Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . and white bowl, flintknives, idols, and septarian nodule. (Pho-tograph by J. W. Fewkes.) ceremony opened and closed with the formal smoking rite at thisshrine, and one can in imagination see the priests as they blew whififsof smoke to the cardinal points to bring rain. The discovery of pipes for ceremonial smoking in a Mesa Verdekiva is a significant one, indicating that the ancient priests of the NO. 5 ATIONS. I 92. 97 plateau, like the Uopi. smoked ceremonially. Moreover the formsof the prehistoric pipes (fig. 93) thus used differ materially fromthose
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . and white bowl, flintknives, idols, and septarian nodule. (Pho-tograph by J. W. Fewkes.) ceremony opened and closed with the formal smoking rite at thisshrine, and one can in imagination see the priests as they blew whififsof smoke to the cardinal points to bring rain. The discovery of pipes for ceremonial smoking in a Mesa Verdekiva is a significant one, indicating that the ancient priests of the NO. 5 ATIONS. I 92. 97 plateau, like the Uopi. smoked ceremonially. Moreover the formsof the prehistoric pipes (fig. 93) thus used differ materially fromthose of modern pueblos, in size and shape, although a few formerlyused by the Hopi have much in common with them. The walls of the kiva show structural variations from a standardAlesa Verde kiva. lliere were eight instead of six small mural pilas-ters, an addition of two to the usual number; evidentlv the roof ofthis subterranean chamber was vaulted and as its size was large itneeded more than the regulation number of supports for the roof. Fig. 95.—Interior of Fipe Shrine Monse looi<ing southwest across thecentral kiva. ( Photosraph I)y \V. R. Rowland, Durango, Colorado.) beams. Although the means of entrance to the room is unknownthere was probablv a hatchway in the roof, but no sign of a ladderwas discovered and no vertical logs to supjiort rafters were seen. The stones and plastering of the inner walls of the kiva indicateeverywhere a great conflagration ; the beams of the roof had com-pletely disappeared, and the color of the adobe covering of the wallswas a bright brick-red. The kiva measured about 24 feet in di-ameter and was about the same depth. Its roof served as the floorof a court surrounded by one-storied rooms. There was no largebanquette on its south side (fig. 95) as almost universally occurs ina regular Mesa Verde kiva. A conspicuous slab of rock set in the 98 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 74 floor near the rim of the shrine was possibly reserved f
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