. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ccasin-shaped jar from PueliloViejo. 182 TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUKBLO RUINS [ETH. ANN. 22 erary oUa, as it contained, when found, cinerated human liones. Theware is characteristic of the Gila, though a few straggling specimensof similar pottery have been found at Four-mile ruin near Snow-flake. It will be observed that the decoration of this vase is wholly ingeometrical patterns, a common feature of all ornamented ware fromthe Pueblo Viejo. Almost all geometrical forms are represented—spir;ils,
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ccasin-shaped jar from PueliloViejo. 182 TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUKBLO RUINS [ETH. ANN. 22 erary oUa, as it contained, when found, cinerated human liones. Theware is characteristic of the Gila, though a few straggling specimensof similar pottery have been found at Four-mile ruin near Snow-flake. It will be observed that the decoration of this vase is wholly ingeometrical patterns, a common feature of all ornamented ware fromthe Pueblo Viejo. Almost all geometrical forms are represented—spir;ils, bars, terraces, stars, and squares with dots. In plate LXix other forms of decorated ware from Pueblo Viejoare represented. Figure a shows a small saucer, with exterior and. ^StJ- ?x^ Fir;. 113. AiTow polisher from Pueblo Viejo (uumber 177569). interior decoration of rectangular bands of black; the margin is h shows a small vase of typical Gila pottery, ornamented withzigzag red bands, which was excavated from the Buena Vista vase c was dug out of the flat near the western mounds of Epleysruin. It was found by Mexican laborers making adobes, and con-tained a calcined human skeleton. The external surface of this vasewas smooth, and the decoration consisted of series of terraced figures,recalling those geometrical designs so prominent in all ancient potteryfrom Arizona. pewkeb] collections made in 1897 183 Stone Objects prom Pueblo Viejo implements The ancient people of Pueblo Viejo were still in the stone age, andtheir implements were similar to those found elsewhere in the South-west. The stone hatchets are, as a rule, fineb^ made, as is generallythe case in the Gila and Salt river ruins. A considerable numberwere collected, some o
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