, however, the ceiling had been patched with cedar 

 splints, probably at the time the walls were raised for a second story. 

 Opposite, in the southeast comer, there was a 14- by-28-inch ceiling 

 hatchway and below it, perhaps as a step, a slab-covered triangular 

 bench, 28 inches high. 



