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At the north where a recessed stairway 25 inches wide affords 

 access to the so-called "altar room," 148, our encircling benches 

 again separate, two on the west side, three on the east. On the upper 

 (c) a 4-inch-high step with a 15-inch tread provides a sort of "land- 



Scale !n Feef 

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Fig. 21. — Floor plan of Kiva L with subfloor feature and overlying 

 Rooms 290-291. 



ing" for the flight of seven steps as they rise 6^ feet to the Room 148 

 floor level (pi. 72, lower). Six of the steps are masonry and average 

 9 inches high by 6^ inches deep. Three cedar poles about 1^ inches 

 in diameter lay lengthwise upon the front half of the lower step ; three 

 hke poles embedded in the stairway jambs at the level of and in front 



