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Fig. 9.— Mealing stone and section. 



houses forming the village would be that of circular mounds inter- 

 spersed with rectangular open-air sheds and on the margin of the 

 village a pallisaded dance circle. (PI. 35.) 



ARTIFACTS. 



Mealing stone. — ^Turtle-shape stone of coarse volcanic grit for 

 use as a mano. The working face of the stone is flat from side to 



side and ground to the arc of a circle 

 about 12 inches in diameter from end to 

 end, showing that it was used in a basin- 

 like metate like those found at Luna. It 

 belongs to the pillow type of mano found 

 south of the mountains and in California. 

 North of the mountains the mano is 

 usually worn to a triangular section from 

 use on a flat, steeply inclined metate, 

 as among the existing Pueblos. Quite 

 frequently the pillow-shaped mano is 

 grooved along the sides for the finger 

 grip. (Fig. 9, No. 292113, U.S.N.M.) ; 4| inches wide, 6| inches long, 

 1^ inches thick. 



Metates. — As remarked, every pit house revealed on excavation a 

 mealing stone lying on the floor near the fire and in the open-air 

 sheds a number were taken out. Sometimes an irregular stone had 

 been used with almost no shaping (fig. 10) ; again the stone was 

 roughly pecked to shape (figs. 11, 12) ; a little more work was put on 

 some specimens (figs. 13, 14) ; but in no case were the metates fin- 

 ished to a definite form as among the 

 Pueblos. Two specimens display a spe- 

 cially worn area near one end like speci- 

 mens from northern Arizona and Utah. 

 (Figs. 15, 16.) Metates in the pit houses 

 were propped up at the required slant on 

 a wedge-shape stone which had been se- 

 lected for its shape. (Figs. 17, 18.) In 

 the sheds they were sometimes set up on 

 three stones. (See fig. 2.) The metates 

 found are of gray grit stone and were 

 nearly all broken in place or cracked to pieces on removal into 

 the air. 



Paint grinding {?) stone. — Small oval slab of fine grit stone, flat 

 below and concave above, the concavity smoothly worn. Suggests 

 the stones used by the Zufii and other Pueblos for grinding paint, 

 numbers of which are exhibited in the halls of archeology. The use 

 to which this specimen was put is not Imown. Only this one was 



Fig. 10.~Irregular meaung stone. 



