JHANCON ] EXCAVATIONS IN THE CHAMA VALLEY 21 
Mr. Neil M. Judd reports the finding of a large number of these in 
an excavation carried on by him at Paragonah, Utah.’ 
Stones similar to these are described by Stewart Culin in a report 
on American Indian games under the head of “Ball games.’ This 
report ascribes a number of different uses to the spheroids.‘ 
A few specimens of spheroids somewhat larger than the ones used 
in the kicking and shinny games have nothing to indicate their uses. 
They have all been nicely smoothed all over the surface. 
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, speaking of those found by him in Arizona, 
says: ‘‘ There are many spheroid stones, resembling those still some- 
times used in Tusayan on important occasions as badges of authority. 
These stones were tied in a buckskin bag which was attached to a 
stick and used as a war club.’’® 
Some of these spheroids have a shallow depression worn in the 
flattened pole. (Pl. 17, A.) The disk-shaped stone, Plate 17, B, 
is unusual in that it is beautifully polished at the flattened pole and 
broken on the periphery. Its use is not known. There is a possi- 
bility that it may have been used in some ceremony. On pages 
730-731 of the report last quoted Dr. Fewkes says: ‘‘ There are found 
disk-shaped stones pecked on the periphery as if used in the grind- 
ing of pigment or in bruising seeds, and spheroidal stones with the 
facet worn at one pole as if used for the same or a similar purpose.”’ 
POLISHING STONES 
The ruin yielded a good collection of what is ordinarily called the 
pottery polishing stone. The manner in which these stones are used 
is as follows: When the pot has assumed the desired form it is set 
aside for the clay to dry. When this is accomplished a wash of yel- 
low ocher is applied in the case of the red ware and no wash in the 
case of the black ware. After the wash is dry such parts as are de- 
sired to present a polished appearance are rubbed and polished with 
the polishing stone. Many of the women in the villages have polish- 
ing stones that have been handed down for generations. (Pl. 17, F.) 
There are many different sized polishing stones, some of which are 
known to have been used for specific purposes. (Pl. 17,B.) Itisno 
uncommon sight, in some of the modern villages, to see a woman 
using the larger polishing stones to polish her dirt floor. 
METATES AND MANOS 
The metates found at Po-shu present no unusual features. The 
only remarkable thing is that there were so few of them. In the 
total number of 127 rooms uncovered we found only five metates. 
3 Archeological investigations at Paragonah, Utah. Smithsonian Pub. No. 2536, p. 17, footnote. 
4 American Indian Games. Twenty-fourth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., Washington, 1907: 
5 Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895. Seventeenth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 626, ° 
Washington, 1898. 
