NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD 20/ 



embedded in the west masonry. Either the sacred rites performed 

 within 148 were exposed to all passersby, which would be most un- 

 likely, or the Kiva A roof rose 18 feet to roof level of Room 148, 

 equally unlikely. A roof sloping, say, from the north beams in Kiva A 

 to roof edge in Room 148 would be architecturally unthinkable any 

 where in the Pueblo country. 



From what we found, I believe Great Kiva A was deliberately 

 demolished and its roofing timbers withdrawn for use elsewhere. 

 Hence the broken wall all around and the broken flooring adjoining 

 in each peripheral room. The data in hand do not evidence destruc- 

 tion by fire. Neither before nor after abandonment was Kiva A 

 utilized as a repository for neighborhood rubbish. It was not a dump. 

 Besides the usual assortment of lost beads, paint stones, arrowpoints, 

 and curious minerals, we recovered during excavation only 1,830 mis- 

 cellaneous potsherds and only one piece of stone worthy of note. 

 Without protest on my part, our enthusiastic Zuiii masons during 

 1924 repairs to the bordering West Court wall installed a Kiva A build- 

 ing block incised with a running zigzag. 



From this recital, however inconclusive, the informed archeologist 

 will have noted many striking similarities to the Great Kiva at Aztec 

 Ruin, excavated and convincingly described by the late Earl H. 

 Morris (1921). 



GREAT KIVA Q 



Kiva Q, our second Great Kiva at Pueblo Bonito, is older than 

 Kiva A and less complicated. It had 4 large pine posts rather than 

 masonry columns as roof supports. It had a single bench rather than 

 three encircling the floor at base of wall. There are no peripheral 

 rooms. Kiva Q lacks the numerous wall niches of Kiva A and the 

 recessed stairway to a north "altar room." But, unlike A, it has a 

 south alcove, or possible entrance-way, from which steps led to court 

 level and it had a midfloor repository that might reasonably be con- 

 sidered a sipapu. This second Great Kiva is in the pattern of super- 

 kivas elsewhere but it has its own unique features (fig. 17). 



The masonry of Kiva Q does not fit into our local scheme. It is 

 predominantly of laminate sandstone with infrequent blocks dressed 

 by pecking or rubbing. It is neither our second- nor our third-type 

 but seems more closely related to the latter. Measured at time of 

 excavation the floor averaged 40 feet in diameter and was encircled 

 by a bench that varied considerably both in width and height but 

 averaged 25 by 23 inches. Above-bench masonry, 38 inches thick, 



