NO. lO ARCHEOLOGICAL COLLECTION FEWKES 9 



The pottery specimens, although mortuary, bear no indication that 

 they were purposely perforated or " killed," a custom so common in 

 the Mimbres and in certain other areas of the Southwest, and there 

 are no specimens showing the broken encircling lines, a feature like- 

 wise unknown in pottery from the IMesa Verde and the San Juan 

 Valley. This failure is instructive, as the presence of the broken line 

 is so common higher up on the Little Colorado, at Homolobi (Wins- 

 low), and Hopi ruins, Sikyatki, Awatobi, and along the Antelope 

 Valley.^ There are no efhgy jars or attempts at relief decoration. No 

 designs were noted on the exteriors of the bowls, a feature so com- 

 mon at Sikyatki, Homolobi, and other ruins in the middle valley of 

 the Little Colorado. Although the interiors of the decorated bowls 

 are in the main white in color with black designs, the author has col- 

 lected from near the great buildings in Wupatki examples of what 

 may be called a polychrome ware, mostly dull red bowls, on the in- 

 side of which occur designs similar to these here depicted. These de- 

 signs correspond in color to bowls from the Marsh Pass Region." We 

 find only occasionally that they are enclosed in a framework of en- 

 circling lines, but cover the whole interior of the bowl with the excep- 

 tion of a central area which may be circular or rectangular, but desti- 

 tute of figures. The majority of the designs are formed of four units 

 which may be the same or unlike, sometimes arranged in pairs. Li 

 certain examples we find figures in white on a black ground. Although 

 the designs are all geometric, rectilinear and curved component lines 

 are about equal in number. 



It will be noted that in several of the figures the black color in 

 the design is greater than the white, or in other words the decoration 

 may be, said to be in white on a black background, which is so 

 striking in plate 5, b. This tendency of " negative " figures on black 

 ground appears also in designs from the Mimbres Valley, Tokonabi 

 (Kayenta) ware"* and is also shown in the beautiful vase, the finest 

 known to the author * from the Chevlon ruin. The designation " heavv 



^ It is highly probable that this custom was introduced from the south 

 (Lower Gila), but it occurs on ancient ware from Jemez. A modified form 

 occurs on Chaco Canyon ware and elsewhere. It can hardly be possible that 

 such a specialized feature as this could have developed indei)endently, and its 

 absence in the oldest ware is significant. 



^ Kidder, pi. 32, " Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archeology,'^ 

 figures six designs typical of his Kayenta ware, which are almost identical with 

 those shown in plates 4 and 5 of this article. 



= Ibid., pi. 31- 



"'22d Ann. Rept., Bur. Amer. Ethn., pi. XX. 



