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

The Pueblo tribes of New Mexico and Arizona, with rare exceptions, manufacture earthenware vessels for domestic use. The Pueblo of Taos may be mentioned as one of these exceptio...

The cutting, splitting, pounding, perforating, and scraping implements are generally derived from schists, basaltic, trachytic, and porphyritic rocks, and those for grinding and...

As previously stated, the basketry manufactured by the Shinumo Indians is of a more finished class and of a greater variety than that made and used by any of the other Pueblos,...

1320. (41190). Yellow gourd, with black band, and having alternate squares of white and black around the centre, through which a stick is passed for holding it in the hand durin...

These are always small, but vary in size from one and a half to three inches in height. They are usually in the form of water vases or globular jars, though sometimes of a true...

165. (40321). Medium size; of the variety represented in Fig. 361, but in these smaller pieces the bird zone is omitted, and there is but one figured zone on the body. In this e...

513. (40219). The decorations on this bowl are unusual; those of the inner surface consist of a slender crenate marginal band, and below this a woman holding a child and apparen...

The bowls vary in size, as do those from Zuni, but as a general rule they are small, or of but medium size; quite a number of those obtained are very small. In form they are gen...

The following baskets are made from the broad leaves of the yucca, woven or plaited crosswise in a very simple manner, and wrapped at the rims with leaves of the same plant. The...

2312. (41402). Similar in form to the preceding; image of an animal at one corner only; zigzag line around the neck; double undulate line around the body, with dots above and be...

2535. (42341). Fig. 650. Paint mortar. This mortar was made from a somewhat rounded sandstone boulder by grinding out a cavity. In the cut, which was drawn for another purpose,...

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2827-2829. 2827, (41788); 2828, (41789); 2829, (41790). Fragments of ancient pottery from the environs of Wolpi. The specimens are of the corrugated and laminated forms and are...