COILED VASE FROM EPSOM CREEK. 



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ciently large fragment was discovered to show satisfactorily the char- 

 acter of the rim, the outline of the body, and the details of surface finish. 

 (Fig. 240.) The rim is but slightly recurved and the neck is high and 

 upright. The body swelled to a diameter of about eighteen inches at 

 the greatest circumference. The paste, as usual, indicates a gray clay 

 tempered with coarse sand. The inside is smooth and the walls are 

 remarkably thin for so large a vessel, being about one-fourth of an inch 

 in thickness. The coil is very neatly laid and indented, a variety to 

 the effect being given by leaving occasional plain bands. This vessel 

 is described by W. H. Jackson in the Bulletin of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey of the Territories, Vol. II. 



Fig. 240. — Part of a large vase from Epsom Creek. Utah. — $ 



Fragments of this class of ware are found throughout the canoned 

 region of southern Utah and for au undetermined distance into Nevada. 

 I have already described fragmentary specimens from Kauab and there- 

 fore pass on to the west. 



DISTRICT OP THE RIO VIRGEN. 



The most notable collection of this coiled ware ever yet made in any 

 one locality is from a dwelling-site tumulus near Saint George, Utah, 

 nearly three hundred miles west of the Eio Mancos. 



About the year 1875, the curator of the National Museum obtained 

 information of a deposit of ancient relics at the above locality, and in 

 1876 a collector was sent out to make an investigation. The result, so 

 far as collections go, was most satisfactory, and the account furnished 

 gives an insight into the customs of this ancient people not yet obtained 

 from any other source. On the Santa Clara Eiver, a tributary of the 

 Eio Virgen, about three miles from the Mormon town of Saint George, 

 a low mound, which I suppose to have been a sort of village-site tumulus, 

 was found. The outline was irregular, but had originally been approxi- 



