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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. /S 



ware in the last mentioned localities has the same geometrical symbols 

 as the Elden Pueblo black on white ware. 



6. Black and zvhite zvare. — The common decorated pottery at El- 

 den Pueblo is the well-known black on white. In many instances the 



Fig. 224. — Ladle of black and white ware. Bowl, 3I" x 4^ 



handle, 4^ 



figures, which are here always geometrical, are white in color on a 

 black base, but generally the reverse is the case, /. e., the design is 

 in black on a white base. The former may be called " negative." The 

 distribution of the white and black commonly leads to patches or bands 

 of checkerboard areas or mosaic patterns well illustrated in pottery 



