198 ANTIQUITIES OF SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO  [sTH. ANN. 33 
Ladles—Two ladles appear in plate 69, e and f. They are divided 
into compartments by a partition across the middle. While ladles 
with long hollow handles are known from the cliff-dwellings and 
from the Animas Valley, I have not observed other specimens in 
which the part corresponding to the handle is divided from the bowl 
by a ridge of clay. 
Spoon or Paddle—A spoonlike implement, the handle of which 
is missing, was found in Ruin No. 9 (pl. 69, d). 
Bird-form Vase-—While fragments indicate that bird-form vases 
were fairly numerous, there is but one such specimen in the collec- 
tion (pl. 71, a). The tail is upturned, and there are two pairs of 
protuberances, one of which probably represents wings. The bird 
topography is not accurately delineated, but it appears that the vase 
is rightly named. 
Ring-botiomed Vase.—This term, inelegant though it be, I have 
applied to the vessel appearing in plate 71, 6. The base is a hollow 
ring with a roughly cireular neck rising from one side. <A cylin- 
drical handle connects the top of the neck and the opposite side of 
the base. 
Lamp (?)—The writer suggests that the vessel shown in plate 
71, e, is a lamp, at the same time realizing fully that this suggestion 
will meet with considerable criticism. The vessel consists of a 
rough globular body with a small hole in the top, and a hollow 
cylindrical spout, which rises from the point of greatest diameter 
at a slight angle to the plane of the base. The end of the spout, 
which is much blackened, has been affected by some agency to the 
~ extent that part of it crumbled to dust when taken from the bowl 
in which it was found. Long-continued action of flame might thus 
destroy the cohesive qualities of the clay. 
Mountain-sheep E'figy.—There was found on the surface of Ruin 
No. 17 a small animal effigy, which from the shape and proportions 
of the horns is thought to represent a mountain sheep (pl. 69, c). 
It is probably a prayer emblem, similar to those used by the Hopi. 
Cloud Blower—The collection contains one small pottery cloud 
blower or pipe (pl. 69, 2). Through the center there is a hole the 
diameter of which lessens progressively toward the smaller end of 
the cylinder. ‘The surface is decorated with diagonal lines of pits. 
Two rather nondescript bottles appear in plate 72, 6 and ce. 
CoLor 
Vessels of gray, varying all the way from black to white. occur 
in the collection. In addition there are shades of yellow, orange, red, 
and brown. The vase shown in plate 66, a, is a glossy black through- 
out, which appears not to be the result of use as a cooking pot. As 
