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Show EVERYDAY LIFE IN PUEBLO BONITO 239 Photograph by O. C. Havens WHERE THE RICHEST FIND AT PUEBLO BONITO WAS UNEARTHED This remarkable necklace, containing 2,500 separate beads of turquoise and four pendants, represents an almost unbelievable amount of labor on the part of the ancient lapidary who fashioned it (see text, page 227, and Color Plate IV). brilliant as an autumn sunset, their faces painted against the reflected heat of the desert sand. PUEBLO BONITO POTTERY IS THE FINEST MADE BY PREHISTORIC PEOPLES Members of the National Geographic Society will readily understand that, after having stood roofless under the rains of summer and the snows of winter for approximately one thousand years, Pueblo Bonito has not yielded examples of all the arts and crafts once produced within her now moldering walls. Many objects have long since disappeared; others are so fragmentary as to resist accurate interpretation. But of all these varied artifacts I know of none which has come down to us in anything like the number of pieces, as pottery. Pottery was unconsciously elevated to the high plane of a fine art at Pueblo Bonito. Nowhere else in all the United States are earthenware vessels of ancient times found which surpass those of Chaco Canyon in beauty of form and decoration. The tracing of thin black lines over highly polished white surfaces, in patterns rarely if ever exactly duplicated, gave obvious joy to the Bonitian |