﻿I04 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. ^8 



prevailing ceramic types are corrugated, black on white, and poly- 

 chrome, dull red with shiny black interiors. The food bowls often 

 have out-curve rims and single loop handles. The colander form, or 

 food bowl perforated with holes, occurs both at Wupatki and at 

 Marsh Pass. 



The designs on the well decorated pottery, both black on white 

 and polychrome, figure 104, are similar to those from Tokonabi. 

 These decorations cover the whole interior of the bowls except the 

 very center, and have a quadrate arrangement, in some examples 

 of which rows of white squares with black dots predominate. The 

 flaring rims of food bowls are adorned with special geometrical pat- 

 terns forming the framework of the main interior design. 



The dead were inhumated or cremated. A typical human inter- 

 ment found in the sands near the ruin, Wukoki, was enclosed in a 

 cyst made of stone slabs set on edge, covered with another slab of 

 rock, resembling those in the Marsh Pass region. In one of these 

 graves was a skeleton with two pendants made of lignite and tur- 

 quoise mosaic like Hopi ear rings, figure 105, c, as fine specimens of 

 jewelry as any known from the Little Colorado region. Several mor- 

 tuary vessels were found with the dead, and also remains of fabrics, 

 apparently kilts or garments. 



Additional facts of a comparative nature are much needed in 

 order to explain the difiference between decorations on the Wupatki 

 pottery and the beautiful designs on the Homolobi-Chevlon ceramics 

 from ruins higher up on the Little Colorado. There is also a difi^erence 

 between the pottery and architecture of this region and those of 

 Young's Canyon a few miles away. So far as known it would appear 

 that the Homolobi-Chevlon culture, which is allied to that of the Hopi 

 ruins, Awatobi and Sikyatki. and to that of the Jeddito and Bitar- 

 hootci valleys, although late prehistoric, was more modern than that 

 of Wupatki. 



As elsewhere suggested, both architecture and ceramic designs from 

 Wupatki are practically the same as those from INTarsh Pass, prob- 

 ably indicating that the latter is an identical and synchronous culture 

 area which in Hopi Snake legends is called Tokonabi (Kayenta) . This 

 far-flung culture area is quite unlike that which occurs higher up on 

 the Little Colorado at Homolobi and Chevlon, the artifacts of which 

 are more closely related to the Sikyatki and Awatobi and pr(jbably 

 is more modern, as Hopi migration legends state. 



