ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA REGION. 



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margin is irregular, the sections of the design forming gores. This 

 was evidently intended as an artistic treatment *of the border, as in 

 point lace. (From a vase. 

 Blue, Arizona, Cat. No. 

 244527, U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 96, a similar de- 

 sign, but less complicated, 

 in which the interlocking 

 bird elements are arranged 

 in a maze pattern and the 

 triangles carry the bird 

 symbol. This pleasing de- 

 sign is from a vase from 

 the Tularosa River. (Col- 

 lected by Henry Hales, Cat. 



No. 155124 U S N M ) ^^^' ^'^' — ■^^"^ ^^^''^ from a vase from blue. 



Figure 97, a dual design in which the original elements are very 

 much simplified, being merely zigzag. The key, however of the 



Fig. 95. — Bird terrace design from a tash 



FROM BLDE. 



Fig. 96. — Design from a vase fkom 

 TuLAKOSA River. 



design lies in the bird symbol in the pendent triangles occurring in 



several of the illustrations. Attention is called to an obvious error 



in the position of one of 

 the bird symbols on the 

 right of the design and 

 also a curious diversity in 

 the drawing of the gra- 

 dines in tlie lower zig- 

 zag. (From a vase from 

 the Tularosa River, New 

 Mexico. Collected by E. 

 W. Nelson, Cat. No.. 115829, 

 U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 98 is from the 



border around the neck of the above vase and the design consists of 



an arrangement of the bird symbol. 



Fig. 97. — Design from a vase from Tularosa Rivek, 



