WUPATKI PUEBLO: A STUDY IN CULTURAL FUSION AND ...

gold content Is probably from the Tarascan area (Pendergast
1962: 536).
Interestingly enough, at least 289 clay replicas of
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such bells have been found in a few late sites in the South­
west, but seemingly rarely, if ever, In sites x-jhich also had
copper objects, Lambert (1958: 184-85) discusses many such
cases, and notes that one came from Unshagi Pueblo, dated
1375» 189 came from Pecos Pueblo, dated by Kidder at about
1500-1600 (1932: 138-140), one from a Pueblo III site near
Luna, New Mexico, and one from a post-1300 site, Pottery
Mound, near Santa Fe. Allen (1953) reports such a bell from
the Hohokam Twelve Mile Site, located near Gila Bend® Arizona,
and at least 95 clay bells came from Kawaika-a and Awatovi
Huin, in the Hopi Country (Fewkes 1898: 6285 Lambert 1958:
18^-185)« Several other examples, perhaps the earliest known,
come from Pueblo Bonito (Pepper 1920: 264; Judd 1954: 115)•
They are also found in Mesoamerica (Lambert 1958: 185)•
In addition, clay replicas of shells also occur at
some Southwestern sites, particularly in the Hop! area, for
example at Awatovi, Slkyatki, and Old WalpI (Fewkes 1898: 628,
733, PI. 173> 1904: 91)* Both of these groups of clay replicas
may Indicate a continuing need and use for such ceremonial
artifacts after the Mesoamerlcan trading network may have
broken down after about 1350» perhaps with the fall of Gasas
Grandes Pueblo, a large scale trading and manufacturing center#