FEWKES] 



COLLECTIONS MADE IN 1897 



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remind one of those vessels in wliich sacred water is carried in cere- 

 monies among tlic Pueblos. 



Another small globular vase had the whole exterior covered with 

 indented tubercles, not perforated but evideutlj- ornamental. This 

 type has been found in some of the Little 

 Colorado ruins. A long tube with similar 

 tubercles over its surface, made of rough pot- 

 tery, may have been an ancient pipe or cloud- 

 blower. Neither of these objects had designs 

 painted upon them. 



From the great quantity of tur(iuoise beads 

 and obsidian arrow-points it would appear 

 that large numbers of the.se objects were scat- 

 tered over the floor of the cave. As the col- 

 lectors exercised no special care to gather everything which they saw, 

 no doubt the quantitj' of these objects could be much increased bj' 

 a reexamination of the cave. 



Fig. 120. Small amphora from 

 a cave in the Nantacks ( num- 

 ber 1774631. 



EFFIGY VASES FROM SOUTHERN ARIZONA 



Pottery objects in the form of human beings are manufactured in 



some of the modei-n pueblos, and 

 the.se grotesque figures may be pur- 

 chased in traders' shops where mod- 

 ern Pueblo pottery is sold. An ex- 

 amination of large collections of an- 

 cient pueblo pottery from nortliern 

 and central Arizona has failed to re- 

 veal a single specimen of a vase made 

 in the human form. This, however, 

 is not true of pottery from all parts 

 of the pueblo area. The ancient peo- 

 ple of southern Arizona manufac- 

 tured human efligies in clay, the 

 typical forms of which have not, so 

 far as is known, been described. The 

 particular interest attached to the 

 vases here described, which justifies calling them into prominence by 

 special mention, is due to the rarity of this type in ancient pueblo 

 collections, its reappearance in certain vases from Arkansas, and its 

 common (occurrence in the northern States of old Mexico. 



The accompanying illustration (figure 121) shows one of these vases 

 from the cave in the Nantacks mentioned above. It is made of 

 coarse material and has a rough exterior, with patches of a calcareous 

 deposit on the surface. This deposit of lime is found in greater or 

 less amount on most of the specimens from this cave, and was depos- 

 ited on them by water charged with lime percolating from the rocks 



Fig. 121. Human effigy vase from a cave 

 in the Nantacks i number 177519 1. 



