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COOKING VESSELS. 



These are usually unadorned and of brown or black ware. The num- 

 ber obtained was not large, and they vary greatly in character. They 

 are generally of medium size or small, and some which appear to be used 

 as cooking vessels have a handle on the side and resemble pitchers and 

 cups. Some have two handles and are shaped like an urn or olla; others 

 appear to be true pots. The want of uniformity among this tribe in the 

 use of vessels of this kind renders its diflicult to class them according 

 to use. I will, therefore, group them according to form. Except one or 

 two of the little pots none of them are ornamented. 



Pot-shaped vessels : 

 1737-1739. 1737, (41360); 1738, (41379); 1739, (41385); two handles as 



in Fig. 524. 

 1740-1741. 1740, (41380), and 1741, (41405). Without handle, the latter 



possibly used as a drinking vessel. 

 1742-174C. 1742, (41381); 1743, (41382); 1744, (41383); 1745, (41384); 



1746, (41386); each with a handle on one side; they resemble 



pitchers or cups. 



TOT-LIKE VESSELS. 



1747. (41416). Like a small water-vessel. 



1748. (41442). Olla-shaped, with handles ; decorated with a band of loops 

 around the middle. 



1749. (41451). Olla. 



1750-1751, 1750, (41452), and 1751, (41453). CyUndrical jars without 



handles. 

 1752-1753. 1752, (41293), and 1753, (41294). Large black Cooking pots of 



the usual shape. 



1754. (42367). Flat jar-shaped vessel, red ware, with regular ears on the 

 sides with holes through them. Cooking vessel ; new. 



1755. (42369). Small globular red bowl, half burned. 



1766. (42370). Part of a corrugated vessel. It is yellow, but partly 

 burned ; it looks fresh and new, but is really old, having been 

 out of the ground of old ruins near Wolpi. 



LADLES. 



Of these vessels, which are extensively used by the Shinumos, there are 

 various forms with an almost endless variation in decoration, being gen- 

 erally of ornamented white ware. Some of them bear a strong resem- 

 blance to the skillets used on cooking stoves, the handle being looped, 

 but the bowl is more saucer-shaped. Others, as shown in Figs. 527 and 

 629, are evidently fashioned after gourds. Some are somewhat of the 

 form shown in Figs. 439 and 440, but the handle is more distinct. Others 

 are true cup-shaped vessels, with the handles projecting from the middle 

 of the side. A few are double with a single handle. 



Skillet-shaped vessels. UsuaDy decorated in the bowl. As these fig- 

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