264 Stone Implements and Ornaments. [May, 
STONE IMPLEMENTS AND ORNAMENTS FROM THE 
RUINS OF COLORADO, UTAH, AND ARIZONA. 
BY EDWIN A. BARBER. 
P my two preceding papers relative to the Ancient Pueblos 
of the Pacific slope of the United States, the first in the 
August number of The Naturalist and the second in the De- 
cember issue for 1876, I have described some of the pottery and 
rock etchings of an exceedingly old American race. I shall strive 
to convey some idea, in this paper, of the tools which were em- 
ployed by the same people in the manufacture of articles and in 
the erection of their stone houses. Some of the specimens herein 
figured I believe to be unique, but this cannot be ascertained to 
a certainty without examining every collection of western antiq- 
uities. 
Stone implements and utensils are so numerous throughout the 
section of country formerly occupied by the Ancient Pueblos, 
that for the sake of convenience in describing them I will sepa- 
rate them into two divisions, calling them objects of warlike or 
peaceful vocations. Thus we have — 
eapons : 
Arrowheads (of war! and the chase). 
Spear or lance heads and darts. 
Battle-axes or tomahawks. 
Arrow polishers or Sich ses 
Implements : 
Hammers and Mauls. 
xes. 
Knives. 
Saws and chisels. 
Awls, ‘trimmers ” or borers. 
Skin scrapers, or ‘ fleshers.”’ 
Mortars and pestles. 
Millstones (metates) and grinders. 
Pierced pottery and stones for Auning: out sinew (gauges). 
Meat pounders. 
Because it is an indisputable fact that great battles have been 
1 The greater number of the war arrows, I think, are undoubtedly of Ute origin, 
having been projected into the midst of the ancient towns, but some, at least, are the 
productions of the besieged, although they were eminently a peaceful people. We 
would not expect to discover these weapons of the Pueblo race, however, immediately 
under the walls of their own buildings, but rather further out on the plains. The 
majority of our specimens were found in the close neighborhood of the mn remains. 
