FEWKEs] POTTERY FROM FOUR-MILE RUIN 141 



ware of Santa Clara pueblo, but no vessel was lountl at Four-mile 

 ruin whose exterior was of this color. 



One of tlie kinds of roui;h ware which is well represented at Four- 

 mile ruin is that decorated on the exterior with geometrical patterns 

 (see figure 88). The pigment was applied to the rough outer surface 

 of the coils. Commonly, however, the interior was smooth and black- 

 ened, as with certain other rough-ware vessels. The predominating 

 color of pottery from this ruin was red, and almost all forms were 

 made in this color. It is the characteristic color of pottery in tlie 

 Little Colorado ruins, and is found as far soutli as Pinedale, reap- 

 pearing again in tlie Gila basin. 



Bowls of red ware M'itli black decorations having a margin of 

 white occui- in many of the Little 

 Colorado ruins. Fine vases of these 

 colors, in whicli wiiite predominates, 

 especially around tlie neck, aie char- 

 acteristic of luins in tliis valle^y; the 

 author has found no record of them in 

 the neighborhood of the Hop! towns, 

 or .south of tlic Mogollones. A repre- 

 sentative specimen of this type is 

 figured in the author's preliminary 



j_ J? -I orv.. ml ■ • i Fig. 88. Ornamented rout^b }n;»wl from 



report for 1890. This ware is not as Four-mile ruin .number IT-USK 



fine as the characteristic ci'eam and 



yellow ware of Sikyatki, but is often made of a flnel.y ground clay 



sufficiently well burned in firing to give fine specimens. 



CtIl.v Type 



Tlie characteristic pottery of the Gila valley is a l>rownish ware, 

 ornamented with red, and is very easy to identify. A specimen of 

 this wai'e has been figured in color in a preliminaiy report for 1897. 

 As far as is known, this kind of ware is generally confined to tlie Gila- 

 Salt river basin. In the excavations of the cemeteries at Four-mile 

 ruin two specimens of tliis peculiar ware were discovered, but tlie 

 author does not regard the adventitious occurrence of these speci- 

 mens, so different from the others in the same ruin, as anything more 

 than examples of intrusion, and believ<*s that they were bi-ough there 

 from a distance. As a rule, there is considerable similarity in the 

 coarse types of pottery fi'om Four-mile ruin and from Pueblo Viejo, 

 the upper jiai-t of the Gila valley, which tlie author has not regarded as 

 illustrating a theory of transportation of specimens; but the sporadic 

 appearance of a prominent tj'pe of Gila pottery so difl'erent from the 

 others a])pears to him to demand such an exi)lanation. We may sup- 

 pose that these specimens went over the watershed of the Gila and 

 Little Colorado in the packs of traders, or possibly were carried by 

 migi-ator.N- clans. They were not manufactured by the people in 

 whose cemeteries they were found. 



