l6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. y6 



A five-pointed star has not yet been found in Mimbres designs and 

 the star made up of four blocks of sohd black with a white center so 

 common on Sikyatki ^ (a Hopi ruin) and other Hopi pottery is like- 

 wise absent in Mimbres ware. 



In figure 62 we also have a representation of a star verging into 

 a cross in which the arms are not pointed but cut ofif at right angles. 

 The design in figure 63 is cruciform with suggestions of a swastica. 

 The arms are prolonged into needle-like points ; on one side of each 

 arm there are three serrations with notched edges. This tmique 

 form of cross the author does not find duplicated in prehistoric 

 pueblo pottery and is peculiar to the Mimbres. 



The cross-shaped figure forming the design (fig. 64) has three 

 arms and a central circular area ; the intervals between the arms being 

 filled in with parallel lines or hachures and dots. This figure, like the 

 preceding, is peculiar to the Mimbres ceramic area. 



There is very little duplication of geometric designs in the collec- 

 tion. The design of figure 65 is painted red and consists of three 

 arms, each formed of three parallel lines extending from a circular 

 center to the peripher^^ The three areas between these groups of lines 

 are filled in with zigzag white figures ending in interlocked spirals, a 

 unique form of decoration. 



In figure 66 we have the negative picture of a three-lobed design 

 bordered with dentations, the triangular intervals being filled in with 

 solid black. 



The beautiful design shown in figure 67 can best be appreciated by 

 an examination of the illustration. Cross hatching introduced in the 

 two opposite units is a new feature in Mimbres geometrical designs 

 and is exceptionally striking. 



There are six white bordered arrows in figure 68 alternating with 

 three rectangles with hachures and three in white forming an attrac- 

 tive design exceptional among pueblo decorations. 



Figure 69 is an artistic design with four rectangular figures on a 

 I)lack ground alternating with which are eight small white circles 

 each with a cross in black at its center. 



Figure 70 is largely made up of negative designs artistically 

 arranged with hachures, dual terraced figures forming a combination 

 of a unique character in pueblo designs. 



Figures 71 and 72, hitherto undescribed geometrical decorations on 

 pueblo pottery, are artistic and so far as known characteristic of the 

 Mimbres. Although the various geometrical designs on Mimbres pot- 

 tery dififer greatly they have a general similarity. 



* Vide 17th Ann. Rep. Bureau of American Ethnology. 



