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south end are considered in the description of stone objects. The 

 occurrence of loom blocks in kivas is quite in keeping with modern 

 Hopi practices. 



No complete pieces of pottery were recovered. Fragments of several 

 black-on-white ollas and one black-on-red olla are in the sherd col- 

 lections. The black paint in all cases is a thin glaze. As the sherds 

 from the kiva are wholly typical of those recovered from the other 

 diggings in the ruin, we may omit the consideration of pottery at 

 this point. 



OBJECTS OF STONE 



The stone implements recovered at Pinedale largely duplicate those 

 found at Showlow. Certain objects, however, are worthy of special 

 notice. 



Metates and manos. — Concerning these, the description given of 

 Showlow milling stones will also apply, although the correlation of 

 the two types was less distinct. This is due in part to the limited 

 number of rooms excavated completely and possibly to the fact that 

 Pinedale ruin was abandoned a half century or more earlier than 

 the Showlow pueblo, before the second type of grinders came into 

 general use. 



Mortar. — A mortar made of a shaped block of rhyolite was found 

 in the refuse-filled room of test I. The grinding cavity was approxi- 

 mately 6 inches deep and the same distance in diameter at the top. 



Stone axes. — In the same room were found six or eight stone axes 

 on which the cutting edge had been completely battered away or 

 broken off. There were also present in the refuse several sandstone 

 building blocks which bore grooves, transverse to the long sides. 

 On one block the grooves were cut directly opposite each other on 

 the two sides, obviously to facilitate the breaking of the stone at those 

 points. The character of the grooves suggests that they were cut 

 with stone axes, and if so, the presence of so many battered imple- 

 ments can be accounted for. All axes recovered, both broken and 

 complete, are of the short-bitted, three-quarter groove type. 



Stone hammer. — Only one stone hammer is contained in the col- 

 lection. It is made of diorite and is 3I inches long. Unlike the stone 

 axes, the ha f ting groove entirely surrounds the implement. 



Loom blocks. — On the south end of the kiva platform were found 

 the pair of loom weights pictured in plate 18, figure i. Both are 

 made of coarse-grained sandstone, the bases are flat, and the holes 

 which engaged the loom stick are near the top of the blocks and less 

 than an inch deep. The one block shows a long groove, evidently 

 where weaving tools were sharpened. 



