. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA REGION". 37. u a^ c Fig. 78.—Copper bell from Tonto Basin, Arizona. Shell had use only for ornaments, such as beads, bracelets, and tinklers. The uniformity of shell objects over the -whole Pueblo region suggests that they may have been distributed from one localit}'' where they were manufactured, though occasionally a specimen is found in process. Shells carved in the form of a frog are rather com- mon in the Little Colorado Valley and on the Lower Gila, but are rare in the Blue River region. Small Pacific
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA REGION". 37. u a^ c Fig. 78.—Copper bell from Tonto Basin, Arizona. Shell had use only for ornaments, such as beads, bracelets, and tinklers. The uniformity of shell objects over the -whole Pueblo region suggests that they may have been distributed from one localit}'' where they were manufactured, though occasionally a specimen is found in process. Shells carved in the form of a frog are rather com- mon in the Little Colorado Valley and on the Lower Gila, but are rare in the Blue River region. Small Pacific - coast clamshells of gTaded size were found with burials of children at Blue, and the writer has noticed their occur- rence with children's remains in other localities. So far as is known they have never been encountered in the graves of adults. METAL WORK. There is no evidence that the ancient Pueblos were acquainted. with the working of metal, and it is apparent that they had slight knowledge of free inetal of any character. Only at the Delgar ruin on Tularosa River has there been found a mass of native cop- per, probably brought from the Rio Grande, where it is found free. This mass had been rubbed and smoothed and treated in every way as a stone. The small bells, which have been found to the number of about 15 in Pueblo graves, were made in Mexico, and came as a valued article of trade through primitive commerce. A small globular hawk-bell with stone sounder (fig. 78 a, bell natural size; &, view from beneath; c, stone sounder) was collected in Tonto Basin by James Douglas. (Cat. Xo. 173068, ) This is the type of copper bell found quite generally distributed in the Pueblo region west of the Rio Grande. Henry Hales collected the largest and most elaborately-worked bell that has been found in ancient ruins of the Southwest. (Fig. 79, a.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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