6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. -]•] 



COMMENTS ON THE COLLECTION 



POTTERY 



The collection catalogued above is the first from the Flagstatf 

 region yet published, and contains more significant objects from that 

 area than occur in any other eastern museum. It is particularly im- 

 portant, as it may be used in comparisons with other collections from 

 better known regions of the Southwest, and thus shed some light on 

 the relation of the culture of the aborigines of the Little Colorado 

 and other pueblo areas. 



The following among other types of pottery were recognized : 



1. Corrugated ware (pi. i, g; pi. 2, d; pi. i, / — neck coiled). 



2. Rough undecorated ware. 



3. Red ware with glassy black interior (pi. 2, a, h, c). 



4. Undecorated red ware (pi. i, h, i; pi. 3, /;, c, d). 



5. Black and white ware bowls, painted on the inside with black 



geometrical decorations (pis. 4, 5). 



The majority of the pottery objects are food bowls, but there are 

 also vases, ladles, and other forms (see pis. 1-3 and catalogue). 



The designs on the ware are among the most important for com- 

 parisons, and as little attention is given to this feature in the cata- 

 logue, the author has introduced the characteristic representations on 

 the accompanying plates (pis. 4, 5). In the author's judgement, figures 

 on this black and gray ware are among the most striking, from an 

 artistic point of view, of any in our Southwest. None of the bowls 

 bears naturalistic designs or those representing men or animals.^ 



same purpose. This pot and contents (75) came from the same place where 

 I caught a fellow digging a couple of years ago, who a few days later sold me 

 the two pots I have and while he would not admit getting anything. I am 

 confident that I am right in my supposition. I am very sorry not to have found 

 one of the larger ones, as I am sure that you would have heen interested in 

 the discovery as I have been unable to find anywhere a record of cremation 

 having been practiced in the Little Colorado Valley. 

 " The following pieces have not been listed : 

 6 fragments of bone awls ; 



I fragment of lava that had been hollowed out to use as a mortar ; 

 5 hand stones that are in good shape; 

 several broken hand stones ; 

 several pieces of broken shell bracelets ; 

 5 whole shell bracelets ; 



I piece of cherry colored stone, polished, about the size of a large plum : 

 potsherds of different colors." 

 ' This is also true of the majority of decorations on black and white ware 

 from the .San Tuan ^'aIlev. 



