PAINTED VASES OF TUSAYAN. 



351 



indistinct, the color having rubbed off or faded out. The work has been 

 neatly done with a fine brush and exhibits some new features in point 

 of detail. If we trace out the figures, however, we will see that there 



FIG. 348.— Vase: Province of Tusayan. — J. 



are no new motives, the meander forming the basis of all. There is a 



double line of figures, the upper one being the more simple, as usual. 



In the bottle illustrated in Fig. 349 the usual motives have been ein- 



Fig. 349 — Bottle: Province of Tusayan. — i- 



ployed. A few heavy lines serve to give emphasis to the lip, while a 

 baud of linked scrolls is carried around the shoulder, bordered by sim- 

 ple parallel lines. Unpretentious as the work is, it has a very pleasing 

 effect. The shape is repeated in modern Pueblo pottery. It is the 



