their great weight. Accompanying these metates are long, slim, flat
stones, which are rubbed up and down the slabs, thus crushing the grain.
These hand-stones are worn longitudinally into various shapes; some have
two flat sides, while the third side remains oval. The same variety
exists in regard to the texture of these rubbing-stones, as in the
concave grinders.

The pueblo of Zuñi, from which the most important portion of the
collection was obtained, is situated in New Mexico, near the western
border, about two hundred miles southwest from Santa Fé.

At the time of Coronado’s visit to this country the pueblo was located
at what is now known as “Old Zuñi,” on the summit of a high _mesa_. The
modern Zuñi is situated upon a knoll in the valley of the Zuñi River,
about two miles from the site of the old town. Certain writers have
regarded Zuñi, or rather “Old Zuñi,” as one of the “Seven Cities of
Cibola.” The evidences found at and around both the old and present Zuñi
are certainly not sufficient to warrant this view, and further and more
careful investigations are necessary.

Zuñi, although lying on the line of travel of military expeditions,
emigrant trains, and trade between the Pacific coast and the Rio Grande,
the foreigners visiting them have seldom remained long in their village;
nor has the advancing wave of Caucasian settlement approached
sufficiently near to exert any marked influence on their manners and
customs; at least the form and decoration of their pottery bear no
marked evidence of the influence of the more highly civilized races.

The collection made here by the expedition was more extensive than that
from any other place, and numbers about fifteen hundred objects, of