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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



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The walls are double, the interval between the inner wall and that of 

 the circular chamber being filled in with solid masonry/ The outer 

 of the two enclosing rectangular walls is separated from the inner 

 by an interval of about 7 feet, and is connected with it by thin parti- 

 tions, somewhat analogous to those described as connecting the two 

 concentric walls ^ of circular towers on the McElmo. 



No other walls were observed above ground in this ruin, although 

 small piles of stone were noticed which may have been walls of other 



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. — Ground plan of ruined kiva near Crown Point. 



buildings. The reason why the walls about the kiva have been 

 preserved so much longer than those of neighboring secular cham- 



^ Although the author has observed several towers with fallen rock about 

 their bases, he has not been able to trace three concentric walls with connecting 

 partitions. 



^ The circular kivas of the two ruins near Crown Point are enclosed by four 

 standing walls forming sides of a rectangle, a feature they share with some of 

 these chambers in the Chaco and San Juan region. The intention of the 

 builders was to secure the prescribed subterranean feature by construction of 

 a rectangular building about the circular room rather than by depression below 

 the level of the site. This type is now extinct, but belongs to the most advanced 

 stage of pueblo architecture before its decline. 



