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POTTERY OF THE ANCIENT PUEBLOS. 



The design proper — the interlinked scrolls — is in white, the dark color 

 beiug used as a ground to develop it. This is true of a great majority 

 of the examples presented. The same device, with a slightly different 

 combination, is seen in Fig. 33S, which illustrates a small jug from the 



Fig. 339.— Painted design. 



Keam collection. The design is well shown in Fig. 339, and in this case 

 it will readily be seen that the motive proper is in white, while the bLick 

 hooks and the connecting lozenge-shaped figures, forming the cross, 

 represent the ground. This association of the cross with the linking of 





Fig. 340.^ Vase: Province of Tusayau. — £. 



the scrolls is suggestive of a possible origin of the device as used inde- 

 pendently in the instance given in Fig. 335. 



I shall now present a small group of handled vessels of varying char- 



Fig. 341. — Painted design. 



acters upon which we have some illustrations of a peculiar treatment of 

 meander motives. 



