152 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY “BULL, 65 
B. SLAB-HOUSE CULTURE 
As was stated in the description of the site, the lower levels of 
the débris in Fluteplayer House (Ruin 5) contained pottery quite 
different from the normal Kayenta wares of the upper strata. 
Unfortunately the lower deposits had been so soaked by seepage 
that all perishable material in them had rotted away; our charac- 
terization of the culture is, therefore, necessarily based, until other 
and drier sites shall be discovered, upon the architecture (see pp. 
42-44), the pottery, and the utensils of stone and bone. 
Porrery 
Two wares make up the body of the collection: black-and-white 
and black; besides these there are three sherds of a redware, very 
Bead similar to if not identical with the 
M redware with. shining paint described 
\ in the cliff-house section. As it is pos- 
\ sible that these red sherds may have 
. worked down from above, it is per- 
» haps best to accept them only provi- 
; sionally as belonging to the slab-house 
\ “group. 
es be BLACK-AND-WHITE WARE.—The body 
tr -sas—== s of this pottery is markedly granular 
in cross section and contains consider- 
\ ably more tempering material than 
does Kayenta black-and-white. The 
slip is yellowish white and_ the 
pigment a slaty shade of black. 
‘aiae Sherds were found of ollas, bowls, 
and of a single specimen of a sort of 
‘1G. 70.—Slab-house vessels. 
Fig. TO lab-house vessels oobl t. 
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Ollas appear to have had a full but rather “squatty ” body and 
a high, gracefully curved neck (fig. 70, a; pl. 63, @). There is no 
evidence of handles. “Decoration, in the specimens at hand, consists 
of several horizontal bands about the neck and body. 
Bowls.—Little can be said as to shape, as all the bowl sherds 
recovered are too small to permit of even tentative reconstruction. 
The rims are direct (7. e. with no incurve or outcurve), and have 
rounded edges which are left plain (not painted black, as in Chaco 
Canyon bowls; nor “ ticked ” with dots, as in Mesa Verde examples). 
There seem to have been no handles. The slip covers the whole 
interior and, as nearly as one can tell, the whole exterior as well. 
Decoration, in all but one piece, is confined to the interior. 
Goblet.—The form of this piece is shown in figure 70, }, and plate 
