KEWKESi RUINS OF OLD SHUMOPOVI 113 



A STiiall cemetery was discovered about a quarter of a mile east of 

 the ruin.s, where there is a patch of sand in which grow a few dwarf 

 peach trees. The author camped at this point, which was as near as 

 he coukl approacli the ruin with liis wagon, and immediately after his 

 arrival a family of Shumopovi people came down from the mesa and 

 began to hoe the squash plants which grew there — an act \\ hich was 

 interpreted to mean 2:)ossession. The Snake chief of Shumopovi had 

 a brush house, called a kisi, overlooking his farm, on a small hillock 

 near this burial ijlaee. 



The ancient pueblo can be traced for several hundred feet, but its 

 old walls have been buried or leveled, and very few evidences of its 

 architectural j)lan can be made out bj' superficial studies. The 

 mounds of the old site are covered with fragments of pottery of the 

 finest character, beautifully ornamented," with the characteristic 

 Sikj-atki symbol 



Pottery from the Ruixs 

 general features and form 



A superficial examination of the i^ottery of this old pueblo shows 

 what a more intimate studj' demonstrates —that it is very similar to 

 that from ruins near the East mesa, and that it differs from that of 

 the Little Colorado pueblos. The majority of the pieces belong to the 

 fine yellow ware (plates XLViii, l), smoothly polished and elaborately 

 decorated. There are a few examples of red and black ware and 

 one or two specimens of black and white ware (plate XLix), but the 

 yellow ware predominates, as it does at Sikyatki. This is undoubt- 

 edly due to the chemical constituents of the clay used in its manufac- 

 ture. There are no specimens of red, black, and white wai-e, and no 

 black and no glazed varieties. 



The resemblance, which amounts almost to an identity, in the char- 

 acter of the pottery of Sikyatki and Old Shumopovi, as well as 

 the similarity in the .symbolism, adds weight to the belief that these 

 pueblos were inhabited synchronously. 



There is no essential ditt'ei'euce in the shapes of the i^ottery from 

 this ruin and of that from the pxieblos on the Little Colorado, where 

 food bowls, vases, jars, ladles, and dippers are represented. In jjlate 

 LI two of the best specimens are figured, but there are many others 

 in the collection of equal beauty which have not been reproduced. 



There were two siJecimens of food l)owls from Shumof)ovi with 

 snouts, one of which is shown in the accompanying cut (figure OS). 

 This form appears to be rare, and has not yet been found in the 

 ruins along the Little Colorado river. 



a A vei-y fine collection of mortuary pottery was made at Shumopovi by Mr T. V. Keam. after 

 the author was obliged to abandon work there. Many of these pieces are now in the Field 

 Columbian Museum at Chicago, which purchased the collection. 



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