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TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS 



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GEOMETRICAL FIGURES 



There were many specimens of pottery from Four-mile ruin deco- 

 rated with the various geometrical figures so common on all ancient 

 Pueblo ware of northern and central Arizona. The types were 

 terrace figures, spirals, frets, bands, dots, bars, and zigzags. The 

 proportion of geometrical figures, as comiDared with representations 

 of animals, was large. As we investigate ruins more and more dis- 

 tant from those about the Hopi villages, this proportion increases; 

 and if we considered geometrical motives as older and simpler than 



Fig. 96. Sun emlilem nn food howl from Four-mile ruin (numbei- 1770.58). 



figures of animals, it would seem that pottery ornamentation reached 

 a higher development in Tusayan, where drawings of animals and 

 human forms predominate. 



The geometrical figures on the outside of food bowls from the ruins 

 on the southern affluents of the Little Colorado are more elaborate 

 than those on the northern (see plate LXiii). Modifications of the 

 broken line, either in spirals, frets, or bands, are common features of 

 the ruins in both regions. 



All instructive piece of potteiy from Four-mile ruin was a small 

 food bowl ornamented on the interior with a ring (see figure 90), from 

 which radiated serrated bars, the significance of which is unknown. 



