NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD I3I 



its 28-inch-high foundation by 5 inches; within, the foundation 

 projects 10 inches, its top 8 inches below the adobe floor. The four 

 walls were unplastered ; there was a door in each, three of them 

 open and that on the north side carefully sealed with masonry du- 

 plicating that on either side. The 9- foot ceiling had included hand- 

 smoothed willows and cedarbark. 



Room 203, a storeroom erected at the same time as 202, abuts the 

 roofward-slanting exterior of Old Bonitian Room 5, hence the differ- 

 ence in width, top and bottom (fig. 10). Mud plaster on the old, 

 first-type wall ends on an ill-defined surface 4 feet 5 inches below 

 the floor, the surface upon which the blown sand had collected, but 

 unplastered stonework continues another 3 feet with an inward slant 

 of about 23 degrees and there rests upon clean sand, 7 feet 5 inches 

 below the floor of Room 203. The vertical convexity of that old 

 Room 4-5 stonework must be entirely external since Pepper (1920, 

 fig. 10) illustrates its opposite side without a corresponding curve. 



If that lower unplastered masonry is all foundation, as is pos- 

 sible, then the floor of Late Bonitian Room 203 is approximately 

 4^ feet above that of Room 5 — a figure that agrees with our obser- 

 vations in and under Room 304, some 50 feet to the east — and the 

 floor of 203B would lie a foot or a foot and a half above the roof 

 of second-story Room 4. 



Immediately south of Rooms 4 and 5 there is a change in masonry, 

 neither first- nor second-type as illustrated by Pepper (ibid., figs. 80 

 and 81), and a lowering of ceiling heights. These abrupt changes to- 

 gether with the Mesa Verde-like pottery from nearby Rooms 32 and 

 36, suggest the former presence of families possibly immigrant from 

 beyond the San Juan River. The drifting of individuals or family 

 groups from one village to another is a long-established Pueblo cus- 

 tom. 



Our B-B' cross section (fig. 14) shows a downward slope from 

 floor level of Room 28B, across nonexistent Room 40 to the adjacent 

 exteriors of Kivas R and Q. By our calculations the Kiva Q floor is 

 about 4 feet lower than that of Room 5 and approximately 12 feet 

 below the average West Court level (pi. 75, lower). 



From Kiva Q and its south "annex" (a few feet east of B-B') 

 the Court surface rises a couple feet and, in the process, covers a 

 slab-lined fireplace about 3 feet below the surface together with a 

 succession of razed or partly razed structures. Among these latter 

 are the remains of a P. I pit-house (No. 2 on fig. 7) — three sand- 

 stone slabs 33 inches high with a slight inward slant, bound together 



