KIDDPR-GUERNSEY ] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 153 
63, d. There is a pair of suspension holes on one side near the rim; 
the design is in horizontal bands. 
No sherds identifiable as belonging to such other forms as pitchers, 
seed jars, mugs, canteens, or ladles were recovered; the last named, 
however, as well as some of the others, may be expected to appear 
in future excavation of Slab-house sites. 
Decoration —The designs on Slab-house black-and-white are strik- 
ingly different, both in elements and in execution, from those of the 
corresponding Kayenta ware. As a representative selection is given 
in the accompanying figures (pl. 63, b-h), we will not attempt a 
verbal description, but merely point out the prevalence of sets of 
thin lines rather widely spaced and used: (1) vertically, to mark 
off panels of design (pl. 63, a, d); (2) horizontally, to mark off 
separate bands (pl. 63, a, e); (8) as edging lines following the 
contours of triangular (pl. 63, e¢) or stepped (pl. 63, 7) elements. 
This use of thin lines set wide apart, and particularly their use in 
edging, is highly typical of one of the most important subgroups 
of the black-and-white ware of Chaco Canyon. 
Buiackware.—The body of this pottery is, as always, gray clay 
heavily tempered with sand. The original color of the vessels was 
probably dull gray, but all the sherds found were blackened by use 
over fire. Although we have no whole pieces, it can easily be seen 
that the preponderating form was a high-bodied olla with a distinct 
neck and slightly flaring rim. While some of the jars were smooth 
over the whole surface, the majority had broad, flat coils, one-fourth 
to one-half inch wide, covering the neck from the orifice to the begin- 
ning of the body proper (see pl. 64, e). These corrugations are 
easily distinguished from the narrow, ridge-like, and often indented 
coils of the Kayenta cooking pots. 
In the blackware collection are two handles, one round in cross 
section, the other figure 8 shaped; they were apparently applied ver- 
tically and seem to have formed parts of small pitchers with large 
orifices. 
The pottery from the bench and sand hill near Ruin 7 (see p. 54) 
corresponds very closely to that just described; the black-and-white 
has the same peculiar decoration and the black the same broad, flat 
coils. There are also a few sherds of redware with shining paint. 
STONE AND BonrE 
Our stone and bone material is very scanty. Stone is represented 
by half a dozen rather crude chipped points (more flakes were found 
in the lower levels of Ruin 5 than in normal cliff-dwelling rubbish) : 
and bone by the implements shown in plate 64, a-d. The eyed needle, 
of which we recovered three specimens, is a very rare type in the 
