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zone covers the vessel from just below the neck to well below the 
point of maximum diameter. Height averages 14 inches, greatest 
diameter 16 inches (see fig. 55). 
It should be noticed that none of these types are provided with 
handles. Ollas from the Mesa Verde, the McElmo, and the Monte- 
zuma Creek regions, on the other hand, regularly have handles.+ 
Seed jars are always of small size, with spherical bodies, flat or 
rounded tops, and small orifices without necks (see pl. 54, 6). 
Holmes calls this form “ heart-shaped jar.”* We have only sherds, 
so that local peculiarities of shape, if such exist, cannot be pointed 
out. The tops, however, seem to have been unusually flat. 
Colanders are little vessels, usually not more than 6 inches in 
diameter by 3 inches high; their bottoms are pierced by a number of 
small holes, as if to fit them for use as sieves. There are two forms, 
the flat-topped and the flattened-spherical. The former is an exact 
replica in miniature of the flat-topped olla without the neck; we 
have no whole specimens. The flattened-spherical type (pl. 54, e, f) 
has a single decorative zone running from the orifice to below the 
point of greatest diameter; the flat-topped style has one zone about 
the upper surface and another below the abrupt shoulder. 
Jugs are small and fat-bellied, much like those of redware (cf. fig. 
57). They have a single vertically placed handle running from just 
below the rim to the upper side of the body (pl. 54, c, g, 7). The 
only instance of a jug with horizontal handle was the cache pot from 
Cave I (pl. 54, a). | 
Canteens are known to us only through fragments.? The body 
seems to have been spherical, the orifice very small and placed at the 
top of a short neck without flare at the lip. There are two lugs on 
the upperbody, perforated vertically for the attachment of a carry- 
ing string. 
Ladles are all of the bowl-and-handle variety except the single 
yellowish specimen shown in plate 58,d. The handle is usually round 
and hollow, sometimes solid with a groove along its upper surface; 
occasionally it consists of a long open loop of clay. The bowl is less 
than hemispherical and has in all cases an even, rounded rim. Deco- 
ration is confined to the interior of the bowl and ‘to a band or a series 
of dashes along the top of the handle. 
Bowls fall into two classes, those with direct rims and those with 
outcurved rims. The former (pl. 54, d) are deep in proportion to 
_ their width, the depth being at least half the diameter and occa- 
sionally even more (average width 11 inches, a few examples meas- 
uring up to 14 inches). The bottoms are rounded and the sides rise 
steeply. The rims are squarish (fig. 52, a), but as the sides are thin, 
21 Morley, 1908, pl. xxxix ; Cummings, 1910, p. 38; Nordenskiold, 1893, pl. xxxi. 
21886, p. 330. 
= But see Cummings, 1910, p. 18. 
