. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. isbuilt facing southeast on a sandstone ledge just below the mesa was little or no soil on the ledge, but the section was oncecovered by earlier house structures, the tumbled walls of which weresufificiently deep to favor the building of a kiva. This location issimilar to that of many present-day Hopi kivas, and is in keepingwith the current Hopi custom of building their ceremonial chamberson a lower ledge, if sufficient depth of soil cannot be found on theground level. Three sides of kiva R-4 were covered either by abandoned roomsor household
. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. isbuilt facing southeast on a sandstone ledge just below the mesa was little or no soil on the ledge, but the section was oncecovered by earlier house structures, the tumbled walls of which weresufificiently deep to favor the building of a kiva. This location issimilar to that of many present-day Hopi kivas, and is in keepingwith the current Hopi custom of building their ceremonial chamberson a lower ledge, if sufficient depth of soil cannot be found on theground level. Three sides of kiva R-4 were covered either by abandoned roomsor household debris but the fourth was exposed, being built on theedge of the ledge. The greater part of the southeast wall had weatheredaway but the remaining portion of the platform was easily recognizedand provided a starting point for excavating the kiva. Above itsfallen roof the chamber was filled with fallen masonry through whichwere occasionally found potsherds of Jeddito black-on-yellow and 104 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 82. N ^ > Fig. 32.—Diagram of roof structure in R-9. NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA HAURY AND IIARGRAVE I05 Sikyatki polychrome. There is no reason to believe that the kiva be-came a refuse dump after it ceased to serve for ceremonial purposessince the sherds were too few and scattered, and were not alwaysassociated with ash deposits. It is believed these sherds were includedin the roofing clay. That the kiva was used after it was abandoned for ceremonial pur-poses, however, is clear, for the rear had been made into a smalldwelling or storage room, by building in a cross wall, partitioning anarea approximately lo by 6 feet. The floor of this small room was 5feet above that of the kiva and was made by leveling the accumulationsof fallen wall masonry that lay beneath it. The northwest and south-west walls of the kiva were utilized in the smaller room, though anauxiliary wall was built against and parallel to the northwest later walls w
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