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of two round sticks, was covered with part of a door slab, 23^ inches 

 long and notched at two corners. The second repository was of 

 cruder stonework, 9 inches in diameter and about 10 inches deep, but 

 its offering was greatly superior and cupped within a large cockle shell 

 (Judd, 1954, pi. 89). 



ICiva D contained all the fixtures of a typical Qiaco kiva — fire- 

 place, sunken vault west of the fireplace, underfloor ventilator, and a 

 shallow, bench-high recess at the south — ^but it differed from the 

 average in having 10 pilasters, each a squared block of wood averag- 

 ing 16 inches wide by 7 inches high and set back 3^ inches, plastered 

 but lacking the usual encasement of small-stone masonry. Another 

 exceptional feature in Kiva D was an underfloor passage that led, by 

 three masonry steps, to second-story Room 241B (pi. 62, upper). 



Room 225, separated from Kiva D only by the latter's enclosing 

 stonework and a corner room, 240, is one of that double row of 

 east-wing houses the Late Bonitians built as their final addition to 

 Pueblo Bonito. Its masonry is entirely of thin-bedded laminate 

 sandstone with no banding and very little mud mortar in evidence. 

 Lengthwise through the room and immediately under its floor is a 

 bare foundation, 26 inches wide by 19 inches high, that appears to be 

 part of an earlier addition, planned but never completed. A subfloor 

 test in the northeast corner disclosed 6 successive strata of sand and 

 sandy clay with silt layers between and clean sand at a depth of 9 feet. 



We made no study of Room 240, but 239, at the northeast comer of 

 the enclosure, revealed the cylindrical exterior both of Kiva D and 

 its predecessor. Both are of vastly superior stonework to that normal 

 for kiva exteriors and the upper portion exhibits many dressed friable 

 sandstone blocks and a suggestion of second-type chinking. Two logs 

 inserted into the lower part obviously were expected to brace the 

 outside 3-story south wall of Room 244. This latter wall also includes 

 many building blocks salvaged from razed second-type structures and 

 many protruding stones, a customary feature of kiva exteriors 

 (pi. 38, right). Room 239 was excavated and refilled before we 

 knew anything of dendrochronology, hence my failure to take sec- 

 tions of its two bracing logs. Presumably they are still there. 



Room 177 adjoins 225 on the east and, like the latter, was one 

 of that group I believe to have been the Late Bonitians* final addi- 

 tion to Pueblo Bonito. It had a ceiling height of 8 feet 2 inches. 

 There were two ventilators in the east wall and two opposite. Its 

 east-side foundation, 8 inches below the floor, projected 2 inches 

 and stood 20 inches high. A silt surface 41 inches below floor 



