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were practiced here. In one portion of the site axes were found and 

 in another metates and manos. The ruin is the largest on the San 

 Carlos creek. 



Small ruins beginning on the mesa north of the Gila extend along 

 the river at intervals to the Rice school. Specimens collected by the 

 pupils of the school are now in the National Museum. 

 No. 23. Pueblo. — On Ash creek, a branch of the San Carlos creek, 



are small house ruins mentioned by 

 Bandelier. (Final Report, n, 404.) 

 No. L 2If. Cave. — In the Nantacks, a 

 range of mountains lying north of 

 Pima, Graham county, Ariz., a cave 

 was discovered in 1896 by a pros- 

 pector. It contained many offer- 

 ings of pottery, arrows, arrowheads, 

 and beads, placed on rock ledges of 

 the cavern. The specimens were 

 coated to a depth of one thirty- 

 second of an inch with lime de- 

 posited from water, but unfortunate- 



Fig. 7. Human effigy vase. ] y thig coating , which fell away from 



the vessels with comparative readiness, was thoroughly removed by 

 the collector. One-fourth of the find was secured by Doctor Fewkes 

 and is now in the National Museum. A singular effigy vase from 

 this cave has been made the subject of a special paper by Doctor 

 Fewkes, who records the object as a product of Mexican culture. 

 (American Anthropologist, xi, no. G, 165, June, 1898.) The cave 

 was evidently one of the many subterranean places of deposit for 

 ceremonial offerings scattered throughout 

 this region (see p. 18). 



Among the offerings secured are numerous 

 disks, most of them worked from pottery, as 

 shown by the periphery, which invariably 

 bears evidences of rough grinding. Similar 

 disks are found in the debris of every ancient 

 pueblo ruin. It is thought that these objects FlG ' 8 " Ix ! deilted bowL 



are adjuncts of games and as such they survive in Zuni games. 

 (See Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, Zuni Games, American Anthropologist, 

 n. s., v, no. 3, 487, July-Sept., 1903.) The pottery, a number of 

 specimens of which are coiled, ridged, and decorated with impressed 

 designs is red-brown ware, sometimes polished, black inside, and 

 devoid of painted decoration. The forms are varied, but usually 

 small bowls, both flaring and deep and often with incurving rim, 

 bottles, and vases. One globular vessel is studded with small conical 



