98 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I47 



Beyond the screen is a large conical fireplace, unrimmed, 22 inches 

 deep but only the upper 10 inches of its masonry plastered. Between 

 fireplace and screen is a sunken repository, likewise conical, 8 inches 

 deep and 12 inches in diameter at the top. A second possible reposi- 

 tory, slab-lined, abuts the convex front of the northeast enclosure. 



In addition to these several features there is against the middle 

 south wall of Room 309 a masonry-lined and plastered "vault" 44 

 inches deep. On its north side, 9 inches below the room floor, is a 

 4-inch-wide offset and, lengthwise of it, the imprint of a pole 1^ inches 

 in diameter, an imprint not unlike those sometimes seen at the sides 

 of kiva vaults. There was no comparable offset, no pole imprint, on 

 the south side ; no suggestion of a covering. 



Earlier floors at depths of 19 and 36 inches in the northwest cor- 

 ner, at 29 and 38 inches in the southwest corner, and plastered 

 masonry to a depth of 44 inches in the south-side "vault" all suggest 

 that the second-type walls of Room 309 had stood here a long while 

 and that the several fixtures described above may not be of equal age. 



We encountered on these earlier floors, particularly in the northwest 

 corner, sections of broken masonry but not enough to justify the 

 thought that they had duplicated at an earlier period features in the 

 room as last occupied. Like evidence did not present itself in Room 

 308 where, by our tests, floor levels are shallower. A former connect- 

 ing door, its sill 8 inches below floor in 309, had been sealed before 

 a masonry pillar was built on the latest 308 floor after which a 

 second opening was cut through above, presumably to provide access 

 to 308B. 



Room 310, fronting Rooms 308 and 309, has been considered as an 

 open workspace. Apparently it had been utilized by both Old Bonitian 

 and Late Bonitian housewives, for we counted eight earlier work 

 surfaces. The uppermost of these, 3^ feet above the west-wall 

 foundation, supported masonry enclosing the ventilator shaft from 

 Room 309, 13 x 20 inches ; between it and the northwest comer of the 

 area, six large recumbent slabs and nine metates, both tabular and Late 

 Bonitian. One metate was bedded in adobe and rimmed with ma- 

 sonry; underneath it were two sandstone slabs, one upon the other, 

 each seated in mud and the lower covering a masonry-lined receptacle 

 5^ inches square and empty. Three similar repositories, each slab- 

 covered, were noted on that same surface close against the north 

 wall and west of the Room 309 ventilator. Between the first of these 

 four and the corner were two shallow depressions, each containing 

 a number of shells, beads, and flint chips (U.S.N.M. No. 336028). 

 "In olden times," said one of our Zuiii workmen, "turquoise and 



