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TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS 



[ETH, ANN. 22 



111 tlie course of excavation there were fouii<l in the soil, near a 

 buried body, :t large nnniber of accurately squared tuniuoises which 

 ■were so .siiiall that they could hardly have served for ornament alone, 

 siiid with them were found M^orked shells covered with a tenacious 

 pitch. In one of these collections there are several larger fraiiments, 

 evidently tunjuoise ear pendants. Later excavations exjilained the 



character of these turquoises, for they were 

 found to be duplicated in specimens of fine 

 mosaic ware. 

 ., ,, . ^ ^. It is well known that Ilopi women at the 



Fk;. 42. Mosaic gorget trom -*- 



Chaves pass (number 1578.50). present day wear ear pendants made of 



Length about 2 inches. square woodeii plates, upon which are ce- 



mented rude mosaics of turquoi.se. The modern work of this kind is 

 comparatively coarse, and evidently is made of old tuniuoises, some 

 of which are perforated and were formerly used as beads. The tur- 

 quoise stones employed are not accurately fitted, and the black gum 

 in which they are embedded shows between the stones. The ancient 

 work (plate XLiv) is much finer and more beautiful than the modern. 

 Sjiecimen 159850 is a turquoise mosaic set on wood, but it wa.s so 

 broken that it was impossible to tell what its form was. 



The specimen shown in figui'e 42 is an elongated gorgel of wood 

 with shell and turquoise incrustation; it was 

 found at the Chevlon ruiu, and is one of the 

 most beautiful of prehistoric mosaics. Figure 

 4;i shows a pear-shaped pendant ni;id(» of bone 

 with turquoise mosaic on one side and incised 

 ehevi'oiis on the opposite. It is perforated at 

 the blunter end as though for suspension. 

 The specimen was taken from the Chevlon 

 ruin, and is unicpie. The collection contains 

 also a number of fragments of turquoise and 

 other stone mosaics, and of catlinite and tur- 

 quoise embedded in gum on wood. These were 

 from the Chevlon ruin. Manj' other square 

 tur(j^uoises, evidently formerly parts of a mosaic, were collected at the 

 same ruin. 



The specimen shown in figure i'S was found near the mastoid pi-ocess 

 of the skull of a woman. It was evidently an ear pendant, one 

 attached to the ear by a string. Two other specimens of bone incrusted 

 with stone mosaic were found at Chevlon. 



One of the most beautiful examples of mo.saie was a worked shell of 

 Pectunculus giganteus covered with turquoise stones embedded in 

 pitch. It was found on the sternum of a skeleton from Chaves 

 pass, and was buried several feet below the surface of the ground. 

 Plate XLIV shows two views of this uni(|ue and precious specimen, 

 one from above and one from the umbo of the shell. In the former 



Fig. 4:^. Bone ear pendants 

 from Chevlon (number 

 ]f>7H.52). Length about 2 

 inches. 



