170 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I47 



Between 170 and 153 are a number of rooms each of which was 

 repeatedly and individually patched or otherwise altered. Each had 

 been excavated to below its floor level and all data are lacking. 

 From what remains of the stonework I believe this whole sequence 

 was originally built of fourth-type masonry and then repeatedly 

 repaired with materials salvaged from razed second- or third-type 

 dwellings. The much-altered north walls of Rooms 160, 168, and 169, 

 with their blocked doorways pointing right and left, up and down, 

 include every variety of Late Bonitian stonework and leaves one with 

 the impression they are architectural compromises that preceded or 

 followed construction of Kivas 161 and 162. 



At least seven former doorways are outlined in the north wall of 

 Room 169, and each was changed at least once by introduction of new 

 jambs, sill, or lintel poles and each eventually was sealed and 

 plastered over. Most puzzling of these seven, if not the most altered, 

 is that in the northwest corner (pi. 55, upper). As I interpret this 

 complexity, the fourth-type masonry of the west wall provided one 

 jamb while its opposite, 30 inches distant, was a mongrel over 4 feet 

 high and slightly concave. Both jambs had been plastered but, despite 

 successive changes, the doorway retained a northwestwardly trend. 

 In 1925 the National Park Service made extensive repairs in Room 

 169 hoping thus to preserve the unique character of its much-altered 

 north wall. 



At floor level in Room 159-160, represented on Hyde's map with 

 a diagonal partition. Pepper photographed a longitudinal layer of 

 trim pine poles, 3-4 inches in diameter, no longer present. His 

 illustration (Pepper, ibid., fig. 144, p. 336) shows at least two 

 blocked north doors and, low down, what could be the lintel of a 

 third; also, a high east door to Room 168, with secondary jambs 

 sloping eastward. The pole layer sags in the middle, rising to the 

 four walls. Although the ends look to be square-cut I detect from 

 the illustration no evidence of pole seatings unless it be at sill 

 level of the east door, a height of approximately 3 feet, to judge 

 from the length of the shovel handle. 



Sagging of these floor poles suggests either an open space below 

 or settling due to proximity of the old east-west watercourse. The 

 latter seems the more reasonable explanation but the possibility of 

 deep-lying structures may not be wholly disregarded. There is the 

 lintel-like piece low in the north wall of 159-160 and, near the 

 northwest corner of Room 168, a former narrow passageway 6^ feet 

 high with four descending lintels, three of which are supported by 



