HOLMES.] 



PAINTED VASES OF TUSAYAN. 



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which the fillet returns in a series of fine scrolls. The interlocked ends 

 of the units of the principal chain have terminations or hooks angular 

 in two cases and curved in another, demonstrating the identity of the 

 curvilinear and the rectilinear forms of this ornament. The small iso- 

 lated stepped figure between the hooks tells, I imagine, of a textile 

 ancestry. 



In Fig. 327 we have another vase of still higher grade — a very master- 

 piece of fictile work. It is next to the largest piece of the ancient ware 

 yet described, being twenty -four inches in diameter and up ward of twenty 

 iuches in height. The form is not quite symmetrical, but the outline 

 is highly satisfactory. The body is full and slightly conical at the 



Fie:. 327.— Large rase: Province of Tusayan. — ^. 



base, and above joins the neck with a graceful convex curve. The sur- 

 face is even and well polished, and the painted design is executed with 

 great precision. The motives employed are identical with the preced- 

 ing. Scrolls and fretted figures are carried around the neck, shoulder, 

 and body in three bands suited exactly in width and in size of parts to 

 the conformation of the vessel. The simple scrolls of the upper part 

 need no explanation, and a careful analysis of the broader band, as 

 projected in Fig. 328, furnishes a key to its rather extraordinary con- 

 struction. The dark lines are drawn with mechanical exactness, and 

 the delicate white lines, in which many of the finer details are worked 



