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cellent illustration indicates a depth of 2 to 2^ feet, a diameter of 

 6 or 7. Large slabs floored the chamber and the middle one, more or 

 less discoidal, was much lighter in color than the others. Unpublished 

 Hyde prints 279, 407, and 543 show this discoidal piece to have been 

 about 4 inches thick and, when first uncovered, it was ringed about 

 with slab fragments on edge. Later the pavement was stripped away, 

 the wall masonry crumbled and nothing now remains but a ragged 

 hole in the ground near a remnant of the former cross-court wall 

 (pi. 5, upper). Room 190 was indubitably a shrine, but I am less 

 confident of those next to be considered. 



Built upon several feet of sand (fig. 13) wind-piled against the 

 plastered outside east and south walls of Room 176, at the southeast 

 corner of the pueblo, is a cluster of six small masonry compartments 

 that seem absolutely purposeless except as shrines. Apparently added 

 one at a time, their floor levels vary and their stonework differs. As 

 we found them they were without lateral openings or evidence of 

 roofing ; each was filled with clean wind-borne sand. 



Northernmost of the six measures, inside, 4 feet 2 inches in length 

 by 24 inches at the south end and 27 inches at the north. Its end 

 walls abut the plastered exterior of Room 176. The north end, 

 without foundation and externally of good second-type masonry 

 (pi. 81, upper), was built upon 5 inches of blown sand 33 inches 

 above the 176 foundation. Its inside south and west sides were 

 plastered and painted, white above a dull red band. 



Clearly this supposed shrine group is late, later than Room 176. 

 Excepting the second-type facing noted above, all stonework is of 

 third-type or banded fourth. Abutting the extreme southeast corner 

 of the group is the west end, here 12 inches high by 24 inches wide, 

 of the long, foundationlike wall that extends east 509 feet and 

 overlies several units of our Northeast Foundation Complex. Room 

 176 and its contemporaries are later than the complex; our cluster of 

 so-called shrines is later than 176 and the long, lone foundationlike 

 wall, is later still. Whether shrines or not, these six small compart- 

 ments outside Room 176 were among the final efforts of Late 

 Bonitian masons. 



