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crowded and apparently made with a stone, a piece of wood, or some 

 pointed implement. The coiling often appears broadly separated by 

 parallel grooves. Vessels made of corrugated ware have not as a 

 rule thin walls like those characteristic of the San Juan, especially 

 Mesa Verde cliff dwellings, and lack appended scrolls. 



J. Aiot red ware. — There are two types of red ware, both of which 

 may be called abundant. The most common red ware has a bright 

 burnished red color, generally more or less blackened in burning, with 

 a lustrous black color on the interior. It takes the form of globular 

 bowls, flat open food bowls, ladles with short handles, and jugs. The 

 most abundant red ware specimens are globular jars. Some of the 

 red food bowls have the opening pear-shaped, resembling a form of 

 ladle. The lips of red jugs are outcurved and the neck is compressed, 

 generally short. One of the most highly decorated examples of red 

 ware with dull black decoration on the interior (fig. 222, a) has also 

 on the outside white figures representing a circle of human hands or 

 animal paws, which is rare among food bowls from Elden Pueblo. 

 The designs on this bowl recall those on a vessel formerly used in the 

 snake washing of the Hopi snake priests. 



4. Smooth red zvare. — The most unusual type of pottery and there- 

 fore the most instructive is the smooth red ware, commonly without 

 decoration exteriorly but often blackened on the inside. This ware oc- 

 curs sporadically in the pueblo region but is well known from the ruins 

 in southern Arizona and is most abundant among modern Pima, 

 Kwahadt, and Papago. The smooth red ware of Papago is generally 

 decorated with geometrical patterns in black. Several specimens of 

 both the smooth red ware and the corrugated have their interiors a 

 lustrous black color, but with no designs. The white or gray ware 

 bears black decorations. 



We have this same condition of corrugated ware with inner surface 

 black in the cemeteries of Pipe Shrine House on the Mesa Verde, 

 a specimen of which has been figured elsewhere. The smooth red ware 

 which is so abundant at Elden Pueblo is very rare in the Rio Grande 

 and exceptional in the Little Colorado. The decorated red ware of 

 Elden Pueblo is like the ornamented red ware at Homolobi and 

 Chevlon, pueblos near Winslow, and is abundant in the ruins at Tuba 

 City and on the road to Marsh Pass. 



5. Polychrome zvare. — Polychrome ware is very rare at Elden 

 Pueblo, only a few sherds and but one or two small food bowls having 

 been found in the collection from this ruin. This is astonishing when 

 we bear in mind that collections made at Wupatki and Marsh Pass 

 contain many specimens of this ware. As a general rule, polychrome 



