54 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BuLL. 81 
There are two jars which are decorated very much alike with the 
design shown in Figure 20 and on Plate 47, A, B. Each one has 
variations of the filled corner triangle, step, and oblique lines, and 
as these designs have been described at some length it will not be 
necessary to go into detail. All of them are the yellowish gray tone 
and still show some of the original polish. The design is in a very 
good black and rather well done. 
CORKS 
Fig. 19.—Unilateral profile of cooking pots and water jars. 
One of the most elaborate and intricate designs shown is Figure 21 
and Plate 47. This is so complex that the author will not attempt 
to describe it, but refers the reader to the figure and plate. The 
water jar shown as Figure 22 and Plate 47, B, is in general appearance 
suggestive of the ware that is sometimes found north of the Jemez 
Plateau, and is the only piece that is at all similar to the pre-Spanish 
pottery of that region. The grayish color and the treatment of the 
design is not like the ordinary pot- 
tery of the whole plateau. 
INCISED WARE 
While the type of incised ware 
found on the Jemez -Plateau is not 
as well known as the biscuit ware 
it is just as important, and until 
the excavation at Po-shu there 
were not many good specimens 
to study. Po-shu yielded a large 
collection of very fine examples of 
Fig. 20.—Decoration on biscuit ware water jar. incised ware, in whole pieces and 
in large sherds. In placing this 
ware in the position following the biscuit ware the author has felt 
justified by the hardness of the paste, the graceful forms, and the 
general fine appearance of the specimens. It would at first seem that 
they should precede the biscuit ware as an offshoot of the coiled and 
cooking ware, but the reasons stated before are too valid to suppose 
that it came before the biscuit. The paste is so nearly like that of 
the red ware, which is conceded to be the latest pre-Spanish, that 
there seems to be no good reason to doubt that it is the forerunner 
