460 Pueblo Pottery. [June, 
me in regard to the inhabitants of that town, “ old and young try 
their hand at the art, making objects of all descriptions. When 
they wish to make anything of mud very carefully, they use the 
lips to wet the mud and to smooth it, and, I suppose, as a test of 
its quality. Of course the clay is gotten in different localities— 
one kind out of one mesa, another out of another, according as 
it is white, blue or red clay.” The process as further described 
by Mr. Ealy is the same as that employed by the Laguna Indians. 
Dr. J. V. Lauderdale, now stationed at Mt. Vernon, Alabama, 
but formerly post surgeon at Fort Wingate, informs me that 
“Indian women make fancy pottery as other women in civilized 
life make fancy needlework. They work at it in intervals of more 
practical labor, and they ornament it as they feel disposed to do 
at the time. No complete collection of their work can be made 
at one visit. It is necessary to make repeated visits to get a fair 
Fic. 4.—Ancient Pueblo Dish. 
collection of their art in pottery. I resided near their village 
(Zufii) for four years, and every time I visited the pueblo, I saw 
something new or a modification of what I had seen before.” Mr. 
F. H. Cushing and Mr. James Stevenson, of the Smithsonian 
Institution, in 1879 collected at this place upwards of two thou- 
sand specimens of pottery, ancient and modern, of which few, if 
any, were duplicates, 
Through the kindness of Mr. Menaul I have been so fortunate 
as to secure several valuable pieces of prehistoric Pueblo pottery: 
Figure 4 represents a rectangular dish seven and a half inches in 
length and four and a half in breadth, with a painting of a bear on 
either side. It is somewhat similar in form to the salt vessels now 
made by the Moqui Indians of Arizona. It was found in the ruins 
