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soot, indicate that these vessels performed a function analogous to 
that of the coil-ware ollas of the cliffs—that of culinary utensils. 
Undecorated Water Jars—There were many large water jars 
(pl. 67) in Ruin No. 17, and fragments of these are abundant in all 
the refuse heaps. In shape these resemble similar vessels from the 
cliffs (pls. 41, a, and 48), but they bear no sign of decoration and 
but few of the bases are concave and none are flat. Two of the jars 
(pl. 67, c) have banded necks, while those of the others are plain. 
There is an unusual variation in the shape of the handles. On one 
vessel they are merely solid stubs of clay protruding from the sides 
of the base (pl. 67, 7). Four of them (pl. 67, d, e) have large 
open handles like the ones from the cliffs, through which three 
and sometimes four fingers can be inserted. One (pl. 67, ¢) has 
similar handles except that they consist of two ropes of clay in- 
stead of a single band. The handles on the vessels-shown in plate 
67, a, b, are broad, flat protuberances which turn down like the stubby 
tail of a bird. This type is exceed- 
ingly common in the refuse heaps. 
A water bottle closely resembling 
the above (pl. 70, 6) was found in 
Ruin No. 9. The top is very much 
flattened, and the base is concave. 
Gourd-shaped Bottles—The four = 7 
gourd-shaped bottles (pl. 72, a, d, e, wie. 5—Outlines of gourd-shaped 
and 7) are unique among the pottery NESE 
of the upper San Juan drainage. Unfortunately, not one of 
them retains its neck entire, hence the outline of that part 
of the vessels is problematical. Jackson’ figures a bottle from 
the pueblo of Zuni, a drawing of the outline of. which appears 
im figure 5, a One side of a like orifice appears in the tops 
of three of the bottles here shown, and it may be that the 
resemblance to a gourd was heightened by their completion in 
a similar manner. However, I am inclined to think that the 
curve particularly apparent in the one shown in plate 72, e, was 
continued, and that the neck curved back and ended in a point 
which was contiguous, but not attached, to the incurving slope of 
the vessel, as is shown in figure 5, 6. There are rough spots on the 
sides of plate 72, d and f, in the proper positions, as if the presence 
of the end of the handle had not permitted the polishing of the 
surface at these points. A detached handle of this sort was found 
in Ruin No. 17, and Holmes figures one constructed in this manner.? 
1Tenth Ann. Rept. of the Hayden Survey, pl. LXVI. 
2 Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos, fig. 354. 
