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tributed to those who remained behind. The author, in 1919, 
brought from California a box containing a lot of waterworn abalone 
and other salt-water shells and presented them to his friends, who 
received them with expressions of great pleasure, and told him that 
they were very good luck, as coming from the “sky-blue water.”’ 
The excavations at Po-shu yielded a small amount of shell ma- 
terial. The Pectunculus, marked H, Plate 35, has a perforation at 
the top and running through the hinge of the shell. It was worn as 
a pendant. One of this type was found at Aztec. J and J, same 
plate, are only bits and their use is not known. 
Coni of several varieties were found and were probably used as 
bells. They are marked K, Z, M, N, and O, Plate 35. Kis 26mm. 
in length and 17 mm. at the greatest diameter. Both AK and L are 
marked with purplish dots and lines. All of the others are of a sort 
of cream color and are not marked in any way. 
Dr. Earl Morris describes the preparation of the Conus as follows: 
““Customarily, the spire of each shell was ground away until the point 
of the greatest diameter was reached. The remaining conical body 
whorl was perforated near the apex. A short distance back from the 
lip of the orifice a transverse groove was cut across the curving side 
of the shell and deepened until the wall was pierced sufficiently to 
allow a cord to pass through the opening. Suspended thus from the 
smaller extremity, these beads hung like bells from the supporting 
strand.” ® 
POTTERY 
The pottery found in the ruin of Po-shu presents one of the most 
perplexing problems of the whole excavation. Almost every type 
of pottery known and attributed to the pre-Spanish period of the 
Jemez Plateau is represented in the collection. Undoubtedly some 
of the wares are not native to this ruin and were brought in by bar- 
ter or as gifts. It is still the custom of the Pueblo people to carry 
gifts of pottery to their friends in other villages where they go to 
visit. The representative wares of Po-shu, which are native to that 
place, are pretty well divided among the black coiled ware, the 
biscuit ware, and the incised ware. The ruin yielded a larger per- 
centage of incised ware than has ever been found before in any one 
ruin. There are some queer, seemingly transitional, pieces showing 
influences from other locations. A suggestion of the San Juan and 
Rio Puerco forms occur, but in such a small percentage that it is 
hardly safe to conjecture that they were actually made at Po-shu, 
although in some cases the paste is the same as that of the local 
ware. During the excavation we were not able to find the clay beds 
from which they gathered their clay, but there must have been 
®Morris, The Aztecruin. Anthr. Papers, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. XXvI, pt. 1, p. 94. 
