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of this fourth-type addition inserted neatly trimmed pine poles, 

 2 to 3 inches in diameter, into holes purposely made in the concealed 

 wall and brought them forward horizontally through the added stone- 

 work to be cut off flush with its exterior (pi. 53). Both the diameter 

 of these tie-poles and the intervals between them increase as the 

 fourth-type veneering continued eastward until, approaching Room 

 295, it was able to stand without anchoring. We saw no longitudinal 

 timbers embedded in this added stonework and no evidence of former 

 balconies. 



Another interesting fact disclosed by these vandal-cut openings 

 is that first-story ventilators in the older, third-type wall had 

 been extended through to the outside and that a long repository was 

 provided transversely over at least three of them (pi. 50, right). 

 The three repositories visible to us lay against the inner wall ; all 

 were empty, but their length suggested to us at the time (1923) 

 that they had been designed to receive lengthy objects of some sort, 

 perhaps one or more of the so-called "ceremonial sticks," fragments 

 of which we had previously recovered throughout Pueblo Bonito 

 (Judd, 1954, p. 268). The correctness of this surmise was later 

 verified when Lewis T. McKinney, then custodian of Chaco Canyon 

 National Monument, salvaged a lone example, 42^ inches in length 

 despite a missing tip, from the north-wall wreckage of Room 293 

 following collapse of the Braced-up Cliff on January 22, 1941. 



Two lesser offerings — turquoise chips, shell and bone beads, an 

 arrowpoint, and a pair of abalone pendants (U.S.N.M. Nos. 

 336026-7) — were found among fallen masonry outside Room 186. 

 One of the two pendants apparently had fallen from the second 

 story, but both obviously had been bedded in the new masonry at 

 time of construction. A similar sacrifice — two figure-8 bone beads 

 and a pinch of turquoise chips — was found among building stones 

 toppled from the east side of Late Bonitian Room 178B, and still 

 another (Field No. 2353) had been buried in the north wall of 

 Room 90. Placing sacrificial offerings in new stonework is an old 

 Pueblo custom. 



The foundation prepared for this latest revision of the outer north- 

 east arc of Pueblo Bonito, with its extended ventilators and built-in 

 repositories, is like all other local foundations — chance chunks of 

 sandstone loosely bedded in adobe mud. Height and width may vary 

 but mud and sandstone remain the component materials. At Room 

 184 the foundation is 22 inches high; it is 18 inches high at Room 

 187 and 15 at Room 188, adjoining. Our search for the beginning 



