62 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Buut. 81 
alized. It would be impossible to identify many of the pictures of 
the birds. Some of them are merely lines suggesting form, others 
are well-drawn birds, and still these are not exact enough to tell us 
what bird they are intended to represent. (Fig. 33.) 
MisceELLANEOUS PoTrrrerRy OBJECTS 
Plate 49, A, shows a number of objects that have been made from 
potsherds. Those marked A are disks of pottery and may have been 
intended for two purposes, first, gaming counters, and second, un- 
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Fia. 32.—Avanu heads. 
finished spindle whorls. It has been said that the people of the 
Jemez Plateau had no knowledge of the spindle whorl, but thé author 
has found them at two different places on the plateau, namely, at 
Puye and at Pesede, on the Rio Oso. Some of those shown in the 
plate are perforated, and while they are rather small for spindle 
whorls, yet they might have been used for that purpose. There is 
also a possibility that the ones which have only the beginning of a 
perforation may have been used in the manufacture of beads. A 
