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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I47 



EXCAVATION NOTES, PUEBLO BONITO— continued 



Room 

 297 B 



Doorways ; 



297 C 

 298 



298 B 



299 



Doorway : 

 Subfloor : 



Doorways : 

 Shelf: 



Ceiling : 

 Doorways ; 



Shelves ; 



E. show 2nd type masonry; room next 

 beyond, 3rd type. 



N. wall: 6' 11" from NW. corner, 19" above 

 floor, 23" w. X 36" h., blocked from outside 

 leaving 8" h. recess under lintels. E. wall: 

 20" from NE. corner, N. jamb only. W. 

 wall: 21" from NW. corner, 21" above floor, 

 22" w. X 32" h. 



4th tjrpe masonry is part of final L.B. addi- 

 tion. Floor level is higher than that of R. 

 299C, adjoining. 



A 3-story room external row of O.B. ; ma- 

 sonry, 1st tj-pe thickly plastered. N. 4i' of 

 NW. wall abuts R. 13 with 8" jog. Ill- 

 defined floor covered by 12-14" of cedar chips 

 and vegetal leavings. Upon this, 10 bowls 

 and other objects fallen from 2nd story; 

 above, transverse poles, cedar splints, un- 

 peeled willows. Fire had burned 1st and 2nd 

 stories. 



Middle S. wall; split cedar lintels; jambs 

 broken. 



Massive blocks of friable s.s., northward 

 slope, 12" or more under floor and SW. vrall 

 represent old cliff-fall. On either side, clean 

 sand. 



S. wall: 2 indicated, both with plastered 

 jambs and dovraward sloping sills. 

 W. end, 3' 9" above floor level, 5 poles in N. 

 wall, apparently post-construction. 

 L.B. room, outer N. row, 2nd type masonry. 

 Wire hangs from nails in beams. 

 23 N.-S. pine beams 3-5" dia. ; above, peeled 

 willows, butts squared (134 counted), bound 

 to beams by yucca thongs over unpeeled 

 split willows, flat side down; cedarbark 

 above. 



N. wall: 6' 4" from NE. comer, 21" above 

 floor, 25" w. X 3' 9" h. x 26" across sill, 

 formerly blocked. E. wall: 23" from NE. 

 corner, 23" above floor, 23" w. x 32" h. S. 

 wall: 5' 2" from SW. corner, 28" above 

 floor, 19" w. X 3' 4" h. x 18" across sill. W. 

 wall: 25" from SW. corner, 21" above floor, 

 21" w. X 35" h., probably blocked. 



1) Pole holes av. 37" from W. end 5' 2" 

 above floor mark clothes pole; 3 holes in 

 middle W. wall evidence cross-pole shelf; 



2) other holes, same height, mark E.-end 

 clothes pole; single hole above E. door. 



(Continued) 



