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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I922 



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since man settled on Mesa Verde, and that pottery also has changed 

 seems probable, but direct observations regarding that change are 

 necessary. Take for instance the type known as effigy jars and 

 vases. No clay effigies of men or animals had been recorded from 

 jMesa A'erde before the present year. Jars representing birds, 

 quadrupeds, and a clay representation of the foot of a human effigy 

 were excavated at Pipe Shrine House. A more archaic i)ottery dis- 

 tinguished by black figures on white ware is not the same as the black 

 on white ware found in clifif dwellings, which would appear to indi- 

 cate that the pottery from the cemetery of Pipe Shrine House was 

 earlier than that of Spruce-tree House, and yet we find at the former 

 locality pottery fragments equal in technique and almost identical in 



Fig. 109. — Fragment of corru- Fig. iio. — Stone with carved T- 



gated pottery. One-third natural doorway in intaglio. (Drawing by 



size. (Drawing by Mrs. George Airs. George Alullett.) Size: 5/^ x 



Mullett.) 5 X 3.>4 inches. 



ornament with the best taken from the latest clifif houses on the park. 

 There is evidence from the character of the pottery that some of the 

 INIesa Verde pueblos were inhabited later than Clifi" Palace, rendering 

 it easy to accept the theory that the Mesa Verde caves became so 

 crowded with buildings that their inhabitants were compelled to move 

 out and, having constructed pueblos, to settle on the mesa tops near 

 their farms. 



Several objects, some of which are of doubtful use. were found 

 near Pipe Shrine House. One of these is the stone shown in figure 

 I TO. on which is engraved a T-doorway and roof beams, a speci- 

 men which, so far as known, is unique. A bare mention of the 

 various forms of stone weapons and mortars and pestles, imple- 

 ments, pottery objects, bone needles, scrapers and the like would 



