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stood 9 feet 7 inches high at the north side, 8 feet at the east, and 

 3 feet 8 inches in front of the south alcove. Although plaster sur- 

 vives here and there absence of sooting suggests that the walls were 

 formerly covered full height. 



Four pine posts, 15-18 inches in diameter, had supported the Kiva Q 

 roof. That at the northwest, the only one we examined, stood upon 

 a large sandstone slab in a neat masonry cylinder 36 inches in diame- 

 ter by 9 inches deep, filled with shale fragments and covered by a 

 closely-fitted slab pavement 7 feet 4 inches in diameter. The other 

 three posts were similarly seated and likewise surrounded by flag- 

 stones, shale chips beneath. Those on the east side, best preserved, 

 were about 3 feet high but too decayed for ring analysis (pi. 75, 

 lower). 



Although no trace remained of roofing timbers, large beams neces- 

 sarily spanned the distance between posts as in Great Kiva A. Origi- 

 nally I estimated a ceiling height of 12 feet under the impression 

 it must have been continuous with that of the alcove. Ten feet would 

 have been a better guess. Our figure 7 shows the Kiva Q floor 11- 

 12 feet below the 1924 West Court surface; the alcove deserves at 

 least a 5 foot ceiling. We made no underfloor excavation. 



On each side of the chamber is a masonry-lined, sunken vault, 

 neater in construction than those in Great Kiva A and free from 

 additions and substitutions. That on the east, 4 feet 8 inches wide 

 by 6 feet 7 inches long and 13 inches deep, had walls 10 inches thick, 

 topping off flush with the kiva floor. A companion vault on the west 

 side measured 4^ feet wide by 6 feet 5 inches long and 16 inches 

 deep. Unlike that on the east, however, its masonry walls are 14 

 inches thick, stand 3 inches above the floor, and are of superior ex- 

 ternal construction. Further, this vault was paved with packed sand, 

 a thin layer of shale chips on top. 



Between the two vaults, 11 feet 10 inches from the south bench, 

 is a masonry fireplace averaging 52 inches square by 29 inches high. 

 Its fire pit, 28 inches in diameter and 12 inches deep, was floored 

 with sand. On the north side at kiva floor level is a draft opening 

 or flue, 8 inches wide by 10 inches high, its sill and lintel both of 

 sandstone slabs. Twenty five inches north of this raised fireplace 

 our Zuni workmen cleared an unburned but ash-filled basin 18 inches 

 in diameter, ringed with adobe 6 inches high and 39 inches across. 

 It was, they insisted, the container for ashes from the principal 

 fireplace. 



A subfloor depository of neat masonry 12 inches in diameter by 



