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“ under-framework,” but, which are also typical of the “heavy” 
technique, are scrolls drawn very close together’ and opposed key 
figures on the ends of thin interlocking arms (fig. 54, )) ; the latter 
device is always used to fill diamond-shaped spaces. 
“ Heavy ” designs appear to be confined to certain forms of ves- 
sels: the olla with flat upperbody (Type I); the straight-rimmed, 
square-lipped bowl, and flat-topped colanders. In other words, it is 
found most commonly on those vessels which are peculiar to this 
region, and less commonly, or not at all, on forms which have a 
more general distribution. 
The “light” designs, which leave more of the background ex- 
posed and in which the entire emphasis is laid on the black lines and 
figures, are much more varied, less distinctive, and therefore less 
easily classified than those just described. We have as yet been 
unable to tabulate and classify the design elements and their frame- 
work principles. Perhaps most 
characteristic, however, is the lavish 
use of series of small raking tri- 
angles set along straight lines in a 
sort of saw-tooth edge and opposed 
by like series running in the oppo- 
site direction (see pl. 55,19). Very 
commonly there is introduced be- 
tween the two a line saw-toothed 
on both sides (fig. 55 and pl. 55, 
13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 23). This deco- 
ration seems to be genetically allied 
to ornaments made up of series of raking parallelograms such as 
that illustrated in plate 53, 6. Opposed sets of isosceles triangles 
with their points touching, thus leaving diamond-shaped inter- 
spaces, each one of which is occupied by a single dot, are also 
abundant (pl. 55, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28). Interlocking scrolls 
(pls. 54, c, 7; 55, 9). and derivative (?) elements (pl. 54, d), are 
common. Where hatching occurs (pls. 54, 4, 55, 11, 12, 17, 18) it is 
always, apparently, in the form of current offset designs analogous 
to those of the redware with dull paint (see fig. 58). Contrasted 
black and hatching, so typical of the black-and-white wares of the 
Upper Gila and of the southern side of the Little Colorado, is not 
found in our collection. 
Fig. 55.—Black-and-white ‘olla. 
COLORED WARE 
(1) Redware with shining paint. (3) Polychrome ware. 
(2) Redware with dull paint. (4) Plain yellow ware. 
1 Holmes. 1886, fig. 325. 
