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Three of the Room 91 walls were of second-type Late Bonitian 

 masonry, plastered and provided with doors. An oversized "niche" 

 through the southwest side apparently extended to intramural Kiva Y, 

 suggesting this latter was of contemporary or later construction. 

 Like 92, Room 91 was equipped with a southeast corner hatchway 

 connecting with the room below. 



Rooms 91 and 92 were among those second-story rooms built by 

 the Late Bonitians upon Old Bonitian ground floor structures lining 

 the West Court from 328 or 329 to 28B and beyond. Portions of 

 their characteristic second-type masonry survive at the north side of 

 Room 28B (pi. 30, lower) and it is possible more of the same sort 

 is preserved among the wreckage of nearby rooms, including 48-50. 



Pepper (ibid., p. 207) describes Rooms 48, 49, and 50 as "a 

 rather peculiar series." As I interpret the description, ground floor 

 Room 48 was of Old Bonitian stonework; upper 48 and 50 were 

 separated by a wall built upon a large beam at ceiling level of the 

 lower room ; Room 49, "long and narrow," was the open space above 

 the 2- foot-thick masonry built in at the north to support that large 

 beam. Lower 48, therefore, was merely another Old Bonitian ground 

 floor room that Late Bonitian architects modified in their early pro- 

 gram of constructing dwellings at the second-story level. 



A few doors east of 48-50 are Rooms 308 and 309, second-type 

 Late Bonitian structures built in front of Old Bonitian Rooms 306, 

 307, and 307-L Room 308 does not differ greatly from an ordinary 

 dwelling but 309 is unique. There is nothing else like it in Pueblo 

 Bonito. Both rooms are marked by low ceilings; as last occupied 

 there was no means of direct communication between the two. 



In Room 308 four 8-inch pine beams seated in the first-type 

 north wall at a height of 4 feet 3 inches project southward an average 

 of 7 feet 2 inches. Their size and square-cut ends identify them 

 with the Late Bonitians, but all four were obviously salvaged else- 

 where, since they are too short for room width here and one is visibly 

 impressed by oversized cross timbers (pi. 31, lower). Two of the 4, 

 paired, rest upon upon a masonry pillar that stands on the latest 

 floor and half conceals a previously blocked east door. The other two 

 beams were supported by individual posts and the space between them 

 and the south wall was bridged by 3-inch ceiling poles. 



Of four doors, one in each wall, only that leading into Room 19 

 remained open at the time of our observations. Old Bonitian repaifs, 

 including use of small chips pressed into the mud plaster, are evident 

 about the blocked east door. An earlier floor at depth of 7 inches 



