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argues for the late occupancy and abandonment of this non-Chaco 

 room. In addition, a fragment picked up on the surface of the East 

 Mound, just outside the village at this point, belongs to a proto-Mesa 

 Verde bowl recovered from the same rubbish fill (U.S.N. M. 

 No. 336366). 



Kiva 2-E was roofed by a single, east- west beam seated directly 

 upon the wall masonry and by lesser cross timbers whose distal ends 

 rested in a 6-inch-deep offset at wall top. To this extent 2-E echoes 

 its immediate predecessor, 13 feet in diameter, the remains of which 

 lie a few feet to the east, its floor 9| feet beneath the area I numbered 

 286. This predecessor, its non-Chaco masonry likewise of large 

 squared blocks of friable sandstone and plastered full height, had 

 been roofed with cross-poles on a single beam, 8 inches in diameter, 

 the east end of which rested upon two posts (JPB 97 and 98) one 

 of them partly embedded in the front edge of the encircling bench. 

 An under-floor ventilator followed the Chaco pattern. 



There are other one-of-a-kind kivas at Pueblo Bonito. Kiva E, 

 for example (not 2-E), has four masonry pillars as roof supports. 

 These average 34^ inches wide in front, a trifle wider at the rear, 

 and stand 5 feet 10 inches above the encircling bench (pi. 65, upper). 

 In front of the south bench recess, 15^ inches deep and 5 feet 2 

 inches wide, is a Chaco-type sub-floor ventilator and a slab-lined 

 fireplace with two sandstone firedogs in the middle. Rather than a 

 north bench niche, there was one on the west side, 5 inches above 

 the floor and 31 inches from the northwest pillar. Its opening, 17 by 

 16 inches high, had two small posts at the north jamb, one flush with 

 the face and the second set 4 inches inside. 



The six pilasters of Kiva X were unique in that each consisted of 

 masonry 31 inches high, rising flush with the bench face and enclos- 

 ing two logs, one above the other (pis. 67, upper; 68, right). In each 

 case the lower log was about 4 inches in diameter and 5 inches above 

 the bench; the upper logs were larger and were tenoned in the 

 wall masonry at the top of the 31-inch-high pilasters. Cribbed ceil- 

 ing timbers, paired after the manner of Kiva L, likewise were em- 

 bedded in the wall masonry. Shorter pieces, leveling the upper layer, 

 rested upon the wall top and were held in place by a row of single 

 stones. These uppermost ceiling poles, their ends still in place, lay 

 6 feet 5 inches above the floor of Room 330, nearby, thus measuring 

 the depth of Old Bonitian rubbish before construction of Late 

 Bonitian Kiva X. 



Another unusual fancy in pilaster construction is that in Kiva T 



