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degree, to the present time. This theory is but tentative, yet it would 

 also explain, on the score of association, why the Pueblo women slightly 

 prefer the jars showing the indentation in question to more regular ones. 

 With the change from elevated cliff or mesa habitations to more acces- 

 sible ones, the Pueblo Indians wei*e enabled to enlarge the apertures of 

 their water-jars, since not only did the concave bases of the latter make 

 the balancing of them more secure, but the trails over which they had 

 to be carried from watering place to habitation were less rugged. A 

 natural result of this enlargement of the openings, which admitted access 

 with the scraper to the interior peripheries of the thin-walled jars, was 

 the rounding upward of their shoulders, making them taller in propor- 

 tion to their diameters. This modification of form in the water-jar, taken 

 in connection with the fact that thus changed, it displaced the daily use 

 of the canteen, explaius the totally dissimilar names which were ap- 

 plied to the two types. The older, or spheroidal olla, was known as the 

 IcHdp ton ne, from Tci&pu, to place or carry water in, and torn me ; while 

 the newer olla is called Wid wih na kHa te die, from Wid wih na leva na M l a, 

 for briuging of water: tc, earthen-ware, and e' le or e'l lai e, to stand or 

 standing. The latter term, te & le, is generic, being applied to nearly 

 all terra cotta vessels which are taller than they are broad. Te, earthen 

 ware, is derived from tfeh', the root also of te ne a, to resound, to sound 

 hollow; while e le, from e'l le or el' lai e, to stand, is obviously applied in 

 significance of comparative height as well as of function. 



Thus I have thrown together a few conjectures and suggestions rela- 

 tive to the origin of the Southwestern pottery and the evolution of its 

 principal iorms. 



