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pottery. Its pottery may be decorated with designs from all the three 

 ceramic areas here mentioned. In the high country north of Pinos 

 Altos occurs the so-called Tularosa ware whose decoration connects 

 pottery designs from the Mimbres with the pure pueblo. We must 

 await more specimens from this region before we can determine the 

 extent and meaning of the relation. 



A beautiful fragment of ancient Zuni ware (fig. 84) has been pre- 

 sented to the Bureau by Dr. W. H. Spinks, by whom it was found in 

 a ruin in Canyon del Muerto. It bears a bird head and neck and the 

 typical geometric design that occurs so frequently in modern Zuni 

 ware. In texture and color, however, this ancient example differs from 



Ik;. 85. — Boy Scouts watching progress of excavaiiuns, Weeden Mound, 



Florida. 



the modern Zuni and in these respects is more closely related to the 

 brilliant yellow ware of Sikyatki, a well-known ruin of the Hopi. 

 This is the first time that ceramic evidence has been adduced to show 

 the relation of a Canvon del ]\Iuerto ruin to modern Zufii. 



ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD-WORK IN FLORIDA 



In November, 1923, the chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 made a preliminary trip to the southwestern coast of Florida. 

 Although several archeologists, Cushing, Moore, Hrdlicka, and others, 

 have investigated this region, many unsolved problems are still await- 

 ing solution, as known facts are too scanty for accurate generaliza- 

 tions. The archeology of this region has especial attractions to the 



