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she abandoned the Tewa symbols of her people to meet a demand for 

 old pottery and substituted for Tewa designs copies of ancient Hopi 

 pottery from Sikyatki. Thus there have been two radical changes 

 in the style of Hopi pottery since 1710; one the substitution of Tewa 

 designs for old Hopi. the other a return to Sikyatki motifs within 

 the last 20 years. This modern innovation, however, has not been 

 derived from the ancient by any evolution, but by acculturation. 

 Possibly a similar change has taken place at Zuhi, calling for caution 



Fig. 10. — Decorated handled cup. Black Diamond Ranch. 6^^ by Sli inches. 



in supposing that pottery found in the refuse heaps is necessarily 

 evolved from that preexisting or found in strata below it. 



The author has seen no evidence that would lead him to abandon 

 the theory, that the Zuni valley was once peopled by clans related to 

 those on Little Colorado derived from the Gila, and that other clans 

 drifted into the valley from the north at a later date. These -later 

 additions were from the circular ruin belt. Later came Tewa clans 

 as the Asa of the Hopi, and others. The author finds more evidences 

 of acculturation than autochthonous evolution in modern Zuni, as in 

 modern Hopi ceramic symbols. Pottery (figs. 9, 10) found in ruins 



