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PUEBLO POTTERY AND ZUNI CULTURE-GROWTH. 



formed by pinching or pressing together the connecting edges at short 

 intervals as the winding went on. This produced corrugations or in- 

 dentations marvelously resembling the stitches of basket-work. Hence 

 accidentally the vessel thus built up appeared so similar to the basket 

 which had served as its model that evidently it did not seem complete 

 until this feature had been heightened by art. At any rate, the ma- 



ne 516. Fig. 517. 



Examples of indented decoration on corrugated ware. 



jority of specimens belonging to this type of pottery — especially those of 

 the older periods during which it was predominant — are distinguished 

 by an indented or incised decoration exactly reproducing the zigzags, 

 serrations, chevrons, terraces, and other characteristic devices of water- 

 tight basketry. ("Compare Figs. 516, 517 with Figs. 507, 508.) Evi- 



FlG. 518. — Cooking-pot of corrugated ware, allowing conical projections near rim. 



dently with a like intention two little cone-like projections were at- 

 tached to the neck near the rim of the vessel (see Fig. 518) which may 

 hence be regarded as survivals of the loops whereby it has been seen 

 the ends of the strap-handle were attached to the boiling-basket. (See 

 again Fig. 503, a.) Although varied in later times to form scrolls, 



