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surface so treated has been polished without obliterating the crests 

 and troughs of the waves (Plate 45, fig. 3); (c) the coils flattened down 

 into a narrow ribbon, each coil imbricating its neighbor below, and 

 {d) fine and regular coiling, with slight indentations on the coil ridge 

 (Plate 45, fig. 4). The rugose ware is frequently decorated on the 

 exterior over the rough surface with volutes and interlocking frets in 

 white pigment. The specimen figured on Plate 46, fig. 3, is the finest 

 example of its kind, a tj^pe hitherto undescribed. The exterior is red 

 and the interior lustrous black like that of the Santa Clara ware. The 

 rugose and plain bowls have all polished black interior, with the excep- 

 tion of one specimen (Plate 46, fig. 1), of which the interior is polished 

 red bearing geometric decoration in black. Coarse black cooking 

 pots, so common from ruins in the Pueblo region, are almost wanting 

 in the Canyon Butte ruins. 



2. Plahi ware.— This ware, entirely in the form of bowls, offers 

 little variety. The interior of the vessels is black and the exterior 

 red, the surface showing the application of the polishing stone. These 

 bowls are numerous and are from medium to small size. One small 

 bowl is decorated on the exterior with three horizontal lines. A 

 number of like bowls have a small pit in the center of the bottom, and 

 it is surmised that these holes were to socket the lower end of a spindle. 

 Such bowls are used in Mexico at present for this purpose.^' 



3. Decorated. — A striking series of bright red bowls was secured in 

 these ruins. These bowls are very large, are decorated on the exterior 

 rim with frets in white (see Plates 46 and 47) and on the interior with 

 geometric patterns, with which are incorporated conventional symbols. 

 The stepped rain cloud forms the burden of the designs, involving 

 rain, hail, birds, stars, etc., and perhaps corn, the two latter occupy- 

 ing panels surrounded by the geometric designs. One bowl shows an 

 interesting pattern, in which the artist seems to have broken away from 

 the traditions and produced a design of exceptional character (Plate 

 47, fig. 2). Two unique and beautiful bowls from a cist burial in ruin 

 1 merit especial attention (Plates 48 and 49). The exterior is yellow, 

 on which an ingenious meander pattern in red is traced; the interior 

 is of a deep, rich red, having a -repeating fret pattern inclosed with 

 bands of narrow horizontal lines, cross-hatched at intervals, painted in 

 black on the surface; the bottom as in the other bowls left plain. 

 The smaller bowl has the conventional symbol of four birds on the 

 angles of a square. 



A few pieces of red ware with white slipped interior, on which the 

 design is painted in black occur here (Plate 61, fig. 2). Some have white 

 rim decoration and in others the rim is plain. These pieces are of the 

 Gila type described from Stone Axe ruin, and are perhaps imitations 

 of the Gila ware. 



« J. N. Rose, Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium, V, 1899, p. 251. 



