8o SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I47 



Room 100, a narrow Late Bonitian structure of second-type 

 masonry, was built in an angle at the north end of an Old Bonitian 

 3-room sequence, 3b, 3c, and 104 that figuratively divides the old 

 village into an east wing and a west (fig. 3). Room 104 originally was 

 part of 107 the wall separating them having been erected in line with, 

 if not actually continuing, that forming the west side of Room 100. 



Adjoining 100 on the east is the Hyde Expedition's "old dark 

 room," unnumbered but repeatedly cited in Pepper's published field 

 notes. To the west and curving southward are Late Bonitian Rooms 

 93-96 and 114-116; east of "the old dark room" an even dozen con- 

 temporaneous but unexcavated dwellings remained in 1921 as sole 

 survivors of that row of houses Late Bonitian architects initially 

 raised to screen the old pueblo. 



The National Geographic Society began its explorations in the 

 first of these previously unexcavated dwellings, 200, a 6-by-lO-foot 

 room of unplastered second-t}'pe masonry, with a ceiling height of 

 9 feet 10 inches and a door in each wall. The north door, originally 

 sealed, had been forced from the outside by some grasping individual 

 and the near pair of its eight lintel poles severed by a steel ax (pi. 26, 

 upper). Masonry fallen from upper stories, with a scattering of 

 cedarbark and dressed willows, filled the groundfloor room. 



Room 202, adjoining, was the counterpart of 200. Its four walls 

 were unplastered ; there was a door in each, and that to the outside 

 had once been sealed. Dressed willows and cedarbark lay among fallen 

 building stones. The south wall foundation, 20 inches high, had 

 been erected upon stratified sand of undetermined depth but contain- 

 ing occasional spalls, potsherds, and bits of charcoal. 



Rooms 201, 203, and 205 are Late Bonitian storerooms entered, 

 respectively, from 200, 202, and 204. Like these latter, they are 

 of second-type masonry and had been built against the first-type 

 stonework of Old Bonito, conforming to all its irregularities. The 

 south side of 203, for example, is the exterior of Rooms 4 and 5, a 

 2-story wall whose unplastered lower 3 feet slopes outward about 

 23" while that above is plastered and has a less pronounced inward 

 slope (fig. 10). Thus the old wall is vertically convex. At its east end 

 Room 203 is 22 inches wide at floor level and 33 inches at the top ; 

 its west-end measurements are 20 and 25 inches, respectively. The 

 east half of the north wall having toppled outward along with its 

 continuation eastward, we made no observation between Rooms 202 

 and 209. 



Rainwater draining into 209 from the east and south had left 18 



