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pottery. Its pottery may be decorated with designs from all the three 

 ceramic areas here mentioned. In the high country north of Pinos 

 Altos occurs the so-called Tularosa ware whose decoration connects 

 pottery designs from the ]\Iimbres with the pure pueblo. We must 

 await more specimens from this region before we can determine the 

 extent and meaning of the relation. 



A beautiful fragment of ancient Zuhi ware (fig. 84) has been pre- 

 sented to the Bureau by Dr. W. H. Spinks, by whom it was found in 

 a ruin in Canyon del Muerto. It bears a bird head and neck and the 

 typical geometric design that occurs so frequently in modern Zuni 

 ware. In texture and color, however, this ancient example differs from 



Fig. 85. — Boy Scouts watching prugress of excavations, Weeden Mouiui, 



Florida. 



the modern Zuni and in these respects is more closely related to the 

 brilliant yellow ware of Sikyatki. a well-known ruin of the Hopi. 

 This is the first time that ceramic evidence has been adduced to show 

 the relation of a Canvon del ]\Iuert() ruin to modern Zuni. 



ARCHEOLOCilCAL FIliLD-WORK IX FLORIDA 



In November. i()23. the chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 made a preliminary trip to the southwestern coast of b^lorida. 

 Although several archeologists. C'ushing, Moore. Hrdlicka. and others, 

 have investigated this region, manv unsolved problems are still await- 

 ing solution, as known facts are too scanty for accurate generaliza- 

 tions. The archeology of this region has es])ecial attractions to the 



