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factorily classified by reference to the coloring, ornamentation, and qual- 

 ity, thus : 



1. The red or unoolored pottery, which is without ornamentation of 

 any kind. Some of this is coarse and rough, and in this case always 

 more than ordinarily thick ; but the larger portion has the surface smooth 

 and often polished. The color varies from the natural dull leaden hue 

 of the clay, to a bright brick red, the latter largely predominating. 



2. The brown ware, or that which shows an admixture of mica. This, 

 although uniformly without color decorations, is occasionally marked 

 with impressed figures and lines. Although inferior in quality, being 

 coarse and fragile, it presents more symmetrical though less varied 

 forms than are usually found in the preceding group. The influence of 

 contact with the European races is here very apparent, as, for example, 

 in the true pitcher and other common utensils and an apparent attempt 

 at glazing. 



3. The black ware which is without ornamentation. This variety in 

 quality and character is precisely like the polished red of the first group ; 

 but is slightly in advance of that in regard to finish, and perhaps, as 

 heretofore remarked, may be classed as lustrous, while the red may be 

 classed as semi-lustrous. The paste of which this black ware is formed 

 appears to have been better prepared than that of the preceding varie- 

 ties, and is the hardest and firmest in the collection. 



4. The cream-white pottery decorated in colors. This extensive group, 

 which includes fully two-thirds of the entire collection, embraces almost 

 ©very known form of earthenware manufactured by the tribes from whom 

 it was obtained. The paste of which it is formed is similar in character 

 to that of the black ware. When, broken the fracture shows very dis- 

 tinctly the effect of burning, the interior being of the natui-al leaden 

 color, shading off to a dull grayish white as it approaches the outer sur- 

 face. The opaque or creamy-white color of the surface is produced by 

 a coating of opaque whitewash. Upon this white surface the figures 

 are afterwards drawn. 



The only colors used in decorating pottery are black, red, and some 

 shade of brown. But of this we will speak more fully when we come 

 to describe the ])eculiar methods practiced by the different tribes in 

 making and adorning pottery. 



Although there is a strong general similarity in this colored orna- 

 mentation, the great variety of details renders it difiBcult to classify the 

 figures so as to convey a correct idea of them to the reader. We shall 

 therefore have to refer him to the numerous cuts and the colored plates 

 which have been introduced for the purpose of illustrating the cata- 

 logue. 



The following general statement is about all that can be said in refer- 

 ence to them before descending to specific details. 



So far as the coloring is concerned they are of two kinds, those having 



