FEWKES: UNIQUE PREHISTORIC POTTERY 



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an effigy base, but rather a rare double vase with handle deco- 

 rated with rude representations of animals. It was plowed 

 up bj' a fanner, Mr. Littrell, while working on his land near the 

 Yellow Jacket Canyon about o miles south of Sandstone post 

 office, 20 miles west of Dolores, Colorado. The exceptional 

 features of this object are shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tions (figs. 1, 2). The vessel consists of two vases of equal size 

 united by a handle, modeled in the fonn of a bird and another 

 animal. The end of this handle to the left of the observer is 



Fig. 1. Double vase from side 



a rude representation of the head and body of a bird. The 

 orifice of the vase is on the back of this bird. The representa- 

 tion of the bird is very crude, but triangles sunilar to those 

 generally painted on the sides of the body of birds are some- 

 times used in pueblo pictures to designate wings. Smiilar black 

 figures of triangular shape also occur over the whole handle. 

 The head is abnost globular with dots representing eyes en- 



