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manner that it suggests that the artist who painted it was somewhat 
of a genius. At first appearance it seems amateurish, but a careful 
study of this piece shows skill and artistic feeling. (Fig. 16.) 
Figure 17 shows part of a very handsome tub with a typical Avaiiu 
in the bottom. It is to be regretted that only a part of this specimen 
was recovered, but enough of 
the fragments were obtained 
to reconstruct a large part of 
it, and thus give a good idea 
of what the tub originally 
looked like. It is especially 
handsome and wellmade. The 
paste is very fineand hard and 
of the finest grade of biscuit 
paste. The color is the typi- 
cal yellow of the fine biscuit 
with very black decoration. 
Plate 45, D, is another in- 
teresting sherd. The decora- 
tion is different from any- 
thing ever found on the Jemez 
Plateau and suggests the Hopi pattern. The broken circle or horse- 
shoe with the flags is not like any part or element of the biscuit 
ware. The fragment is part of the bottom of a large, heavy tub. 
The color is dark gray. (Fig. 18.) 
Fie@. 17.—Avafiu decoration on biscuit ware tub. 
LARGE WATER JARS 
From the standpoint of elaborate design, hard paste, excellent 
eae finish, and beauty, the water jars are 
by far the best in the collection of 
the biscuit ware. While in many 
ways they are not greatly different 
from the water jars found all over 
the Jemez Plateau, yet those of Po- 
shu have one distinctive feature 
that makes them easy to identify. 
This feature is the sharp incurve at 
the shoulder. There is also a little 
difference in the curve of the bot- 
tom and its relation to the shoulder. 
An idea of the variety of curves and 
shoulders may be obtained by referring to Figure 19, which shows 
one-half of the outlines of the principal water and storage jars found 
in the ruin, 
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Fig. 18.— Decoration on biscuit ware sherd. 
