Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico And Arizona in 1879: Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 — John Shaqi
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico And Arizona in 1879: Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428Stevenson, James
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Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico And Arizona in 1879: Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428
Stevenson, James
Indian pottery -- North America; Indians of North America -- Arizona; Indians of North America -- Industries; Indians of North America -- New Mexico
65. (42242). Same as the preceding.
66. (42242). Grooved axe with two edges.
67. (42244). Celt-shaped axe of basalt; it appears to have been used as
a rubbing stone.
68. (39869). Zuñi maul with circular groove around the centre, used
generally for grinding or pounding soft foods, such as red-pepper
pods; of porous lava.
69. (39903). Double-edged axe, _ō´-lā-ki-le_, with groove around the
middle; volcanic rock, from Zuñi. See Fig. 350.
70. (42349). Rounded end of a sandstone metate grinder converted into a
flat hammer by grooving it at the opposite edges.
71. (41291). Pounder of sandstone. It was originally a common axe. Thumb
and finger depression on the sides.
72. (40871). Lava Chili pounder with cap-shaped ends; grooved.
73. (40906). Lava rock pounder; small.
_METATES, OR GRAIN-GRINDERS, AND PESTLES._
74. (40870). Square red sandstone metate.
75. (42280). Flat sandstone grinding slab.
76-82. The following numbers represent the rubbers accompanying the
metates. The Indian name is _yä´-lĭn-ne_: 76, (40909); 77, (40910);
78, (40911); 79, (40912); 80, (40913); 81, (40914); 82, (41259);
sandstone rubber.
_MORTARS, PESTLES, ETC._
These are found in use at all the pueblos, but are more common in Zuñi
and the Moki villages than elsewhere, as these Indians use mineral
pigments more extensively and in greater variety than any of the others.
The pestles and mortars obtained from these tribes are all too small to
be used for any other purpose than grinding pigments. Many of them
appear to be quite old, and were probably handed down from distant
ancestors, or obtained from the ruins. Some of them are evidently of
modern manufacture.
83. (40707). Mortar; a round, flat, quartzitic boulder with round cavity
on one side about one inch in diameter and half an inch deep, and a
square depression on the other about an inch deep and two inches in
width; indigo still clinging to the surface of the depression.
84. (40708). Mortar of quartzite, the body nearly square and flat;
depression round and about four inches in diameter, quite shallow.
85. (40709). Mortar of coarse-grained sandstone, almost perfectly round,
the cavity quite deep, and lined with red ochre or vermilion.
86. (40710). Mortar of a flat sandstone with irregular rim about four
inches in diameter.
87. (40711). Paint mortar of a small round quartz boulder.
88. (40712). Mortar of fine-grained sandstone about six inches long by
three wide; sides square. This mortar was in use by the Zuñians for
the purpose of grinding a pigment of yellowish impure clay, colored by
the oxide of iron, with which they decorate their pottery, and which
produces the brown and reddish-brown colors.
89. (40713). Small mortar of sandstone.
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