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The arms are terraced, as in the normal cloud design, but each has 

 two conventional eyes, suggesting that the stepped figure is intended 

 to rej)resent an animal, probably a bird. This is a startling design. 

 (PL 9, fig. 1.) 



It is seen that Elden red ware takes on the variety of paste and 

 design of the polychrome area characterizing the valley of the Little 

 Colorado. The presence, however, of Proto-Kayenta polychrome 

 in the finds at Elden Pueblo is in keeping with the large proportion 

 of quadrant clear black decorated gray pottery recovered from this 

 site by Doctor Fewkes. The other reds are as stated, southern and 

 seemingly later than the Proto-Kayenta ware — as is the gradined 

 background type with aberrant designs. 



Elden coil ware bowls all have polished black interiors. The coil 

 treatment is parallel or diagonal. (PI. 10, figs. 1-5.) Some speci- 

 mens are deeply furrowed and others slightly smoothed down, as in 

 southern coil. One bowl has a handle. The colors are gray, red, 

 and deep brown. So far as the artistic treatment of coiling is con- 

 cerned, the Elden potters were resourceful. One red bowl has a 

 coiled exterior, a feature very rarely seen in specimens of gray ware. 

 One globular vase is surfaced with fine parallel coil, and a good 

 effect was produced by small wedge-shaped indentation on the coil. 

 (PL 10, fig. 3.) 



As usual, two forms are found at Elden : Bowls, sometimes deep, 

 and vases. The bowls have an everted rim and in some case a 

 smooth band under the rim. They vary considerably in small details 

 of fonn. (PL 10, figs. 6-9.) 



The preponderant pottery at Elden is a thin, red-brown ware used 

 for domestic purposes. In most cases it is carefully finished, but no 

 decoration is ever applied to it. The surface is generally of varying 

 shades of color due to open-kiln firing. In bowls of various forms 

 the interior is smoke blackened, giving a lustrous surface. The 

 everted rims of globular vessels appear to be painted with the black 

 pigment used in the decoration of the gray and red ware. Obtaining 

 a smoke-blackened interior and at the same time an unsullied exte- 

 rior is to be regarded as a triumph of the potter's skill. (PL 10, 

 figs. 6-9.) 



Brown ware rarely occurs in northern gray-ware sites, but it 

 has an extended distribution in the Little Colorado Valley, over the 

 rim into the Gila drainage, on the Lower Colorado, the desert coun- 

 try along the southern boundary and into Mexico, and in the Sho- 

 shonean area of southern California. It appears to be a product of 

 local volcanic clays. In parts of this region brown ware is the sole 

 ceramic product; in others it accompanies the polychrome or other 

 local decorated pottery. 



