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

by James Stevenson

COLLECTIONS FROM JÉMEZ.

ARTICLES OF STONE.

630-635. 630, (47209); 631, (47211); 632, (47212); 633, (47279); 634, (47280); 635, (47281). Stone hatchets with imperfect grooves.

636, (42282). Square block of stone with grooves lengthwise and crosswise on one face, used to polish arrow shafts.

637-638. 637, (47051); 638, (47053). Broken rubbers for metates.

639, (48034). Rude stone pounders.

640, (48038). Pestle.

641, (48059). A celt of jasper.

642-643. 642, (48060); 643, (48061). Smoothing stones.

ARTICLES OF CLAY.

These are mostly white ware with ornamentation in black and red; there are a few black specimens.

644-646. 644, (47186); 645, (47187); 646, (47188). Specimens of clay used in making pottery.

647-648. 647, (47216); 648, (47220). Bricks from an old Spanish wall.

649-655. 649, (47189); 650, (47190); 651, (47191); 652, (47193); 653, (47194); 654, (47195); 655, (47198). Small jar-shaped tinajas. The ornamentation consists of heavy waved lines on the body and interrupted straight lines, triangles and narrow simple or scalloped bands on the neck.

656, (47192). A medium-sized tinaja, swollen at the shoulder and of the form shown in Fig. 372. The upper part is ornamented with a broad belt of animal figures, deer and birds, separated from each other by a triangle between each, two, with the elongate point directed upwards. Middle surrounded by a belt of oblique broken lines.

Fig. 708. ([47197])

657, (47196). Olla of the usual form; ornamentation, a vine, leaves and birds.

658, ([47197]). Medium-sized, jar-shaped olla, with undulate margin and ornamentation as shown in [Fig. 708].

659, (47199). Olla with zigzag band around the neck and four dentate bands around the body.

660-665. 660, (47200); 661, (47201); 662, (47202); 663, (47203); 664, (47204); 665, (47215). Canteens of the usual form with two loop handles; upper half ornamented. Chief figures, triangles, stars, and birds.

666, (47205). Tinaja with handle on the side, ornamentation delicate and decidedly neat; zigzag and dotted lines, long pinnate leaf, flowers, &c.

667, (48062). Fragments of pottery from ruins (7 pieces.)

668, (47206). Water vessel resembling in form a tinaja, but with small orifice; ornamented with slender vines and leaves.

669, (47207). Biscuit-shaped bowl; triangular figures on external surface similar to those so common on Zuñi bowls.

670, (47208). Small regularly-shaped bowl; triangular figures.

671, (47213). Tinaja with handle; resembling in form and ornamentation, the pitchers found at Cañon de Chelley.

672, (47214). Olla with crenate margin; external decorations elks and birds.

673, (47278). Small tinaja with a kind of scroll figure around the body.

674-675. 674, (47276); 675, (47277). Small unburned and unadorned tinajas.

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.

676, (48050). Wooden image decorated with feathers (presented by Mrs. T. Stevenson).

677, (47221). Specimen of the matting used in building.