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TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS 



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former is to tlie hitter. A deeper 

 study confirms this conclusion. No- 

 where in the pueblo region has the 

 ceramic art reached the hij>h posilicm 

 it attained in Tnsayan in prehistoric 

 times. This development may be due 

 in part to the character of the material 

 used, but it is mainly owing to the 

 artistic instinct of the ancient Hopis. 

 In both the character of the paleog- 

 raphy' and the texture the ware of the 

 Little Colorado ruius is more like Ziiiii 

 than Hopi work. The ancient pueblos 

 on the Zuni river, a tributary of the 

 Little Colorado, closely i-esemlile tliose 

 about Winslow and at the mouth of 

 Chevlon fork, but their pottery is as 

 a rule inferior. 



HuM.-vN Figures 



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Fm. 24. Footprints on inside of a vase 

 from Homolobi i number l.'»0tJ9<)j. 



Pictures of human beings were very 

 rarely found in the excavations at 

 the Little Colorado ruins. This rarity 

 conforms with results from other ruins, 

 described by other archeologists, so 

 that the author suspects that delinea- 

 tions of the human figure, of which 

 several were found at Sikyatki, indi- 

 cate a late stage in the evolution of 

 pottery decoration in ancient jjueblos. 

 The drawings of human beings wliich 

 have been found are for the most part 

 of the rudest possible character, show- 

 ing no elaboration sucli as would be 

 expected if they had been used many 

 generations for decoration. 



But a single complete figure of a 

 human being on pottery was ex- 

 humed in 1896, and that was on the 

 handle of a ladle from Chevlon. The 

 specimen (figui-e 13) represents a 

 woman with left arm lifted high above 

 the head. It has been identified as 

 the figure of a woman fi'om the pres- 

 ence of the characteristic coiffure of 



