NO. IO ARCHEOLOGY OF MIMBRES VALLEY FEWKES IQ 



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.) 



Yz 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 io}". 



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 



