. Bulletin. Ethnology. KIDDER-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN" ARIZONA 73 The walls are roughly made and irregular both in line and plumb, but are covered with many layers of plaster. There are no niches. The regular kiva features present are the ventilator, fire pit, and probably a sipapu. No fire screen is in place, but there were found, at the spot where it should have been, ten or twelve rough stakes whose lower ends showed that they once had been driven 3 or 4 inches into the earth. They may have formed the basis of an adobe-covered screen. The floor at that point was too muc
. Bulletin. Ethnology. KIDDER-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN" ARIZONA 73 The walls are roughly made and irregular both in line and plumb, but are covered with many layers of plaster. There are no niches. The regular kiva features present are the ventilator, fire pit, and probably a sipapu. No fire screen is in place, but there were found, at the spot where it should have been, ten or twelve rough stakes whose lower ends showed that they once had been driven 3 or 4 inches into the earth. They may have formed the basis of an adobe-covered screen. The floor at that point was too much broken, however, to add any evidence. The ventilator passage could not be cleared without destroying the wall under which it ran; its entrance is 1 foot wide, 14 inches high. The fire pit is rectangidar, its slab coping rising 2 inches above the floor; in it and in a bed between it and the venti- lator w^ere the usual white ashes. Hole a, diameter 3 inches (fig. 27), was sealed up flush with the floor; on cutting out the adobe plug, it proved to have smooth sides running down 2 inches, but no bottom other than soft cave sand. Hole &, diameter 10 inches, was noticed because it was sealed with gray adobe, contrasting in color with the reddish floor; this adobe was filled w^ith small breast feathers of the turkey. The hole itself has irregular, un- smoothed sides and no bot- tom; probably it was a patched-up break in the floor. No other apertures occurred that could be considered as sipapus. On each side of the fire is an alignment of five holes containing yucca loops. There are also two odd loopholes between the lines and the fire pit. In the back or north wall of the kiva, 2 feet 2 inches above the floor, is'an aperture 1 foot wide by 13 inches high; it opens into a tunnel of the same size running toward the back of the cave. Time forbade following it to its termination. Eight or nine feet to the rear a round vertical shaft 1 foot in diameter emerges from the rubbish by th
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