ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA EEGION. 41 



just below the edge of the rim. This, for purposes of description, 

 has been called fillet run. In these ruins was discovered a variety of 

 brown ware which occurs in only a few other localities of this region 

 and which has not heretofore been described. These are bowls 

 usually of a large size, with lustrous black interior, fillet rim, the 

 exterior washed with red, on which maze designs in white lines have 

 been painted. These vessels are even more fragile than the common 

 brown ware, and rarely can a perfect specimen be secured. This 

 ware seems to be related to the " painted on coil " ware found in a 

 limited area north of the mountains, type-specimens of which have 

 been described in the Museum-Gates Report for 1901 from the Pet- 

 rified Forest of Arizona, and which seems to be localized at Linden, 

 Arizona, on the high plateau at the headwaters of Silver Creek, an 

 affluent of the Little Colorado. 



The forms of the brown ware found at Blue, as indicated, are 

 various, and consist of vases, bowls, bottle forms, numerous diminu- 

 tive pieces, probably offerings to the springs, and animal shapes. 

 Occasionally these objects are washed with red. 



Several unusual vessels have been found in the ruins on Blue Eiver, 

 and so far as is known to the writer, the type is confined to this 

 region. They consist of vases which are formed by erecting the 

 neck portion from the interior rim of a bowl. As this construction 

 was all accomplished while the clay was green, it not being possible 

 to add to a vessel already baked, we seem to have here a suggestion 

 as to the method by which vases may have been formed. It appears 

 in many cases that the basis of the vase was a bowl, the closing over 

 of the concave being effected in such a manner as to obliterate or 

 soften down the junction with the edge of the bowl. Not much stress, 

 however, can be laid upon this statement, which appears to be largely 

 theoretical. 



GRAY WARE OF THE BLUE RIVER REGION. 



The gray ware of the Blue River region has a coarse hard paste, 

 burning dark gray to lead color. For this reason all specimens that 

 have come to hand have been washed with kaolin, which in some cases 

 has crackled in firing. The paste also has a tendency to distort on 

 firing, so that it is rare to see a perfectly shaped bowl, but it is not so 

 rare to see a vase of correct outline, since the latter form insures the 

 greater stability in the kiln. There are in the gray pottery many 

 evidences of carelessness in finishing the rims of vases and the edges 

 and exteriors of bowls. The vessels also show a lack of delicacy in 

 finish. 



The designs are commonly of intense black pigment, though in 

 some cases shades of dark brown occur. It is noticed that vessels 

 which have been much worn from use show this brown color. Quite 



