46 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BuLL, 81 
The general coloring and appearance of this piece is rather puz- 
zling. The grayish slip gives it a general tone that is not like the 
biscuit ware and yet there are spots of the typical yellowish under- 
tone which occur so often in that ware. Having seen from the frac- 
tures that the paste is gray and the slip is gray, it is difficult to 
account for the undertone in any other manner than that it is a stain 
from the earth in which the bowl was buried and which has soaked 
through the slip where it was worn thin before burial. 
Plate 43, 1, is another curious piece, undoubtedly ceremonial. It 
is 48 mm. in height and 54 mm. in diameter. This specimen is 
roughly divided in the interior into four sections or compartments. 
The dividing walls are very thick in proportion to the rest of the pot. 
There are four lugs with holes in them for suspending or carrying the 
pot, attached to the outside of the wall opposite each inner dividing 
wall. There are broad black bands with a sort of wavy effect run- 
ning around the outside and these comprise the whole decoration. 
The whole pot is rather crude in form, but the black of the decora- 
tion and the paste are excellent. 
Plate 37, J, is a small bottle with two handles on the outside oppo- 
site each other and well up on the shoulder of the piece. It is 90 mm, 
in height, 102 mm. across the bottom. The opening of the mouth is 
44 mm. in diameter and has an outcurving rim. The bottle is rather 
full bellied and flat on the bottom. ‘The form is not a biscuit-ware 
form and resembles those of the San Juan drainage more than any- 
thing found in the Jemez Plateau or the Rio Grande country. This 
piece is more or less sophisticated. The paste is biscuit of the finest 
type. A companion piece is Plate 44, A. This is also a bottle. It is 
128mm. in height by 140 mm. at its greatest diameter, with a mouth 
opening of 51 mm. It is even more full bellied than the preceding 
piece and also has a flat bottom. In place of handles it has two holes 
pierced in the neck for attaching cords. The rim is only slightly 
outcurving. The general form of this piece suggests the Apache 
water bottle. The paste is very fine grained and hard. ‘The slip of 
both of these pieces shows a slight undertone of yellowish pink. 
Like the preceding one, the decoration consists of black bands run- 
ning horizontally around the bottle. The lines are not well drawn, 
but this might be accounted for by the difficulty of making them on 
the rotund form of the bottles. 
Plate 43, Cis perhaps the most unique specimen of pottery in the 
collection. As nearly as can be described, the form is that of a 
round doughnut with the usual hole in the middle and having a long 
oval mouth with raised walls set on top at one end of it. The largest 
diameter of the bottom is 165 mm. The tubular body averages 38 
mm. in diameter. The raised walls of the mouth average 20 mm. 
above the rest of the piece. A part of these walls isgone. Originally 
