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red ware, the latter decorated with black and the exterior of the rims 

 having geometric ornamentation in white. Cream-color ware with 

 red-brown decoration forms another characteristic class of the pottery 

 here considered, which is represented by only a feAv specimens from 

 sites in the elevated zone. 



Though coiling as a method of constructing pottery was generally 

 practised in the Pueblo region, its use as decoration growing out of 

 structure is of greater interest and importance in this area, where, 

 besides the common varieties of pinched coil by which vessels of crude 

 materials are made attractive, vessels were covered with fine corruga- 

 tion, on which textile designs were made by pressing down the ridges 

 by means of a tool. These specimens are, as a rule, finely executed 

 and have a pleasing appearance. 



The chief kind of pottery made in this region was the smoothly 

 finished brown or red-brown type in coarse paste, undecorated save 

 by a fillet or rim border and occasionally a key pattern traced in 

 white. This ware was designed principally for ordinary use, though 

 the large red-brown bowls with white line decoration and lustrous 

 black interior are highly ornamental, and show the best development 

 of esthetic taste in this class. 



The characteristic ware found on the Gila in the lower and warmer 

 zone has a coarse, friable brown paste, washed with a cream color, 

 forming a ground for black and red decoration. The ware, though 

 somewhat lacking in grace and form, is brilliant and effective, and 

 technically stands almost alone. It is one of the few examples of 

 polychrome ware." 



The gray ware is rarely of the hard white paste seen in some local- 

 ities, but it was constructed of coarse dark body material and washed 

 with kaolin to form a ground on which the decoration was drawn. 

 Tn this respect the ware is identical with the gray from most locali- 

 ties. The red ware was similarly produced by washing ocher over a 

 neutral body, burnishing, and tiring, and most of the specimens are 

 of good quality. 



A general view of the pictorial, plastic, and decorative arts of the 

 people of the Gila gives the impression that they have no culture 

 specially higher or in many respects different from that obtaining 

 in the Pueblo region. There are, however, developments in sculp- 

 tural forms beyond that in other areas, which point to southern 

 influences. This is seen in pottery figurines, a notable example of 

 which from a cave in the Nantack mountains was described by Dr. 

 J. "Walter Fewkes. 6 The forms of pottery are generally less grace- 



° Twenty-second Report nf Bureau of American Ethnology, pi. lxviii. 

 "Ibid., pt. 1, 189. 



