NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD 75 



A former west door, its sill slab 15 inches below floor level and 

 a like distance above a trampled surface that may be the original 

 floor, represents a former court-side passage to and from Room 325. 

 A companion east door, its sill 14 inches above the same trampled 

 surface, served for a time and then was blocked. As if to favor an 

 arthritic, a post step 1 1 inches in diameter and sill high had stood in 

 front of that east door and, in front of the post, a 6-inch-high stone 

 block as a second step. From this original floor a pine post reached 

 up to prop the ceiling and a masonry- sided bin occupied each corner 

 of the room except that at the northeast. 



Subsequently that original east door was sealed, a second floor 

 was installed 30 inches higher, and a new east door was cut through 

 at floor level. The north jamb of this new passageway is a 2^- 

 inch post that inclines outward at the top. 



The post-and-mud wall in Room 327 curved south to form the 

 original east side of 328, 329, and possibly 330. At the time of 

 excavation in Room 328 the 2-inch posts in that old wall stood 39 

 inches high, 6-12 inches apart and were separated by adobe mud only. 

 In Room 329 wall-wide stonework rather than mud filled in between 

 posts. Post-and-mud walls at Old Bonito were never more than one 

 story high, so far as I know, with the possible exception of Room 53B 

 which may have been built upon a first-story fill but whose present 

 south and west sides preserve a core of upright posts with mud be-! 

 tween (pi. 20, upper). 



Rooms 328 and 329 were both roofed, after the manner of 327, 

 with a layer of brush supported by selected ceiling poles and posts. 

 Four posts were required in 329, each standing in a slab-lined hole 

 and packed about with shale chips. Second-type masonry built against 

 the old post-and-mud wall of adjoining Room 327 rose from floor to 

 ceiling on the north side of 328, partly surrounding a ceiling prop 

 whose overlying beam had been retained as partial support for the 

 second-story wall above. Spurred by a bit of whimsy, some unknown 

 dawdler had crowned this post with a discoidal potrest made of squaw- 

 bush bound with strips of yucca leaf. A companion post stood 

 opposite the first, supporting a second beam. 



Although the beams braced by these two posts belonged to the 

 original ceiling they had been augmented by two others at the same 

 height, 7 feet 3 inches, presumably when the Late Bonitians built 

 their second-story room above. A southeast corner hatchway un- 

 doubtedly connected the upper and lower rooms, as in 327. 



More than its neighbors Room 328 preserves the aura of a room 



