FHwkus] MINOR ANTIQUITIES 133 
POTTERY 
Pottery objects of almost every form known among Pueblos, 
including food basins or bowls (pl. 73), vases, ollas, ladles, spoons, 
and cups, are found in Gila Valley ruins. The Casa Grande pottery 
resembles that found in the other ruins of this region. Unfortunately 
it consists for the greater part of fragments, only a few pieces being 
: Fic. 37. Ornament of 
Fig. 35. Stone bead. Fic. 36. Stone ornament. jasper. 
entire when found. Some of the more fragile bowls show signs 
of repair, an indication that cracked vessels were not immediately 
discarded. 
SpecraLizEp Forms 
Spool-shaped object.—This specimen (pl. 72) is different from any 
other in the collection; the use to which it was put is not known. 
Medicine-bowl.—This bowl, illustrated in plate 73, is cylindrica] 
except for the slightly flaring rim. In the middle of the upper sur- 
face is a circular depression, between the raised rim of which and the 
outer margin of the lip the surface is concave. Any decoration this 
surface may once have borne has become obliterated. 
The ornamentation of the sides, now more or less 
obscure, consists of a series of vertical parallel lines 
alternating with crooks, or terraces, as shown in the 
illustration. The rim of this bowl is broken in places, 
a result no doubt of hard usage since it was dis- 
carded. One form of these bowls resembles a pot- 
tery rest, the depression consisting merely of a 
shallow concavity in the surface. Several examples 
of these vessels, made of undecorated ware, were found (see spool 
shaped object, pl. 72). 
Spoon-shaped scoops.—Several pieces of pottery have the form of 
scoops (pl. 72); the handles are formed by prolongation of the rim. 
Dishes.—There are several small shallow dishes (pl. 72 and fig. 40), 
undecorated, each mounted on three stumpy legs. 
Water jar.—In a corner of a room in Compound A, directly under 
the old stage road from Casa Grande to Florence, was found a very 
large jar, or olla. Hundreds of people have driven over the spot 
beneath which this jar was buried. The object was left in place, 
being too large to move without breaking. 
Fig.38. Tooth-shaped 
pendant of stone. 
