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re called by the same name, Kawaika, which, as hitherto explained, is specially applied to the modern pueblo of Laguna.] [Footnote 84: The Asa people who came to Tusayan from the Rio Grande claim to have lived for a few generations in Tubka or Tsegi (Chelly) canyon.] [Footnote 85: The pottery of ancient Cibola is practically identical with that of the ruined pueblos of the Colorado Chiquito, near Winslow, Arizona.] [Footnote 86: The specimens labeled "New Mexico" and "Arizona" are too vaguely classified to be of any service in this consideration. It is suggested that collectors carefully label their specimens with the exact locality in which they are found, giving care to their association and, when mortuary, to their position in the graves in relation to the skeletons.] [Footnote 87: I am informed by Mr F. W. Hodge that similar fragments were found by the Hemenway Expedition in 1888 in the prehistoric ruins of the Salado.] [Footnote 88: The head is round, with lateral appendages. The face is divided into two quadrants above, with chin blackened, and marked with zigzag lines, which are lacking in modern pictures. In the left hand the figure holds a rattle. The body is wanting, but the breast is decorated with rectangles.] [Footnote 89: A single metate of lava or malpais was excavated at Awatobi. This object must have had a long journey before it reached the village, since none of the material from which it was made is found within many miles of the ruin.] [Footnote 90: There are many fine pictographs, some of which are evidently ancient, on the cliffs of the Awatobi mesa. These are in no respect characteristic, and among them I have seen the _awata_ (bow), _honani_ (badger's paw), _tcuea_ (snake), and _omowuh_ (rain-cloud). On the side of the precipitous wall of the mesa south of the western mounds there is a row of small hemispherical depressions or pits, with a groove or line on one side. There is likewise, not far from this point, a realistic figure of a vulva, not very unlike the _asha_ symbols on Thunder mountain, near Zuni.] [Footnote 91: _Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology_, vol. II, No. 1, p. 77.] [Footnote 92: In the expedition of 1896 there were found a large number of shell ornaments, which will be described in a forthcoming report of the operations during that year. See the preliminary account in the article "Pacific Coast Shells in Tusayan Ruins," _American Anthropologist_,
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