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whether they were not a modern secondary burial ; but if we accept 

 this theory it indicates an unusual condition, for the Navaho seldom 

 bury their pottery as mortuary offerings/ 



The author noticed, especially in his examination of the mounds 

 near Kit Carson Spring, certain foundation walls indicating small, 

 circular, buildings strung along in a row on the tops of ridges. One 

 or two of these suggest a round ruin near Zuiii, and seem to afford 

 the missing link in the prehistoric chain of settlements connecting the 

 great Chaco ruins ' with some of those in Zuiii valley. These impor- 

 tant similarities are supported by the traditions of the Zuiii that some 

 of their ancestors once inhabited the buildings on the Chaco ; and 

 the fact that certain ruins, among them Kintiel, north of Navaho 



Fig. 9.— Decorative food bowl, Black Diamond Ranch. 7 by 3 inches. 



Springs, are definitely claimed by the Zuhi to have been inhabited 

 by their Corn clan. 



The black and white pottery, found about Gallup, is identical with 

 that of the latter ruin, and very similar to that generally found in 

 the earliest epoch of pueblo occupancy. As pointed out in an article 

 on Zuhi pottery, in the " Putnam Anniversary Volume." modern 

 Zuni pottery is so different from the ancient that we can hardly 

 regard it as evolved from it. The same is true among the Hopi ; the 

 modern pottery decoration is not like the old, but is Tewa. Hopi- 

 Tewa pottery is largely the work of Nampeo, who once decorated 

 her pottery solely with Tewa symbols instead of old Hopi. In 1895 



^ The Navaho are not a pottery making people, but often use bowls and vases 

 they find in prehistoric ruins. 



^ Although prehistoric, the author regards all the Chaco Canyon group of 

 ruins as later in construction than those of the ]\Iesa Verde and San Juan, with 

 which they are morphologically connected. 



