NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD 83 



cedar were substituted in some of them. Hand-smoothed planks may 

 have appeared as floor boards more frequently than we know, but 

 they were used also as lintels or sills for Late Bonitian doors, ventila- 

 tors, and wall repositories. The Old Bonitians, so far as I may judge, 

 were not workers in wood and the dressed pine and cedar boards we 

 observed in their empty dwellings were probably acquired from the 

 Late Bonitians through trade or otherwise. 



Unknown individuals had forced entrance into Rooms I4b, 301, and 



299 sometime prior to 1887 and all three had been appropriated for 

 use by passers-by (pi. 19, right). We did not examine the first story 

 of 301 but the original blocking of its north door had been replaced 

 by rough stonework within a frame of 4-inch pine logs and sawed 

 planking which we did not disturb. Our observations in the upper 

 stories, 301 B-D, are recorded in Appendixes A and B. 



In Room 299 the expert craftsmanship of I4b is repeated. Its 

 ceiling consists of 23 transverse pine beams, 3 to 5 inches in diameter ; 

 above them and lying lengthwise of the room, we counted 134 peeled 

 and abraded willows bound to the beams by split willow stalks (un- 

 barked, flat side down) and yucca thongs. A layer of shredded cedar 

 bark covered the willows. The four walls are of unplastered second- 

 type masonry and there is a door in each. Seatings for a single cross- 

 pole remain at each end of the room, 5 feet 2 inches above its floor, 

 but that at the west end had supported three lesser poles, ends 

 embedded in the masonry, to form a narrow midway shelf. Nails in 

 ceiling beams and pendent baling wire identify 299 as a recently 

 occupied storage place. Its formerly blocked north door is the eastern- 

 most of those to be seen in the existing outside north wall of Pueblo 

 Bonito. Late Bonitian architects erected their double row of second- 

 type rooms to encircle Old Bonito and twice thereafter changed the 

 external contour of their addition and added another story. 



Room 299 had its contemporary storeroom, 300, built to take 

 advantage of an external angle where Old Bonitian Room 298 abuts 

 Room 13. Like 303, Room 300 is of second-type masonry, but, unlike 

 303, its ceiling includes a layer of split cedar rather than dressed 

 willows. The second of its 17 selected pine beams had been removed 

 to provide for a southeast corner hatchway but this opening eventually 

 had been closed by a purposely shaped sandstone slab. A more inter- 

 esting fact, however, is that the ceiling beams of Late Bonitian Room 



300 lie just above, if not upon, ceiling beams protruding through the 

 south wall from second-story Old Bonitian Room 13B. 



Jack Martin, a former Hyde Expedition freighter, identified 



