NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA HAURV AND HARliRAVIi 43 



MISCELLANEOUS POTTERY OBJECTS 



Parching plates ( ?). — Utensils formed of fragments of broken clay 

 vessels were occasionally encountered in the diggings. From room 2, 

 test i6, two small plate-like vessels were collected. The larger of the 

 two (pi. 13, fig. I, a) is 7^ inches in diameter and i| inches deep. 

 It is made from the bottom part of what appears to have been a large 

 smooth red olla. The edge, although irregular, has been ground down 

 to remove all rough places. The smaller plate (pi. 13, fig. i, b) is 

 5^ inches in diameter and made from the base of a corrugated olla. 

 Its edge is not finished as in the former specimen. Fragments of a 

 larger but similar vessel came from room 2, test 3. It is approximately 

 12 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep, and at one time formed the 

 bottom of a thin, plain red olla. 



As to their use, it is not unlikely that they served as parching plates 

 for corn. The dark irregular centers and light edges of both plates 

 pictured show that they were used over hot coals since their manu- 

 facture from the original vessels. That they were also put to other 

 uses, such as containers for pigments, etc., is suggested by an incrusta- 

 tion of fine clay-like material on the inner surface and on the under 

 side along the edge of specimen a. This substance is apparently the 

 same as the material u.sed for red slips on vessels. 



Pottery scrapers. — Several objects made of potsherds and used in 

 scraping the surfaces of unfinished clay vessels were recovered in 

 Showlow ruin. The nature of the vessel on which a scrajier was to be 

 used apparently governed its size and sha|>e. One specimen is 

 ovate, measuring 4^ by 3 inches; another is of semi-circular form 

 and considerably smaller. The wearing on all. however, indicates that 

 the convex surfaces advanced in the scraping stroke. 



Intrusive pottery types. — In rooms from which the latest cutting 

 dates were recovered, there appeared occasional fragments of vessels 

 obviously foreign to the Showlow district. Some of these undoubtedly 

 came from the Zuni region, not a great distance to the east. And 

 Middle Gila pottery ' is represented by a very few bowl sherds 

 showing the characteristic red on the outside and the black-on-white 

 internal decoration. 



The following Zuni types, as established by Hodge in his work at 

 Hawikuh ^ are represented in our collections from the upper Showlow 

 level : Type C, by a sherd of a full-bodied vessel with black glaze on 



' Gladwin, H. S., September, 1928, p. 20. 

 ' Hodge, F. W., 1923, p. 29. 



