. Bulletin. Ethnology. ROBERTS] SHABIK'ESHCHEE VILLAGE 79 the Such a provision would be of great assistance in carry- ing the heavy timbers which furnished the framework for the roof. In the present structure the smaller poles were not embedded in the earth around the periphery of the room but seem rather to have rested on the outer wall and to have sloped upward to rest on the framework supported by the four upright posts in the interior of the room. The interior furnishings seem to have been much simpler even than those in the ordinary dwellings. As mentioned above, there were the f
. Bulletin. Ethnology. ROBERTS] SHABIK'ESHCHEE VILLAGE 79 the Such a provision would be of great assistance in carry- ing the heavy timbers which furnished the framework for the roof. In the present structure the smaller poles were not embedded in the earth around the periphery of the room but seem rather to have rested on the outer wall and to have sloped upward to rest on the framework supported by the four upright posts in the interior of the room. The interior furnishings seem to have been much simpler even than those in the ordinary dwellings. As mentioned above, there were the four large posts, placed in positions quite closely oriented to the cardinal points of the compass, which carried the superstructure. One feature here present which was missing in the other structures was that of the bench around the base of the outer wall. This bench had been constructed by setting up a row of short slabs within and. Fig. 25.—Constructional feature in kiva, showing use of poles in face of bench and back wall at some distance from the inclosing circle of the room. The space between the two rows of stones had been filled with broken stones of irregular shapes and adobe mortar. The top of the bench, as well as its facing, had a smooth, hard coating of adobe plaster. In the center of the room was a rectangular-shaped fire pit. Small stone slabs had been used to line the walls of the pit, but its bottom was not paved. There was no sipapu at the north side of the pit. In fact the only holes in the floor were those for the support posts, the butt ends of which were still in place, and the fire pit. The broken end of a large stone slab was firmly in position in the floor between the fire pit and the southeastern Avail of the room. This had no doubt been the There had been an opening in the 87 Circular rooms constructed of flat stones set up on edge, braced by posts and poles, were noted in Moonlight and Water Lily Canyons, tributaries of the Sagie ot Sosi
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