NO. IO ARCHEOLOGY OF MIMBRES VALLEY FEWKES 19 



The pipes from the Mimbres take the form of tubular cloud- 

 blowers, specimens of which are shown in figure 6. Apparently these 

 pipes were sometimes thrown into sacred springs, but others have 

 been picked up on the surface of village sites or a few feet below the 

 surface. 



FIG. 6. Cloud blowers. Fay wood Hot Springs. (Swope collection.) 



Y* nat. size. 



Lateral and top views of one of the characteristic forms of small 

 stone mortars with a handled projection on one side is shown in 

 figure 7. This specimen is in the Swope collection in the Deming 



FIG. 7. Handled mortar. (Swope collection.) Length 



High School. In the same collection there are also two beautiful 

 tubular pipes, or cloud-blowers, from the same spring. 



The stone mortars from Mimbres ruins vary in size. Many are 

 simply spherical stones with a depression on one side ; others are 

 larger but still spherical, or ovate ; while others have square or 



