One of the few bowls obtained on which animals of two species were
depicted on the same vessel was excavated by the author at Oldtown.
This remarkably fine specimen (pl. 7, fig. 1) has figures of two birds
and two frogs[45] drawn in opposite quadrants, being unique in this
particular. The two birds and frogs are not very unlike those already
described but have certain characteristic features, especially in the
geometric designs on their bodies.
The bowl is warped into an irregular shape and made of thin ware,
probably distorted in firing. It was found under the floor of one of
the central rooms in the Oldtown ruin, almost completely covering the
skeleton of a baby.
On another bowl (pl. 6, fig. 2) there is depicted a frog very like that
last mentioned. The frog being an amphibian was undoubtedly greatly
reverenced by the ancient people of the Mimbres Valley.