58 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL, 81 
RED WARE 
The specimens of red ware found in the ruin probably are not na- 
tive to the place. So far there is no evidence that the red ware was 
made much farther north than at Puye and Shufinne. At the for- 
mer place and through the central parts of the Jemez Plateau the 
red ware seems to have reached its highest development. The red 
ware was one of the latest if not the latest pre-Spanish pottery made 
on the Jemez Plateau. Itiseven claimed by some that it extends for 
some time into the historic period. There is still a red ware made 
in the upper Rio 
Grande pueblos, but 
this does not com- 
pare with the earlier 
kind. All of the 
pre-Spanish red ware 
is very hard and is 
decorated with a 
glazed pattern. The 
glazing material is 
Sf} 7 i} ; said to have been 
\ = Uf U/ a salt solution. 
\S Yi IN / Whether it came to 
the potters as a mat- 
ter of accident or 
whether they really 
discovered and used 
it, knowing what 
they were doing, we 
do not know. Small 
pieces were more fre- 
quently made than 
the larger pieces. In 
W2iZZzZ2z2Z2/ 27) the Frijoles Cafion, 
Puye, and the inter- 
mediateruins the red 
ware is fairly abundant, but north and south of these points it is 
more the exception than the rule. The smaller pieces are mainly 
ceremonial pieces, food bowls, and paint bowls; the larger pieces are 
usually water jars. At Po-shu we found enough sherds to restore 
four pieces. 
Figure 28 is a food bowl about 28 cm. in diameter. It has been 
badly burned and the design is not very distinct. Asis often the 
case, the glazed decoration has run in places and gives the appear- 
ance of having been put on carelessly. Whether this running of the 
Fic. 25.—Incised designs. 
