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BULLETIN 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fig. 115.- 



-Design from a bird-shaped 



VASE FROM Blue. 



line occurring on the soft red bowls (see fig. 125). (Blue, Arizona, 

 Cat. No. 245646, U.S.N.M.) 



WHITE-LINE DESIGNS OF BLUE RIVER. 



The designs drawn in white lines on the red-brown bowls of 

 upper Blue River form a unique series. But two specimens among 



the white-line pottery bear recog- 

 nizable animal designs. One of 

 these from a bowl (Cat. No. 

 245639, U.S.N.M.) is a most in- 

 teresting convention of the moun- 

 tain lion whose figure is reduced to 

 straight lines and equal spacing. 

 (Fig. 117.) The grouping of the 

 feet as if in perspective and the 

 convention of the head are note- 

 worthy, and these parts are reduced to design units which would form 

 the key to further elaborations of this motive in frets. Another bowl 

 (Cat. No. 245553, U.S.N.M.) has 

 a series of five conventional birds 

 drawn in white encircling the 

 exterior rim (fig. 118). The cus- 

 tomary designs consist of run- 

 ning frets of two or three lines 

 alternately straight and waved 

 (figs. 119, 120) or stepped (fig. 

 121) ; a running one-line maze 

 (fig. 122) ; a terminating trape- 

 zoid fret (snake) (fig. 123) ; a 

 swastika fret with waved termi- 

 nals in a trapezoid figure sur- 

 rounded with a waved border 

 (fig. 124) ; a key swastika maze 

 in which the circumscribing lines 

 enter forming interlocking keys (bird) (fig. 125) ; and a swastika 

 with stepped terminals inclosed in trapezoid surrounded with a 

 zigzag border (bird) (fig. 126). 



Fig. 116.- 



-Design from a red bowl from 

 Blue. 



Fig. 117. — Design from a bowl from Blub. 



Some of the designs are rude (fig. 127), but usually the trapezoid 

 compositions are elaborate and drawn with accuracy. 



