NO, I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD 189 



roofing timbers and robbed of its pilaster offerings with the sole ex- 

 ception of that in No. 3 (U.S.N.M. No. 335974). Apparently all 

 useful timbers had been removed purposely since only the rear logs 

 of the two lower layers remain in place and their ends are firmly 

 embedded in the wall masonry. Ultimately, as so frequently hap- 

 pened, this dismantled room became a dumping place for household 

 sweepings. 



Kiva 59 (pi. (^, left), of the so-called "key-hole" variety, is the 

 only one of its kind at Pueblo Bonito, unless we include "Y." Its 

 unusual south recess, 3^ feet deep, 6 feet 4 inches wide in front and 

 8 feet 8 at the rear, abuts an older house wall of third-type masonry 

 and stands 8^ feet without trace of roofing timbers. At either side 

 a 4-inch-wide offset lies 19 inches above the floor and, a little higher, 

 a plastered niche. That on the west, longitudinally concave within, 

 measures 20 by 14 inches by 8 inches deep ; its opposite, less distinct, 

 had the same depth but is otherwise smaller. In the north wall of 59, 

 opposite its south recess and 2 feet above floor, is a third niche, 42 

 inches wide, 14 inches high to its lintel sticks, and 16 inches deep. 

 Fourteen inches south of the fireplace a 10 by 13-inch ventilator 

 opens from an under-floor duct, 25 inches deep, that continues be- 

 neath the recess to an external air intake, half buried in the earthy 

 fill of the Kiva T enclosure. 



Kiva 2-E (pi. 66, right) differs from 59 in that its south recess, 

 instead of rising full height from the floor, begins on top of a re- 

 cessed bench. Upper and lower recesses measure 49 inches wide and 

 average 9 inches deep. We cleared only the south half of 2-E but 

 noted three bench-front niches: (1) 15 inches north of the south 

 recess and 13 inches above the floor, a foot-square opening to an 

 unplastered repository 28 inches long; (2) 22 inches beyond the first 

 and with twice its sill height, a second niche 8 inches wide by 16 

 inches long and 4 inches high; (3) west of the south recess, too 

 broken for measurement. 



A subfloor ventilator tunnel in Kiva 2-E, originally 18 inches wide 

 by 50 inches long, had been shortened to 3 feet 9 inches and its north 

 end floored over. I would guess both reduction and closing were 

 related to ventilation for a masonry deflector 6 inches high (our 

 highest) rose between the original vent and the nearby fireplace. At 

 its opposite end the duct makes an abrupt right-angled turn to the left 

 to a ventilator shaft we did not discover. 



The relatively high proportion of McElmo Black-on-white, Mesa 

 Verde, and Kayenta Polychrome potsherds from its rubbish fill 



