. Bulletin. Ethnology. 40 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bill. 35 were practiced here. In one portion of the site axes were found and in another metates and manos. The ruin is the largest on the San Carlos creek. Small ruins beginning on the mesa north of the Gila extend along the river at intervals to the Rice school. Specimens collected by the pupils of the school are now in the National Museum. No. 23. Pueblo.—On Ash creek, a branch of the San Carlos creek, are small house ruins mentioned by Bandelier. (Final Report, n, 404.) No. L2If. Cave.—In the Nantacks, a range of mountains lying north
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 40 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bill. 35 were practiced here. In one portion of the site axes were found and in another metates and manos. The ruin is the largest on the San Carlos creek. Small ruins beginning on the mesa north of the Gila extend along the river at intervals to the Rice school. Specimens collected by the pupils of the school are now in the National Museum. No. 23. Pueblo.—On Ash creek, a branch of the San Carlos creek, are small house ruins mentioned by Bandelier. (Final Report, n, 404.) No. L2If. Cave.—In the Nantacks, a range of mountains lying north of Pima, Graham county, Ariz., a cave was discovered in 1896 by a pros- pector. It contained many offer- ings of pottery, arrows, arrowheads, and beads, placed on rock ledges of the cavern. The specimens were coated to a depth of one thirty- second of an inch with lime de- posited from water, but unfortunate- Fig. 7. Human effigy vase. ]y thig coating, which fell away from the vessels with comparative readiness, was thoroughly removed by the collector. One-fourth of the find was secured by Doctor Fewkes and is now in the National Museum. A singular effigy vase from this cave has been made the subject of a special paper by Doctor Fewkes, who records the object as a product of Mexican culture. (American Anthropologist, xi, no. G, 165, June, 1898.) The cave was evidently one of the many subterranean places of deposit for ceremonial offerings scattered throughout this region (see p. 18). Among the offerings secured are numerous disks, most of them worked from pottery, as shown by the periphery, which invariably bears evidences of rough grinding. Similar disks are found in the debris of every ancient pueblo ruin. It is thought that these objects FlG' 8" Ix!deilted bowL are adjuncts of games and as such they survive in Zuni games. (See Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, Zuni Games, American Anthropologist, n. s., v, no. 3, 487, July-Sept., 1903.) The pottery, a number of specimens of whi
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