The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 | Page 8

the
Casa Grande ruin as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior.
Benj. Harrison.
The limits of this reservation are laid down on the plat of the survey of
said township in the General Land Office, and the reservation is now
under the control of the Secretary of the Interior.
SPECIMENS FOUND IN THE EXCAVATIONS
In the course of the excavations a number of specimens of archeologic
interest were unearthed. These were all preserved and on the conclusion
of the work were forwarded to the National Museum in Washington, in
compliance with the terms of the contract. Following is a list showing
the collection number and also the Museum number.
National Museum number | |Bureau of Ethnology number | | | | Article |
Number of specimens | | | | | | | Remarks
--------+-----+---------------------+------+----------------------------- | | | |
155088 | 595 | Fragments of large | Lot. | Plain red on both sides. | |
earthenware vessel. | | 155089 | 596 | Large bowl. | 1 | Red outside;
black, polished | | | | inside; restored. 155090 | 597 | Large vase. | 1 |
Decorated outside; restored. 155091 | 598 | Pottery fragments. | 14 |
Decorated. 155092 | 599 | Pottery vase (toy). | 1 | Small, dark brown.
155093 | 600 | Pottery bowl (toy). | 1 | Small, black. 155094 | 601 |
Pottery disk or | 4 | | | spindle. | | 155095 | 602 | Pottery toy | 1 | Dark
brown. | | (mountain goat). | | | 603 | Adobe. | 2 | Lumps; 1 showing
impression | | | | of cloth, the other of a | | | | human foot. | 604 | Small
shells. | Lot. | | 605 | -- do -- | Lot. | | 606 | Small shells(lonus?)| Lot. | |
607 | Small shells (cut | Lot. | For use as pendants. | | and perforated). | |
| 608 | Small shells, beads,| Lot. | 1 string and 2 fragments. | | and
pendants. | | | 609 | Bone awls. | 3 | | 610 | Bone fragments. | 6 | Partly
charred. | 611 | Chalk, obsidian | Lot. | | | chips, and brown | | | | adobe. |
| | 612 | Charred wood, 2 | 4 | | | nuts, and a | | | | corncob. | | | 613 |

Charred textiles, | 2 | | | cloth. | | | 614 | Wooden joist | 3 | 3, 6, and 9
inches long; | | fragments. | | 4 inches diameter. | 615 | Reed. | 1 | 12
inches long. | 616 | Stone axes. | 7 | And 3 broken, grooved. | 617 |
Pounding stone and | 2 | Of sandstone, with | | fragment. | | ring-shaped
handle. | 618 | Stone pestles | 2 | One 12½ inches long, 1¾ | | | | inches
diameter; one 9½ | | | | inches long, 1¾ inches | | | | diameter; also a
fragment | 619 | Stone mullers. | 4 | | 620 | Stone hammers. | 6 | 1 pitted.
| 621 | Stone mullers, flat.| 6 | 5 broken. | 622 | Stone mortar, flat. | 1 |
6½ by 12 inches; 2 inches | | | | thick. | 623 | -- do -- | 1 | 13 by 22 inches;
6 inches | | | | thick. | 624 | Stone, polished. | 1 | 22 inches long, 6½
inches | | | | diameter; restored. | 625 | Stone hoes or | 2 | | | chopping
knives. | | | 626 | Limestone ornament. | 1 | Carved; fragmentary. | 627 |
Small stone vessel. | 1 | Serpent carved on the | | | | outside. | 628 | Stone
arrowhead. | 2 | 1 of obsidian, very small, | | | | and 1 of flint; also a | | | |
broken specimen.
Specimen number 627 B.E. was not obtained from the ruin itself, but
was found in that vicinity by Mr Whittemore and presented by him.

EXHIBITS
I. CONTRACT FOR REPAIRING AND PRESERVING CASA
GRANDE RUIN, ARIZONA
This contract, made and entered into this ninth day of May, eighteen
hundred and ninety-one, between Theodore Louis Stouffer and
Frederick Emerson White, both of Florence, Arizona, as principals, and
Augustine Gray Williams, of Florence, Arizona, Andrew James Doran,
of Florence, Arizona, as sureties, of the first part, and the United States
of America, by Cosmos Mindeleff, acting for the Secretary of the
Interior, of the second part:
Witnesseth, That the said parties of the first part do hereby contract and
agree with the United States