84 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I47 



Room 300 as Richard Wetherill's one-time smokehouse, and this 

 seems confirmed by heavily smoked walls and ceiling, an improvised 

 east-end stone bench 20 inches high, pendent wires, and nails in beams 

 and both north-door jambs. 



Unlike those in second-type ground-floor houses, including store- 

 rooms, the walls of 300B were plastered. A tabular metate embedded 

 face up in the floor was too near the north and east sides for use as 

 a mill. A south door, 10 inches above floor level, had a hewn plank 

 incorporated in its sill and secondary jambs slanted to retain a door- 

 slab placed from the third story of Old Bonitian Room 13. That 

 these two were connected, one a second-story Late Bonitian room of 

 second-type masonry and the other a third-story Old Bonitian dwell- 

 ing of first-type stonework, is a fact of more than passing interest in 

 this study of local architecture. The north door of Room 300B, 

 opening into 299B, is thoroughly typical except for its secondary 

 jambs which slope outward and thus suggest that Room 299B, like 

 300B, was used for storage by occupants of Old Bonitian Room 13C 

 (pi. 21, lower). 



Here, as on the west side, Late Bonitian houses were built upon 

 several feet of sand settled against the Old Bonitian dwellings. And 

 the resulting difference in floor level prompted Late Bonitian archi- 

 tects to raise the ceiling level of their Room 297B about 2^ feet above 

 that of 299B in order to equal roof level of third-story Old Bonitian 

 Room 298C (pis. 28; 26, lower). 



Room 304, which adjoins 303, is another Late Bonitian storeroom 

 built to occupy an irregularity in the outside wall of Old Bonito. 

 Of its ceiling, only three transverse poles remain, all at the broad east 

 end, and these, as in Room 300, were overlain by split red cedar rather 

 than the dressed willows supposedly peculiar to rooms of second-type 

 construction. There was no south door in Room 304 but one opposite 

 gave access to and from Room 209. Although a storage place 

 primarily, the skeleton of a golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) and the 

 breast bones of three macaws were found upon the floor of Room 

 304. 



The fact that ceiling timbers from Old Bonitian Room 10 protruded 

 through its north wall to rest upon the floor of 304 urged us to 

 another comparison of adjoining Old Bonitian and Late Bonitian 

 dwellings. First of all, the north- wall foundation of 304 is 2 feet 

 7 inches high with a 7-inch-wide offset 10 inches below floor level. In 

 contrast, the base of the first-type south wall lies 6 feet 3 inches below 

 that same floor level, a figure that compares favorably with the 



