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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I47 



EXCAVATION NOTES, PUEBLO BONITO— continued 



Room 



Doorway : 



290 



Doorways ; 



Wall niche : 

 Fireplace : 



Workslab : 

 Subfloor : 



291 



Doorways ; 



tered, of dressed friable s.s. with minimum 

 chinking; not our 2nd type. N. and S. walls 

 abut E. ; vertical union 7' 4" from NE. corner 

 suggests former wall end. 

 E. wall : 2' 9" from NE. corner, 19" above 

 floor, 22" w. at top, 26" w. at sill x 35" h. x 

 24" across sill, secondary lintels 3" below. 

 Lower 17" blocked from R. 163. 

 One of 2 dwellings partly overhanging N. arc 

 of Kiva L. Masonry, of sah'aged stone, is 

 3rd type, repeatedly plastered. S. wall built 

 upon paired beams. 



NE. wall: 1) NW. jamb 9" from E. corner, 

 3' 5" above floor, blocked by SE. wall ; 2) N. 

 end NE. wall, 19" above floor, 3' 9" h., 

 blocked by abutting NW. wall. SW. wall 

 T-shaped door: upper part ca. 5' from S. 

 corner, 30" w., lower part at floor level 

 19" w. X 20" h., possibly blocked. 

 NE. wall : 5' 5" from N. corner, 2' 8" above 

 floor, stones removed to form recess 13" w. x 

 7" h. X 14" d., plastered. 

 Next NE. wall ca. 5i' from N. corner, oval, 

 25" X 14" X 9" d. Contained infant burial 

 (U.S.N.M. No. 327133), face down, head to 

 W. Open hearth above burial. 

 Shaped s.s. slab 12i" NW.-SE. x lOi" w. x 

 6" th., worn on top, embedded in floor 3Y 

 from NE. wall, 4' from NW. 

 Concave face of Kiva L wall, 20" th., goes 

 under NW. end 5^' from N. corner with 

 13" w. outside offset for ceiling poles. Under 

 SE. end, apparently Old Bonitian house, as- 

 sociate floor at 7' 2", walls 11" th. plastered 

 on inside only and sooted. Vent shaft, ap- 

 parently of former Kiva 76, underlies E. 

 corner. 



Like 290 a Late Bonitian house abutting an 

 earlier 3rd type wall perhaps built to enclose 

 former Kiva 76. E. half of SW. side, on 

 paired logs, overhangs Kiva L. 

 NE. wall : 1) 4' 11" from N. comer, 28" w. x 

 49" h., hewn plank sill 5" above floor, 

 blocked; 2) T-shaped: upper part 16" from 

 El. comer, 38" w. blocked and plastered over ; 

 lintels of hewn cedar planks 33" above floor, 

 front lintel 42" 1. x 5^" w. x U" tli., propped 

 by 2" post ; blocked to leave recess, 10" w. x 

 11" h. X 16" d. 22" above floor. SW. wall, 

 T-shaped door: lower part, 22" w., 7' 9" 

 from W. corner at floor level, blocked. 



(Coittinued) 



