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TREHISTORIC NEW MEXICAN POTTERY. 



equally well-distributed balauce of color aud forms nuirk this peculiar 

 pottery. It is of a rather soft niajolica-like uiaterial iu body, while the 

 glazed surface is hard aud brittle, but it is thiu aud light iu weight. 

 Auother ware, red aud blnck, is fouud iu the form of bowls aud jutch- 

 ers: this differs souiewhat from the white aud black, and is very fragile. 



I have seeu no wliole specimeuvS, but some are easily repaired and be- 

 come harder after being exposed to the air for a time. A great many 

 bowls are found of a dral) or yellowish-brown color, smooth inside, with 

 plumbago worked iuto the clay aud made very smooth. These are often 

 found blackened outside from lire, aud inside a black charcoal-like dust. 

 l^K'ise were i)robably cooking utensils. Stone imijlements are ipiite 



