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MEMOIRS OP THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Pottery was found iu great abundance in the house graves, in the pyral cemeteries, and on 

 the floors of the houses, where it seemed to have been abandoned, as if the dwellings were sud 

 denly deserted. It consisted of food vessels and water vessels iu a great variety of shapes and 

 sizes, aud of well-executed images of animals of the chase which once inhabited the surrounding 



FIG. 8. Ancient Cibola eating bowl, showing &quot;exit trail of life.&quot; 



country. The vessels were decorated in a manner closely resembling those of the modern Pueblos 

 of New Mexico and Arizona, especially those of the Zuiii and Moqui (see Figs. 0, 7, 8, !), and 10). 

 The more commonly employed symbolic decorations were alike in all. 



FIG. 9. Modern Zuiii food bowl, showing 

 &quot;exit trail of life.&quot; 



]fvi. 10 Modern Zuui water vessel, showing 

 &quot;exit trail of life.&quot; 



One of these, worthy of especial note, is what the Zuuis call the exit trail of life. It is found 

 inside of food vessels and outside of water vessels; it consists of au opening or hiatus in the single 

 or double encircling paint bands near the margin of the vessel, as shown at a in Figs. 8, 9, 10. It 

 is a symbol based on the idea before alluded to of vessels having souls.* 



See Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 510. 



