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tached to the side of the bowl iu a vertical or a horizontal position. It 

 may be long or short, wide or narrow, simple or compound, and is not 

 always evenly curved. In certain forms of cups the vertically-placed 

 loop occupies the whole length of the vessel, suggesting well-known 

 forms of the beer-mug. 



High necked cups, vases, and bottles have rather long, vertically- 

 placed loops, giving a pitcher-like effect. These may consist of two or 

 more strands placed side by side or twisted together. Barely an ani- 

 mal form is imitated, the fore feet of the creature resting upon the rim 

 of the vessel and the hind feet upon the shoulder. Perforated knobs 

 often take the place of the loops, and imperforated nodes and projec- 

 tions of varied shapes are not unusual. Some of these, placed upon 

 the upper part of the neck, represent the heads of animals. 



A novel handle is sometimes seen in the ancient vases of Cibola and 

 Tusayan. While the clay was still soft a deep abrupt indentation was 

 made iu the lower part of the vessel, sufficiently large to admit the 

 ends of two or three fingers, thus giving a hold that facilitated the 

 handling of the vessel. I have seen no looped handles arching the 

 aperture of the vessel, as in the modern meal baskets of the Zulus. 



Eccentric and life forms. — The simple potter of early Pueblo 

 times seems barely to have reached the period of eccentric and com- 

 pound forms, and animal and grotesque shapes, so common in the pot- 

 tery of the mound-bnilders of the Mississippi valley, the Mexicans, and 

 the Peruvians, are of rather rare occurrence. The last sectiou of this 

 paper is devoted to life and eccentric forms. 



For convenience of treatment, the following illustrations will be pre- 

 sented by districts, beginning at the northwest. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

 DISTRICT OF THE RIO VIRGEN. 



Under the head of coiled pottery I have given a detailed descrip- 

 tion of the remarkable dwelling-site tumulus at Saint George, Utah, 

 which has furnished such a complete set of the fictile works of the cliff- 

 house potter, the first collection of importance known to have been 

 made by exhumation. I will now present the painted ware and point 

 out its very interesting local peculiarities. All the ordinary shapes are 

 present excepting the olla. Vessels of this form are all of the plain or 

 coiled varieties. The paste is gray and the surface color is usually a 

 light gray. A small percentage of the vessels are painted or stained 

 red. The designs are all executed in black, and are for the most part 

 nicely drawn. They differ slightly in a number of ways from those of 

 other districts, their relationships being, with a few exceptions, more 



