The stone axes are not very different from those of the Rio Grande and the Gila, but it is to be noticed that they are not so numerous as in the latter region, and are probably inferior in workmanship, fine specimens indeed being rare. The majority of the axes ([fig. 4]) are single grooved, but a few have two grooves. In Dr. Swope's collection, now in the Deming High School, there is a fairly good double-bladed axe.
Fig. 4.—Stone axe. Length 8¾″.
Fig. 5.—Arrow polisher. Length 3¼″, breadth 2½″.
Miss Alnutt, of Deming, has a remarkable collection of arrowpoints gathered from many localities in the valley, and also a few fine spearpoints, conical pipes, and other objects taken from the sacred spring at Faywood Hot Spring. A beautiful arrow polisher found near Deming is shown in [figure 5].
The pipes from the Mimbres take the form of tubular cloud-blowers, specimens of which are shown in [figure 6]. Apparently these pipes were sometimes thrown into sacred springs, but others have been picked up on the surface of village sites or a few feet below the surface.
Fig. 6.—Cloud blowers. Faywood Hot Springs. (Swope collection.) ½ nat. size.
Lateral and top views of one of the characteristic forms of small stone mortars with a handled projection on one side is shown in [figure 7]. This specimen is in the Swope collection in the Deming High School. In the same collection there are also two beautiful tubular pipes, or cloud-blowers, from the same spring.