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POTTEEY FROM KINTIEL 



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The jimphora form of ijrlobnlHr vessel is rare in Southwestern ruins, 

 but is represented ]>y a single specimen (ligure 77) from Kintiel. This 

 vessel is of bhick and wliite 



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Two-liandled bowl from Kintiel (iminbei* 



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ware, and the design on the 



equatorial region is charac- 

 teristic. 



A very good specimen of 



globular form (figure 78) 



was found at Kintiel. This 



was made of black and white 



ware, and is one of the finest 



specimens in the collection. 

 All these examples are 



white ware decorated with 



figures in black, and the 



white is a slip rubbed over 



coarser clay. In firing, since the contraction and expansion of this 



slip is not the same as that of the base on 

 which it is laid, we find a crackled surface 

 unknown in true ancient Ilopi pottery. 



Many of the ladle handles were perfo- 

 rated with rows of holes; several wei-e dec- 

 orated with alternate parallel and longi- 

 tudinal bands, a type of ornamentation 

 which is found as far south as the northern 

 border of Old Mexico and has been re- 

 corded from Mexican ruins in Chihualiua. 



Several fragments of tlie necks of vases with ijits or depressions were 



found. Some of these pits resembled small cups, 



but the author believes the depressions are finger 



holds, by which the vessel was carried. Fragment:; 



with similar deijressions are found elsewhere in the 



Southwestern ruins, and there are one or two com- 

 plete vases with the same finger holds, in which 



there can be no doubt of their use. 



DEC()R.\TIOX 



The limited number of specimens of pottery from 

 the ruin makes it necessary to speak of this aspect 

 of the suliject in a Ncrj- general way. 



There is little similarity of picture design between 

 these specimens and those of modern Zuili which 

 hav(! been examined, save in geometi-ical patterns; 

 so that tlie autlior is led to suggest a theory to 

 account for this fact, similar to tliat wliicli lie has elsewhere advanced 

 to explain the change in .symbolism in Ilopi pottery. The differences 



Globular bowl from 

 Kintiel. 



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Fig. 79. Handle of 

 dipper from Kintiel. 



