176 ANTIQUITIES OF SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO  [nTH. ANN. 33 
No. 3, most of which fortunately fitted together, I restored the bowl 
shown in plate 42, @ The paste is slate-gray in the center, be- 
coming yellow toward the surface. The slip is a dark brilliant red. 
The design, traced in black, is a combination of the rain-cloud and 
bird patterns, or at least of the symbols which are so interpreted 
on pottery from ruins known to be closely connected with recent 
Pueblo culture. 
These deep-red bowls with incurving sides and slightly flaring 
rims seem to be of a type widely distributed over the Southwest. 
Hough! figures one from Blue River, Arizona, identical in shape, 
and bearing a design resembling that upon the one here shown.? 
Nordenskiédld* recovered the fragments of another from the débris 
in Spring House, and the author found a segment of one in a refuse 
heap near Farmington, New Mexico. It is obvious that red vessels 
were highly prized, and it is probable that they were used for cere- 
monial purposes, a fact which would tend to make them still more 
precious. For such reasons they would be carried in trade far 
beyond the boundaries of the ceramic area to which they rightfully 
pertain. 
Pottery Mending—The high regard in which the ancients of 
Johnson Canyon held their pottery is shown by the fact that several 
of the vessels are carefully mended. The olla figured in plate 39, a, 
has a long crack across its bottom. Along this opposite sets of holes 
were drilled and yucca thongs were inserted to bind the seam to- 
gether, some of these still being in place. In the bottom of the pot 
shown in plate 40, d, are several small holes stopped with a mixture 
of pitch and dust. Plate 69, a, shows a bowl mended with yucca 
ties. 
Pottery Designs —The collection does not contain a sufficient series 
of designs to warrant much generalization on the symbols used in 
decoration. To judge from the numerous fragments, the absence of 
zoic forms and the predominance of geometric devices, consisting 
principally of terraced figures, sinistral and dextral volutes, and 
combinations based on the triangle, characterize the painted elements. 
STONE IMPLEMENTS 
Grinding Stones—Some of the metates are bowlders from the river 
gravel, rubbed smooth or slightly concave on one side, and others 
are blocks of hard sandstone. The manos are usually of igneous 
1 Culture of the Ancient Pueblos of the Upper Gila River Region, pl. 10. 
2The writer has since found a brown-red bowl of the same shape, and having the same 
decoration, with an exterior ornamentation of white, at Aztec, New Mexico. 
3 QOp. cit., pl, xxxIIL. 
