134 CASA GRANDE, ARIZONA [ETH. ANN. 28 
Mortuary urn.—The specimen here illustrated (pl. 72) is of typical 
form. A stone disk luted in place with adobe served as a cover. 
In addition to those above mentioned there are various earthenware 
objects in the collection. Among these is a vessel with slanting sides, 
a flat bottom, and a hooked handle. Another specimen (pl. 73) is a 
cup provided with a handle looped on one side. This cup bears 
geometric ornamentation in the form of triangular designs in red. 
Most of the vessels when found were 
empty. One contained a number of shells, 
however, while in a few were fragments 
of paints of various colors. 
The presence in the collection of several 
fragments of pottery affords evidence that 
relief figures and effigy vases were not rare 
at Casa Grande. One of the best of these 
is a fragment (fig. 41) from a bowl on which 
a face is painted; it resembles a bird’s head, 
with the beak in relief. The specimen as 
restored by a Pima potter is shown in 
figure 42. 
Bird vase.—A vase (pl. 72) having the 
form of a bird, with rudimentary wings 
and broken tail represented in relief, sug- 
gests similar pottery from the Little 
Colorado ruins and vases from Sikyatki, 
elsewhere figured. Its small size would 
seem to indicate that it served as a recep- 
tacle for salt, sacred meal, or other sub- 
stance. This is the only receptacle of this 
form that was found in the course of the 
excavations at Casa Grande, but similar 
vessels are reported from several other 
ruins in the Gila region. In this vase only 
the rudiments of the wings appear as low ridges on the opposite sides, 
the avian form being greatly conventionalized. There is no sign of 
paint on the surface, but it is probable that the wings at least were 
once decorated with parallel lines, as is customary in bird effigy vases 
from the Little Colorado. 
Images of animals.—One or two small clay effigies of animals 
(pl. 67, c) were found at Casa Grande. These are rudely made, 
their forms not being sufficiently well modeled to admit of identi- 
fication. 
Fic. 39. Shovel with handle, 
1See 22d Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., p. 68. 
