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aeter of its ornamentation have a close resemblance to some of the bird- 

 like vessels from Zuiii, and it is not so well baked as the fragments of un- 

 doubted ancient pottery. Probably belonging to about the same period 

 between ancient and modern art with this fragment of animal form, is the 

 nearly perfect mug, made of gray clay and ornamented with black lines, 

 lozenge-shaped and other figures, which was "found by Mr. Francis Klett 

 in 1873 at the ruins of Pueblo Viejo on the Rio Gila." In shape this is like 

 an old flat-bottomed beer mug with a handle extending the whole length 

 of the side. Portions of somewhat similar mugs have been found among 

 the fragments of ancient pottery, but, so far as I know, none of these had a 

 broad and flat bottom. The clay of which this vessel is made has been pretty 

 well burned and is hard and firm, its thickness, however, gives to the mug 

 a rude and clumsy appearance, such as is not seen in the older specimens. 

 Another vessel, which I am inclined to regard as not very old, is a nearly 

 perfect bowl of red clay about ten inches in diameter, which is said to 

 have been obtained from a ruined pueblo in New Mexico. Although this 

 vessel is very well made, it has not been burnt to that degree of hardness 

 common in the ancient pottery, and its ornamentation is not so well done. 

 In favor of its comparatively recent origin is the fact that the black lines 

 are drawn over a white wash, as is the most common method of orna- 

 menting the modem pottery made at the pueblos in the vicinity of Santa Fe\ 



There have been often found at the ruined pueblos and old cliff-houses, 

 as well as in the mounds and caves of Utah, vessels made by coiling bands 

 of clay upon themselves, but of this form specimens do not appear to have 

 been collected by the surveying parties, although Professor Cope refers to 

 pottery of this character in the account of his explorations of an ancient 

 town given on a previous page of this volume. Many such have been 

 found in the mounds formed by the ruined adobe houses in Southern Utah, 

 and others were obtained by Dr. Palmer from caves in Utah. A number 

 of perfect vessels and many fragments from these places are in the Peabody 

 Museum.* 



The most interesting object of clay obtained by the survey is the large 



* Mr. Holmes has figured vessels of this character found in the cliff-houses, in his recent valuable 

 paper contained in Dr. Hayden's Annual Report for 187C. 



