NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD I7I 



hewn pine planks, and an adobe sill 2^ feet below approximate floor 

 level (pi. 55, lower). This former passageway had been sealed from 

 the outside, presumably when Kiva 161 was rebuilt, so we may 

 suppose those four descending lintels covered a stairway leading down 

 to an older structure under 161. A comparable flight of intermural 

 steps connected Kiva D with Room 24 IB. 



Midway in the north wall of Room 168 is a second tall, much- 

 altered door with five masonry steps leading upward to the Kiva 161 

 roof level. I judge its original dimensions to have approximated 40 

 inches in width by 7 feet 7 inches high, but sill and jambs had 

 been changed repeatedly and the opening finally reduced to one of 

 T-shape, its sill at a height of 34 inches. We undertook to repair this 

 reduced passageway, replacing its lintel poles and several courses of 

 stonework above and carefully retaining the five masonry steps, the 

 uppermost riser being 6 feet 3 inches from the inside north wall 

 of the room. 



Between Rooms 159-160 and 153 are half a dozen small rooms I 

 have represented (fig. 6) as of fourth-type masonry despite abundant 

 evidence of reconstruction with building stones salvaged from older 

 structures. Room 153 abuts the third-type Kiva B enclosure from 

 the east and Room 142 abuts that same enclosure from the south. 

 As I studied the previously exposed and broken masonry hereabout 

 it seemed to me that every wall had been patched, and rebuilt, and 

 patched again. 



Adjoining 153 on the east is Room 154, with its neatly blocked 

 south door; then 155, with blocked doors in both north and south 

 walls — the only groundfloor rooms in this late fourth-type addition, 

 so far as I know, with former doors to the outside. The previously 

 opened south door of Room 155 and the disintegrated wall opposite 

 invited placement of our dump-car track for excavation of the East 

 Court and its surroundings (pi. 5, upper). 



Despite previous partial excavation, plaster still adhered to the 

 four walls of 153 and the last coat apparently had been whitened. 

 Earlier floors or work surfaces were noted at depths of 15 and 25 

 inches and a test pit to clean clay, 9^ feet below the earliest of these 

 two, revealed mixed occupational and constructional debris through- 

 out. From this mixture and within the limits of our test we re- 

 covered 786 potsherds, all of types peculiar to the Old Bonitians, 

 Obviously Room 153 had been built upon Old Bonitian trash, either 

 the upcanyon slope of the pile buried under the West Court or upon 



