300 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 190l'. 



border. The interior is undecorated. The edge bears black dots, a 

 feature often noted in the ware of the mountain ruins. 



Small cooking pots of coiled ware and small coiled vases occur at 

 Linden. Great quantities of fragments of large flaring bowls with 

 polished black interior and rugose exterior bearing volutes and 

 grecques in white lay around the skeletons. Often five or six of 

 these large bowls were nested in a grave, and, as may be imagined, 

 the sinking and packing of rocky soil upon them produced such havoc 

 that it was not possible to save fragments enough to reconstruct a 

 specimen of what was evidently beautiful ware. A small globose bowl 

 of this type was preserved intact. (Plate 20, fig. 1.) Among the small 

 pottery objects from Linden are reground disks and small dippers. 

 Fragments of vases and bowls with birds and the widespread four bird 

 convention and a fragment of gray ware in form of a mountain sheep's 

 head were picked up. A red bowl with the two joined bird symbol 

 on the interior must also be noticed. 



Rude axes and hammers, a fragment of an arrow-smoother of Gila 

 type, a chipped chert implement resembling a pick, a flint chisel 

 chipped and ground, a pitted stone, pottery smoothers, arrowheads, 

 and flint and obsidian knives comprise the collection of stone imple- 

 ments from Linden. Ornaments of stone were a few large beads, 

 disks, and tablets of red stone. Two cylindrical sections of fibrous 

 selenite of unknown use were found in a grave. The stones from the 

 shrine were iron concretions in form of cups, spheres, and odd shapes 

 resembling birds, etc., fragments of red jasper, and a mass of fossil 

 coral (Syringopora multattenuata). This was the only fossil observed; 

 on the hill above a vein of Carboniferous limestone made up of fossils 

 was seen and a number of specimens were collected. 



Shell is very scarce at Linden; the objects of this material taken 

 out were fragments of bracelets of pectunculus and a spiral shell 

 ornament, Turitella tigrina, from the Gulf of California. 



Bone was more frequent, consisting of awls, leather-working tools, 

 scrapers, flint-working tools, punches, and other implements of antler. 

 A number of antlers were taken from the excavations. Cups of elk 

 and deer femurs similar to those found at Forestdale occur at Linden. 



No fragments or traces of fibers or textiles were encountered. 



The collection of bones of animals turned up during the excavation 

 is found by Mr. F. A. Lucas to include the following: Antelope, elk, 

 dog, jack rabbit, and turkey. But one complete human skeleton could 

 be saved, the bones in most of the interments being in fragmentary 

 condition. 



Linden presents points of similarity with the Huning ruin at Show- 

 low, best characterized by the rugose ware with white decoration, a 

 type to which attention was first called by Bandelier in 1883. The 

 range of this type is not clearly defined as yet. but the explorations of 



