About seven miles northwest of Deming, in a field on the north side of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, there is a small tract of land showing
aboriginal artifacts strewn over the surface, affording good evidence
of prehistoric occupation. There are no house walls visible at this
place, and only a few fragments of food bowls, but in the course of an
hour’s search several small mortars (fig. 2), paint grinders and other
objects were procured at this place.[17]
[Illustration: FIG. 2.—Paint mortar. Diam. 2½″.]