NO. 3 ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT PARAGONAH — JUDD 1/ 



of certain mammal bones probably suggested this use. and primitive 

 delight in personal adornment quickly led to the adoption of the new 

 ornament. Complete specimens were fewer in number than the 

 fragments recovered, but all are highly interesting and most of them 

 speak well for the artistic ability of their makers. 



Objects of bone collected by the 191 7 expedition were important 

 both in quantity and in quality of workmanship. The stone arti- 

 facts, on the other hand, although numerous, embraced but few 

 types and these exhibit no marked deviation from similar imple- 



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ments, widely distributed throughout the Southwest. As might be 

 expected, hammer stones and mullers predominate, but there are also 

 large numbers of rubbing and polishing stones, discoidal jar covers, 

 gaming balls,^ etc. 



Grooved axes and mauls seem to have been wholly unknown to 

 the inhabitants of the adobe dwellings. After three summers' work 

 among the ruins of western Utah the writer has found but one 

 implement, figure i, which even approaches an ax in form and this 

 is a crude basalt hammer, notched for ha f ting, and probably made 



^ Small stone balls, usually encrusted with a softer material, were employed 

 by various southwestern tribes in games for both adults and children. The 

 recent expedition collected 75 of these and, in addition, two specimens of 

 adobe. To one of the latter was still attached a fragment of its original 

 clay covering. 



