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edge of the rim are rows of small white marks, usually eight in each 

 group; there is no decoration on the exterior. The specimen was up- 

 turned when placed i n the grave, hence it is well preserved. Moreover, 

 it was perfectly new and unused when buried. 



A ])owl (Plate 02, tig. 1) of yellow-brown ware shows a fine arrange- 

 ment of a complicated geometric design in which there are numerous 

 bird forms. These may be traced in the square in the center and in 

 wedge-shaped sections above and below. The rim decoration is a simple 

 step design in an oblong frame. 



The second figure (Plate 62, fig. 2) is a perfect specimen of a rare 

 decoration. The ware is light red, and the design on the exterior and 

 interior is in narrow white lines. The "home of this style of ware is 

 not known to the writer, but examples resembling it were found at 

 Biddahoochee. 



A small vase of good red ware (Plate 64, fig. 1) with handle, in the 

 form of an animal looking into the vessel, a common conceit among 

 the ancient pueblo potters, has a geometric decoration in hatched and 

 solid areas in dark brown color. With this specimen was a bowl of 

 fine yellow ware. (See Plate 58, fig. 1.) These specimens are not 

 related. The vase should belong to the St. John-Zuni region, while 

 the yellow piece belongs to the special area. in Tusayan. 



SMALL SITES NEAR STONE AXE. 



Another vase of gray ware with conventional animal handle (Plate 

 64, fig. 2) was found together with an elegant canteen, now in the Gates 

 collection, in a small ruin some miles to the west of Stone Axe. This 

 vase is covered with a well-executed geometric decoration, .the motive 

 being terrace figures in the dual hatched and solid color. A red bowl 

 from the same group (Plate 63, fig. 1) shows the same treatment. The 

 specimen is quite similar to bowls found at Forestdale, Showlow, Scorse 

 Ranch, and Canyon Butte. It has no exterior decoration in common 

 with those mentioned; a bowl from the small ruins near Stone Axe, 

 without interior decoration, has horizontal bands of white on the exte- 

 rior. (Plate 63, fig. 2.) The white exterior decoration is also common 

 to the ruins mentioned above. 



It will be seen that Stone Axe ruin presents a number of features of 

 great interest to the student and some problems which may be solved 

 when we come to know more of the ruined pueblos of the Southwest, 

 multitudes of which await the explorer. 



The group of small ruins 3 miles southwest of Stone Axe furnished 

 hard gray ware, with black geometric decoration, soft red ware, and 

 coiled ware with patterns formed by punching the coil ridges. These 

 data affiliate the ruins with the numerous small pueblos scattered along 

 the northern side of the White Mountains, apparently belonging to 



