ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS OBTAINED 

 FROM THE INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA IN 1879. 



By James Stevenson. 



INTRODUCTION. 



It is not my intentiou in the present paper — which is simply what it 

 purports to be, a catalogue — to attempt any discussion of the habits, cus- 

 toms, or domestic life of the Indian tribes from whom the articles were 

 obtaiued; nor to enter upon a general comparison of the pottery and 

 other objects with articles of a like character of other nations or tribes. 

 Occasionally attention may be called to striking resemblances between 

 certain articles and those of other countries, where such comparison will 

 aid in illustrating form or character. 



The collection contains two thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight 

 specimens. Although it consists very largely of vessels and other 

 articles of pottery, j'et it embraces almost every object necessary to 

 illustrate the domestic life and art of the tribes from whom the largest 

 number of the specimens were obtained. It includes, in addition to 

 pottery, implements of war and hunting, articles used in domestic 

 manufactures, articles of clothing and personal adornment, basketry, 

 trappings for horses, images,toys, stone implements, musical instruments, 

 and those used in games and religious ceremonies, woven fabrics, foods 

 prepared and unprepared, paints for decorating pottery and other objects, 

 earths of which their pottery is manufactured, mineral pigments, medi- 

 cines, vegetable dyestuffs, &c. But the chief value of the collection is 

 undoubtedly the great variety of vessels and other articles of pottery 

 which it contains. In this respect it is perhaps the most complete that 

 has been made from the pueblos. Quite a number of articles of this 

 group may perhaps be properly classed as "ancient," and were obtaiued 

 more or less uninjured; but by far the larger portion are of modern 



manufacture. 



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