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The variations in slipper-shape cooking pots are few and simple. The 
blind end is sometimes of globular form, as in the example illustrated in 
plate CXX, a, and sometimes pointed as in figures }) and ¢ of the same 
plate. One of the specimens of this type has a handle on the rim and 
another has a flaring lip. Slipper-form vessels are always of coarse 
ware for the obvious reason that, being somewhat more porous, they are 
morereadily heated than polished utensils. They are not decorated for 
equally obvious reasons. 
SMooTH UNDECORATED WARE 
There are mony specimens of undecorated ware of all shapes and 
sizes, a type of which is shown in plate cxx, d. These include food 
bowls, saucers, ladies, and jars, and were taken from many graves. 
These utensils differ from the coarse ware vessels not only in the char- 
acter of the clay from which they are made, but also in their superficial 
polish, which, in some instances, is as fine as that of vessels with 
painted designs. Several very good spoons of half-gourd shape were 
found, and there are many undecorated food bowls and vases. The 
first attemps at ornamentation appear to have been a simple spattering 
of the surface with liquid pigment or a drawing of simple encircling 
bands. In one instance (plate Cxx, d) a blackening of the surface by 
exposure to smoke was detected. but no superficial gloss, as in the 
Santa Clara ware, was noted. 
POLISHED DECORATED WARE 
By far the greater number of specimens of mortuary pottery from 
Sikyatki are highly polished and decorated with more or less compli- 
cated designs. Of these there are at least three different groups, 
based on the color of the ware. Most of the vessels are light yellow or 
of cream color; the uext group in point of color is the red ware, the 
few remaining specimens being white with black decorations in geo- 
metric patterns. These types naturally fall into divisions consisting of 
vases, jars, bowls, square boxes, cups, ladles, and spoons. 
In the group called vases (plates SXXI, CXXII) many varieties are 
found; some of these are double, with an equatorial constriction; 
others are rounded below, flat above, with an elevated neck and a 
recurved lip. It is noteworthy that these jars or vases are destitute 
of handles, and that their decoration is always confined to the equa- 
torial and upper sections about the opening. In the specimens of this 
group which were found at Sikyatki there is no basal rim and no 
depression on the pole opposite the opening. No decoration is found 
on the interior of the vases, although in several instances the inside 
of the lip bears lines or markings of various kinds. The opening is 
always circular, sometimes small, often large; the neck of a vessel 
is occasionally missing, although the specimens bear evidence of use 
after having been thus broken. In one or two instances the equato- 
rial constriction is so deep that the jar is practically double; in other 
