HEART-SHAPED VASES OF TUSAYAN. 



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ground color is whitish, and the design — a chain of classic scrolls — is 

 produced in white by filling up the interstices with black. It is a note- 

 worthy fact that the base of this cup has been perforated, apparently for 

 use as a strainer. Nearly a hundred small round holes have been made 

 while the clay was still soft. A pottery ladle from this region, now in 

 the National collection, exhibits the same feature. 



Fig. 307.— Bowl: Province of Tusayan. — §. 



I add another example from the Keam collection, Fig. 309. The 

 margins of the figures are serrate and the volutes, which are in white, 

 have clumsy, disconnected stems. 



The vessel presented in Fig. 310 has a flattened upper surface, an an- 

 gular shoulder, and a high body, slightly conical below. The painted 





Fig. 308.— Bowl: Province of Tusayau.— A. 



design is nearly obliterated in places by abrasion or weathering, but is 

 correctly presented in Fig. 311, which gives the three zones in hori- 

 zontal projection. This brings out a very marked feature, the cruciform 

 arrangement of the parts, which would not be apparent in a vertical 

 projection. 



