Description: View of the east end of the main room block of the pueblo, with elevated kiva. The single-storied elevated kiva was built into an above ground rectangular room.
Description: Diagnal view of the wall facing the plaza. Originally a colonnade (rare in the Puebloan Southwest) it had been filled in in the 12th century.
Description: Closer view of in-filled colonnade wall. The unusual use of a colonnade was probably influenced by trade with the Toltec peoples of Mexico.
Description: The great kiva: a classic element of a Chacoan great house, here situated on the unusual elevated plaza. Beyond lies the south boundary formed of narrow one-story rooms.
Description: Great kiva interior: N end with antechamber entry at left, and one of four seating pits for roof supports. The four large sandstone discs were excavated from the NE seating pit of the kiva.
Description: S interior end of great kiva: square wall niches above low encircling masonry bench, raised square fire box, circular seating pits for roof supports, and raised rectangular floor vaults.
Description: Cluster of smaller kivas at the east end of the elevated plaza. These kivas belonged to different clans or societies, where the great kiva served the whole village.
Description: Cluster of smaller kivas at the east end with the line of narrow rooms forming the south perimeter of the elevated plaza; landscape beyond.
Description: View W into room block with elevated kiva at left. Stones projecting form the kiva may have been used as steps or scaffolding during construction.
Description: Close detail: lovely textures of Chacoan Type II "core and veneer" masonry where the larger dressed sandstone is laid without strict symmetry (unlike more regular coursing of Type III).
