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both utensils showing, it is presumed, the Hkeness due to simihir 

 needs rather than to direct acculturation. 



The following is a description of the specimens figured on plate 14: 

 Pipe of gray vesicular rock, shallow bowl, uniform tube leading to 

 center of bowl. Diameter, IJ inches; height, 2 inches. (Cat. No. 

 212609, U.S.N.M.) Scorse ranch, near Ilolbrook, northeastern Ari- 

 zona. Collected by Walter Hough. (PI. 14 a.) 



Made of purple vesicular lava; bowl not much enlarged; tu]:>e of 

 largo caliber. Diameter, IJ inches; height, If inches. (Cat. No. 

 212102, U.S.N.M.) Petrified forest, Arizona. Collected by Walter 

 Hough. (PI. 14 h.) 



Of yellow sandstone; bowl large and conical, joined by a small 

 orifice at apex of cone formed in the base. (Cat. No. 140435, 

 U.S.N.M.) Arizona. Collected by R. J. 

 Coyne. Diameter, 1| inches; height, 2| 

 inches. (PI. 14 c.) 



Of dense, vesicular lava, brown to blue in 

 color, finely finished; the bowl very deep. 

 Diameter, IJ inches; length, 2^^ inches. 



Fio.9.— Ancient POTTERY BRAZIER- 

 CENSER, City of Mexico. 



Petrified forest, Arizona. Collected by 

 Walter Hough. (Cat. No. 212131. 

 U.S.N.M.) (PI. 14 d.) 



Pipe of pottery; brown color, surface 

 highly polished, bowl deep, meeting smaller 

 orifice perforating its bottom. (Cat. No. 

 156132, U.S.N.M.) Length, 2| inches; 

 diameter, f inch. Sikyatki, Arizona. Col- 

 lected by J. Walter Fewkes. (PI. 14 e.) 



Pipe of pottery; exquisitely finished, brown color, stem squared, 

 bowl swelled and terminating in a collar. Length, 2^ inches; diam- 

 eter, l inch. (Cat. No. 213250, U.S.N.^f.) Awatobi, Arizona. 

 Collected by the Museum-Gates Expedition, 1901. (PI. 14/.) 



Pipe of brownish tufa; bowl and stem of equal length, side of bowl 

 decorated with cross formed by small holes drilled in the material. 

 Length, 2| inches; bowl, 1 inch by 3 inches. (Cat. No. 234768, 

 U.S.N.M.) Jemez, New Mexico. Collected by Mrs. Matilda Coxe 

 Stevenson. (PL 14 g.) 



Pottery pipe exquisitely finished, mouth portion llared; body 

 ridged as though wrapped with cord, except collar portion at the 

 forward end. Length, 2\^ inches; diameter, f inch. (Cat. No. 

 156154, U.S.N.M.) Awatobi, Arizona. Collected by J. Walter 

 Fewkes. (PI. 14 h.) 



Pipe of dark gray stone, well finished; bowl, shallow cone; btLso 

 flattened and expanded. (Cat. No. 234769, U.S.N.M.) Jemoz Pla- 

 teau, New Mexico. Collected by Mrs. Matilda Coxe Stevenson, 

 length, 2 J inches; diameter, | inch. (PI. 14 i.) 



