COLLECTIONS FROM TESUKE.
ARTICLES OF STONE.
METATES, MORTARS, ETC.
| Fig. 650 ([42341]) (⅓) |
2530. (39809). Stone metate for grinding grain, brown sandstone.
2531. (39810). Quartzitic stone mortar for grinding mineral pigment.
2532. (39811). Quite small mineral pigment mortar of quartz rock.
2533. (39821). Gaming ball of fine-grained sandstone.
2534. (42215). Discoidal quartz pounder.
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, the pestle is represented with a small cup-shaped cavity on one side of it, in which the fluid pigment from the mortar was poured and used with the brush of the artist for decorative purposes. This is the only specimen of the kind in the collection, and the only one found where the pestle combines the cup with it.
ARTICLES OF CLAY.
WATER VASES.
This group, though comparatively small, contains some of the largest and grandest pieces in the entire collection, some of the vases being twenty inches in height and twenty-two in diameter, having a capacity of ten gallons. It consists of white ware with decorations in black, bearing a strong resemblance to that of Cochiti, brown micaceous, and polished brown ware without ornamentation, and black ware without ornamentation.
Tinajas or vases. Well formed and similar in shape to those from Cochiti.
2536. (39507). With oblique diamond figures on the neck, and geometrical figures on the body.
2537. (39520). Upper half only decorated with rude figures of leaves and twigs.
2538. (39523). Similar to the preceding.
2539. (39525). Without neck; a broad and true meander band around the middle, with three-leaved flower above and below on each coil.
2540. (39530). Neck ornamented with a straight and an undulate line; body as in No. 2539.
2541. (39531). With rosette and triangular figures somewhat similar to those on Zuñi ollas.
2542. (39532). Decorations similar to those on Cochiti olla, No. 2421.
| Fig. 651 ([39533]) (¼) |
2543. (39801). Covered; a beautiful specimen, probably the most chaste and artistic of the entire collection.
2544. ([39533]). Fig. [651]. Similar to the preceding.
2545. (39534). Serrate band around the neck; body with broad band and large circular spaces, each having four dark indentations.
2546. (39542). Neck with straight and undulate lines and short sigmoid figures; body with figures of a plant.
2547. (39549). Neck similar to the preceding; body with a zigzag line dotted along the upper side, and small ovoid spots above and below it, one in each indentation.
2548. (39635). Plain black, polished, large.
2549. (39639). Like the last.
2550. (39660). Large size; dotted line around the neck; heavy band around the shoulder, with sharp and long serrations pointing downward; body with alternate ornamental ovals and four-pointed stars.
2551. (39661). Straight and undulate lines around the neck; body divided into spaces by broad, double-scalloped, perpendicular stripes, having the middle white with an undulate line in the white portion; the intermediate spaces have a sun-shaped figure in the upper corner, from which a double serrate stripe descends obliquely.
2552. (39664). Birds and undulate line on the neck; a straight line with ring dots on the shoulder, broad meander band, with triple leaf ornament around the body.
2553. (39665). Neck with meander as in the preceding; a slender vine, well made, around the body.
2554. (39682). Rather slender; undulate margin; vine around the neck; body with broad band of three-leaved flowers.
2555. (39683). Neck with straight and undulate lines; body with undulate line terraced above as heretofore described, but above this is a row or band of small distinct ovals.
2556. (39685). Black, without ornamentation.
2557. (39686). Large bowl-shaped olla, without neck, decorated with vine, cross, scrolls, &c.
2558. (39687).
2559. (39740). Upper half with marginal scalloped band, from which hang, obliquely, leaves with bent spines on their margin; below this a serrate and then a double straight line.
2560. (39741). Squatted in shape. Vine with leaves around the middle of the body.
2561. (39772). Small; slender vine around the neck, dotted line around the shoulder, and three-leafed vine around the body.
2562. (39773). With flaring rim; scalloped band around the margin; regular zigzag line around the shoulder, from each lower point of which descend plants.
| Fig. 654 ([39813]) (⅓) |
2563. (39789). Same decorations as No. 2539, but of the regular form.
2564. (39800). Small scalloped lines around the body.
2565. (39802). Brown, without ornamentation.
2566. (39803).
2567. (39805).
2570. (39814).
2571. (39815). Neck colored, with a white zigzag line running through it; body with curious, large leaf-like ornaments of an angular shape.
2572. ([39817]). With similar leaf-like figures, but narrower and differently arranged. Shown in Fig. [653]. The piece is injured, and the cords seen in the figure were tied about it by the natives to keep it from, going to pieces.
| Fig. 652 ([39806]) (⅕) | Fig. 653 ([39817]) (⅓) |
2573. (39816). With a large zigzag band around the upper half of the body, terraced above and below.
2574. (39818). Very large and beautiful specimen, decorated on the body somewhat like some of the Zuñi pottery. The large circular scrolls are formed of a vine with leaves on the outer side. There are but few of the triangular figures seen in the Zuñi piece; there is a regular and true serrate marginal band; below this on the neck a broad band with diamond spaces.
2575. (39819). With a broad band around the neck composed of squares placed obliquely, with an oblong white space in each; body with a simple, narrow, straight band or double line.
2576. (39822). Large scalloped band around the neck, a little leaf pendant from each point; the body with alternate large stars and ornamental diamonds.
2577. (39823). This has the rim slightly flaring, a scalloped band and leaves around the neck; the body profusely decorated with geometrical figures. This belt is divided into four spaces, in each of
which there is a checkered, terraced pyramid pointing downward; the lower part and sides of each space is occupied with triangular and sagittate figures.
2578. (39868). Small; neck with a row of ovals; the shoulder with a true herring-bone band; a vine with spiny leaves around the body.
2579. (39865).
WATER JUGS AND JARS.
| Fig. 655 ([39812]) (⅓) |
2580. ([39812]). Plain double-bellied water bottle of micaceous ware. See Fig. [655].
2581. (39834).
2582. (41366). Water jug. Fig. [519].
2583. (39790). Jar or urn of white ware, with two handles ornamented with the usual meander.
PITCHERS.
2584. (39745). A regular well-formed pitcher, with proper lip and handle. White ware ornamented with serrate lines, triangles, and circle. The only one from this tribe.
EATING BOWLS.
The Tesuke bowls vary considerably in form, some having the slope straight, others flaring and of the usual form, others biscuit-shaped. No large specimens were obtained.
2585. (39613). Usual bowl-shape, with flaring margin; no external decorations; inner surface with circular scrolls.
2586. (39647). Biscuit-shaped, with broad meander band externally; no decoration internally.
The following are similar in form and decoration:
2587-2590. 2587, (39666); 2588, (39669); 2589, (39788); 2590, (39648). Outside plain; inner marginal band a slender vine.
The following numbers are plain, of brown micaceous ware, biscuit-shaped, small:
2591-2593. 2591, (39667); 2592, (39668); 2593, (39835).
The following are of the same ware, platter-shaped:
2594-2599. 2594, (39672); 2595, (39678); 2596, (39679); 2597, (39680); 2598, (39681); 2599, (39792).
2600. (39793). Square.
2601. (39797). Regular bowl-shaped, with foot.
2602. (39673). Biscuit-shaped, with band of straight and undulate lines.
2603. (39674). No outer decorations; inside with radiating serrate lines, and leaves.
2604. (39675). No inner decorations; on outside a marginal serrate band, and a band of leaves around the body.
2605. (39676). Biscuit-shaped; vine, with leaves, around the middle.
2606. (39677). Uo outer ornaments; on inner surface a center leaf-cross, and above this, radiating lines.
2607. (39688). Decorated on inner surface only. A central flower and submarginal band of oval leaves.
2608. (39742). Biscuit-shaped; zigzag line, with two leaves at each point on the outside.
2609. (39743), Plain red, flower-pot shaped.
2610. (39744). Flower-pot shaped, with zigzag lines or vines running up and down, a leaf at each point.
2611. (39776). Largest bowl of the group.
2612. (39787). Regular shape; zigzag band on the outside.
2613. (39798). Small, regular shape, with vines on the inside.
2614. (39799). Small figures and birds on the inside.
COOKING VESSELS.
These are always plain black ware, and are of several forms.
| Fig. 657 ([39615]) (½) |
| Fig. 659 ([39695]) (½) |
Pots. Shaped like the Zuñi vessels.
2615-2632. 2615, (39601); 2616, (39602); 2617, (39605); 2618, (39606); 2619, (39607); 2620, (39608); 2621, (39611); 2622, (39670); 2623, (39671); 2624, (39689); 2625, (39735); 2626, (39736); 2627, (39737); 2628, (39738); 2629, (39794); 2630, (39795), with handle; 2631, (39828); 2632, (39874).
Bowl-shaped:
2633-2635. 2633, (39603); 2634, (39604); 3635, ([39615]), with handle. See Fig. [657].
Platter-shaped:
2636-2646. 2636, (39609); 2637, (39610); 2638, (39612); 2639, (39614); 2640, (39690); 2641, (39691); 2642, (39692); 2643, (39693); 2644, (39694); 2645, ([39695]), shown in Fig. [659]; 2646, (39739).
TOYS.
2647. (39791). Ornamented bird on pedestal.
Blackbirds on pedestals:
2648-2657. 2648, (39804); 2649, (39807); 2650, (39808); 2651, (39820); 2652, (39829); 2653, (39830); 2654, ([39831]), Fig. [656]; 2655, ([39832]), Fig. [658]; 2656, (39833); 2657, (39836).
| Fig. 656 ([39831]) (½) | Fig. 658 ([39832]) (½) |
VEGETAL SUBSTANCES.
MEDICINES.
2658. (39751). O-sha. Root used as medicine for rheumatism, internally and externally.
2659. (39752). Zerba-lobo. Wolf root, for pulmonary complaints.
2660. (39753). O-cha. Root used for rheumatism.
2661. (39754). Ka-cha-na. Root, semi-medicinal and magic. To prevent breach or wounds, and for sore eyes; external use.