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preseut time have much the same texture and color a's the ancient 

 vessels — probably for the same reason. 



YELLOW WARE 



The fine yellow wai-e wliicli is characteristic of the old ruins near 

 the inhabited Hopi pueblos is not found in the Little Colorado ruins. 

 There are many pieces (plates xxvii, xxviii) which approach it in 

 color, but for the most part they lack that tine gloss which distin- 

 guishes ceramic objects of Sikyatki, Old Shumopovi, and other Hopi 

 ruins. While this difference may be in part ascribed to the chemical 

 components of the clay, the skill of the potter mu,st also be given due 

 credit. While yellow ware was sparingly made in the southern 

 pueblos, it reached its highest development in the villages which are 

 nearest the modern Hopi. 



In the decline of pottery making the fine old yellow ware has greatly 

 deteriorated, and, although clever llano artists copy it with some 

 success, they have never been able to equal the flue.st specimens which 

 the author has dug out of Sikj'atlvi sand hills. 



BLACK WARE 



The Santa Clara pueblo Indians of New Mexico, as is well known, 

 make a characteristic black ware. Tlie author has thus far failed to 

 find anjr specimens of this ware in Tusayan, but in the ruins of Homo- 

 lobi, Chevlon, and Chaves pass several food basins were found the 

 interiors of which were blackened and apparentlj' glazed in the same 

 manner as is the Santa Clara pottery. In no instance, however, was 

 the external surface thus blackened. Some of these food basins with 

 black interior were of coiled ware; others were of smooth ware, but 

 all were destitute of other decoration. 



BLACK AND WHITE WARE 



The so-called black and white ware is found almost universally in 

 cliff houses throughout the Southwest, and has been thought to be 

 characteristic of this kind of dwelling. In liis excavations at Sik- 

 yatki, however, the author found several pieces, and the same kind 

 was also taken from the older quarter of the ruin of Awatobi. Several 

 beautiful pieces of black and white ware, with decorations which are 

 identical with those of pottery from Colorado cliff houses, were taken 

 from the burial places at Old Shumopovi. In the Homolobi and 

 Chevlon ruins a number of most interesting bowls, vases, and dip- 

 pers of this kind of ware (plate xx) were exhumed, and the same style 

 of ware occurred at Chaves pass. It appears, therefore, that black 

 and white ware is not uncommon in ruins of pueblos in the plains as 

 well as in cliff houses, which is but one of man_v evidences of the 

 similarities in culture of the peoples inhabiting these two kinds of 

 ancient dwellings. The author was at one time disposed to regard 

 these pieces as heirlooms, but the considerable number of specimens 



