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been applied with such force that the nail has cut entirely through it, 

 indenting the plain layer below and causing the two to coalesce. This 

 specimen was obtained from the canon of the Rio Mancos. 



Certain districts are particularly rich in remains of this peculiar ware 

 and furnish many examples of crimped ornament. The remarkable 

 desert like plateau lying north of the Grand Canon of the Colorado con- 

 tains many house and village sites. At intervals along the very brink 

 of the great cbasm we come upon heaps of stones and razed walls of 

 bouses about which are countless fragments of this ware. These are 

 identical in nearly every character with the pottery of Saint George on 

 the west, of the San Juan on the east, and of the Gila on the south. 

 A few miles south of Kanab stands a little hill— an island in the creek 

 bottom — which is literally covered with the ruins of an aucieut village, 

 and the great abundance of pottery fragments indicates that it was, for 

 a long period, the home of cliff-dwelling peoples. In no other case have I 

 found so complete an assortment of all the varieties of coil-ornamenta- 

 tion. All the forms already given are represented and a number of 

 new ones are added. 



F'ig. 'j-5. — Wave-like indentation. 



FIG. 226. Wave-like indentation 



Iu the example given in Fig. 225 the fillets are deeply indented, giv- 

 ing a wave-like effect. Another pretty variety is seen in Fig. 226. 



One of the most successful of these archaic attempts at relief em- 

 bellishment is illustrated in the fragment shown in Fig. 227. The 

 raised edge of the fillet is pinched out at regular intervals, producing 



Fig. 227. — Impressions of finger-tips. 



FIG. 228. — Implement indentations 



rows of sharp-pointed "beads." Over the entire surface impressions of 

 the fine lines of the finger-tips are still distinctly visible. The dotted 

 lines show the direction of the coil. 



