Arizona republican., 1903-12-27

buyers. Some of these they keep se- cret but few are known.
 With smoky fires the grime of ages is put on a vase made but yesterday
 Burial for few weeks in damp soil
 gives a dank. musty odor to a clay
 effigy that some squaw nodded. Chip
 ping away the rude edges Of a bowl gives the appearance of use long ago
 As for marking the counterfeit relics with clumsy pictures, reptiles, beasts and birds seen on the desert, that is easy. Indian art is about what it was. The cruder the art and more incon- gruoUs the colors so much more is the specimen prized as a sure enough pro- duct of the misty past.
 Why. even some of the greatest museums of the world have specimens of recently made prehistoric pottery" said d former territorial governor, the other day. "I have seen counterfeit ancient Pueblo work in Berlin and Paris and Tn several American cities
 "A dczen college museums in the United States have pottery supposed to have come from the cliff dwellings of Colorado and New Mexico but which was really made by squaws in a New Mexican pueblo less than dozen years ago. The fact is little pottery has been found in any cliff dwelling.
 and the few pieces that have been found were carried to the Smithsonian Institution or to the American Muesum of Natural History in New York.
 The cliff dwellings have been al- | most barren of relics Of human habi- tation, so far as portable things are concerned, yet one finds all manner Of | .1~, etc. in, museums and in costly private collections. These are labelled as hav- ing come from cliff dwellings. They bear all the marks of great antiquity-the stains of time, the rude-
 ness of construction, the dry, battered | aspect Of centuries. But many of them are the products of Indians living in the New Mexico and Arizona pueblos today
 Curio dealers say that the finest | commercials of ancient Indian pottery are made in Acoma, a wonderful pue- bla perched upon towering mesa of sandstone rising sheer out of a desert thirty miles south of the Santa Fe | railroad in central Arizona Several | Indian young men, who learned ways
 of Yankee thrift at the Carlisle school, | are managers of the cliff dwelling and | prehistoric pottery industry there. | Laguna, on the Santa Fe route | through New Mexico, is an important l producer of counterfeit pottery. A | dozen women there are nearly always 1 busy preparing fresh articles for white 1 buyers. Several families that knew
 how to make good limitations and pos | sessed shrewdness in getting first-class | prices for their skill and enterprise 1 have grown rich-that is, rich for h. dians.
 Along with the expert making of ] ancient pottery and other relics, the ! Indians of the southwest have learned ! q lot Cf tricks in the selling of their | products to tourists. An overland ex- | press train never stops at New Mexico | and Arizona Indian communities that | parties of Indian girls do not climb | aboard the cars and run along the | station platforms, alongside the car l windows. offering for sale quantities ot small vases, jars. ollas and idols. Ask any of the girls what the pottery is
 and where it came from, and the in- i variable answer is:
 Heap old, heap old. Me dig him all
 up out old chiefs grave. No more | left"
 Where did you get these fine
 things" was asked of pretty Pue-
 olo girl, as she tripped With moccasin- | ed feet down the isle of Pullman caI