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POTTERY OF THE ANCIENT PUEBLOS. 



a coat of bright red color. The design is in black, is extremely simple, 

 and rather carelessly drawn. The principal figure seems to be a very 

 simple form of the favorite device — the meander. 



A large fine bowl much like the preceding, and obtained from the 

 same locality, is owned by the Salt Lake City Museum. The design is 

 of the same class, but very much more elaborate. Another example 

 from Saint George is smaller and yellowish-gray in color, with figures 

 in red and black. At Kauab I picked up fragments of a small vessel, 

 highly polished and of a rich, brownish-purple color, the designs being 

 in black. Another fragment showed designs in bright red and black 

 upon a yellowish ground. 



Ollas. — I have already called attention to the fact, that the Saint 

 George tumulus furnished no example of ollas or large-necked vases 

 of the painted variety, vessels of this class being plain or of the coiled 

 ware. In the vicinity, however, I collected fragments of the white 

 painted pottery derived from large vessels of this class, very much like 

 the large, handsome vessels of ancient Tusayau. A number of such 

 fragments come from the vicinity of Kanab. Plain vessels of this 

 shape were obtained from the tumulus at Saint George. They are iden- 

 tical in every other respect, save the presence of designs, with the 

 painted pottery. Some have received a wash of red, while it is not im- 

 probable that others have lost their color or decorative figures by wear 

 or weather. 



Fig. 271.— Eed iii 



at Saint G«orge. — J. 



Handled vessels. — From the tumulus at Saint George we have a 

 very excellent example of pitcher, which is shown in Fig. 271. The 

 shape is not quite satisfactory, the neck being clumsy, but the workman- 



