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of an ancient building about twenty miles north-east of Laguna. 
The remains are so old that none of the modern Indians know 
anything about them or their former occupants, Mr. Menaul in- 
forms me that in this locality the ruined houses possessed under- 
ground vaults for storehouses, which the tribes now farming the 
Fic. 5.—Ancient Pueblo Jar. 
land do not construct. Specimens of the older pottery, possess- 
ing animal decorations, are exceedingly rare. Figure 5 is a copy 
of another antique vessel from the same place; it measures six 
inches in height, and is a perfect imitation of a gourd ; the surface 
1S very much weather-worn, and in some places the ornamenta- 
tion is entirely obliterated, The small, circular orifice is situated 
on the upper portion of the stem or handle. Another ancient 
vessel from New Mexico, five inches in diameter, so old that the 
ornamentation can scarcely be traced, closely resembles in form 
@ specimen from Utah in the collection of Dr. Palmer and figured 
- Hayden's Report for 1876, in Pl. xiv, Fig. 12. Two other 
specimens, from an ancient ruin in New Mexico, now known as 
Pueblo Nunishe, are of a shape similar to the modern Zufian clay 
basket figured in Pl. :x1x, in the same report. These two ancient 
Specimens are decorated both inside and out with paintings rep- 
resenting tadpoles, dragon-flies and turtles, the lesser divinities 
of water, and two animals which were probably intended to por- 
tray the squirrel (possibly skunk) and porcupine, both of which 
