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MEMOIES OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Pottery was found in great abundance in the house graves, in the pyral cemeteries, and on 

 the floors of the houses, where it seemed to liave been abandoned, as if the dwellings were sud- 

 denly deserted. It consisted of food vessels and water vessels in a great variety of shapes and 

 sizes, and of well-executed images of animals of the chase which once inhabited the surrounding 



Fig. 8 Ancieut Cibola eating bowl, showiug 



country. The vessels were decorated in a manner closely resembling those of the modern Pueblos 

 of New Mexico and Arizona, especially those of the Zuiii and Moqui (see Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10). 

 The more commonly employed symbolic decorations were aUke in all. 



-Modern Zimi food bowl, allowing 

 "exit trail of life." 



One of these, worthy of especial note, is what the Zuiiis call the exit trail of life. It is found 

 inside of food vessels and outside of water vessels; it consists of an opening or hiatus in the single 

 or double encircling paint bands near the margin of the vess^, as shown at a in Figs. 8, 9, 10. It 

 is a symbol based on the idea before alluded to of vessels having souls.* 



* See Fourtli Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 510. 



