356 



POTTERY OF THE ANCIENT PUEBLOS. 



connected by broad Z- shaped stems also stepped or notched. This spe- 

 cimen is from the Keam collection. 



Another smaller vessel, still more unique in character, is illustrated in 

 Fig. 355. One of the nodes is very much prolonged, giving, with the 

 upright neck, a form rudely suggestive of a bird. The ornament, like 

 the last, consists of two bauds. The upper is of diamond-shaped figures 

 in white upon a black ground, and the lower of a cleverly managed 

 meander, which is made to conform neatly to the eccentricities of the 

 body. The hooks encircle the nodes as in the preceding case. 



A smaller specimen is given in Fig. 356. The node next the handle 

 being prolonged resembles the tail of a bird, while the other nodes, 

 which would occupy the place of the two prominences of the breast, are 

 barely suggested. The decoration is extremely simple. 



A fine specimen of these novel vessels is illustrated in Fig. 357. The 

 body is much prolonged on one side and has no prominence whatever 

 at the breast points. The handle is but slightly arched and connects 

 the rim with the extreme point of the projecting lobe. There is here a 

 rather decided suggestion of a skin or intestine vessel. It is but a 

 step from this form to the well-known shoe or moccasin shape of a later 



Fig. 357. — Vast* of eccentric form: Tusayan.— $. 



perit id of Pueblo art, a form known in nearly all centers of ancient 

 American culture. The decoration is simple and unique, consisting of 

 a meandered figure in white upon a black ground, with parallel border- 

 ing lines in black. It connects opposite sides of the rim passing be- 

 neath the projecting lobe. 



A number of the best examples are in the National collection. One 

 of these, Fig. 358, is figured by Mr. Stevenson in the Third Annual Re- 

 port of the Bureau of Ethnology. It might be described as shoe-shaped, 

 yet we are forcibly reminded of the headless body of a bird, the rather 



