NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD I99 



last vestige of the original roof — so took care to replace them in 

 exactly the same position during 1921 repair work. 



Kiva A was designed with surprising precision. We measured its 

 floor diameter at 45 feet 1 inch; 3 feet higher, at 51 feet 10 inches 

 north-south and 52 feet 1 inch east-west. The floor was ringed by- 

 three encircling benches that vary in width and height and merge at 

 irregular intervals. Trowel tests here and there showed that the upper 

 bench had been built against the kiva wall, the second against the 

 upper and the third, without foundation, against the second. As a 

 means of convenient recording, I labeled the three, a, b, and c — the 

 lower, middle, and upper — and measured width and height at 14 

 stations, clockwise from the east side of the north stairway. For such 

 information as they may convey, I repeat six of the readings here- 

 with: 



12 o'clock 3 o'clock 6 o'clock 



w h w h w h 



c 12" 7" 13" 7" 13" 8" 



a 11" 10" 13" 26" 10" 12" 



b 15" 17" 17" 5" 17" 2" 



8 o'clock 9:30 o'clock 11:50 o'clock 



w h w h w h 



b] 20" 27" 1 42„ 3,„ I 21" 24" 



c 21" 10" J 20" 14" 



Total width and height at the 14 stations average 40^ inches and 34 inches, 

 respectively. 



As will be seen from the floor plan (fig. 16), the three Kiva A 

 benches differ but little in width until about 6:45 where b narrows 

 to 7 inches and then merges with a. From a little past 9 o'clock until 

 about 10:20 the three unite into a single bench 42 inches wide by 34 

 high. In the face of this combination, 21 inches above the kiva floor 

 are two small niches approximately 5 inches square and 8 inches deep. 

 Both were open and empty. 



Around the main wall at an average 32 inches above the upper 

 bench are 34 larger recesses, likewise open and empty. They ap- 

 proximate 9 inches square by 10 inches deep, and each is capped by 

 a sandstone slab. Between and below them in the east half of the 

 chamber are five smaller niches, 4 of them at an average height of 19 

 inches and the fifth at 40^. All are empty; none plastered. Com- 

 parable recesses may have been present in portions of the wall now 

 fallen. 



