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U.S.N.M.) About a dozen awls were taken from the debris in 

 various pit dwellings. They are mostly of the fibula of the deer. 

 In one specimen the head of the bone has been worked down and 

 grooved around the shaft. Some of the awls had been burnt. The 

 points are usually short and the implements sometimes worn down to 

 a short stub (300087, 292071, 292072, U.S.N.M.) ; 2i to 5 inches long. 



Pottery. — The prevailing pottery represented by fragments in the 

 soil over the pit villages is coarse, brown, fragile ware, with unpol- 

 ished surface. This was the characteristic common ware made from 

 the local clay underlying the site. In the debris occur fragments of 

 the same ware polished and better finished. Decorated ware, of 

 which fragments are very few relative to the brown, has a dark gray 

 to white paste of rather good quality, washed with white and with 

 brown to black decoration. This clay was brought from some dis- 

 tance. A mass of it was found in a wide-handled vase placed in the 

 side of a pit. Another variety of coarse, brown paste washed with 

 white and decorated with red brown, is represented by two frag- 

 ments, and only one fragment of red ware was seen. All-coiled ware 

 does not occur, and coiling is only seen as a decoration on the necks 

 of vessels. (See fig. 31.) Fillet rims so prevalent on the Blue and in 

 other southern locations is not found. Incised decoration is present 

 only on one specimen. (See fig. 39.) 



Forms. — The bowl is the commonest form and is generally from 

 small to medium size (figs, 35, 36, 37) ; small vases (figs. 39, 41) ; 

 large vases of a rude form (fig. 30) and more furnished like those 

 of Blue River with coiling pattern around the neck (fig. 33) ; vases 

 with handles either a loop for the finger or a projection for lifting 

 (figs. 33, 34) ; bird-form vases (figs. 42, 43) ; and globular vases 

 with painted decoration and wnth bosses (figs. 38, 41). 



Pottery fiHng. — Fragments of potterj'- which had been overfired, 

 even melted, came to light in the exploration. The result of over- 

 firing with the clays used here was to thicken the walls of the vessel 

 by production of vesicles in the paste. This would indicate that 

 the pottery was baked in a fire that could not be regulated, as with 

 large wood or with material whose heating capacity could not be 

 gauged, as with masses of rabbit brush, which burns quickly, produc- 

 ing great heat. 



Decoration. — In all cases the decoration has been applied with an 

 unskilled hand, and there is lacking the clear-cut line that the 

 ancient Pueblo potter was accustomed to produce. The prevalent 

 decoration was in bands of parallel lines or straight lines. Angled 

 zigzag lines and serrations are frequent. In a few cases whorls 

 are noticed, and very rarely the interlocking fret. Several frag- 

 ments were found which gave a tantalizing glimpse at realistic draw- 

 ing. One of these shows the head, right arm, and left hand of a 



