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manner would be entirely consistent with the laws of art growth. One 

 variety is shaped somewhat like a shoe or moccasin. Another takes 

 the form of a bird. In regard to their origin it would indeed be 

 a marvel if they should be found to represent an intermediate step be- 

 tween the skin vessels of primitive peoples aud the conventional pitcher 

 of civilization, as corresponding shapes are thought to do in Eastern 

 countries. 



Fig. 355. 



Within the Pueblo province these vessels are widely but not very 

 generally distributed, so far as specimens at hand show. I have already 

 described two examines, Figs. 255 and 256, from Saint George, Utah, 

 which are of the simplest type, having three nodes with no suggestion 

 of life form. 



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Fig. 356.— Vaao of ecceutric form: Tuaayau. — §. 



In Fig. 354 we have a small, well-finished cup of white ware, from 

 Tusayan, similar in outline to the Saint George specimens. One of the 

 three somewhat pointed nodes is considerably more prominent than the 

 others. The handle is unique, being modeled apparently after the 

 curved neck of a gourd, the pointed tip touching but not uniting with 

 the body of the vessel. This vessel is handsomely decorated with two 

 bands of scrolls. That upon the neck is of a usual form consisting 

 of three sets of linked scrolls with zigzag or stepped connecting fillets. 

 The scrolls of the lower bands interlock upon the three nodes and are 



