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OBJECTS MADE OF CLAY

Jar stopper.—A stopper for a jar with a 3-inch orifice was found
in the southeast corner of Room 23 (pl. 40, w). It is made of sandy
clay and is unfired, although exposure to an open fire has burned and
blackened it somewhat.

Pipe.—In addition to the steatite fragment noted above, we have
part of a tubular clay pipe (fig. 44). This latter, however, bears a
Pueblo I-like punctate decoration, and flakes of mica glisten on its
gray, lumpy surface; it is the only artifact, besides a small quantity
of late potsherds, found in Kiva "a," west of the ruin.

Figurines.—Three earthenware figurines of molded clay, hard but
apparently unfired, are represented in figure 37, a-c. The first was
among half a dozen miscellaneous objects pressed by weight of the
overburden into the softened adobe floor in the southeast quarter of

Room 9B-II. In shape and execution it is strikingly like a small
effigy from Ruin A, Marsh Pass, illustrated by Kidder and Guernsey
(1919, p. 143, fig. 62, b). Squares of charcoal represent eyes on the
next two. Figure 37, c, largest of the three, was found among the
rubble filling Kiva "b." An unillustrated fragment of fired clay, possibly
the upper part of a figurine (U.S.N.M. No. 334682), is molded
after the manner of figure 37, b, but lacks any representation of facial
features.

The fourth figure (fig. 37, d), of yellowish-gray sandstone rather
than clay, is included here merely for convenience in presentation. It
is from Kiva I and featureless. A very similar specimen, carved from
juniper, measures 2⅛ inches long, ¾ inch in maximum width, and [fraction 5 by 16]
inch thick from foot to neck (U.S.N.M. No. 334701). Above the
neck the head tapers from both front and back to a thickness of
[fraction 3 by 16] inch at the top. As with that of sandstone, there is nothing about
this juniper carving to identify it with the figurines except shape.

Fragments of zoomorphic vessels will be considered under pottery.