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POTTERY OF THE ANCIENT PUEBLOS. 



designs are uniformly in black and are superior in execution and con- 

 ception to those of the north. 



Bowls. — The bowls are very generally hemispherical. The finish, 

 like that of the pottery of the San Juan and the Eio Virgen, is rather 

 rough on the exterior, and whitened and polished on the inner surface. 

 The painted figures are confined to the interior, and are highly elabo- 

 rated combinations of the usual geometric motives. They are gener- 

 ally made up of four sections of double-zoned borders such as occur 

 on the exterior of vases, cut out, as it were, and fitted into the bowl in 

 a cruciform arrangement, a plain square remaining in the bottom of the 

 vessel. See Fig. 291. There are, however, many examples which con- 

 sist of two encircling zones of ornament identical in style and arrange- 

 ment with examples from the Rio Virgen, Figs. 230 and 231, and from 

 the Eio Sau Juan, Figs. 248, 259, and 274. 



In Fig. 289 we have a representative example of the bowls of ancient 

 Tusayan. The outer surface is rudely trowel-finished, but the inside is 



Fig. 289. — Bowl: Province of TusayaD.— ^. 



well polished. The painted design consists of four parts arranged about 

 a central square. Each part comprises a number of alternate bauds of 

 straight and zigzag lines. 



The superb bowl presented in Fig. 290 is nearly fifteen inches in di- 

 ameter and seven inches deep. It is hemispherical but not quite sym- 

 metrical. Having been broken, it was mended by its owners after their 

 aboriginal fashion. Two pairs of holes have been bored on opposite 

 sides of a long fracture for the insertion of thongs. Other perforations 

 have been commenced but do not penetrate the vessel. The walls are 

 upwards of one-eighth of an inch in thickuess near the rim, but are less 

 than that throughout the body of the bowl. The paste is of a dark gray 

 color, speckled with ashy-white particles, which may be pulverized 

 potsherds. The interior surface is finished with a slip of white clay 



