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DECORATION OF KINTIEL POTTERY 



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The decoration on the exterior of the food basin shown in figure 

 81 is highly characteristic and markedly different from tliat on 

 Sikj-atki pottery. In this specimen the design on the exterior con- 

 sists of a number of interlocked S-shaped figures, which are like- 

 wise found on the pottery of the Little Colorado ruins. The external 

 decorations on the food basins from Sikyatki are, as a rule, rectilin- 

 ear, and curved figures are rare or unknown. A very much mutilated 

 figure of a bird which decorates a bowl is shown in figure S2. 



The accompanying illustration (figure 

 83) gives a good idea of a Kintiel mug of 

 black and white ware and the calcareous 

 incrustation with which the majority of 

 these ancient vessels was covered. This 

 mug is decorated with geometrical pat- 

 terns, the nature of which may be seen in 

 the illustration. Like many others from 

 Kintiel, it was covered with a calcareous 

 deposit, which can readily lie removed by 

 washing. 



One of the best specimens of white ware 

 from Kintiel is shown in figure S4. The 

 striking feature of this dipper is the form 



of the handle, which is made in imitation of the head of some animal. 

 There were several specimens of bowls and other vessels with heads 

 of animals, a feature also common in Tusayau ceramics. 



Fig. ra. (.'up triim Kintiel (num- 

 ber 170811 1. 



Miscellaneous Ob.jects from the Ruin 



The stone objects from Kintiel are in no respect peculiar, and con- 

 sist of mauls, hammers, axes, .sijearheads, and arrow points. 



A small slab of stone had three 

 cavities, arranged in a triangular 

 form, in one surface. There were 

 several clay disks, some with a cen- 

 tral hole, others imperforate. Rect- 

 angular goi'gets of red stone were 

 perforated at one side as if for sus- 

 pension. There is also a tubular 

 pipe of red stone in the collection. 

 Symmetrical spherical stone balls, ranging in size from a marble to a 

 baseball, were picked up on the surface. 



No prayer sticks were found in the graves, but in one of the food 

 basins there was a collection of several hundred short sections of wood 

 about the size of a small lead pencil, and beveled at both ends. These 

 were about an inch long, reminding one of sticks called the "frog 

 spawn," wooden symbolic objects made in the Walpi Flute and Snake 

 ceremonials. 



Fig. tJi. Dipper from Kintiel. 



