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and Palatki had been occupied by Apache Mohaye people for longer 
or shorter periods of time, and some of the specimens were probably 
left there by these inhabitants. 
The ancient pottery found in the rooms, although fragmentary, is 
sufficiently complete to render a comparison with known ceramics from 
the Verde ruins. Had we discovered the cemeteries, for which we zeal- 
ously searched in vain, no doubt entire vessels, deposited as mortuary 
offerings, would have been found; but the kind of ware of which they 
were made would undoubtedly have been the same as that of the 
fragments. 
No pottery distinetively different from that which has already been 
reported from the Verde valley ruins was found, and the majority 
resembled so closely in texture and symbolism that of the cliff houses 
of the San Juan, in northern New Mexico and southern Utah, that 
they may be regarded as practically identical. 
The following varieties of pottery were found at Honanki: 
1. Coiled ware. 
11. Indented ware. 
111. Smooth ware. 
1y. Smooth ware painted white, with black geometric figures. 
Vv. Smooth red ware, with black decoration. 
By far the largest number of fragments belong to the first division, 
and these, as a rule, are blackened by soot, as if used in cooking. 
The majority are parts of large open-mouth jars with flaring rims, cor- 
rugated or often indented with the thumb-nail or some hard substance, 
the coil becoming obscure on the lower surface. The inside of these 
jars is smooth, but never polished, and in one instance the potter used 
the corrugations of the coil as an ornamental motive. The paste of 
which this coiled ware was composed is coarse, with argillaceous 
grains scattered through it; but it was well fired and is still hard and 
durable. When taken in connection with its tenuity, these features 
show a highly developed potter’s technique. A single fragment is orna- 
mented with an S-shape coil of clay fastened to the corrugations in 
much the same way as in similar ware from the ruins near the Colorado 
Chiquito. 
The fragments of smooth ware show that they, too, had been made 
originally in the same way as coiled ware, and that their outer as well 
as their inner surface had been rubbed smooth before firing. Asa rule, 
however, they are coarse in texture and have little symmetry of form. 
Fragments identified as parts of bowls, vases, jars, and dippers are 
classed under this variety. As arule they are badly or unevenly fired, 
although evidently submitted to great heat. There was seldom an 
effort made to smooth the outer surface to a polish, and no attempt at 
pictorial ornamentation was made. 
The fragments represented in classes Iv and vy were made of a much 
finer clay, and the surface bears a gloss, almost a glaze. The orna- 
