454 Pueblo Pottery. [June, 
we may safely conclude that aboriginal ceramic art will have dis- 
appeared forever in this section before the rapid march of civiliza- 
tion, within the space of a few more years. The railroad which has, 
during the last few months, penetrated into hitherto isolated sec- 
tions of the West, inhabited by the modern Pueblo tribes, has car- 
ried away the greater portion of the native household wares, and 
the limited amount of pottery which is still being produced, is 
made in a hasty and superficial manner for sale to curiosity hunt- 
ers. It will not be long ere metal utensils will supersede the fictile 
vessels of the natives, and specimens of earthen-ware which were 
made a few years ago will increase in rarity and value, which will 
be enhanced as the art becomes entirely obsolete. 
The Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological and 
Geographical Survey of the Territories, in charge of Dr. F. V. 
Hayden, containing several full-page lithographic plates of Pueblo 
pottery, has drawn considerable attention to this interesting ware. 
A large number of examples sent to me at various times during 
the past two years, however, shows more satisfactorily the great 
diversity of form which eminently characterizes the modern pro- 
ductions. Pottery is still made in the majority of the twenty 
Pueblo towns of New Mexico and the seven Moqui villages of 
Arizona. The ware produced in the different pueblos varies con- 
siderably, however, in quality and style. That made in Zufii is 
probably most prolific in animal forms, whilst some of the finest 
workmanship is displayed in specimens fashioned at the pueblos 
of Acoma and Cochite. Water bottles made in imitation of birds, 
such as hawks and owls, are common at Zuii, while domesticated 
fowls, such as ducks and hens, are favorite representations at 
Laguna and Jemez. Vessels shaped after models of mammals 
are not so numerous in any of the Pueblo villages, but there are 
not wanting specimens representing rams, goats, sheep, bears, 
cats, dogs and even a few in imitation of the human form. Indee 
the Pueblo potters seem to have copied in clay every object which 
was familiar to them, and their pottery seems to have surpass¢ 
the ancient Peruvian /Awacas in the diversity of form. Specimens 
made especially for the eastern market, consist of cream pitchers. 
cups and saucers, miniature boats, figurines and imitations of an 
endless variety,of objects of European manufacture, but these arr 
comparatively worthless as examples of aboriginal art. I am in- 
debted to the Rev. John Menaul, of Laguna, Dr. T. F. Ealy, of 
