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two summers' WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS [eth. ann. 22 



use can be seen in the deep depression which has been ground into 

 them, even when the rock was very hard. 



The form of nietate with three legs (figure 114) is more Mexican than 

 anj- which was found north of tlie White mountains or in the Little 

 Colorado valley, and is not unlike rude specimens from Central 

 America. 



Small stones with a i-egular depression iji one face were used for 



Fig. lU. Metate from Pueblo Viejo (number 177471'). 



grinding pigments, and the remnants of colt)r were still found on 

 them. Green, red, yellow, and white pigments such as are still used 

 by the Pueblo Indians wei-e found in many of the i-ooms. Oblong 

 or oval stones, with a flat face, worn on one ijole, served as rul)l)ing 



stones by which these 

 substances were ground 

 to powder. There was 

 sometimes considerable 

 skill shown in the way 

 these stones were fash- 

 ioned. They ^^•ere some- 

 times mnshrooiu-shaped, 

 with a circulai- disk and 

 a slim handle. 



One of the finest 

 wrought of all the mor- 

 tars was purchased from 

 a Mexican in Solouion- 

 ville. It was elongated, 

 ti-encher-shaped, with 

 knobs at tlie extremities. 

 The rock of which it was made, though very hard, was worked with 

 considerable skill. The Mexican who sold it had used it for bruising 

 vegetable substances. Xo doubt this is but a continuation of its use 

 in ijrehistoric time, long before white men came into the country. 

 The author saw a beautiful mortar" made of a green stone, which 



Fig. 11.5. 



Unknown stone object from Pueblo Viejo 

 (numbei- 177677). 



" Attempts to purchase this fine specimen failed. 



