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Show 23 Figure 6 represents a very usual pattern of mug or cup. It is of the ordinary painted ware, and is made to contain about a pint. The specimen is not entire. Figure 7 is apparently a pipe. It was found by Mr. Aldrlch, near a ruin on tbe San Juan, and is made of the ordinary potter's clay; it is 2 inches in length. Figure 8 represents part of an ornamental handle, formed by twisting together three small rolls of clay. Figure 9 represents a small spoon or ladle. Fragments of similar implements are quite numerous. Figure 10 is a portion of the handle of some small vessel. As t o whether the manufacture of pottery was carried on in certain favorable localities only, or whether each village had its own skilled workmen or workwomen, I cannot determine, since, as previously stated, no remains of kilns or manufactories were discovered. The forms and styles of ornament are pretty uniform, which is to be expected in either case, since the inhabitants of the various villages must have hud constant communication with each other. PLATE XIV. This plate contains drawings of a number of stone implements, arrowheads^ ornaments, and other articles manufactured or used by the ancient inhabitant* of this region. Nearly all were found so associated with the architectural remains that I do not hesitate to assign them to the same period. Figure 1 represents a small fragment of rush matting, a large piece of which was fonnd on the floor of one of the cliff- houses of the Rio Mancos. ( See Plate VI.) It is probably manufactured from a species of rush, Scirpus validus, that grows somewhat plentifully along the Mancos bottoms. Figure 2 represents a bundle of small sticks, probably used in playing some game. They are nearly a foot in length, and have been sharpened at one end by scraping or grinding. They were found in one of the cliff-houses of the Mancos, buried beueath a pile of rubbish. The bit of cord ' with which they are tied is made of a flax- like fiber, carefully twisted and wrapped with coarse strips of yucca bark; beside this a number of short pieces of rope of different sizes were found, that in beauty and strength would do credit to any people. The fiber is a little coarser and lighter than flax, and was probably obtained from a species of yucca, which grows everywhere in the southwest. Figure 3 is a very perfect specimen of stone implement found buried in a bin of charred corn in one of the Mancos cliff- houses ( figure 1, Plate V). It is 8 inches in length and 2£ inches broad at the broadest part; its greatest thickness is only £ an inch. One face is slightly convex, while the other is nearly flat. The sides are neatly and uniformly rounded, and the edge is quite sharp. It is made of a very hard, fine- grained, siliceous slate, is gray in color, and has been ground into shape and polished in a most masterly manner. Although its use is not positively determined, it belongs, in all probability, to a class of implements called u scrapers," which are employed by most savage tribes in the dressing of skins. This specimen may have been used for other purposes, but certainly not for cutting or striking, as the material is very brittle. The most conclusive proof of its use is the appearance of the edge, which shows just such markings - as would be produced by rubbing or scraping a tough, sinewy surface. Figure 4 represents a part of a metate or mill- stone. The complete im- |