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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I917 



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and quantities of food (corn, squash, pifion nuts, etc.), and articles 

 of adornment such as hair combs and ear pendants of wood beautifully 

 incrusted with turquoise and jet mosaic, shell and turquoise ear 

 ornaments and necklaces, finger-rings, etc. ; and in the case of men, 

 bows and arrows, arrowpoints, fetishes, prayer-sticks, ceremonial 

 paraphernalia of various kinds, pipes, and of course earthenware 

 vessels and baskets that had contained food and drink. Examples of 

 these more recent burials are illustrated in figures 66 to 68. 



Fig. 68. — Hawikuh. Burial of an aged person, body greatly flexed, with a 

 fine bowl decorated in glaze. Found 6V2 feet deep in refuse. Photograph 

 by E. F. Coffin. 



The pottery deposited with the dead of these burials consisted 

 of from one to a dozen vessels of various forms and a wide 

 range of decoration, although in some cases there were no such 

 accompaniments at all. Bowls predominated, but there were many 

 fine water jars, duck-shape vessels, and cooking pots of plain and 

 indented ware. Most of the pottery utensils were sacrificed or 

 " killed '' by being- thrown deliberately into the graves, and some- 

 times many stones were thrown in on them. The oldest decorated 

 pottery from the site consists of a beautiful rich red or red-orange 



