. Bulletin. Ethnology. KIDDER-GUEKNSBYj AECHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 59 courses of the wall.^ At some time after the completion of this room it so settled into the ground that the tops of the walls sagged away an inch or so from the cave roof; the space thus formed was stopped up all around Avith adobe of a different color from that used in the original masonry. Although nowhere in Ruin 8 were any roofs in place, fragments of roofing were found in the debris. Over the beams had been laid twigs or cedar bark,^ and upon this was spread a coat of adobe mortar, over which were laid bunche
. Bulletin. Ethnology. KIDDER-GUEKNSBYj AECHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 59 courses of the wall.^ At some time after the completion of this room it so settled into the ground that the tops of the walls sagged away an inch or so from the cave roof; the space thus formed was stopped up all around Avith adobe of a different color from that used in the original masonry. Although nowhere in Ruin 8 were any roofs in place, fragments of roofing were found in the debris. Over the beams had been laid twigs or cedar bark,^ and upon this was spread a coat of adobe mortar, over which were laid bunches of long grass, more adobe, more grass, and finally a last layer of adobe, making a total thick- ness of about 4 inches. We have not observed this grass-layer. \ Fig. 24.—Kivas 1 and 2. Ruin method in any other ruin, nor have we seen it described. It makes a very strong and springy covering, and pieces of the mixture will stand a blow which would shiver an equal amount of unmixed adobe. Of the two chambers on the eastern front, K 1 is probably, and K 2 is surely, a kiva (fig. 24). Both are in poor preservation, water from the cliffs above having so entirely destroyed their front walls that their ventilating shafts, if they had them, have quite disap- peared. Both had once occupied a semisubterranean position, with their rear or northern portions well s'vak in the cave deposit, their southern walls probably standing partly free. 1 For the designs see fig. 97, a, h, o. 2 We saw neither reeds nor slats. The former were found in Ruin 2, and the latter observed in place in the roof of a cliff-house in Devil's Canyon, San Juan County, Utah (see Kidder, 1910).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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