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95, fig. 2) was taken from the house cemetery at Kawaiokuh. The 

 ware is remarkjibly thin, so much so as to raise the question whether 

 the vessel could have been made by coiling, and yet there seems to be 

 no alternative. 



A bowl, one of several, of salmon color (see Plate 100, fig. 2) must be 

 mentioned. The paste is dense and of the same fine character of the 

 ware from this region ; it is probable that to produce this color either 

 a little yellow ocher was added to the clay or the clay was selected for 

 the purpose. In either case the bowls have the look of strangers 

 amidst the fine ceramics of Kawaiokuh; especially is this remarked 

 when one considers the rudely drawn design in brown bordered with 

 white, a st34e extremely rare in ancient Hopi pottery, where white is 

 not a potter's pigment. White-margined decoration is found at Hon- 

 olobi, and in many of the ruins along the White Mountain plateau it 

 is common. Possibly the woman who made these bowls was following 

 the traditions of the potters of her clan, which may not have been 

 represented at Kawaiokuh except by herself. 



The fancy of the potter was expressed in many small works, as in 

 the handles of the cups and vases, which often represent animals with 

 accuracy and again with grotesque or humorous treatment. The han- 

 dle of a cup (Plate 93, fig. 4) is an example of the latter. By setting 

 the mouth of the animal at an angle a peculiarly whimsical expression 

 was produced by the artist. Figurines of a dog going on three legs 

 (Plate 96, fig. 12) and of the same animal apparently curled up in 

 sleeping posture were found. Ornaments in shape of birds perforated 

 for wearing are frequent. (Plate 96, fig. 11.) One of these in the 

 collection is a superior piece of modeling; the tail and extended wings 

 are vaned by notches pressed in the clay and the body is decorated. 

 (Plate 96, fig. 9.) Small ornaments in shape and decoration designed 

 to imitate shells are also frequent. (Plate 96, figs. 7, 8, and 10.) 



Pottery bells like those found by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes at Awatobi^ 

 and first described by him from this region are somewhat numerous 

 here. They are hollow spheres, having a narrow aperture like the 

 sleigh bell, and as to devices for fastening to a cord or to garments 

 are of two classes; one with a perforated tang, and the other having 

 a pair of holes opposite the aperture. One of these specimens retains 

 the pellet of clay forming the sounder and on being shaken produces 

 an agreeable tinkling sound. These bells are undoubtedly of aborigi- 

 nal manufacture.^ 



« Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 629. 



& During a meeting of the Anthropological Society of Washington, at which the 

 results of the Museum-Gates expedition of 1901 were presented, the question of the 

 aboriginal origin of the so-called hawkbell was canvassed, the evidence presented 

 going to show that such bells are prehistoric on the American Continent, although 

 at an early date bells of a similar form were articles of trade, being in universal 

 demand by the native tribes and scarce with them at any period. 



