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figure occurs in combination with what appears to be a bird's beak as 

 it is often drawn. The last three designs ;", k, and / (fig. 19) are 

 continuous and placed from ^ to f of an inch below the rim. Other 

 continuous patterns as in figure 17, b, begin to take on the appearance 

 of the exterior decoration of Four-mile polychrome (see fig. 8). 



Plain ware. — The utter lack of plain cooking vessels is one of the 

 surprising features of the Pinedale pottery. Decoration was lavished 

 on practically every vessel made except the corrugated. The only other 

 unpainted vessels in the collection are the shallow platelike objects 

 pictured in plate 18, figure 2, which we believe were used as bases in 



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Fig. 19. — Exterior designs of Pinedale polychrome bowls. 



the process of manufacturing pottery. To the depressed surface of 

 the smaller plate, a small quantity of tempered clay is still adhering. 

 Both vessels are unslipped but highly polished on the inner surface. 

 The exteriors are rough, but show no corrugations. The larger 

 specimen i is 16^ inches in diameter and 4 inches deep while 2 is 

 I if inches in diameter and i^ inches deep. About the periphery of 

 the latter are two rows of perforations ^ inch apart. The holes were 

 made from the inside outward before the surface was polished, for 

 the latter process nearly closed some of the perforations. Similar 

 objects have been recovered in Marsh Pass^ and in the old Hopi 

 ruins. As to the significance of the marginal perforations, there 



^ Kidder, A. V., and Guernsey, S. J., 1919, p. 143 ; also by Doctor Cummings. 



