52 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 81 
TUBS 
The larger bowls or tubs from Po-shu present a variety of deco- 
ration ranging from the ordinary motives found on the biscuit tubs 
to some that are unique and have not been encountered before. 
Figure 13 shows a unique design in the interior cf atub. There are 
three panels of oblong squares composed of several lines and having 
inside of them a series of dots. 
This gives them the appearance of 
dominoes. There are also three 
panels of filled corner triangles and 
oblique lines running across the pan- 
els. The exterior decoration is the 
crook and filled corner triangle. 
Plate 46, F, has perhaps as unique 
a decoration in the interior as 
there is in the collection. Running 
around the bowl, about midway up 
the side, is a black line, and from 
this line springs what may be in- 
Fig. 15.—Avafiu interior decoration on biscuit terpreted as growing corn. Above 
ee this is another line and around the 
inside of the rim are four figures which were intended for birds. 
The exterior decoration is made up of nine panels with an unusual 
treatment of the dotted line and filled corner triangle. (Fig. 14.) 
Plate 46, D, has excellent types of the Avafiu head on the exterior; 
F1G. 16.—Interior and exterior decoration on biscuit ware tub. 
also four panels of the filled corner triangles and three oblique ‘lines. 
This is a particularly handsome specimen. ‘The inside decoration is 
composed of a series of panels with the filled corner triangle and 
oblique line and dots. 
Plate 46, C, is unusually beautiful in the treatment of the design, 
which is conventional, but executed in such a bold and free-hand 
