NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO EONITO — JUDD 79 



If the Late Bonitians sought initially to eliminate the irregularities 

 of that outside wall they succeeded admirably. They built Rooms 100 

 and 101 just to fill an external angle between 104 and the unnumbered 

 room next on the east. They built Room 7 to fill a similar angle 

 outside Rooms 1 and 8; and 300 to occupy a jog where Room 298 

 abutted 13. The inner wall of their encompassing row of 2-story 

 houses all the way from Room 320 around to 298 has no visible 

 purpose but to compensate for the inward slant of the older stone- 

 work. 



From Room 320 to 102 that inner wall stood so close to the blank 

 exterior of the old settlement that there was no space between for 

 more than a wedge-shaped fill of constructional debris, but beyond 102 

 the external irregularity of the older building and its roof ward slope 

 invited a succession of 12 improvised storerooms. The abutting new 

 masonry in each case conformed to the unevennesses of the older ; in 

 each case room depth, front to back, was only half that at ceiling 

 level, or less. In at least one instance, Room 305, storage capacity 

 was so limited its builders did not trouble to provide the customary 

 doorway. Nevertheless, each of these intervening spaces, whether 

 useful or not, was roofed ceiling-wise with selected pine poles, 

 willows or split cedar, cedarbark, and mud. 



The Late Bonitians were indefatigable builders. They built not only 

 an enveloping row of 2-story houses against the door-less rear 

 of Old Bonito but also a series of second-story rooms on its concave 

 front, or at least part of it. Thereafter they razed and replaced with 

 their own an unknown number of dwellings and storerooms in the 

 eastern wing of Old Bonito. They propped the Braced-up CHff with 

 pine posts and built a broad terrace below (Judd, 1959&) ; they built 

 retaining walls about the village dump just to confine its bulk. 



The 2-story houses the Late Bonitians initially built on the convex 

 north and west sides of Old Bonito apparently were closed and 

 abandoned almost immediately. Each room, first and second stories, 

 with the sole exception of 100, was provided with an external door, 

 but these doors had been sealed with masonry so skillfully matching 

 that on either side as to suggest little if any delay between room 

 completion and door blocking. Each room was connected endwise with 

 that adjoining, the connecting door invariably 2-3 inches wider at 

 the sill than at the lintel. To judge from those we cleared, none 

 of these Late Bonitian 2-story houses had been lived in. None had 

 a fireplace. Their walls, plastered outside but not inside, had been 

 constructed upon 3-5 feet of sand wind-piled against the slanting 

 exterior of Old Bonito. 



