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CLASSIFICATION BY COLOR AND SURFACE FINISH 



The classification of pottery objects by color and surface finish 

 leads us to refer them to the following groups: 1, Coarse unpolished 

 ware, undecorated; 2, coarse unpolished ware, decorated; 3, polished 

 ware, undecorated; and polished ware, decorated, which maybe again 

 divided into: 4, red and brown ware; 5, yellow ware; B, black ware; 7, 

 black and white ware; 8, red and black ware; 9, red, black, and white 

 ware; 10, white and green ware. 



Coarse Unpolished Ware 



Although a large collection of coarse wai-e was made in the excava- 

 tions, the forms obtained varied little from those described from 

 Awatobi and Sikyatki. Of more than usual interest were specimens 

 of coiled-ware bowls, the interiors of which were black and glazed. 

 These are represented by several specimens from the Chaves pass 

 ruins. 



There is but one specimen of rough ware the exterior of which 

 was decorated (see figure 17)." The rudeness of the design on this 

 object is no doubt in part due to the character of the ware. As we 

 go south the number of these specimens of rude coiled ware with 

 external decoration increa.ses. They are not found in ruins near tlie 

 inhabited Hopi pueblos, are represented by a few specimens at Homo- 

 lobi, increase in number at Chevlon, and are well represented in 

 ruins on the northei'n foothills of the White mountains. 



Undecorated Polished Ware 



While in a few cases polished ware was undecorated, this was excep- 

 tional, and only a few specimens were found, which all came from one 

 excavation. In certain instances there was evidently formerly an 

 ornamentation on some of these which had been obliterated ; on others 

 no sign of decoration could be discovered. The polished undecorated 

 ware was ordinarily red, but there were likewise specimens of white 

 and black undecorated ware. 



Decorated P(ilished Ware 

 red and brown ware 



Red and brown ware is distinctively characteristic of the ruins 

 found along the Little Colorado, and of those south of this river to 

 the border of Mexico. The decorations on this ware (plate xxvi) 

 found along the Colorado river are much more complicated than those 

 of southern Arizona, where plain red ware is almost universal. In 

 both regions the color is no doubt due to the composition of the avail- 

 able clay, and to changes in firing. Bricks made from this clay at the 



nA large number of these vessels were found iu the more southern ruins excavated in 1897, 

 especially that near Snowflako, Arizona, where the largest collections were made that year. 

 As this pottery will be discussed at length in the report for that year, it is barely mentioned iu 

 this section of the memoir. 



