38 BULLETIISr 87, tllSriTED STATES XATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The uj^per portion is built up of wire, the winding as in a coiled 

 basket (fig. T9, h) ', the collar is formed in a similar way and is 

 decorated with chevrons of straight lines (fig. 79, c) ; the globular 

 l^ortion, however, is not formed of wire but was drawn from a mass 

 of copper by hammering, the slit being cut out afterward. The bell 

 was made in three sections, the top with its staple, the collar with a 

 raised band at its lower margin, and the globular body, and these 

 parts were brazed together after the copper sounder (fig. 79, d) was 

 inserted. The word " brazed " is used in the sense of cementation 

 together of the parts by heat when inclosed in conjunction in a 

 mass of fire-resistant founder's earth; the hollow of the bell was 

 cored with the same material. The bell was made in Mexico where 

 metal working was practiced, and was brought to the great ancient 

 town in the valley of the Tularosa in the course of primitive traffic. 

 It is an excellent specimen of ancient Mexican art in metal. (Cat. 

 No. 170547, U.S.N.M. ; diameter, 2 inches; length, 3f inches; Delgar 

 Ranch, Tularosa River, New Mexico.) 



rOTTERY. 



On the whole the region exjolored, with the exception of the Tula- 

 rosa Valley, is not characterized by the great excellence observed in 

 the ware found northeast of the Little Colorado. It is better thar. 

 that of the Rio Grande Valley to the east and northeast, or the Gila 

 Valle}^ to the westward, where the ware appears to be affiliated with 

 that of northern Mexico. On the north it grades somewhat into the 

 pottery of the higher boreal slopes of the White Mountains, where 

 brown and painted coil ware are the prevalent types. The decorative 

 designs on the pottery of this region are of older type than those of 

 the Rio Grande or those found on the pottery of the Pueblos who 

 migrated westward from that river into Arizona and settled among 

 the Pueblos whose pottery was decorated with the archaic conven- 

 tionalized symbolism. The preponderance and broad development of 

 coiled ware in this region also gives an older phase to its ceramic art, 

 and illustrates best the artistic relationship of basketry and pottery, 



COILED WARE OF THE BLUE RIVER REGION. 



In regions where excellent potter}^ clay was at hand coiled ware 

 was employed for cooking vessels. On the Blue River, however, 

 where no such conditions prevail, coiled ware entered into all classes 

 of uses and scarcely anywhere are more excellent examples of this 

 work found. As is known, coiling arises from a structural method 

 in which vessels are formed of ropes of clay applied spirally and 



