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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 65 



The majority of these specimens are mortuary food bowls, the 

 most significant of which were decorated on their interior with 

 painted figures representing animals known to the ancient inhabit- 



Fig. 65. — a, Two birds, bowl from Pictured Rocks 4 miles north of Oldtown 

 ruin. Heye Museum, b, Two birds, bowl from Pictured Rocks, 4 miles north 

 of Oldtown ruin. Heye Museum. 



Fig. 66. — Mortuary food bowls. Photographs by E. D. Osborn. a, Four 

 grasshoppers, bowl from Pictured Rocks, 4 miles north of Oldtown ruin. Heye 

 Museum, b, Frog, bowl from ruin at Pictured Rocks, 4 miles north of Old- 

 town. Heye Museum. 



ants of the valley, and pictures of warriors or priests engaged in 

 secular or religious observances. Some of the bowls are decorated 

 with characteristic geometrical designs so different from any others 

 yet found in the Southwest that it is believed that they indicate an 



