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been left vacant, but each arm of the cross has been subdivided into 
a series of squares and blocks that are very difficult to describe. (Fig. 
6.) The exterior decoration consists of two lines running horizon- 
tally around the bowl. The space between these two lines is cut 
up by perpendicular lines forming unequal 
squares. Above these lines, in three in- 
stances, there are two short perpendicular 
lines on each sideof thelipintherim. Inthe 
fourth instance there are three lines instead 
of two. The general color of the bowl is 
gray. This piece is almost the only one that 
has crazed. Thismayhave been caused bya 
faulty slip or wash. Crazing as seen on this 
piece seldom occurs on the biscuit ware, al- yy. 6.—Interior decoration on small 
though it is often seen on the modern ware. oe 
Plate 42, B, is one of the handsomest bowls in the whole collection. 
It is 45 mm. in height and 140 mm. in diameter. The paste is very 
hard and suggests that gypsum may have been used as a base and. 
temper. There is evidently very little sand and no quartz pebbles 
in the paste. This piece was in fragments when found and the frac- 
tures showed a color of paste which was not seen in any other piece 
from thisruin. The color, a soft gray, was more like that of the late 
black and white and for a time it seemed that it might belong to 
that group, but a closer study of the bowl finally placed it in the 
last group of biscuit ware. This decision was arrived at by the 
typical fine wash of the better biscuit ware with which it is covered. 
The outcurving rim is very unusual in the Jemez Plateau and in 
some ways is similar to the rim shown by Dr. Kidder and classed by 
him as Kayenta ware. He says that this is one of the commonest 
types of rim from that locality.” 
The manner in which the wall of this bowl rises from the bottom 
is decidedly different from the Kay- 
enta ware, but the rim is the same. 
Fig. 7—Mountain and cloud decorations. 
The decoration in the interior is 
unique. In the bottom are two irreg- 
ular circles; attached to these and ris- 
ing with the wall to the inside of the 
outcurving rim are four groups of 
mountain or cloud symbols. (Fig. 7.) These are outlined by irreg- 
ularly drawn black lines. Running around the rim are four snakes 
with well-defined heads. The exterior decoration consists of four 
nicely drawn dragon flies. 
12 Kidder and Guernsey, Archzological explorations in Arizona, Bull. 65, Bur. Am. Ethn., p. 132, 1919. 
