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ruin was taken a shard with a fine swastika, showing the antiquity of 

 this design so rarely found in Mesa Verde. 



The general facies of the collection of artifacts from Square 

 Tower House is the same as in other clifif dwellings on the park, 

 and although a few specimens are different from those already 

 known, the majority corroborate, as far as age is concerned, the 

 testimony of the buildings. A broken fragment of the rim of a vase 



Fig. 63. — Stick witli carved extremity. 



of the sugar bowl pattern, a tyj^e peculiar to the upper San Juan area, 

 was obtained from the Unit-Ty]:)e House. Fragments of food 

 bowls corrugated on the outside, black and white on the interior, 

 belong to a type hitherto rare. No collector has thus far reported a 

 ])rehistoric pipe from Mesa Verde, but a stumpy straight tube of 

 unburnt clay, more like a " cloud blower " than a pipe, l)etrayed the 

 fact that the cliff' dwellers, like other Indians, smoked ceremoniallv. 



