This large bowl is the finest pottery vessel found during the first season's excavations in the Aztec 

 ruin. The ground-color of the interior is a dark red, upon which the graceful geometric pattern is 

 traced in black pigment, while the dominant tone of the exterior is a light yellow, and the design is 

 drawn in the same shade of red as was used to stain the background of the interior. This type of pot- 

 tery is characteristic of another part of the Southwest, and from the presence of a few specimens at 

 Aztec, we may safely conclude that the inhabitants of tlie Animas Valley traded with contemporaneous 

 peoples hundreds of miles distant 



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