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paste with the admixture of pulverized sherd tempering (see pi. 10, 

 fig. 2). Exterior and interior surfaces of the sherds bore the yellow 

 slip applied in wash form, which, upon firing turns to a rich red. 

 Other tools such as scrapers, formed of broken fragments of pottery, 

 and pebble polishers also show the similarity of ancient and modern 

 methods of making pottery. While styles of decoration and vessel 

 forms are continually undergoing changes, there seems to have been 

 no great departure in method since the close of the 14th century, the 

 approximate age of the objects found. 



Two sharply defined levels of occupation were found to exist in the 

 Showlow ruin. All of the rooms opened in tests i, 2, 3, and 12 had 

 two floor levels (see fig. 3 for plan of room i, test 2). Pottery types 

 from all lower level rooms were in entire agreement and a corres- 

 pondence of sherds gathered in upper level rooms was also noted. 

 Comparisons of the sherds from the two levels, however, introduced 

 the fact that there was a considerable difference of time between the 

 two occupations. This difiference we have provisionally placed at about 

 170 years, based upon data derived from datable charcoal. 



Lozver level types. — Potsherds from the lower level include the 

 following types : Black-on-white, black-on-red, an orange-red ware 

 decorated in both black and white paint, corrugated, and a small 

 amount of intrusive material. 



The black-on-white sherds roughly fall into two groups: (a) those 

 showing definite Chaco Canyon affinity, and (b) those obviously 

 related to the black-on-white of the now known Upper Gila culture 

 area. Chaco-Hke sherds (pi. 7, fig. i, nos. i, 2, 3, 4, 5) are fragments 

 of bowls with direct rims having a chalky white slip and rough 

 exteriors. The decoration is in dull black paint and the designs, while 

 they bear certain similarities to Chaco black-on-white, are neverthe- 

 less somewhat different. In the hatched elements, for instance, the 

 framing lines are of the same width as the filling lines. The rims, 

 however, are usually painted black and tapered, both typical Chaco 

 features. 



Sherds bearing similarities to vessels better known from the south 

 and southeast are preponderantly of ollas and smaller, full-bodied 

 vessels. The paint is dull black, but in rare cases it has a lustrous 

 silvery appearance. The designs (pi. 7, fig. i, nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 

 12) consist of alternating solid and hatched elements, opposed stepped 

 figures and interlocking elements. The canteen and fragmentary 

 bowl, figured in plate 7, figure 2, were found in a firebox in the lower 

 level over which the later occupants had erected a wall. The canteen is 



