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like the old. The ornamentation is in color, generally 

 black on white, or on red ; occasionally a piece is found 

 among the old fragments that has a glossy, bronze-like 

 color. The decoration on the old pottery is principally 

 made up of zigzag or geometrical figures ; occasionally 

 curved lines and scrolls were used. On the pottery now 



Fig. 1. 



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Coil-made Jar from an Adobe Ruin in Southern Utah. 

 From a Specimen in the Peabody Museum. 



made at the pueblos on the Rio Grande, the ornamentation 

 is more often black on a red ground, and many figures 

 derived from contact with civilization have been intro- 

 duced. On the recent pottery, animals are often rudely 

 represented. The recent pottery is not so well baked 

 as the old, and is in every way of an inferior character. 

 A common method of making one kind of the oldest 



