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was so considerable that every practicable means, however laborious, was 

 adopted to preserve them, even when so greatly damaged as was this 

 specimen. The measurements of this bowl are : Diameter at the mouth, 

 7.5 inches ; height, exteriorly, 4 inches ; thickness of sides of the bowl, 

 varying from .3 to .4 of an inch. 



Fig. 10, Plate VI, represents a very beautifully wrought serpentine bowl 

 of somewhat smaller capacity than Fig. 5, varying also in being less in 

 diameter, but of greater depth. The degree of polish and general finish 

 is the same. The ornamentation consists of a single shallow groove near 

 the rim. This example is interesting as showing one of the uses to which 

 such vessels were put, it having still in it two masses of red pigment, which 

 it contained when taken from the graves at Dos Pueblos. This bowl 

 measures 4.2 inches at the rim in diameter, and slightly exceeds this below 

 the mouth of the vessel ; height, exteriorly, 2.7 inches. The fiat surface of 

 the rim is .25 of an inch in width, and has numbers of transverse incised 

 lines, probably intended as an ornamental design, which are now, however, 

 scarcely discernible. 



Fig. 3, Plate V, represents a very symmetrical but perfectly plain 

 bowl that closely approaches a typical mortar in its appearance, and is of 

 the same hard sandstone that most of the mortars proper are made of. 

 This specimen has the sides and base, which is flattened, of nearly uniform 

 size, and both the interior and exterior surfaces are very smooth, but not 

 polished. On the rim are two shallow depressions, of less than an inch in 

 length, each of which have been filled with asphaltum, upon which shells, 

 or fragments of abalone shells, have been placed as ornaments ; being 

 the same decoration that we noticed on some of the mortars. This 

 specimen measures : Greatest diameter, 5.3 inches ; height, exteriorly, 3.2 

 inches. 



Fig. 1, Plate V, represents a remarkable specimen of workmanship in 

 stone, especially when the conditions of the maker and the character of his 

 tools are considered. It is wrought out of a dense serpentine, and excels 

 in finish, the rim being strictly circular, and not simply approaching to it, 

 while the flaring sides of the vessel decrease uniformly in thickness. 

 The base is flattened, and large enough to permit the vessel to stand firm 



