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tery, etc., was taken out. As many as eight interments had been made 

 in one room at different levels. (Plate 91.) A large coiled jar, sealed 

 with clay and having- the rim of a fine vase luted on, was unearthed 

 beneath the stone floor of a room. (Plate 92.) The jar contained only 

 a quantity of clean sand in pellets, the grains loosely cohering in 

 globular form as though arranged by some obscure natural process. 

 This deposit was perhaps of sand for ceremonial purposes. Offerings 

 of corn, beans, cotton seed, etc., accompanied these burials. The 

 skeletons were decayed beyond preservation. The burials below the 

 mesa held the ware of the finer class almost exclusively, so far as could 

 be ascertained from the fragments of beautiful texture and design left 

 by the Navaho around their excavations. A few interments that had 

 escaped the Navaho were encountered during the work. Mats of 

 yucca strips were wrapped around the bodies and these placed on 

 wicker trays or constructions of small twigs. Food offerings of young 

 corn ears and bread were placed on coiled baskets and numerous elab- 

 orate pahos arranged around the body. It seems plain that the impor- 

 tant cemetery was at this location, and it is regrettable that so little 

 remained where*there had been so much valuable scientific material. 

 With the specimens from the house cemetery, however, and those 

 from the excavations in the debris and from the surface of the ruin a 

 considerable collection was formed, containing many interesting 

 objects. 



In the neighborhood of Kawaiokuh are several small ruins yielding 

 gray ware, a specimen of which is shown on Plate 95, fig. 1. While 

 in camp here a Navaho brought in two fine pieces of this class from a 

 ruin, described as large, in the Mold Buttes, about 25 miles distant. 

 One of these pieces is a large globular vase well decorated. 



Artifacts, Kawaiokuh. — The remark as to the useful forms of pot- 

 tery vessels at Kokopnvama applies also to this ruin. A greater num- 

 ber of specimens were collected at Kawaiokuh than at the former site, 

 and as noted the aesthetic ware is more abundant; likewise, there are 

 many small objects of different classes showing that the potters* art 

 was quite diversified in this pueblo. 



In detail, attention may be called to a small vessel in form of a 

 frog; the ware is fine yellow, and the modeling is aided by decoration 

 in dark brown (Plate 93, fig. 1). Another of this class is a vase in 

 form of a parroquet, of excellent workmanship and decoration (Plate 

 94). A vase of gourd form also displays much taste, and a vase of 

 the oriental "pilgrims 1 gourd" shape, a form rare in this region, is 

 represented in the collection. An oblong canteen form, from which 

 the handles have been broken, bears a symbolic decoration on the 

 sides, and at the ends conventionalized faces. (Plate 93, fig. 3.) A 

 well-formed dipper in perfect preservation is shown in Plate 93, fig. 2. 



A vase of gray ware with spiral decorations on the shoulder (Plate 



