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figures; curved lines and spirals rarely if ever occur, and human or 
animal figures are unknown in this position in Sityatki pottery; the 
geometric figures can be reduced to a few patterns of marked simplicity. 
It is apparent that I can best discuss the variety of geometric designs 
by considering these external decorations of food vessels at length. 
From the fact that they are limited to one side, the 
design is less complicated by repetition and seems 
practically the same as the more typical forms. It 
is rarely that two of these designs are found to be 
exactly the same, and as there appears to be no dupli- 
cation a classification of them is difficult. Each pot- 
ter seems to have decorated her ware without regard 
to the work of her contemporaries, using simple de- 
signs but combining them in original ways. Hence the 
great variety found even in the grave of the same 
woman, whose handiwork was buried with her. As, 
however, the art of the potter degenerated, as it has in later times, the 
patterns became more alike, so that modern Tusayan decorated earthen- 
ware has little variety in ornamentation and no originality in design. 
Every potter uses the same figures. 
Fie. 277—Oblique par- 
allel line decoration 
Fic. 278—Parallel lines fused at one point 
The simplest form of decoration on the exterior of a food bowl is a 
band encircling it. This line may be complete or it may be broken at 
one point. The next more complicated geometric decoration is a double 
or multiple band, which, however, does not occur in any of the speci- 
mens from Sikyatki. The breaking up of this multiple band into parallel 
bars is shown in figure 277. These bars generally have a quadruple 
Fig. 279—Parallel lines with zigzag arrangement 
arrangement, and are horizontal, vertical, or, as in the illustration, in- 
clined at an angle. They are often found on the lips of the bowls and 
in a similar position on jars, dippers, and vases. The parallel lines 
shown in figure 278 are seven in number, and do not encircle the bowl. 
They are joined by a broad connecting band near one extremity. The 
number of parallel bands in this decoration is highly suggestive. 
