NO. II 



PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA — HAURY AND HARGRAVE 



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of the unfired sherd in plate lO, figure 2. The slip is thin, fairly well 

 pebble-polished and rather soft, so much so in fact, that on the bottoms 

 of vessels and other surfaces exposed to wear, it has been entirely 

 worn away. In a good many cases, the surface is seamed with minute 

 cracks. 



Shapes. — Vessel forms of Four-mile polychrome are almost ex- 

 clusively ollas and bowls, the latter predominating. Several olla shapes 

 are noted : 



(a) The largest ollas (fig. 6, a) are shaped somewhat like the 

 polychrome ollas from the Middle Gila. The body is compressed 

 vertically and the neck rises at a steep angle to form the mouth 



Fig. 6. — Vessel forms of Four-mile polychrome. 



which is smallest at the rim. The lip is direct. As far as we know, 

 only fragments of these exist. 



(b) The most prevalent form of olla is much like the first excepting 

 that the body is usually more rounded and the neck rises more abruptly 

 (fig. 6, b and pi. 11). The neck is from i to 2 inches high and the 

 lip always direct. The horizontal diameter seldom exceeds 12 inches. 



(c) The third type (fig. 6, c) consists of small round-bodied ollas 

 whose diameters vary from 5 to 8 inches. The neck is short or absent 

 and the lip terminates in a decided flare. The mouth is larger in 

 proportion to its size than was noted in the foregoing types. 



Bowls (fig. 6, d) vary from 7 to 14 inches in diameter and are 

 always less than one-half the diameter in depth. The rims are gener- 

 ally gently incurved and carried to the lip with or without thinning of 



