FEWKEs) USES AND SHAPES OF LITTLE COLORADO POTTERY 61 



The three distinctive colors are red, black, and white — the latter 

 forming not simply liordering lines in the designs, but being used as 

 a slip to cover a considerable surface of the object decorated. AVhile 

 specimens of this kind of pottery do not occur in ruins near the 

 inhabited Hopi pueblos, it is probable that the modern use of a white 

 slip by i)0tters in those villages is a lineal descendant of the ancient 

 method of decoration." 



This colored ware is not found in ruins south of the Mogollon 

 mountains, but is couhned to the Little Colorado river and its south- 

 ern tributaries. 



WHITE AND UREEX WARE 



A limited number of pottery objects of light color, with dark- 

 green glazed geometrical figures, were found in the Little Colorado 

 ruins (see plate XLiift). This kind of ware appears to be rare in the 

 Hopi country, ancient and modern, but whether it is indigenous or 

 intrusive the author has been unable to discover. 



CLASSIFICATIOX BY FORM 



The various forms of pottery are determined largely by the uses for 

 which it is intended. The}' may be classified as follows: 1, food 

 bowls; 2, vases; 3, jai's; 4, ladles; 5, mugs or dippers; 0, canteens; 

 7, cups; 8, animal-shaped vessels; 0, slipper-shai^ed vessels. 



Food Bowls 



The food basins (plates xxiii-x.xix) exceed in number all other 

 forms of pottery, and as a rule have the same shapes as those from 

 Sikyatki and Awatobi, described in the report on those j'uins.* The 

 basins are ornamented on the interior with symbolic designs, in which 

 geometrical figures predominate. 



There is a much larger proportion of designs encircling the exterior 

 of the ware in the Little Colorado pottery than in that of Sikj^atki, 

 and curved lines are also more common. Some of the food bowls 

 made of red ware are very large, but from their fragile nature and 

 size the majority of these were broken. 



Vases axb Jars 



The collection of vases was very large, but the pieces are, as a 

 rule, smaller than those previously described from Sikyatki. Some 

 of the forms of these vases may be .seen in the accompanying plates 

 (xxx-xxxv). The majority are globular, with a slight neck, but 

 there are several in which tlie neck is elongated. 



a Tlie use of a white slip is a marked feature of the pottery now manufactured at the East mesa 

 of Tusayan. This appears to have been introduced after the fall of Sikyatki, for the tine yellow 

 "ware of this pueblo shows no white superficial covering. 



* Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1898, pt. 2. 



