NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD I3 



ware, primarily sherd-tempered and coated with an off-color white sUp, 

 polished before painting. The paint was of mineral origin and black 

 or sometimes rusty-brown owing to inexpert firing or to insufficient 

 iron. 



Slips varied from thick to thin and were sometimes carelessly 

 applied ; both paint and slip sometimes showed a tendency to chip or 

 peel — variations I attribute to the misfortunes of production rather 

 than to intent. Rims were direct, tapered, and painted black ; pitchers 

 were full-bodied and round-bottomed; ladles were of the half -gourd 

 form until later experimentation turned toward the bowl-and-handle 

 type. Bowl sherds with polished black interior, although found deep 

 in the two principal refuse mounds south of the village, occurred in 

 the uppermost layers only of Test 2. Cook pots were of the smooth- 

 bodied, banded-neck variety — broad to narrow bands, plain or indented 

 — until followed by all-over Corrugated-coil. 



Passing vogues in vessel form and painted decoration are evidenced 

 from bottom to top in these and other stratified deposits. Squiggled 

 hachure began early and so did stepped triangles, waved lines, and 

 free-standing figures. There were transient preferences for designs 

 composed of broad solid lines, for hachured figures with solid tips, 

 and others balanced by opposing elements. After this old rubbish pile 

 had accumulated to a depth of 8 feet, Straight-line Hachure was 

 introduced, first with widely spaced composing lines within heavy 

 frames and then with closer bars and lighter framing. 



Contemporaneously with Straight-line Hachure and Corrugated- 

 coil, or shortly thereafter, our so-called "Chaco-San Juan" type made 

 its unexpected appearance — a black-on-white variety with a light- 

 gray, stone-polished slip, tempered chiefly with pulverized potsherds 

 and ornamented with Mesa Verde-like designs in organic paint. In 

 thickness and rim treatment, Chaco-San Juan bowls exhibit a com- 

 promise between Mesa Verde and Chaco practices. Instead of being 

 tapered and painted black in the Chaco tradition, rims are usually 

 rounded and variously ticked; bowl exteriors are often carelessly 

 bordered or slap-dashed across the bottom with a full slip-mop. 



In Pueblo Bonito stratigraphy this Chaco-San Juan variety appears 

 earlier and much more abundantly than Mesa Verde Black-on-white, 

 but, although Roberts and Amsden separated the two while studying 

 Chaco Canyon pottery in 1925, I admit an inability at this late date to 

 distinguish one from the other except for individual pieces. Both are 

 of wide distribution among the mesas and valleys of southeastern 

 Utah and southwestern Colorado ; both are perhaps best described by 



