60 TWO summers' work in PUKBLO ruins [eth. anx 22 



found would seem to indicate contemporary liabitatiou of tlie villages 

 and clill" houses from which they have been taken. 



No specimen of the black and white ware in tlie collection is deco- 

 rated with designs representing luiman lieings or animals, and even 

 Ijictures of birds, so abundant on other c(jlored wai-e, are wanting. 

 The designs are purely geometrical figures, which are ordinarily 

 regarded as the most ancient style of ornamentation. These geomet- 

 rical figures, however, are very complicated — as a rule far superior 

 to similar decorations on other colored ware. They duplicate for the 

 most part the patterns on black and white ware from the cliff dwell- 

 ings of southern Colorado and western New Mexico, the headwaters 

 of the Salado and Gila rivers. 



Among the specimens of black and white ware there are several 

 dippers made of a verj' fine paste almost as compactly hardened as 

 rock. All of these, with one exception, were broken, and the single 

 unbi-oken specimen, one of the most beautiful in the whole collection, 

 disappeared from the table in the National Museum after it had been 

 seen and admired by many visitors. The author much regrets the 

 loss of this beautiful object, especially after it had been brought safely 

 to the National Museum. 



AVhile black and white ware is abundant in the cliff houses of the 

 San Juan, it is relatively as abundant in the houses of the plains in 

 some parts of New Mexico, as may be seen in the great collections 

 made in recent times in the Tularosa valle}'. 



RED AND BLACK WARE 



A majority of the ceramic objects from the three ruins investigated 

 in 1890 were red with black decorations. This variety was so 

 abundant that it may well be styled the characteristic potterj' of the 

 Little Colorado and its tributaries. Black and red ware is found in 

 the ruins near the Zuiii river, an affluent of the Little Colorado, and is 

 also found in ruins widely distant from the Colorado, but we are justi- 

 fied in regarding this combination of colors as distinctive of the Colo- 

 rado drainage area. Some of the best specimens of the glazed ware 

 well repi-esented in the collections of 189G are of these two colors, the 

 black designs being almost always glazed. 



The red color is due to the clay, since bricks made at Winslow have 

 practically the same color. The many specimens of red and black 

 potter,y with marginal lines in white on the black form a transition 

 from this variety into the next, in which, however, the white is more 

 prominent. 



RED, BLACK, AND WHITE WARE 



The type of ancient jiottery included in the above designation 

 (plates XXI, xXli) is, as far as research has thus far gone, peculiar to 

 the Little Colorado ruins. No specimen of it has yet been figured 

 (1890), and there are no examples of it in the different museums with 

 which the author is familiar. 



