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tempts at painting a glaze decoration and their shapes recall the very 

 crude products of workmen who were unskilled in the work. Among 

 the varieties of this form may be mentioned small crucible-shaped 

 receptacles, like children's playthings, larger bowls, ollas, cooking 

 pots, vessels with grooved handles like gourd ladles, and others. 

 Images of animals, birds, quadrupeds, and even human effigies were 

 pressed into shape from balls of clay. 



Fig. 219. — Red corrugated vessel. Diam. 53"; height 4'/'. 



2. Corrugated and coiled ware. — Elden pottery of this group is 

 very characteristic and is easily distinguished from the corrugated 

 and coiled ware of other pueblos by its red color. We sometimes find 

 examples, mostly bowls, vases and jugs, of gray color with black 

 lustrous interiors, the corrugations being quadrilateral in shape, 

 smooth on the surface, indentations shallow. The quadrangles are 

 arranged in regular rows (fig. 219). Variants of this regular corruga- 

 tion are many, the dififerences being mainly in form and relative size 

 but the corrugations are so regular that some form of angular instru- 

 ment must have l)een used in making them. There are also specimens 

 of coiled ware in which the corrugations are very small, closely 



