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bird design, plumage feathers represented by diamonds with dots in 

 the center, pinions by parallel lines. The head is a long wedge 

 with a white dotted eye. 



Gila ware. — Gila ware is characterized by soft paste of red brown 

 colors slipped with cream white over portions of the area and dec- 

 orated in black. Peculiar also to Gila ware is the incorporation of 

 undecorated areas in the patterns and the use of bright red pig- 

 ment producing polychrome effects. The designs are never outlined 

 with the white or color. 



In typical Gila ware centered in the upper valley there is never 

 any exterior rim decoration on bowls. Variation from the type in 

 locations where Gila ware has spread sometimes show rim patterns. 

 One such specimen was found at Grasshopper. The interior decora- 

 tion of bowls is based on 4 arranged in a band, leaving a quadrangu- 

 lar area in the bottom. A characteristic is the incorporation in the 

 design of large circular areas in white with a black spot in the cen- 

 ter. Symbolic elements diffused through Pueblo art are utilized, 

 but in a less informed fashion. Technically also less skill in drawing 

 and composition are evidenced or conversely we have a style in 

 which these elements are consonant. Nature and life design elements 

 are used principally in combination, very rarely as separate entities. 

 It may be said also that this characterized a rather primitive stage 

 of art and it may be possible to place the Gila art at an earlier 

 period than that of the Little Colorado valley, a supposition I would 

 favor. Further, the affiliation of Gila ceramics is with that of some 

 of the Rio Grande pueblos, specifically, Santo Domingo, Santa 

 Clara, Tesuque, and other Tewa pueblos where partial applica- 

 tion of thick slip and black decoration is common technique. A 

 portion of Zuni ware shows the influence of Gila technique. 



Forms of Gila ware are limited, bowls usually, some vases and 

 large ollas, and occasionally figurines. The bowls are almost always 

 incurved and the exterior unpolished. 



At Grasshopper Gila ware removed whole or mendable comprised 

 3 bowls and 12 large fragments. Its occurrence in the pits was 8 

 per cent. 



Chevlon ware. — This is so named from the type locality near 

 Winslow Ariz., worked by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes and the writer in 

 1897, is strictly in the red ware class. It belongs to the variety hav- 

 ing a red wash on a black and white ware paste base. This variety 

 is the first color variant observed in the San Juan region and accom- 

 panying the black and v/hite in such sites. This red appears to be 

 the first of its kind and is contemporaneous with the black and white. 

 Very early in the pottery art among the Pueblos it was found 

 necessary to wash or slip the surface of ware where paste lacked 

 ocher, therefore burning dark gray. Few kaolinic clays burning 



