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the opinion that it is parental to the later orange-red decorated 

 ware which bears the white exterior and black interior decorations. 



This latter form is nearly as abundant as the black-on-white in the 

 refuse of the first occupation. It has commonly been referred to as 

 Little Colorado polychrome and was undoubtedly the most ubiquitous 

 pottery known to the Southwest. In this instance it is an orange-red 

 phase instead of the deeper red which it usually takes. Its presence 

 was one of the guides used by Doctor Douglass in selecting sites 

 which would provide the gap material for his tree-ring chronology. 

 The paste is of a gray color, which shades to a light gray towards the 

 surfaces of the vessels. Tempering material of coarsely pulverized 

 sherds is abundant. The slip varies from a dark to a light orange-red 

 color and is unusually thick. By actual measurement it was found to 

 be one-twentieth of an inch thick in one case. Vessel shapes are 

 exclusively bowls with pronounced incurving rims. Interior orna- 

 mentation is in dull black pigment (pi. 8, no. i) consisting mostly of 

 repeated interlocking or opposed solid and hatched figures. These 

 are confined in a broad horizontal zone by two narrow framing lines, 

 one below the rim and the second towards the center. The center of 

 the bowl is thus left undecorated. Exterior decoration is made up of 

 broad, rudely drawn, white stepped lines or terraced figures (pi. 8, 

 nos. 2, 3, 4) . These are also limited to a horizontal zone below the 

 rim but never as wide as the one on the interior. A very small number 

 of pottery fragments of this type show the use of white as a comple- 

 mentary color to the black on bowl interiors, and, conversely, the use 

 of black on exteriors. These are believed to be local prototypes of 

 an upper level pottery and will therefore be considered later. 



Corrugated ware of the first horizon appears to consist almost 

 solely of large ollas. The paste is gray to nearly black, quartz 

 tempered and crumbles easily. The coils are not very fine and the 

 indentations are shallow (pi. 9, fig. i). Attempts at decoration 

 by leaving a series of coils unindented as in 5 and 7, or other tech- 

 niques, are seldom met with. Fragments of finely corrugated bowls 

 bearing white exterior designs (pi. 9, fig. i, nos. 4, 6, 10) and 

 blackened interiors were rare in the lower level but occurred fre- 

 quently in the northeast section of the ruin which we believe to be 

 older still than the first horizon. This form is possibly best known 

 from the Upper Gila. Its abundance at Showlow and at Pottery Hill ' 

 suggests local manufacture and thus may indicate a direct link between 

 the southeastern sub-culture. 



' Hough, Walter, 1903, p. 300. 



