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TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS 



[KTH. ANN. 22 



hi I. Frug dL-sigu on Ijowl t'ruin 

 Kintiel. 



between modern and ancient Ilopi ceramic designs are due to the 

 advent of new clans as colonists, for these new arrivals introduced 

 their strange ciiltns, of which, up to that time, the llopis were igno- 

 rant. Possibly a similar explanation 

 may account for some of the designs on 

 modern Zuiii pottery. Modern ves.sels 

 f)-om these two regions bear, however, 

 widely different decorations. The many 

 likenesses between ancient Zuni ware 

 and that of Kintiel are the main reasons 

 for liis association of the two, but these 

 similarities are mainly in geometrical 

 patterns. 



One or two specimens of pottery from 

 Ivinticl had handles decollated with the 

 form.s of animals, and one of these, of 

 black and white ware, was particularly 

 Well made (see figure 70). Tlic intention was evidently to i-<'pri'sent 

 some many-legged animal, combining painting with sculjjlurc 



A knob on one vase has been ident- 

 ified as a repi-esentation of the head of 

 an antelope. This is an unusual form 

 of decoration. 



The modification of the handle of a 

 dipper into an animal form is not rare 

 in ancient pueblo pottery, and the 

 author has seen specimens in which a 



mammal, possibly a bear, was represented in that way. In jnodern 

 Xiuel)lo pottery, aniinal forms are very common, and they are espe- 

 cially abundant in modern Zuhi ware, 

 as an examination of the rich collection 

 in the National Miiseum will demon- 

 strate. This method of ornamentation 

 is not very common in i)ottery from 

 ancient or modern Hopi towns, thougli 

 the Ilopi priests called "mudheads" or 

 "clowns" are often represented on the 

 handles of ladles, and in the large col- 

 lections from Sikyatki not a single speci- 

 men adorned in this manner can be 

 found. 



One of the vessels from Kintiel was 

 decorated on the interior with what seems to be a figure of a lizard or 

 tailed batrachian (see figure 80). The design is simple, and is not 

 unlike figures which are found as pictographs in the Canyon de 

 Chelly and elsewhere in the Southwest. 



Fid. Kl. Food bowl fi-oiu Kintiel. 



Fk;. S2 



Bird design on food bowl 

 from Kintiel. 



