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ware on which was apphed geometrical designs in black glaze. The 

 more recent forms are decorated also in glaze, but in green, brown, 

 and red, in addition to black, the glaze, however, was usually poorly 

 applied. Effigy forms in relief are rare, but the eagle, weasel, butter- 

 fly, tadpole, and corn plant are among the non-geometric figures 

 employed in ornamenting the vessels by painting. The baskets are 

 chiefly of the woven type, but there is also an example of coiled 

 basketry. Sometimes as many as four baskets were placed or thrown 

 into a grave, almost completely covering the body (fig. 67). The 



Fig. JT). — This rock xu situ was used as a mortar and also for grinding manos 

 and other tools. Photograph by E. F. Coffin. 



fabric of the clothing was sufficiently well preserved for identifica- 

 tion as cotton, which the Zuiiis of Hawikuh probably obtained by 

 trade from the Hopi, who were noted as cultivators of cotton in early 

 times; indeed, early Spanish writers asserted that the people of 

 Cibola did not raise cotton. The dead were often placed on or 

 wrapped in mats, and frequently the grave was lined with cedar 

 or juniper bast, which material served also for torches. Objects of 

 Spanish provenience were encountered frequently — iron nails, a 

 copper buckle, fragments of iron and copper, glass beads, bits of 

 decorated porcelain, bottle-glass, and, at the neck of a child, a Catho- 



