NO. lO ARCHEOLOGY OF MIMBRES VALLEY FEWKES IQ 



The pipes from the Alimbres take the form of tubular cloud- 

 blowers, specimens of which are shown in figure 6. Apparently these 

 pipes were sometimes thrown into sacred springs, but others have 

 been pi(;J<ed up on the surface of village sites or a few feet below the 

 surface. 



Fig. 6.— Cloud blowers. Faywood Hot Springs. (Swope collection. :) 



y2 nat. size. 



Lateral and top views of one of the characteristic forms of small 

 stone mortars with a handled projection on one side is shown m 

 figure 7. This specimen is in the Swope collection in the Deming 



Fig. 7.— Handled mortar. (Swope collection.") Length 10^". 



High School. In the same collection there are also two beautiful 

 tubular pipes, or cloud-blowers, from the same spring. 



The stone mortars from Mimbres ruins vary in size. Many are 

 simply spherical stones with a depression on one side; others are 

 larger but still spherical, or ovate; while others have square or 



