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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I917 



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and quantities of food (corn, squash, pinon 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 am.! 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. 



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Fir;. 68. — Havvikuh. Burial of an aged person, body greatly flexed, with a 

 fine howl decorated in j^lazc. Found 6'/2 feet deep in refuse. Photograph 

 by F. F. Coffin. 



The pottery dej^osited witli tlic dcarl of these burials consisted 

 of from one to a dozen \c^scls ot varicjus forms and a wide 

 range of dec(jrati(jn, although in some cases there were no such 

 accompaniments at all. Howls predominated, but there wcie many 

 fine water jars, duck-shaj)e vessels, and conking ])ols of plain and 

 indented ware. Most of the potter\- utensils were sacrirucd or 

 " killed " 1)\' being thrown de]il)iTatelv into the gr;i\e>, and some- 

 times manv stones were thrown in on tbeni. I hi' oldest decnraled 

 pottery from the site consists of a beauiitui rirli \vi.\ or red (»range 



