. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . mnants of color were still found onthem. Green, red, yellow, aiul white pigments such as are still usedby the Pueblo Indians were found in many of the rooms. Oblongor oval stones, with a flat Iace, worn on one pole, served as rubbing stones by wliich thesesubstances were groundto powder. Tliere wassometimes considerable/ .<^^^^^^^^^V <^A skill shown in the way / ^^^^^^^^^^^HK J^^^ stones were fash- •• ^^^^^^^^K .^^^^H ioned. They were some- times mushroom-shaped,with a circular disk anda
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . mnants of color were still found onthem. Green, red, yellow, aiul white pigments such as are still usedby the Pueblo Indians were found in many of the rooms. Oblongor oval stones, with a flat Iace, worn on one pole, served as rubbing stones by wliich thesesubstances were groundto powder. Tliere wassometimes considerable/ .<^^^^^^^^^V <^A skill shown in the way / ^^^^^^^^^^^HK J^^^ stones were fash- •• ^^^^^^^^K .^^^^H ioned. They were some- times mushroom-shaped,with a circular disk anda slim handle. One of tlie finestwrought of all the mor-tars was ijurchased froma Mexican in Solomon-ville. It was elongated,trencher-shaped, withknobs at the rock of which it was made, though very hard, was worked withconsiderable skill. The Mexican who sold it had used it for bruisingvegetable substances. Xo doubt this is but a continuation of its usein prehistoric time, long before white men came into the author saw a beautiful mortar made of a green stone, which. Unknown stone object from Pueblo Tiejo(number 177677). Attempts to purchase this fine specimen failed. FEWKEs] COLLECTIONS MADE IN 1897 185 was saiil to have been taken out of tlie ruius near Solomonvillc Iliiswas one of tlie finest paint mortars whieli he ever saw from theSoutliwest. One of the most exceptional of stone ohjeets from the Puehh) Viejoruins is shown in the annexed cut (figure 115). It has a regulardisli form, and is carefully worlv<Ml from a lava stone. The formis that of a paint mortar. STONE SLABS Early in the authors studies in the Pueblo Viejo, his attention wascalled to a stone slab shaped like the sole of a slioe (figure lHi), towhich it was compared by the Mexican who owned it. This object Fig. IIG. Ceremonial stone slab from Pueblo Viejo (number 1T75T5). was flat or slightly convex on one face, fiat on the opposite, and liad ashallow groove on the margin. The
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