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POTTERY OF THE ANCIENT PUEBLOS. 



original of the canteen, which has acquired the flattened form through 

 accident, or change in the habits of the people employing it. A very 

 superior example of these bottles is given in Fig. 350. The body is 

 somewhat flattened and the sides are nearly perpendicular, giving two 



Fig. 350.— Bottle: Province of Tuaayan.- 



well defined spaces for decoration, the one above and the other about 

 the middle of the body. The latter space is occupied by a very slen- 

 der, meandered line in white, the interspaces being filled in with black. 

 Four links encircle the vessel, two oblong ones occurring upon the sides 



Fig. 351.— Bottle: Province of Tusayan.— J. 



and two short ones beneath the handles. The upper surface is deco- 

 rated with a band of scrolls, four in number, partially defined in white 

 by painting the space on one side black. There are two low, knob- 

 like, vertically perforated handles on the shoulder of the vessel. 



