Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880: Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466Stevenson, James
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Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880: Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466
Stevenson, James
Indian pottery -- North America; Indians of North America -- Arizona; Indians of North America -- Industries; Indians of North America -- New Mexico
690, Water vessel in form of a duck; orifice on the back, wings formed
into loop handles. Red and black decorations.
691, (47228). Water vessel in form of a duck; orifice over the neck,
loop handle on the back.
692-693. 692, (47237); 693, (47239). Water vessels in form of a duck,
without handles.
[Illustration: Fig. 710. THE BLANKET WEAVER.]
694-696. 694, (47229); 695, (47230); 696, (47232). Animal images; first
probably a Rocky Mountain sheep; the other two probably dogs. Very
rude ornamentation without design.
697, (47236). Water vessel of the form and ornamentation shown in Fig.
709.
[Illustration: Fig. 709. 47236]
698, (47238). Medium-sized tinaja with leaf ornaments.
699, (47294). Tinaja with figures like those common on the Zuni ollas.
700, (47818). Water vessel in the form of a horse, white ware
ornamented.
701, (47820). Dog's head, plain.
MISCELLANEOUS.
702, (47264). Specimens of mineral paint. (Ochre or clay-stone.)
703-705. 703, (47265); 704, (47267); 705, (47268). Turquoise drills.
706, (47266). Block of wood to be used in connection with the turquoise
drill. Has a simple pit in the center in which the apex of the drill
turns.
707, (47269). Wooden war-club of hard oak with serpentine line and arrow
point (as on pipe, Fig. 704), cut on one side.
708, (47270). Bow, arrows, and quiver.
709, (47819). Leather bag adorned with feathers, with pebbles inside,
used as a rattle in dances.
710, (47234). Tortoise shell with pendent rattles, used us a dance
ornament.
711, (47235). A gourd with pebbles inside, used as a rattle.
COLLECTIONS FROM SAN JUAN.
ARTICLES OF STONE.
712, (47760). Flat rubbing or smoothing stone of slate.
713-714. 713, (47762); 714, (47763). Stone hatchets notched at the
sides.
715, (47764). Small hammer notched at the sides.
716-717. 716, (47765); 717, (47766). Stone candlesticks, the former with
circular base, body hemispherical, with hole in the top. The other
(from the altar of the Catholic Church) with square base, the stand
short, circular, with moldings.
718, (47767). Square, flat mortar.
719-724. 719, (47768); 720, (47769); 721, (47770); 722, (47799); 723,
(47783); 724, (47776.) Pounding stones.
725-733. 725, (47771); 726, (47774); 727, (47777); 728, (47778); 729,
(47782); 730, (47785); 731, (47787); 732, (47790); 733, (47792).
Stones with grooves or notches.
734-742. 734, (47772); 735, (47775); 736, (47779); 737, (47781); 738,
(47784); 739, (47786); 740, (47789); 741, (47793); 742, (47796). Stone
hammers, some grooved, others not.
743-747. 743, (47773); 744, (47788); 745, (47797); 746, (47798); 747,
(47808). Smoothing or polishing stones.
748, (47800). A collection of fifty smoothing stones used in polishing
pottery.
749-750. 749, (47803); 750, (47804). Small paint mortars.
751, (47805). Scraper and polisher.
752, (47806). Rude animal image, (quadruped).
753, (47807). Hammer.
754, (47809). Hornstone triangular knife.
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