NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD lOI 



He might have added those on either side, Room 70 and Kiva G, for 

 they are equally interesting. Each evidences long occupancy and 

 extensive alterations. The west end of Room 62 is clearly of our 

 second-type masonry, as seen in untrimmed Hyde negatives 217 and 

 221 from which Pepper's figures 99 and 100 were prepared. Built-in 

 sections at either end of the irregular south side, the convex curve 

 of Kiva G between, are composites of second-, third-, and fourth- 

 type Late Bonitian masonry. Overhanging the northwest corner just 

 above ceiling level (ibid., p. 232; fig. 98) is a northeast-southwest 

 wall of banded fourth-type stonework, presumably a second-story 

 continuation of that diagonally through Room 70. 



Where a later coat of plaster lines across the west end of Room 62 

 about 3^ feet above its floor, three north-south logs supported a 

 storage shelf composed of 2-inch poles with reed mats lashed to them 

 by strips of wood and yucca cord. About a foot east of this shelf a 

 rectangular door into Room 70, sill height unknown, had been reduced 

 to oval form by secondary jambs and lintels. 



The west end of 62, of typical second-type masonry but scant 

 foundation, was built upon compacted sand into which five storage 

 cists had been dug, their average depth being 3 feet 9 inches. Like 

 those we discovered under the floor of Room 266, adjoining on the 

 east (Judd, 1954, p. 48), Pepper's five cists were filled with broken 

 pottery and sand ; in addition, the contents of two were covered by 

 fragments of large burden baskets, the only baskets of their type re- 

 ported from Pueblo Bonito. 



Of the sherds visible in Pepper's figure 100 (ibid., p. 227) I 

 recognize four pitchers of the old globular form, with sloping 

 shoulders and handles attached below the rim. Visible bowl and 

 pitcher ornamentation is likewise in the old tradition, which Roberts 

 and Amsden described as Transitional or Degenerate-transitional 

 (Judd, 1954, p. 178). This is the pottery of Old Bonito, as made 

 known by test pits through household sweepings beneath the West 

 Court. It is reasonable to believe, however, that fragments of Late 

 Bonitian vessels were also represented in the cist fill, as they were 

 in Room 266. 



In the published description of Room 62 I find no positive evi- 

 dence of Old Bonitian occupancy of this immediate area but such 

 evidence may have been overlooked since there is at least a sugges- 

 tion of it in the northwest bench of Kiva G. We are told the north 

 wall of Room 62 continued 4 feet below its lower floor, the one with 

 the sherd-filled storage cists, while the south side continued to a depth 



